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Ramadan in Bangladesh: Muslims drag secularist writer out of shop, shoot him dead

Jun 13, 2018 10:40 am By Robert Spencer

A glimpse into the future of the West: “Shahzahan Bachchu had previously received threats from extremist groups due to his outspoken support for secularism.”

“Prominent Bangladeshi Writer Dragged Out Of Shop, Shot Dead,” Press Trust of India, June 12, 2018:

A prominent Bangladeshi writer and publisher was dragged out of a shop and shot dead by unidentified attackers in central Bangladesh, ending a lull in the killings of secular bloggers and activists in the Muslim-majority country.

Shahzahan Bachchu, 60, an outspoken proponent of secular principles and owner of a publishing house ‘Bishaka Prokashoni’ that specialised in publishing poetry, was gunned down in his ancestral village Kakaldi in Munshiganj district last evening by five assailants.

Shahzahan Bachchu had gone to meet friends at a pharmacy shop near his home before iftar, when the five attackers on two motorcycles came into the area. They blasted a crude bomb outside the pharmacy, creating panic, the Dhaka Tribune reported.

They then dragged Shahzahan out of the shop and shot him, a senior superintendent of police was quoted as saying by the daily.

Although no group has claimed responsibility, police officials from the counter-terrorism department are investigating the murder as a possible targeted attack by Islamist extremists.

Shahzahan Bachchu had previously received threats from extremist groups due to his outspoken support for secularism. He was a former district general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh and was known as a free-thinking writer. His publishing house Bishaka is based in Dhaka’s Banglabazar area….

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  1. elee says

    Jun 13, 2018 at 10:52 am

    Who wants to welcome this culture to America or the West?

    • boakai ngombu says

      Jun 13, 2018 at 11:53 am

      just say it, for starters: islam is a bad culture. it has little to show, except the depths of misery that humans can visit on other humans.

    • Roderick MacUalraig says

      Jun 14, 2018 at 12:40 am

      Not me. I like secularism, too. It’s the way for freedom for all. If it’s the way, the law, then free thinkers won’t be abused by the supremacists that think the creator of this place will torment and burn the un-knowers eternally because they don’t believe as the knowers believe.

      This simple un-knower, in his belief in secularism, is a hero. Greater by far than the supremacists that took his life.

      Strange thing this. I’m surrounded by people that think they’re fine and righteous. If you express your belief in secularism, however… in NOT knowing, in being content to live in the mystery and to question everything… they tell you you’re damned.

      Quite something. Quite disgusting.

      • b.a. freeman says

        Jun 14, 2018 at 9:21 am

        but do they attack U for not believing as they believe, Roderick? i’m a born-again christian, and i can quote scripture to them showing that they are wrong to attack if so. christians, who are presumably the ones by whom U are surrounded, are supposed to *love* those around them, without *any* differentiation among them (and that included muslims – even pious muslims, those most infected with the mind disease of islam). Jesus *invited* people to follow Him, He didn’t physically attack them to force them to be christians, nor did He verbally abuse them (although He did argue with them at times).

        only christians who don’t know their own scriptures will attack people, physically or verbally. fortunately for civil society, even “christians” who only use church as a boring social club and social-gospel platform are pretty even-tempered these days, while muslims … well, not so much, as mr. bachchu’s murder demonstrates. i’m fairly certain, given his background as a prominent communist, that he and i would not have agreed on a lot of things, but i bet that we could have had some really interesting discussions, and not one of those discussions would have been marked by violence. bangladesh has lost a valuable proponent of civilization, and the darkness of profit muhammed (not a typo) is descending upon her.

        • Roderick MacUalraig says

          Jun 14, 2018 at 12:24 pm

          No, they don’t attack me. Of course not! I didn’t say that. I’m friends with many of them, I’ve lived among them my entire life. I sincerely love many of them, in fact. And I know that they love me back.

          Of course the Jews and the Christians are not like the Muslanimals. They’re obviously much more tolerant and peaceful, and thankfully so.

          But when I debate with my Christian friends, what do you think that last thing they say to me has to be according to their ideology because I don’t accept their version of the story?

          What happens to those that don’t accept what a Christian or Muslim believes is the truth about the creator of this place, my friend?

          Aloha.

      • J D S says

        Jun 14, 2018 at 9:39 am

        Question???
        If what happened in Bangladesh happened in a city in America would the investigators come up with the same answer that the Bangladesh investigators have (“a possible targeted attack by Islamist extremists”) ?????

        • infidel&glad says

          Jun 14, 2018 at 9:10 pm

          Hell no. Law in America covers it up. Unless so many people died that they can’t cover it up.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 14, 2018 at 9:15 pm

          Wait–are you claiming that America is as bad as Bangladesh but that the police are covering it up?

    • garry pollack says

      Jun 14, 2018 at 6:08 am

      they won thae argument…they left Shazahan..”speechless!”

  2. mortimer says

    Jun 13, 2018 at 11:00 am

    In the last two years, the government of Bangladesh has appeared to support Muslims fantatics and has not rounded them up. As a result, many secularists have been murdered.

    Bangladesh has to decide if it wants to be seen as backward and barbaric or if they want to be part of MODERNITY and of the human rights community supported by all modern nations!

    These VIGILANTE MURDERS are actually a recognized part of SHARIA LAW which has been authorized by the scholars at AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY, the seat of Sunnite Islam’s juridical authority.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Jun 13, 2018 at 12:10 pm

      well put, mortimer!

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 13, 2018 at 7:37 pm

      Grimly true.

  3. Guilherme says

    Jun 13, 2018 at 11:08 am

    Why do we , here in ‘Murica, insist on seeking shelter in the loving arms of political correctness??
    Thank you Robert for this site.
    Have already preordered your book and look forward with anticipation to what I will read.

    • Elisha says

      Jun 13, 2018 at 7:58 pm

      “Why do we , here in ‘Murica, insist on seeking shelter in the loving arms of political correctness??”

      Because the West has been infiltrated by Commies and brainwashed with the philosophical delusion of Darwinism. Any other questions?

  4. Krishna says

    Jun 13, 2018 at 12:06 pm

    this is expected and bangadesh will soon become another Pakistan if government did not crack islamist

    • b.a. freeman says

      Jun 13, 2018 at 12:20 pm

      sadly, very true, Krishna. mr. bachchu was a communist, at least at one time, so he, too, may have held dangerous beliefs, but communism is not the ideology threatening to overwhelm bangladesh, and furthermore, it does not appear that mr. bachchu committed any crimes in support of communism. physically attacking, or worse yet, murdering, somebody for his beliefs is *never* acceptable behavior, and should *always* be treated as criminal behavior. as mortimer noted above, vigilante attacks are approved behavior in sharia. since islam is a gangsta cult, it is not surprising that its “law” approves whacking enemies.

      too bad that the nazis and their tools ruling most republics today don’t recognize that, and instead behave more and more like the monsters they should be condeming.

      • Elisha says

        Jun 13, 2018 at 8:03 pm

        “sadly, very true, Krishna. mr. bachchu was a communist, at least at one time, so he, too, may have held dangerous beliefs, but communism is not the ideology threatening to overwhelm bangladesh, and furthermore, it does not appear that mr. bachchu committed any crimes in support of communism”

        Huh? The ideology of secular humanism aka Communism is the reason the West is in such a mess and the VERY reason for islamic infiltration. Communism is a crime in itself. Wake up!

        • b.a. freeman says

          Jun 14, 2018 at 10:41 am

          my point was that mr. bachchu was murdered by non-State actors (with the implicit approval of the State – which is muslim) for the beliefs that he held. yes, they were communist beliefs, but more importantly, he was a *secularist*, which is a much more dangerous position to take in bangladesh. and yes, the commies *are* the ones corrupting republics around the planet, and are also the ones indoctrinating our young rather than educating them, which is why they are now able to get voted into office so often. perhaps mr. bachchu would have joined these commies in their treason had he emigrated to a republic somewhere, but he did not emigrate; instead, he stayed in bangladesh and supported secularism.

          i’m already awake; it’s just that the hard-core left (commies) and islam present *far* greater dangers to the u.s. and other real republics than the odd commie in a muslim-majority country. i don’t know about U, but i believe that commies and nazis – and even muslims – should be allowed to speak in this country; we just need patriots to speak in the same venues to shine the light of truth on their lies. those who speak for freedom should *always* be willing and ready to speak against the lies these tools (and monsters, in the cases of hard-core believers) when they spew them. what has happened is that the poisonous ideas of the lying hard-core left, which have been present in u.s. universities since the french revolution (a leftist coup if ever there was one, and one of the first applications of mass terror and mass murder by the left), were spread down into secondary and primary schools starting in the 1960s and 1970s. ms. clinton won the popular vote in the last presidential election, which demonstrates to us that the indoctrination by the hard left has been working *very* well.

          the indoctrination begins now as soon as a victim (excuse me, “student”) enters pre-K or whatever. it is gentle at first, but by the time secondary education starts, it begins to get more brutal (boy scouts going on camping trips directly from school arrested because a knife or a gun was in car in parking lot, etc.). rather than teaching critical thinking, the students are taught the fallacy of appealing to authority; when they become young adults, the students will then look to what the “smart people” (always hard-core leftists) say and do to learn how they must act and speak. exemplary of this approach is that people learn the scientific method as a “fact” in science classes, rather than as a tool to be used *every* *day* to search out the truth, because it is dangerous for the stupid stinking masses (U and i) to know *how* to think instead of *what* to think (their approach). by the time university is reached, there are direct attacks, so that the student does not *dare* deviate from the Party Line. many students will not buy in completely, but due to their years of indoctrination, most will buy at least some of the lies, and will graduate holding at least nominally-leftist beliefs. the legacy media and government staff their ranks from such, and promote the more True-Believing among them, so that everybody hears only the Party Line, and law begins to be enforced unevenly, with bulls**t laws passed by state and national legislatures that no longer understand how absolutely *VITAL* that equal *treatment* (not outcome) under that law is.

          with the election and rule of mr. obama, the most successful traitor in american history (*far* eclipsing the treason of benedict arnold, with no previous victories for freedom in his career at all, unlike mr. arnold), officials of the national government (*not* federal; the federal government died 100 years ago) began to officially enforce laws unequally, and ignore the law at will. that mr. obama was able to negotiate and *enforce* a treaty (the JCPOA), an enumerated power explicitly described in the constitution, with the consent of the senate *required*, without being impeached shows the breathtaking ignorance of the law of the legislators in congress. in the u.s., only the caution of the hard left prevents freedom of speech and the freedom to own and keep arms from being stripped from citizens; for instance, former SCOTUS justice john paul stevens actually says that the 2nd amendment is a relic of the 18th century and should be repealed (no doubt to be followed immediately by total gun confiscation, as australia experienced in the 1990s).

          so no, i am not asleep. in fact, i encourage every free person who understands what is happening to reach out to his nominally-leftist neighbors, befriend them, and demonstrate to them (usually by asking polite questions) the evil that is destroying the republic. this education will almost certainly require their schooling in how a republic is supposed to work, and why. sadly, i fear that a fatal amount of damage to the republic has already been inflicted by the traitors, so i also encourage U to put aside shelf-stable food and water (use them, too, with the First In First Out method of use to prevent spoilage), and also arms and ammunition, because, to paraphrase thomas jefferson, the tree of liberty will soon need watering with the blood of patriots (and hopefully, with that of more than a few hard-core leftists and the pious muslims they treasonously imported).

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 14, 2018 at 9:20 pm

          Not all secularists are “commies”.

  5. duj swami says

    Jun 13, 2018 at 2:33 pm

    Quran 5:33? Was he warring with Allah and spreading mischief in th
    From a famous Muslim…”The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam’…

    See how that works?

  6. aguysomewhere says

    Jun 13, 2018 at 2:55 pm

    Where are the mass protests of muslims outraged by muslims killing a free thinker?!?
    Oh wait they are waiting to protest an islamophobe fo saying ”ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF PEACE”.

  7. Tom says

    Jun 13, 2018 at 5:02 pm

    A former district general secretary of the communist party of Bangladesh.

    Take note all on the left, THIS is what awaits you from those whom you protect with such vigor, despite the facts and warnings that are plain to see of their hatred of anyone who is a non believer.

    Your time will inevitably come and you will wonder why you didn’t heed our advice on Islam.

  8. Blangwort says

    Jun 13, 2018 at 6:08 pm

    Ramadan Mubarak! Yes indeed, it’s that time of the year when blood thirsty savages go scouring through the Koran for any reason to terrorize the public. And the sad thing is that they have so much to choose from.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jun 13, 2018 at 7:32 pm

    Ramadan in Bangladesh: Muslims drag secularist writer out of shop, shoot him dead
    ……………….

    *Horrifying*–this poor man. This is another murder of a secularist in Bangladesh.

    God, I hate Islam.

  10. infidel says

    Jun 14, 2018 at 1:33 am

    This ISLAMIC PEST of a country called Bangladesh was created to stop Pakistani Muslims from terrorizing and mass murdering Bangladeshi Muslims when both were one country. India helped Bangladesh to be free of monster Pakistan in 1971… But like so typical of these people, today Bangladesh and its illegal terrorist refugees have become a BIG PROBLEM in India;s border states with this toxic pest of a country. Bangladeshi muslims have entered these Indian border areas illegally and have started their breeding like cockroaches program.. They terrorize the local Hindus just like how the Rohyingya illegals from Bangladesh terrorize the Buddhists of Myanmar. They are also aided in NO LESS MANNER by the left lib politicos of India, who give then Indian citizenship thru fraudulent means in exchange for bloc votes by these venomous pests…

    • Cicero says

      Jun 14, 2018 at 4:34 pm

      Indian politicians flagrantly betray the future of secular democratic India by kow towing to the illegal Bangladeshi Muslim immigrants in order to get their votes and hold on to political and monetary power

  11. infidel says

    Jun 14, 2018 at 1:45 am

    Another ISLAMIC TRUISM from the INFIDEL:

    Both the LEFT and its facultative crony ISLAM are MASTERS in covering up each other’s HISTORICAL MASS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

    U will NEVER HEAR the LEFT talk about Jehaadi massacres in history
    and in the same vien
    U will NEVER HEAR Muslims talk about crimes committed by the LEFT like Pol Pot in Cambodia, Mao in China etc etc..

    Both LOVE EACH other but will not coexist in lands where they hold power…
    There is not even a SEMBLANCE of the LEFT in Islamic nations and LEFT NATIONS like China brutally suppress Islam..

    YET BOTH ARE BOSOM PALS AGAINST HUMANITY..

  12. Ecosse1314 says

    Jun 14, 2018 at 4:28 am

    Waiting for Lebel to step forwatd and roundly condemn this. Think i will have a long wait.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Jun 14, 2018 at 10:46 am

      😀

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 14, 2018 at 9:23 pm

      Grimly true.

  13. Johm says

    Jun 14, 2018 at 4:53 am

    This is what happens when you allow Islamic lunatics to go unchecked !

    • Granddaddy says

      Jun 14, 2018 at 7:47 pm

      Yes, except that according to Islam they aren’t lunatics, they’re just being good Muslims.

  14. TWG says

    Jun 14, 2018 at 11:02 am

    Hmmmmmm I’m torn……

    moslems murdering a leader in the communist party…….

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 14, 2018 at 9:30 pm

      I am *no* fan of Communism–but I don’t want to see *anyone* murdered in the streets.

      And surely you know that there have been a whole series of murders of secularists in Bangladesh–they certainly aren’t all members of the Communist Party.

  15. Chand says

    Jun 15, 2018 at 5:06 am

    Communism was an experiment to take humanity to a more evolved state. The main barrier is religion, one of the foremost forms of erroneous thinking from the unscientific mind of the past.
    So Communists with their ideology of scientific materialism, is diametrically opposed to Islam and other religions, with their mythologies and unproven claims.
    Mankind doesn’t seem to ready for the utopian state of communism. It is still driven by genetic/selfish interests, manifesting itself as tribalism and religious identity.

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