More Islamic intolerance that doesn’t make it to headline news in the West: cricket player Shakib al-Hasan, who is a Bangladeshi Muslim, decided to practice some real diversity and tolerance by engaging in a Hindu ceremony. Woe be unto him. “His official Facebook fan page lost nearly a million followers.” Much more importantly, he has received repeated insults and a threat that a fellow Muslim would cut his throat and dismember him for “insulting Islam and Muslims.” Such reports of violence are not uncommon among far too many adherents of the Religion of Peace. And far too many Muslims who speak about peace refuse to condemn these frequent threats, or other human rights abuses that are committed in the name of Islam, or to admit that this hatred and impulse to violence is rooted in Islamic texts. Imagine: public opinion was actually “split between defenders and opponents of the cricket player,” demonstrating the extent of the rage against al-Hasan.
Who are Leftists including when they they promote “diversity,” “dialogue,” and “inclusion”?
Al-Hasan profusely apologized, to save his career and his life.
“Islamic extremists threaten cricket star Shakib over a Hindu symbol,” by Sumon Corraya, Asia News, November 17, 2020:
Dhaka (AsiaNews) – Controversy continues to rage around cricket player Shakib al-Hasan, a Bangladeshi Muslim, over his participation in a Hindu ceremony in Kolkata (India) last Thursday.
The storm stems from the popular champion’s alleged participation in the inauguration of a pooja mandap, a wooden temple, with offerings and prayers.
The morning after the event, a Muslim extremist named Mohsin Talukdar, from Sylhet, repeatedly insulted and threatened Shakib in a video uploaded to Facebook saying that he would cut his throat and dismember his body (picture 2) for insulting Islam and Muslims.
Cricket is widely popular in Bangladesh and South Asia. And public opinion split between defenders and opponents of the cricket player. In a couple of days, his official Facebook fan page lost nearly a million followers after mainstream media released images of the “inauguration” of the pooja mandap.
In an attempt to appease feelings, Shakib’s radical enemy Moshin said he was sorry for his “offensive” remarks but urged the cricket champion to apologise for having “offended Muslims”.
The second video, however, did not stop police from arresting him this morning at his home for making death threats in the first video.
For his part, Shakib said that he did not take part in the inauguration of a pooja mandan but still asked for “forgiveness” for what happened.
“It is not possible to understand the context and the story by looking only at a picture. However, if anyone felt offended that I went there, I ask your forgiveness,” he said.
Shakib explained that he had played for the Kolkata Knight Riders team and is well known in the West Bengal city. During his visit, he was invited to an event at a time when Indians celebrate the Deepavali (Diwali) festival.
When asked, he lit a candle for Deepavali as a token of friendship. For some this is a poor excuse; for others, his apology is a just caving in to extremists who continue to use Islam to threaten and attack….
Isaac Marshall says
Surprised they went after him to be honest. He’s almost idolised by Bangladeshis.
gravenimage says
Islam so often trumps almost everything else, Isaac.
And good to see you posting here again.
ELI says
“decided to practice some real diversity and tolerance by engaging in a Hindu ceremony.”
How many people on jihadwatch including you would be willing to engage in a Muslim ceremony?
I guess you are not practicing real diversity and tolerance then right?
In fact, have you or Robert Spencer ever even wished Muslims a happy Ramadan here? why not? where is your diversity and tolerance?
The hypocrisy I see on here is astounding.
GreekEmpress says
How many Muslims do you think would engage in a Jewish ceremony? Or a Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox ceremony?
Just asking—
ELI says
I would say a minority.
How many jihadwatchers would engage in a Muslim ceremony?
T Ross says
Why should I, on the first place? As demonstrated and explained thousands of times, Islam (with the literal meaning of subjugation, submission) is a political concept that preaches jihad to its followers while accepting creatures like me or other “unbelievers” as subhumans that must be subdued or killed. You’re like asking some Jew to send greetings to the neo-Nazi for Hitler’s birthday.
katemul says
When I was working in a warehouse with a Muslim immigrant, I did wish him a good Ramadan. He seemed surprised that I even knew about it. Of course, I did not let him know how much I knew about Islam. He had no idea that I knew he was serious about his faith because of his zebibah.
ELI says
Good on you, did he wish you merry Christmas at some point?
gravenimage says
Orthodox Islam, of course, prohibits wishing Infidels well:
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/106668/greeting-christians-on-the-occasion-of-their-festivals
Note that Islam Q&A is the most widely read Islamic site in English.
Then, pious Muslims have murdered their lax coreligionists for wishing Infidels happiness at their festivals:
“Muslim charged after fellow Muslim who wished Christians ‘happy Easter’ brutally murdered”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/655611/Muslim-shopkeeper-murdered-after-wishing-Happy-Easter
Non-Muslims are not doing this to those who wish Muslims a Happy Eid or Ramadan.
Wellington says
ELI:
Engage in a Muslim ceremony? Would you also argue the same for a Neo-Nazi or anarchist ceremony? How about Christians engaging in a ceremony celebrating the divinity of Jesus.
Should Muslims participate in such an event—the very bastardization of the Judeo-Christian tradition which Mo and his derelicts did so appallingly.
And note well, very much so, that Muslims rejecting Christianity does not result by Christians in massive threats, beheadings, death in various forms, et al, by followers of Christ. Contra Mo followers exorbitantly—to an absolute sickening degree by Mohammedans,
What you reveal by your deceitful and faux question is that the Islamic faith is an enemy of liberty.
Doubt me? Well then, consider how many Christians would desire harm or death to someone not accepting Christian dogma verses how may Muslims would most definitely desire harm to those who, like yours truly, think that Islamic dogma is full of shit.
Your turn. Give it a shot.
Infidel says
Eli, speaking for myself, no! Years ago, at my sister’s behest, I ate at an eid dinner in Delhi on food that came from the jama masjid, and sure enough, there was a month long jihad in my stomach: I had a bad case of diarrhea and had to make 8 bathroom trips a day for a whole month. Told her not to drag me to another one again!
At any rate, even if any Christian, Jew, Buddhist or Hindu did participate in a Muslim ceremony, no one from these communitites would issue death threats. That’s the issue here, which you’re too stupid to recognize
ELI says
I appreciate the insults, it only strengthens your argument.
Maybe you’re too stupid to see that I don’t take issue with the fact that no one from these communities issued a death threat. I am not denying so would I debate that point?
Infidel says
Then why bring it up in the first place? When you know that if a non-Muslim participated in a Muslim ceremony, he may be criticized or even mocked, but no one would call for his/her death? That’s totally unlike the case here w/ this Bangladeshi Muslim cricketer, which is why it made it here (albeit late: this story is about 3 days old)
The bigger story, which has been discussed in other news sites, but not here, is that Bangladesh is slowly becoming another Pakistan, and life is becoming even worse for Hindus there. This story is a mere symptom of that trend: when their #2 cricket star is targeted by Muslims for an innocuous act outside the country, imagine how much worse it is for the average non-Muslim Billy Joe Blow, who doesn’t have the luxury of celebrity status to highlight all those threats against him
gravenimage says
Good questions, Infidel.
Infidel says
Thanks, GI
gravenimage says
ELI wrote:
“decided to practice some real diversity and tolerance by engaging in a Hindu ceremony.”
How many people on jihadwatch including you would be willing to engage in a Muslim ceremony?
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All Muslim ceremonies include condemnations of Jews and Christians and other Infidels, so no–I would not.
But this is, of course, the *wrong question*, as ELI here well knows. The actual question is how many people here threaten to brutally murder those who take part in Muslim ceremonies? The answer, of course, is that civilized Anti-Jihadists do not do this.
Note that ELI has *no* criticism for these pious Muslims threatening to behead and dismember this man. But then, why would he?
Giacomo Latta says
Piss on you, Islam and your leftard concepts of diversity and tolerance. I do not tolerate anyone whose religion includes specific instructions to kill me and in what manner. Your definition of tolerance conveniently ignores facts like that. My country does need ”diversity”, old ways of muslims killing me and my compatriots (knives) and newly-invented muslim ones (planes).
Giacomo Latta says
s/b does not need
tim gallagher says
This report just shows, yet again, what a complete waste of time it is to have any of these naive, stupid attempts at inter-faith reconciliation when it comes to islam. This time it was a Muslim making a peaceful gesture and the Muslim mob go after him, but usually you get Christian churches futilely attempting inter-faith reconciliation towards Islam, which is a waste of time. This one Muslim tries to make a rare peaceful gesture and look at how the mob of barbaric Muslims go after him ( a million Muslims dump him from facebook, etc) Tolerance and diversity and getting togather with non-Muslims to sing “Kumbaya” are alien ideas to islam and always have been and always will be. Totally intolerant Muslims need to be shut off on their own and kept far away from the non-Muslims they hate so much and wish to harm. Just on this cricketer making that peaceful gesture towards the Hindus. Indians are fanatical about cricket and the Indian teams pay overseas players, including many Australians, English players, etc, a fortune, huge money, to play in these Indian teams (such as the Kolkata team) in this yearly Indian competition, so I wonder whether this Muslim cricketer might have wanted to suck up to the Hindus because they are paying him big money to play for one of the Indian teams.
Infidel says
He didn’t have to suck up to anyone, since they get selected on merit. As it is, he currently plays for the Hyderabad team, not Kolkata, which he did play for for several years, before getting sold elsewhere at the auctions. Normally, the tournament is a huge success, although this year, it was heavily dampened due to the fact that it was all played in the Emirates in 3 of their cities, rather than the 8 venues in India
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the information, infidel. Maybe you are right. I am an Australian, who used to care about cricket, but find it pretty boring these days. Rugby League is by far my favourite sport, and I also like watching the Masters golf each year because it is on at a very good time in Australia. It is on when you get up in the morning. I like to watch a little of the 20 over cricket competition we have out here around Christmas time each year. I couldn’t care less about this Indian competition but I do know, because it is often mentioned out here that players earn an extraordinarily large amount of money playing in that competition. As for selection on merit, they have thrown big money at some Australians who were old and past their best, Shane Watson being an example. The attitude from past players who are commentators in Australia is, well, good luck to these players. It is like winning the lottery and they say that they wish they could have earned such huge money for playing in such a short competition. You are probably right about this cricketer. I have zero interest in that competition, but I do suspect, if you are earning the big bucks playing in India you might not want to do anything that might piss them off such as saying, no, I won’t have anything to do with a Hindu ritual. But I was just having a guess about that. To me, the main thing about this report is the vicious way the Muslims are going after this cricketer.
Infidel says
Tim, don’t you watch the Big Bash League? That’s a 20 over competition as well, and so is the IPL. I find those leagues more fascinating b’cos players are freely traded so that each team has the optimal combination (unlike national competitions, where countries were limited by whoever they had). As for Shane Watson, only one team – Chennai – picked all the old players they could find, and used them throughout the tournament, and they finished 8th out of 8. In the past, that strategy worked for them, but not this year, since most of them hit their ‘use-by’ date. However, all the other 7 teams did select players on merit, although some made bad calls, like Punjab on Glenn Maxwell.
Usually, most foreign cricketers would not be invited to do Hindu rituals, since it’s well known tha they’re typically not Hindu. This Muslim mayor invited this Bangladeshi cricketer to do it to virtue signal to voters how wonderful Muslims are, and the blowback was one to behold!
Wellington says
“Muslim threatens to cut throat, dismember….”
It is ultimately of secondary consequence that this Islamic rot was issued to a Hindu. Might as well have been issued to a Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Sikh, agnostic, atheist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Confucianist, et al.
And please spare me the deceptive rubbish about Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians being “People of the Book”—yeah they get a semi-pass if, pursuant to Sura 9:29, they feel subdued and act like obedient slaves.
And this is why all non-Muslims must bury whatever differences they have and unite against Islam, which is the control-freak religious totalitarian ideology of all time, mirroring those twin secular totalitarian ideologies, i.e., Marxism and Nazism.
So sick of Islam. Also, I am no longer possessed of ANY patience for ANY Muslim, no matter how nice they are in day-to-day life and ignorant (or are they?) of their religious creed. Might as well make excuses for a “nice” Neo-Nazi, anarchist, Marxist, an Aryan Nation adherent, et al. as make excuses for “nice” Muslims that you know. Doing so is a fallacy of the first order, damn stupid too.
ELI says
“So sick of Islam. Also, I am no longer possessed of ANY patience for ANY Muslim, no matter how nice they are in day-to-day life and ignorant (or are they?) of their religious creed.”
This post exemplifies how hatred of an ideology leads one to hate people associated with that ideology in any way.
“Might as well make excuses for a “nice” Neo-Nazi, anarchist, Marxist, an Aryan Nation adherent, et al. as make excuses for “nice” Muslims that you know. Doing so is a fallacy of the first order, damn stupid too.”
This post reminds me of the warning issued by Himmler to his men to steel them for what was to come. It is important that every single “other” become evil. There cannot be any exception: “And then they all come along, the eighty million good Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. Of course the others are swine, but this one is a first-class Jew.”
St. Croix says
I wonder would Muslims uniting to wipe out Israel and “drive them into the sea” (that oft-repeated chorus for many decades now) have to be steeled to what was to come, namely, 80 million good Muslims, and each one has his decent Jew. Would you be able to say this would be a logical thing to wonder? “Of course, the others are swine, but this one is a first-class Jew.” Do you really think anyone would have to say that to put some steel in the spine of an army of Muslims who had a job to wipe out the Jews?
Try thinking of the army of the Iranian Republic. Or one of their groups, such as Hizbollah. Would there be 80 million, and each one with his decent Jew he wanted to spare? Hmmm. I very much doubt it. Nope, I can’t see it at all.
When I hear the Islamic rhetoric, when I look into the Qu’ran, when I see the actions of Muslims today in Europe, in the Middle East and increasingly, in North America, I SEE that there is a strong indoctrination against Jews, and Christians. Whereby the Ummah are charged with the instruction to smite them in the necks. Beheading.
There are lots of people born into Islam who don’t even know what it says, as they don’t read. And certainly, many don’t read Arabic. Yet even if they don’t know what their own book tells them to do, when they see their brothers killing non-Muslims and any Muslim who dares leave Islam, do they speak up? Stand up? Leave Islam? To do so means they might not live long. Not many will have the courage to stand against their own community, but some do, and many die for it.
In the story above, the “accused” cricketer quickly apologizes and dissembles. No doubt the consideration of being dismembered helped.
That is the religion you seem to be defending.
So in your analogy you need to swing it around the other way. In the example, the Nazis can only be compared to the Muslims. (Yes, yes, I know you were making the point about “the ALL have to be called rotten).
Let’s see what the Palestinian Authority is saying this week about “THE JEWS” and I can tell you that they don’t pick and choose. It’s ALL those evil Jews. Over and over, the same old chorus.
In the case of a planned genocide of Jews by Muslims, will they have need of much exhortation to stand unified in the slaughter? From what I can see, there would be no lack of willing participants in a proposed slaughter or Jews.
However, to your point. Though it may not seem like it sometimes, Muslims are human. Many who learn the truth about their religion “come out” when the opportunity arises. Many have joined my own faith, Christianity, at great personal risk. I pray more and more do so, and I’m sure many more will. But, most won’t.
At the same time, because of such doctrines as taqiyya and kitman, can you blame any non-Muslim for placing confidence in anyone professing the Muslim faith? In Christianity we have no such corresponding doctrine.
St. Croix says
I should have said “…can you blame any non-Muslim for NOT placing confidence in anyone professing the Muslim faith?”
ELI says
“Whereby the Ummah are charged with the instruction to smite them in the necks. Beheading.”
Yet millions of jews managed to live among Muslims in shariah ruled states for a thousand years. How can be given the clear injunction to kill all the jews?
Infidel says
Except that the Nazis targeted the Jews based more on their race, rather than their belief system, whereas Wellington is condemning Muslims based on their belief in islam. Not quite the same thing. If one was a Jew, one couldn’t convert to Hitler’s preferred religion and save himself.
So it’s not a fallacy at all, except at your end, where you compare apples w/ apple tarts
gravenimage says
ELI wrote, in reply to Wellington:
“So sick of Islam. Also, I am no longer possessed of ANY patience for ANY Muslim, no matter how nice they are in day-to-day life and ignorant (or are they?) of their religious creed.”
This post exemplifies how hatred of an ideology leads one to hate people associated with that ideology in any way.
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Of course, the implication that hating the savagery of those who adhere to a creed that enjoins beheading and mutilation is itself a form of violence, and should be condemned where the original calls for violence should not, is moral insanity. This is known as projection.
More:
“Might as well make excuses for a “nice” Neo-Nazi, anarchist, Marxist, an Aryan Nation adherent, et al. as make excuses for “nice” Muslims that you know. Doing so is a fallacy of the first order, damn stupid too.”
This post reminds me of the warning issued by Himmler to his men to steel them for what was to come. It is important that every single “other” become evil. There cannot be any exception: “And then they all come along, the eighty million good Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. Of course the others are swine, but this one is a first-class Jew.”
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Now as ELI would have it, opposing the barbarism of the Nazis is itself Fascism.
More, in reply to St. Croix:
“Whereby the Ummah are charged with the instruction to smite them in the necks. Beheading.”
Yet millions of jews managed to live among Muslims in shariah ruled states for a thousand years. How can be given the clear injunction to kill all the jews?
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Utter claptrap. Jews were savagely persecuted, forcibly converted, and murdered outright in most of the Muslim world. As of 1948, few Jews suvived in Dar-al-Islam, and most of the survivors where then robbed and expelled, even though many of these Jews had a history predating Islam.
There were not a million Jews remaining in the Muslim world in 1948.
And today, the pitiful remnant of Jews remaining in Dar-al-Islam is mistreated and threatened.
“Yemeni Jews threatened with extinction”
https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/111757/
There is, famously, a *single* lonely Jewish man remaining in all of Afganistan.
Wellington says
Point, set, match, gravenimage.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
You have added yet another knockout to your perfect record!
Like I’ve said before, I prefer to stay in your good side…
john smith says
Brilliant stuff, gravenimage.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Wellington, James, and John.
Wellington says
Notice, ELI, that I don’t want to harm Muslims simply for being Muslim, but I can’t respect any adult who willingly is a Muslim. Your faux comparison to Himmler is way, way, way off the mark. Indeed, it’s a cheap shot. Damn stupid too.
gravenimage says
+1
T Ross says
With the open Jihad, killing, maiming, torturing literally thousands of “infidels” in “dar al Harb” from Siberia to Nigeria to Australia, and with the stealth Jihad, bribing the “elites” and “academia” of the Swamp to get a privileged position regarding other religions, no wonder the Mohammedans will provoke the “infidels” animus. Do not worry, ELI, Muslies are arrogant enough and shrewd enough to use even this in their propaganda – just like you do here.
Infidel says
Shakib al Hasan was covering his hiney by claiming that he wasn’t participating in a religious ceremony, when the video of the event in question clearly showed that he was. Actually, Shakib was the guest of the Muslim mayor of Calcutta Firhad Hakim, and they both inaugurated that puja tent. (Incidentally, it wasn’t a Diwali celebration: it was a Kali Puja celebration which is unique to Bengal, but celebrated only by Shakta Hindus). Incidentally, that mayor is a part of his party’s utopian claims that Muslims enjoy celebrating Hindu festivals just as much as Hindus do. Wonder whom he’d invite next year?
Anyway, as other news sites have noted, this is a microcosm of how Bangladesh is morphing into a more fanatical Islamic country like Pakistan. Just like in Pakistan, there is the rape jihad going on against non-Muslim girls there, the same is being attempted more brazenly in Bangladesh. A few weeks ago, as reported here, there was that blasphemy case against a Hindu student Tithi Sarkar, which caused her expulsion from the university where she studied. Luckily, she had a Hindu boyfriend and eloped, and so didn’t end up as fresh meat for Muslim rapists: however, she did get arrested after she returned to Dhaka. And there have been other cases like hers as well
Right now, all countries are under a travel ban thanks to the Chinavirus, but the US should quietly add Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkey to the list of banned countries. (Of course, this is under the assumption that Trump wins his appeals: if Biden comes in, all 1.8 billion Muslims will be welcomed here!)
gravenimage says
All grimly true.
gravenimage says
Bangladesh: Muslim threatens to cut throat, dismember cricket player because he took part in Hindu ceremony
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Just grotesque–but who can be surprised by this savagery?
Khushi says
Finally, to save himself and his family, he HAD TO apologise and he also clarified that he was just watching the ceremony, he did not take part in the ceremony, etc.
Infidel says
Didn’t take part in the ceremony? Just watch the first minute of the video below and then decide: he’s in front of the statue, while the priest is distributing offerings to be made to the deity: that’s as close as one can be for a puja. He was lying to cover his butt, but really shouldn’t have had to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PRHqmkgROo
OLD GUY says
One thing that most Americans don’t realize is if islam gains control of America you can kiss your love for sports and entertainment.goodbye. That’s right no more Monday night football, good bye sports bars, what theaters, NBA?, yep no entertainment not allowed by sharia law. No wonder islamic men have to entertain them selves with child brides and whores. Their idea of sports is beheadings, public beatings of women, and terrorism.
St. Croix says
Let’s not forget all the pet dogs that would all have to be put down. No wonder Muslims hate the French, dogs are allowed everywhere there. Or were, last time I was there, which was a while ago. Oh, the utter perversity and insanity of Islam! I know this is a small point, compared to the way people are treated under Sharia.
However, I don’t think most Westerners realize how dogs are hated and persecuted by Muslims, and this is a fact that many would find hard to believe. I think it would be very revealing and wake some people up, that there are Muslims in the U.S. and elsewhere committing “dog jihad.” Yes, they shoot and poison dogs as has been seen in Spain, Sweden, Jordan, etc.
If little girls can be sold off and raped by old men, if women can’t defend themselves for being raped b/c the case will be thrown out and she may be the one who ends up being executed, if gays are thrown from rooftops and apostates are beheaded by their own parents, well, why should it be surprising that dogs are targeted because they were singled out negatively by the angel Jibreel? (supposedly “angel Gabriel” but I will not call that one Gabriel.)
It is an utterly cruel and depraved religion. How could anyone defend Islam? How can ELI even try to defend it? I think, for one, the writings are so confused and contradictory they can be used to support any position if someone wants to try. But the salient point is how the leaders are interpreting and using these writings, and how the followers go along with it. There is also the doctrine of abrogation, with which ELI may not be familiar. There is PLENTY of evil, murderous, hatred-inciting rubbish written in these Islamic texts to furnish support for every depraved act of Muslims over the centuries since it started. More than enough. The jihadists are only following through on what the Islamic texts state clearly. Such as the beheading of infidels.
That old canard about the “Golden Age of Islam”!! It’s rubbish. And not very golden if you happen to be a woman, whether a slave, a dhimmi, a sex slave, or a Muslim woman. What woman in her right mind would every say it was a golden age? Bring them up in a time machine and ask them how it was for them!
We don’t need to do that. The writings of so many Muslims over the centuries paints a clear picture of abuse and the kind of “male privilege” that so many who are bolstering Islam in the West pretend to decry. THAT I will never understand. How the cognitive dissonance doesn’t make their heads implode, I just don’t know.
Finally, what about vineyards? SIngle malt whisky? Those must go!!
I would also be very put out by the destruction of so many beautiful art works; “images” are right up there with dogs when it comes to keeping angel Jibreel away.
Namely, many of the beautiful enjoyable things that make life worth living, under Islam, GONE.
Not to mention FREEDOM!!!
Replaced by a barbaric cruelty of a religious-political system.
gravenimage says
Good post.
Mahendra Singh says
Every Muslim is enjoined to watch the ritual slaughter of goats, cows, sheep, etc on
the occasion of Buqreed, the second most important Islamic festival.. It is where he
or she gets his practical training on how to slit throat of innocent beast with maximum pain
to the animal (an Islamic requirement).