A delegation of Stanford University professors and students needs to go over to Thakurpara and explain to this Muslim cleric that Islam teaches peace, and that only greasy Islamophobes think otherwise.
“Locals claim six youths and a cleric were instigators,” by Kamrul Hasan, Dhaka Tribune, November 14, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Victims of the attack on Hindu homes in Thakurpara village and their Muslim neighbours could not identify most of the people who carried out the attack, although they placed the attackers as residents of Mominpur and Hariar Kuthi, two notoriously rough neighbourhoods.
They also pointed fingers at six locals and the cleric of a local mosque for their dubious role in organising the protests.
Many people living in villages next to Thakurpara admitted they took part in the human chain organised at Soylashah Bazar to protest the controversial Facebook post on November 10. However, they denied having anything to do with the mayhem.
The human chain was meant to be a 15-minute protest after the Jummah prayers, but things went out of control when “hoards of outsiders” started showing up at the place, according to some of the participants of the protest.
The six local, who are aged between 30 and 40, are Julfikar Ahmed, Raju Ahmed, Jahangir Alam, Alamgir Hossain, Robiul Islam and Moslem Uddin.
Julfikar and Raju are brothers, both rice traders, and are said to be supporters of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. Alamgir and his brother Jahangir run a grocery shop. Rabiul is an autorickshaw driver in Rangpur city while Moslem is a seasonal crop trader. Imam of Soylashah Bazar Mosque, Sirajul Islam, joined them on request of Alamgir.
A youth from Lalchandpur village, preferring anonymity, told the Dhaka Tribune that Alamgir Hossain, a grocer, was the one who first showed the controversial Facebook post to others in the locality.
Alamgir also filed a case with Gongachora police station in connection with the post.
Alamgir and Imam Sirajul went to Paglapir Central Mosque in the evening of November 4 and campaigned against the Facebook post. They also showed a printed copy of the content to the people in the area.
The two men subsequently met Imams in adjacent areas, including Mominpur, Hariar Kuthi and Taraganj villages, and convinced them to exhort against the Hindu community.
Alamgir and Julfikar also reportedly used the loudspeakers of the mosques to spread hateful messages.
Nahid Hossain of Soylashah Bazaar told the Dhaka Tribune that even on the day of the attack, Alamgir had sent a boy to bring a loudspeaker from a mosque. But the boy did not show up later.
A young man who was present at the human chain said that although the event was organised by the six men, they got scared at seeing the police and disappeared from the front of the gathering.
It was a huge gathering and chaos erupted when Alamgir and Julfikar, who were well-known faces, could not be found all of a sudden.
After the key organisers left the scene, a local Imam started speaking and told the people to form a human chain. According to police sources, the Imam the participants were referring to was Olama Dal leader Mawlana Enamul Haque Majedi.
Some time later, Jatiya Party leader Fazlar Rahman and Hariar Kuthi Union Parishad Chairman Harun-or-Rashid, who is also the organising secretary of the local Awami League unit, were seen leading the human chain. BNP leader Masud Rana was also present in the bazaar area.
Police sources said they were looking for Fazlar. This correspondent tried to reach Harun-or-Rashid and his wife over phone, but found the phones turned off.
Rangpur Superintendent of Police Mizanur Rahman on Sunday told the reporters that they were arresting people on the basis of photos captured during the protest….
abc says
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John Forbes says
I WOULD PUT NOTHING PAST THE POSSIBILITY WITH THE BBC! AFTER ALL, THEY WERE A BIG PART OF THE MUSLIM CHILD RAPING COVER UP & DENIALS IN THE UK & HAD TO BE DRAGGED KICKING & SCREAMING OUT OF THEIR SACRED TOWER N LONDON ONCE DETAILS WERE UNCOVERED!
STILL DESPITE THESE CHILD RAPES BEING RELIGIOUSLY & RACIALLY MOTIVATED THE BBC SEES NO CONNECTION BETWEEN THIS BEHAVIOUR & THE CHILD RAPISTS ETHNICITY & RELIGION ( INITIALLY THEY WERE ALL KASHMIRI PAKISTANI’S BUT NOW HAVING SEEN THAT THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES FOR DOING THIS OTHER MUSLIMS HAVE JOINED THE PACKS!
bryce swan says
surprised the local “youths” are aged 30 to 40. youths sounds like under 20 to me
gravenimage says
Yes–the frequent claim of this all being “youths” is given the lie here.
MFritz says
Learn the lesson! The imam incites and they do the violence.
Next time our press and politicians “wonder” where the violence comes from. THEY KNOW.
gravenimage says
Bangladesh: Muslim cleric incited mob to burn Hindu homes over “blasphemy”
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This is enormously common–Jihadists are incited to violence by Muslim clerics.
So much for the idea that violent Jihad has nothing to do with Islam.
gravenimage says
And given that this “blasphemous” comment on Facebook was supposedly made by a Hindu man who actually turns out to be illiterate, chances are that the Imam was in on–or even the instigator–of the fake post in the first place.
Jaladhi says
That’s what Muslim clerics always do – incite the Muslim mob! That is why often the Muslim mob starts rioting right after the Friday “prayers”. If you get rid of these clerics, perhaps, half the problem of Muslim jihad might disappear from this planet!
Paul N Silas says
No way this was Islamic violence, “IT’S THE RELIGION OF PEACE” according to G.E. Bush
Paul N Silas says
G.W not GE
Karen says
We knew what ignoramus you were referring to.
DRHazard says
Stanford professors should encourage their female PhD students to do their doctoral work in Bangaldesh on the subject of “Women’s Freedom in the Islamic World”. They would go to this country, that has never been bombed by the West (as far as I know), and mingle among working class Muslim men asking them what they believe regarding women’s rights. They would ask questions like; “How has the wars waged by the U.S. and European countries against Islam affected your perception of women”. And they would get answers like “Me and my friends are now going to rape you”. If that female student has been properly indoctrinated her first thought would be “it’s not their fault”. Later on, after her attempts to bring the rapists to justice failed and she found herself instead facing charges of fornication, she would think “this is Robert Spencer’s fault. If only we had banned Islamophobes from existing this would have never happened.”
But, of course, no female student from Stanford would ever do that. They would much rather do all their reality warping, virtue signalling “studies” amidst the prosperity and safety in and around Stanford.
Stanford and most other universities now teach their students who should be hated and then give them a forum in which they can revel in the rage they hold against their imagined enemies.
IndianTiger says
The libtards in my country (India) are always generating excuses for muslim slime. We constantly urge them to move to Porkistan or Bangladesh to experience “freedom”. So far no takers. I wonder why?
Karen says
Excellent proposal. There are many new areas of imagined crimes and fantasy history to be developed. There must be hundreds of socials ills in Bangladesh that need a western entity as the source of the blame – just imagine the endless material for Women’s Studies dissertations!
Karen says
Oops, this was a reply to DRHazard.
Infidel says
THE MSM in INDIA is DEAD SILENT on this… But then we are used to these suppression of truth isn’t it?? The LEFT has become a global disease of falsehood and bigotry today. GOD SAVE THIS PLANET..