This kind of thing is coming soon, very soon, to your green and pleasant land.
“Top Bangladesh sci-fi writer stabbed in head at seminar because he’s an ‘enemy of Islam,’” South China Morning Post, March 4, 2018 (thanks to Fjordman):
Saturday’s attack on Zafar Iqbal in the northern city of Sylhet was just the latest in a series of stabbings of secular or atheist authors and bloggers in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
Iqbal, a long-standing champion of free speech and secularism, remains in stable condition in hospital where he is being treated for stab wounds to his head.
Police detained 21-year-old Faizul Hasan, a former Islamic seminary student, and were investigating any ties to radical groups.
Colonel Ali Haider Azad Ahmed from the Rapid Action Battalion police unit said Hasan told investigators it was “his duty as a Muslim to resist those who work against Islam”.
“He has said Dr Zafar Iqbal was an enemy of Islam,” Ahmed said.
Police said Hasan, whose father was a teacher at an Islamic seminary, may have had links to extremists blamed for attacks on secular and atheist writers in the last four years.
Suspected Islamist radicals have killed around a dozen such writers and bloggers, including an American atheist blogger of Bangladeshi origin.
Police have blamed home-grown Islamist extremist group Ansarullah Bangla Team – also known as Ansar al Islam and linked to al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent – for most of the attacks….
PRCS says
The following phrases are used just too damned often, and I ‘m sick of it.
An enemy of Catholocism.
An enemy of Evangelical Christianity
An enemy of Judaism
An enemy of Jainism
An enemy of Buddhism
Oh, wait….
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
VIGILANTISM is ENSHRINED in the SHARIA LAW… anyone may with IMPUNITY MURDER AN APOSTATE or BLASPHEMER.
A fatwa is NOT REQUIRED in the matter of KILLING A BLASPHEMER or APOSTATE.
ANYONE may perform that ASSASSINATION and he/she will be a HERO after killing the blasphemer.
We saw this in PAKISTAN where the killer of Governor Salmaan Taseer was SHOWERED with rose petals by about 200 Pakistani LAWYERS who considered vigilante Malik Mumtaz Qadri some kind of Sharia law hero.
PRCS says
“Hasan told investigators it was “his duty as a Muslim to resist those who work against Islam”.”
Well, is it? Or is it not?
JW_Reader says
Bangladesh is a prime example of what Islam does to a society. Couple of hundred years back, every citizen of Bangladesh – known as Bengalis, were Hindu. They are identical to the Bengalis in the Indian state of West Bengal, except the religion. Today, almost 66% of all worldwide Bengalis are Muslim. The New York subway bomber few weeks back is one such Bengali Muslim. Now, one may ask, why there is no Bengali hindu terrorists? What a Bengali Muslim has got against the city of New York, which welcomed him in their midst? Alarmingly, Bangladesh is getting more radicalized every day. Incidence like the stabbing of the professor in this article is becoming more common.
krishna says
that’s before partition of india and now 70 of bengalis are hindus in india and 80% of bengalis in bangladesh is muslims
Save Europe says
Very true indeed. It has been regressing as a country, rapidly and especially over the last 3 years – secular bloggers, gays, non Muslims all targeted and murdered. I’m glad the article mentions the ABT group – they’re becoming increasingly prevalent.
Westman says
What would a science fiction writer say in a seminar that would cause a devout Muslim jihadist to stab him? Did he speak of some “Semantic Verses” and Faizul Hasam thought he said “Satanic Verses”?
Bangladesh – Another society pushing a cart, outfitted with Islam’s square wheels, and wondering why it can’t catch up to the free world.
MFritz says
Because Science Fiction is about science and the future of society. And there is neither under islam.
There is no future – only an endless repetition of the 7th century and for all eternity. And science itself stands against the word of Allah. And SF – as well as all other literature – are most likely considered “haram” anyway.
Save Europe says
Incredibly, several years back, some loon placed a Fatwa prohibiting Muslims from entering Space. Totally true!
Indiana Tom says
So if we create a Mars colony, the Muslims cannot go there?
Save Europe says
Yes, they won’t follow us! I’m happy to do a Martian/Matt Daaaaamon! ?
LeftisruiningCanada says
I’d bet that man muslims don’t even believe it’s possible to reach space.
“How do you get through the Dome?” they ask.
gravenimage says
Here’s one of my favorite Fatwas, LeftisruiningCanada:
“Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against anyone living on MARS as there is ‘no righteous reason’ to be there”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2562957/Muslim-leaders-issue-fatwa-against-living-MARS-no-righteous-reason-there.html
Of course, by “righteous reason” he means they would not be able to die while murdering lots of Infidels.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Bet that’d change pronto if we found an inhabited planet.
PRCS says
One of my favorites is the breast feeding fatwa.
The phrase “you just can’t make this crap up” does not apply to Muslims.
Next, we’ll hear that drinking camel urine has health benefits.
Save Europe says
Unless they’re emulating the Proph Moh and ascending into the stratosphere on a winged Donkey !!!!
Snake Eater says
Here we go again, another example of why deadly force against Faizul Hasan would have been appropriate if Faizul Hasan had been armed and able to bring his weapon to bear during the attack to defend himself. Although I’m not sure what the laws are in India would have been under these circumstances.
Here in America the Red/Green Axis are advocating and promoting gun control by any means necessary…disarming Americans, and eliminating what remains of the second clause of our Second Amendment…in order to make their jihad against law-abiding citizens just that much easier, knowing that their “targets” are unarmed.
Snake Eater says
Correction to “if Faizul Hasan had been armed;” rather, if Zafar Iqbal had been armed with a handgun, not Faizul Hasan. Sorry about that…still working on my first cup of coffee! 🙂
elee says
READ UP AND WAKE UP
Niemoller says
The best defense is a good offense. Imams are the jihad directors. The are the source of islamic poison. They have earned the world’s enmity. They have murder on their hands and breath. Imams are the most evil beings since before or after the nazis. They do not deserve to breathe free air. They, along with traitor islamophile politicians, must learn to live in a cold bunker like hitler in his last moments.
Indiana Tom says
The Fuehrer actually had a nice bunker to camp out in. Watch the movie Downfall.
Niemoller says
Yeah, until the generator went out and he was using candles to fill his little monogrammed pistols for himself and Eva as he shook from cold and fear. Keyword, “DOWNFALL.”
krishna says
bangladesh is not secular enough your nation could become pakistan at anytime
Michael Copeland says
Bangladesh is a failed state.
Nigel GFF says
“Police have blamed…”
This chap suffers a textual attack and ….. the fault, dear reader is not in our Islam, but in those ‘Indian Subcontinent’ Islamists.
The attacker was not ‘the boy next door’, anybody, but an aberration, a double whammy completely separate from The religion of peace. An Islamist is a discrete species, not to be confused with a Muslim . The term connotes a non-islamic understanding of the text and groups with peculiar, self-serving motives. This hokum is stealthily perpetuated by other group(s) with self-serving motives…Muslims. I’m thankful we were spared the usual pap of ‘radicalised online’ or ‘mental illness’.
gravenimage says
Top Bangladesh sci-fi writer stabbed in head at seminar because he’s an “enemy of Islam”
…………………….
Another attack on secularists in Bangladesh.
gravenimage says
Spot on.
Indiana Tom says
Top Bangladesh sci-fi writer stabbed in head at seminar because he’s an “enemy of Islam” Yeah, he wrote a sci-fi thriller of Bangladesh having flushing toilets and clean water in a distant future.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Could be.
They sure wouldn’t like Heinlein if he was still around.
Indiana Tom says
Not too many authoritarian organization would like The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
janwoG says
Free Moslems from Islam!
Garfield says
No. They could already quit like any normal person would. But they don’t. They can rot, that is their own doing. We need to free OURSELVES from their encroachment and subversive bullshit.
Lydia Church says
I get such a blast out of how they feel justified when they encounter any variety of non-muslim to “stab them multiple times to death”!
Lydia Church says
And this is their form of tolerance:
Anyone who is not a muslim is an ‘enemy of islam’ and worthy of death.
So as for the ‘tolerance’ in islam, we have the following diversity of groups:
1. The muslims.
2. The dead.
dsinc says
Police detained 21-year-old Faizul Hasan, a former Islamic seminary student, and were investigating any ties to radical groups.
He has ties to one radical group. ISLAM
Eric jones says
I wish Dr. Iqbal a speedy recovery. I hope that he does not lose courage and takes measures for his own protection. The stabber studies Islam. The stabbers father teaches Islam. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
Eric