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Bangladesh: Muslims threaten to murder atheist blogger for criticizing political Islam, defending Buddhists

Aug 26, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“One of Noor’s video blogs featured the apparent vandalism of a Buddhist statue under construction in a Buddhist monastery in Rangunia. Noor claimed that the attackers were supported by forest officials and the local MP of the AL party because they wanted to evict the monks from the area. After Noor published his videos, local Islamist groups protested against the blogger and accused him of damaging religious harmony between Muslims and Buddhists.”

Note that the local “Islamist” groups didn’t have any problem with the vandalism of the Buddhist statue. Only Noor was “damaging religious harmony between Muslims and Buddhists” by defending the Buddhists.

This is a universally recurring phenomenon. Counterjihadists in the U.S. are terrible people for pointing out the violent actions of Islamic jihadis and incendiary statements of some Muslim clerics; the same people who charge those counterjihadists with “Islamophobia,” however, never have a word to say about those jihadis and clerics. The fault lies not with them for calling for and engaging in warfare against unbelievers; it lies with us for pointing out that they’re doing it.

“Bangladeshi blogger faces death threats for criticizing Islamic fundamentalism,” by Arafatul Islam, DW, August 24, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Rights groups are urging Bangladeshi authorities to withdraw all charges against blogger Asad Noor, restore his passport and end harassment of his family members. Noor fled to India after multiple threats to his life.

Asad Noor, an outspoken Bangladeshi blogger, has been facing threats and intimidation from both state and non-state actors for supporting minorities and criticizing Islamic fundamentalism.

The atheist blogger crossed the Bangladesh-India border illegally on February 14, 2019, with the help of an agent after intelligence officers confiscated his passport. He has been living in India ever since.

“In my YouTube and Facebook videos, I have been criticizing Islam and Prophet Mohammad, referencing the Quran and the Hadith. At the same time, I am critical about political Islam. That’s why Islamists are angry with me,” Noor told DW.

“Local police frequently search our house (in Bangladesh) to try and arrest me … my family has been paying the price for my activism,” he added.

Alleged attack on monastery

In July, Noor published several video blogs protesting the persecution of Bangladesh’s minority Buddhist community in Rangunia, a town in the southeastern part of the country.

A local leader of the country’s ruling party Awami League (AL) sued the blogger in July 2020 under the Digital Security Act, accusing him of “hurting religious sentiments” and “running propaganda against the spirit of the liberation war.”

One of Noor’s video blogs featured the apparent vandalism of a Buddhist statue under construction in a Buddhist monastery in Rangunia. Noor claimed that the attackers were supported by forest officials and the local MP of the AL party because they wanted to evict the monks from the area.

After Noor published his videos, local Islamist groups protested against the blogger and accused him of damaging religious harmony between Muslims and Buddhists.

Police raided Noor’s family house in Rangunia and allegedly harassed his family members while he was in India. “On the early morning of July 18, police forcefully picked up my parents as well as four other family members, and kept them in illegal detention for nearly 48 hours,” Noor said.

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) was formed in 2004 to battle growing Islamism in Bangladesh. It initially managed to arrest or kill some top terrorists. But it did not take long for RAB’s good reputation to be tarnished as it slowly became a symbol of fear. It’s now seen as an all-powerful “death squad” unit that acts on the fringes of the law and imposes its own brand of justice….

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Filed Under: Bangladesh, blasphemy, Buddhists, death threats, Featured, Jihadist intimidation and thuggery Tagged With: Asad Noor, Rangunia, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)


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  1. Peter Buckley says

    Aug 26, 2020 at 3:16 pm

    They can’t kill the millions of apostates now living in the world. Islam is collapsing.

    Just been watching Harris Sultan’s latest videos of events in Pakistan, and how the various Islamic sects are now going to “eat each other”:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xh7vz5FIiE

    Which reminds me of an article I read many moons ago

    “There is a secret life of Islam and it may very well lead to the death of Islam. The history of Islam, for instance, tells us that Islam needs blood to thrive. Human blood is the life-line of Islam, violence its hallmark, and hate its foundation. In the beginning, Islam lives on the blood of infidels. When that is unavailable, or becomes difficult, Islam must cannibalize itself. As a car needs gasoline to run, so does Islam need human blood just to run its own course, set by Muhammad, its Prophet.”

    http://www.islam-watch.org/AbulKasem/Demise-of-Islam.htm

    Read it.

  2. DearDiary says

    Aug 26, 2020 at 3:49 pm

    Compare this man’s real problems with the problems faced by upper middle class white girls hoping their BLM protest march goes into looting mode soon.

  3. Mike says

    Aug 26, 2020 at 5:37 pm

    and here’s Blasphemy laws at there best
    and
    here’s
    what
    CAIR has been pushing in the US

  4. Keith O says

    Aug 26, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    Religious harmony between Mudslimes and Buddhists? What a joke.
    There is no such thing as harmony even within Islam, they hate everything and everyone, even other branches of Mudslime.
    This is a good indicator of the true impact of Islam when even Buddhists, who love everything and everyone, have problems with Mudslimes.

  5. FYI says

    Aug 26, 2020 at 6:46 pm

    We must support the right of anyone to be an APOSTATE.

    We must oppose Blasphemy laws as they will be used by muslims to silence free speech.

    We must oppose subversive Political islam and the evil that is sharia ‘law’

    ALL Infidels must consider the threat posed by this cult:

    Remember that ALL non-muslims are called “the WORST of created beings” {koran 98:6}

  6. gravenimage says

    Aug 26, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    Bangladesh: Muslims threaten to murder atheist blogger for criticizing political Islam, defending Buddhists
    …………

    Yes–I’ve seen this appalling story and worry about Noor’s safety.

  7. OLD GUY says

    Aug 27, 2020 at 6:50 pm

    Beware of islam it hates you non-believers and will provide you with misery and death at the hands of islamics persons. Nothing to fear here muslims are only kidding, oh wait islam doesn’t allow kidding or fun only misery and hate so their threats should be taken seriously. Islam dose want to enslave, murder, and destroy everyone who is not a follower of islam. Sounds serious to me.

  8. Seenu Subbu says

    Aug 27, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    Many bloggers have already been slaughtered on the streets, in public view, with no fear. This is no threat, this guy will soon die

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 27, 2020 at 8:47 pm

      Grimly likely–other brave bloggers in Bangladesh have been murdered there:

      “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

      “Top Bangladesh sci-fi writer stabbed in head at seminar because he’s an ‘enemy of Islam’”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/top-bangladesh-sci-fi-writer-stabbed-in-head-at-seminar-because-hes-an-enemy-of-islam

      Just not sure if this poster approves or not–his comment is pretty vague.

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