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Bangladesh: Muslims threaten to murder activist for defending Buddhist monk and pro-gay platform

Aug 10, 2020 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

Another glimpse into the future of the West. Do you doubt that? Really? But how is anything remotely connected to criticism of Islam, even simple opposition to jihad terror, treated in the establishment media and by both parties now?

“Accused of ‘Defaming Islam’, B’desh Blogger Who Defended Buddhist Monk Fears for Family,” by Uttaran Das Gupta, News18.com, August 9, 2020:

Bangladeshi blogger and secular activist Asaduzzaman Noor, accused of defaming Islam, has claimed that his family at Amtali Upzila of Barguna district (around 320 km south of Dhaka) is being harassed by the government for posting a Facebook video criticising alleged appropriation of a Buddhist temple.

Noor, better known by his nom de plume Asad Noor, has been in hiding — in Bangladesh and abroad — for past several years after receiving death threats from Islamist groups for defending a Buddhist monk, and 10 Minute School, a pro-LGBTQ platform. He has been charged under the Digital Security Act, 2018, for defaming Islam — an offence punishable with a jail term of up to 10 years….

Bloggers, social media activists, and LGBTQ rights campaigners have been repeatedly attacked in Bangladesh since 2013, when some of them organised protests demanding death penalty for those convicted of committing atrocities in the 1971 war against Pakistan….

According to some reports, at least 30 secular activists have been killed in Bangladesh in waves of violence since then.

The attention of the international media was drawn to these atrocities after writer and Bangladesh-origin US citizen Avijit Roy was hacked to death by machete-wielding assassins at a book fair in Dhaka on February 26, 2015.

As the government failed to prevent these killings, several bloggers were forced to escape Bangladesh, and now live in exile in Europe or the US….

After he posted his most recent video on July 13, supporting the Buddhist monk, a protest by Islamists was held on July 17 in Chittagong demanding that Noor and the monk be hanged. The next day, several members of his family were picked up by the police in plainclothes, alleged Noor.

“My parents and my sisters have nothing to do with me,” he said. In a video he shared with me, his father can be seen telling him — in Bengali — to desist from anti-religious and anti-national activities….

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Filed Under: Bangladesh, blasphemy, death threats, Featured, free speech, Islamic supremacism, Jihadist intimidation and thuggery Tagged With: Amtali Upzila, Asad Noor, Asaduzzaman Noor, Barguna, Facebook


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  1. kami-sama says

    Aug 10, 2020 at 8:21 am

    I will never defend the gay community , the great majority of them are pro islam ,muslims and woke .
    In a sence Islam is the most powerful gay ideology in existance since both sexes are strictly seperated “segregation” while being able to spend time with your own gender doing whatever un-interrupted

    • Mike says

      Aug 10, 2020 at 8:31 am

      never though of it that way
      puts a new light on raping everything
      even have a video of one having sex with a tail pipe of a vehicle
      nothings save with a whole

      • curious says

        Aug 10, 2020 at 3:21 pm

        @Mike, I don’t see the connection between @kami-sama’s comment and “raping everything” let alone vehicles. Can you please clarify?

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 10, 2020 at 9:25 pm

          curious, Muslims do indeed rape victims quite frequently, and rape is in fact sacralized in Islam.

    • curious says

      Aug 10, 2020 at 3:19 pm

      @kami-sama, Can you please cite any survey comparing opinion among gay voters to voters as a whole? The great majority of NATO media and governments favor Islam, so you seem to be saying you would “never defend” NATO either.

      • kami-sama says

        Aug 11, 2020 at 1:24 am

        Indeed I’d never side myself with any entity that wants to enslave me. Im not a religious person & i object to all religions i don’t mind spirituality though the believe in a higher power puts the feeble human mind at ease. Europe ended their dark ages with thier revolution against the church’s abusive rule but it seems the elite want to put us back a millennium ago with this vile Islam.
        https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/05/the-kingdom-in-the-closet/305774/
        Here is an article about how gay the most Islamic country in the world

        • curious says

          Aug 11, 2020 at 2:15 am

          @kami-sama, that article doesn’t say anything about “the gay community” supposedly supporting Islam. Most of it wasn’t even about an openly “gay community” at all.

          For example, “what seems more startling, at least from a Western perspective, is that some of the men having sex with other men don’t consider themselves gay… “They’re not really homosexual,” she said. “They’re like cell mates in prison.” This analogy came up again and again during my conversations.”

          The article continues, “He went on to write that he kept his sexual preference a secret from just about everyone, including his wife of five years.” “I asked him whether he was gay, and he responded, “No! A gay is against the norm.” [M]ost of the Saudis I interviewed, including those men who identify themselves as gay, consider sodomy a grave sin.”

          Regarding religion, the article says, “Faith is a “huge confusion” for gay Muslims, Yasser and others told me. “My religion says it’s forbidden, and to practice this kind of activity, you’ll end up in hell,” he explains. But Yasser places hope in God’s merciful nature. “God forgives you if, from the inside, you are very pure,” he said. “If you have guilt all the time while you’re doing this stuff, maybe God might forgive you. If you practice something forbidden and keep it quiet, God might forgive you.” Zahar, a 41-year-old Saudi who has traveled widely throughout the world, urged me not to write about Islam and homosexuality; to do so, he said, is to cut off debate, because “it’s always the religion that holds people back.””

          It goes on, “Acknowledging homosexuality would harden a potentially mutable behavior into an identity that contradicts the teachings of Islam, to the extent that Islam deals with the subject.”

          That doesn’t sound at all like what you claimed.

          Yasser’s comment about needing to “have guilt all the time” in order to be spared eternal damnation reminds me of the Republican and Vatican closet cases constantly trying to persecute the gay community.

          This comment made me laugh though:

          “Some [religious police] even bear marks of their devotion on their faces; they bow to God so adamantly that pressing their foreheads against the ground leaves a visible dent.”

          https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/05/the-kingdom-in-the-closet/305774/

          They have pounded their heads against the floor so many times that they have physical brain damage.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 10, 2020 at 9:23 pm

      kami-sama, Muslims do indeed murder those involved in consensual same sex relationships.

  2. mortimer says

    Aug 10, 2020 at 10:30 am

    Islam … the most intolerant religion.

    • curious says

      Aug 10, 2020 at 3:26 pm

      +1

      Islam is a totalitarian doctrine that commands the violent overthrow of all secular governments, including in the USA. It commands also a religion, so its advocates claim freedom of religion in the west, and are supported by religious advocates e.g. the Pope.

  3. curious says

    Aug 10, 2020 at 3:24 pm

    These threats are deadly serious following a growing list of vigilante sharia patrols murdering blasphemers as per Islam:

    “US Embassy Worker Hacked to Death in Bangladesh
    ***
    He was murdered in his home alongside a fellow activist, Kirby said. Local reports say the men were hacked to death.”
    https://abcnews.go.com/News/us-embassy-worker-killed-bangladesh/story?id=38655449

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 10, 2020 at 9:38 pm

      Yes–this is a growing threat in Bangladesh:

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

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/ramadan-in-bangladesh-muslims-drag-secularist-writer-out-of-shop-shoot-him-dead

      “Bangladesh: Killers of atheist ‘think they have done a very good job for their religion’”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/03/bangladesh-killers-of-atheist-think-they-have-done-a-very-good-job-for-their-religion

      There are, grimly, many more such stories.

      • curious says

        Aug 11, 2020 at 7:00 pm

        Thanks @gravenimage. Here is a BBC report:

        “A Bangladeshi blogger known for his atheist views has been hacked to death by a gang armed with machetes in the capital Dhaka, police say.

        Niloy Neel was attacked at his home in the city’s Goran area.

        He is the fourth secularist blogger to have been killed this year by suspected Islamist militants in Bangladesh.

        Imran H Sarkar, head of the Bangladesh Blogger and Activist Network, told the BBC that Mr Neel had been an anti-extremist voice of reason. “He was the voice against fundamentalism and extremism and was even a voice for minority rights – especially women’s rights and the rights of indigenous people,” he said.

        BBC World Service South Asia editor Charles Haviland says that, like previous victims, Mr Neel was not only secular but atheist and, like two of the others, he was from a Hindu, not a Muslim, background.
        ***
        All four men killed were on a list of 84 “atheist bloggers” drawn up by Islamic groups in 2013 and widely circulated. It was originally submitted to the government with the aim of having the bloggers arrested and tried for blasphemy.
        ***
        Bangladesh is officially secular but critics say the government is indifferent to attacks on bloggers by Islamist militants.

        Two people have been arrested, but no-one charged, in connection with this year’s killings, our correspondent adds.”
        http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33819032

        I have never hear dof a Muslim jury convicting a Muslim for killing an alleged blasphemer.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 11, 2020 at 7:23 pm

          Yes, hideous. And you are right that such murderers are almost never punished in Dar-al-Islam.

  4. Keith O says

    Aug 10, 2020 at 6:11 pm

    So Buddhist monks are a threat?
    Wow, didn’t see that one coming. These brain damaged mudslimes think that everything is offensive.
    They bring the concept of intolerance to a whole new level.

    • Henricus says

      Aug 12, 2020 at 7:16 am

      In recent years Muslims have been killing Buddhist monks in three Southern Districts in Thailand.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 13, 2020 at 2:15 am

        Grimly true, Henricus.

  5. gravenimage says

    Aug 10, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    Bangladesh: Muslims threaten to murder activist for defending Buddhist monk and pro-gay platform
    ……………,.

    He is, grimly, right to be worried. Muslims have been slaughtering secular activists–as well as those defending those of any other faith than Islam, as well as gays.

    • curious says

      Aug 10, 2020 at 10:09 pm

      +1

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