The alleged blasphemer has been duly arrested. The response of authorities the world over to riots of this kind is call for or place restrictions upon the freedom of speech, not to try to educate the rioters to accept the fact that there will always be people who disagree with them, and hence points of view they simply have to put up with. By not trying to explain this to the rioters, authorities are only reinforcing their assumption that they must gain hegemony over all others and forcibly silence all dissent.
“Four killed as police fire on blasphemy protesters,” AFP, October 20, 2019:
At least four people were killed and nearly 50 injured on Sunday after police fired on thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims protesting a Facebook post by a Hindu who allegedly defamed Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), officials said.
Mob attacks over Facebook posts perceived to be blasphemous have emerged as a major headache for security forces in Bangladesh, where Muslims make up some 90 per cent of the country’s 168 million people.
Some 20,000 Muslims demonstrated at a prayer ground in Borhanuddin town on the country’s largest island of Bhola to call for the execution of the young Hindu man, who was arrested Saturday over charges of inciting religious tension.
Police said they opened fire in self-defence after some of the crowd threw rocks at their officers.
“At least four people were killed and up to 50 people were injured,” police inspector Salahuddin Mia told AFP….
Chris D says
“charges of inciting religious tension.”.
So that’s really a thing. I’m sure we will see that spread across what was a free world.
After all – we must not have Religious Tension. Although it’s fine for one religion to preach killing non believers. That’s A OK.
mortimer says
Sharia law strictly forbids the mere ‘mention’ of ‘something impermissible’ about Islam or its false prophet by a kafir (non-Muslim).
From authoritative manual of Sharia law, ‘Reliance of the Traveller’ Chapter ‘O’ 11.10.05:
“The (DHIMMI) agreement is also violated (A: with respect to the offender alone) if the state has stipulated that any of the following things break it, and one of the subjects does so anyway, though if the state has not stipulated that these break the agreement, then they do not; namely, if one of the subject people:
-5- mentions something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam.”
The blasphemy punishment for a blasphemer under Sharia law is death. Under Sharia, anyone has permission to carry out the execution of a blasphemer without legal consequences…even a kafir may execute a Muslim blasphemer, because the Muslim has in theory become a kafir by blaspheming.
Sharia permits the murder of anyone who verbally opposes Islam, since they are at war with Islam:
“There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim (harbi) at war with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593
DHazard says
Moronic but deadly – the urge to “protect” the reputation of a dead man, on his behalf of course. But, after all, Muhammad himself was known to put out hits on his critics. And given that Muslims are advised to emulate their Prophet (who was incapable of brushing off perceived slights to his image – BLUPH), little things can rapidly evolve until you eventually have a deadly horde of angry Muslim bees, acting like you just killed their queen.
mortimer says
Reminder to DH. Common Law does not recognize ‘slander’ or ‘libel’ in respect to a deceased person, but Sharia law does.
For Muslims, Mohammed and the Koran are tribal ‘fetishes’ or ‘totems’. A fetish is “an object of irrational devotion or reverence.” The tribe defends the respect for its totems.
Vigilante murder of blasphemers is not penalized under Sharia law.
elee says
DHazard I applaud your phrase Moronic but deadly. Islam in three words.
mortimer says
Islam cannot be defended by an intellectual argument, so Muslims have always used the ‘Argumetum ad baculum’ (argument of the baton, stick or club). Argumentum ad baculum is the fallacy committed when one appeals to force or the threat of force to bring about the acceptance of a conclusion. One participates in argumentum ad baculum when one points out the negative consequences of holding the contrary position.
Rioting is a substitution, in Islam, for reasoned, fact-based debate. Islam always loses in debate in which there is a well-informed opponent to Islamic terrorism (such as the mighty Robert Spencer).
Islam cannot be defended reasonably, historically, logically, ethically or factually, so therefore, Muslim may abandon Islam with confidence.
elee says
+1
gravenimage says
So true, Mortimer.
FYI says
Give muslims back their own sources.
infidel: is it true al lah has TWO RIGHT HANDS
{sahih muslim 1827}
muslims meh.who cares?
infidel:is it true that…according to YOUR OWN islamic sources,muhammed liked to wear Aisha’s dress{SAHIH BUKHARI 54:7:2442},apparently was a fat dwarf{ABU DAWUD 40:4731}, FAILED the Poison Test{SAHIH BUKHARI 4428,IBN SA’AD pg 252,koran 69:44-46}thus proving himself to be a false prophet as allah didn’t bother saving him?
muslims:How dare you defame the prophet using information from islamic sources.
DEATH to this SAHIH BUKHARI,DEATH to this ABU DAWUD,they have insulted our great prophet…allahu akbar,allahu akbar!
Do you notice how in islam that muhammed is MORE IMPORTANT than allah?
And how convenient it is to use a nonsensical “blasphemy” charge as an excuse to be violent and go berserk?
Jap says
The other little detail that has been mentioned in the news is that the Hindu mans face book account was hacked by a Muslim.
This of course leads to the obvious question of just how many of these incidents are being created by Muslims in a bid to cause this sort of reaction from their uneducated, intellectually challenged mates.
Michael Copeland says
The media call these riots.
They are, however, INSTRUCTED IN THE MOSQUES.
They show muslims doing as they are told, submitting.
For matters in Islamic scriptures the only power the ummah has is to acknowledge and obey
(fatwa by Salah al Sawy of Assembly of muslim Jurists of America).
TKF says
Is there any way we can put all Muslims on an island somewhere so the rest of the world doesn’t have to put up with their insane bullshit?
Lotus says
My idea is to send them all to Antarctica.
Janice Mermikli says
And spoil that beautiful pristine environment for the penguins, the fish and the sea-birds?
Battle says
FYI is correct: In Islam Mohammad is more important than Allah.
elee says
Dont they have jobs to go to? Oh wait, theyre Muslims, their job is levying jizya.
Battle says
FYI is correct. In Islam Mohammad is more important than Allah.
Battle says
Maybe Islam and Mohammad’s followers should be saying “Peace be upon Mohammad’s followers.”
Lotus says
Coming to a mosque near you soon.
Eur says
Of course, this is the case on the entire planet but there will always be some fool who argues: “My neighbor is Muslim and she is very kind, she greets every day. Islam is a fascist ideology, Muslims are theocratic, homophobic, supremacist and apply the religious segregation, they are tribal.
Battle says
(Typo) followers?”
Battle says
Jap: “uneducated and intellectually challengedates,” is correct. Good.
Wellington says
Thousands of Muslims riot? What a shock. As shocked as Claude Rains was in the film, “Casablanca,” when he “found out” that gambling was going on in Rick’s Cafe, all the while collecting his last winnings from this gambling.
Have Muslims in your midst? Well then, expect: 1) rioting on a regular basis; 2) tedious holier-than-thou protestations; 3) death for apostasy; 4) the rape of non-Muslim women for not covering themselves; 5) the beating or actual killing of Muslim women who dare oppose Muslim men by not wearing the hijab or dating a non-Muslim man; 6) forever and deeply rank anti-Semitism which rivals Nazi anti-Semitism; 7) ALL major schools of Islamic theology, whether Sunni or Shiite, looking upon non-Muslims as the equivalent of human waste; 8) an eternal hatred for liberty; 9) tons of terror, emulating the fraudulent founder of Islam, one Mohammed, who, by his own admission (e.g., Bukhari Hadith 9.84.57), was “made victorious with terror;” and 10) permanent victim-status whenever in the dar al-harb (in order, of course, to make it into yet another part of the dar al-Islam).
And this is just a sampling of how sick Islam is. Really, it is imperative in our era for all across the globe to once and for all understand, confirm and publicly state that whatever problems exist for the human race, a la Joe Louis about Nazism, it’s nothing Islam can fix. Thank you, Joe Louis. Gettin’ any of this, lebel.?
P. Douglas says
NOTHING enrages muslims faster then when THE TRUTH about their obscene cult is taught to the world!
Old Mo was a rapist, murderer and child diddler! HE SHALL ROT IN HELL!
Infidel says
The Hindu in question was a Bangladeshi? That was dumb: he should have first hightailed it out to India, and then posted that post. That way, he’d have been relatively safe from arrest, and if he was careful enough to mask his location, even Indian Muslims wouldn’t have known where to target him
Robert Donator says
It is a frame up just to grab his land and other assets or to take out a person grudge as it happens in Pakistan all the time.
Infidel says
Could be. But still, if one is a Hindu in Bangladesh, how hard is it to see the writing on the wall – that Muslims are gunning for you? While this Bangladesh government may be secular, it has has Islamic governments plenty of times during its history, so why risk it?
gravenimage says
I would love to see all Infidels in Bangladesh–and Pakistan get out. India has offered them citizenship–I hope they all go if they can.
Robert Donator says
Govts will aggravate the situation by treating Islam as another religion which it is not just for Muslim votes. It’s a political dogma tailor made to destroy all other civilizations with the ignorance and full support of Western Govts. Organised violence in the service of religious fundamentalism is the very negation of a true religion. Only those of us who know of this danger must take the initiative to expose the dangers this political dogma masquerading as a religion poses. We must all chip in by telling all whom we know the dangers that this threat poses to entire civilisation. We can start by reading the biographies of Muhammad written by iconic historians instead of hagiographies by apologists from the Left and liberals. Let us start the ball rolling with a growing domino effect before it’s too late.
gravenimage says
We all need to tell the truth about Islam.
Angemon says
Funny how articles rarely, if ever, state what the so-called “defamation” was. What are the odds it is simply bringing up a truth the enraged ones would rather not have infidels know?…
Janice Mermikli says
They look so angry (and possibly retarded) in the photograph. How can such people adapt to the modern world? (That is, even supposing that they want to.)
infidel says
They are the least interested to adapt to the modern world.
jca reid says
What do you expect from a bunch of retards with IQs south of sixty? After all, they’ve really got nothing & their Big Boss, Mohammed, says they’re entitled to booty, loot, slaves, sex slaves, just for being a “Muslim”.
Giacomo Latta says
What’s with this PBUH after the word Muhammad in the AFP story? Is AFP afraid that they will have a gang of, well, quarter-wits (they aren’t getting any smarter) on their tail if they don’t? Muhammad, POH!
Lotus says
The news story is from Pakistan. That’s why there is pbuh after Muhammad’s name.
J D S p says
What’s all this hoopla about a man that probably never even EXISTED……
Again I say ……is lam should not be classed along with sane religions but it would take New laws to regulate that. Pass laws defining just what is acceptable as A RELIGION and I’m sure Islam would fall short as an acceptable religion…..RELIGION gets a pass in many areas and Islam should not get that pass unless they REFORM.
Chef Mueller says
All that for a 1.400-year-old perverted and demonic pedophile from the Cave of Hira known to mankind as a narcissist and murderous thug, a bloodthirsty ancient animal and bastard of an unknown father often called “mohammed.”
TattooedMan77 says
All i can say is: I’m Fucked!
Because some of the Tattoos on my body(after 9/11 and 7/7) are very “critical” of Mohammed.
gravenimage says
Bangladesh: Thousands of Muslims riot, throw rocks at cops over Facebook post by Hindu allegedly defaming Muhammad
……………..
Damned thugs.