A Bangladeshi social media sensation in a recent interview exposed the extent of online hate, bigotry, abuse and chilling threats from Muslims she had to endure, all because of her religious identity. Hundreds of people not only used unspeakable profanity against her and her family, but also the Gods she prayed to. Some even left threats describing how they would molest her. The virtual terror unleashed upon her not only wrecked her mental wellbeing, but made her second guess every aspect of her identity and life in Bangladesh. Is it a sin to be born as a Hindu in Bangladesh? She recounts that she couldn’t sleep for days.
While speaking with Manju Ahmad, anchor of a Bangladeshi talk show, the celebrated TikToker Samonty Shoumi stated that she had posted a video of herself at the Durga Puja Pandal on the seventh day of Durga Puja this year. In response, Muslims, who had so far been unaware of her religious background, hurled unimaginable abuse at her, including: “You are a sub-human”; “You Hindu whore”; “F*ck you and f*ck your fake idol-worshipping religion”; “Dirty Hindu maid,” and so on. There were choicest of obscenities, very descriptive ones, for the Hindu Goddess Durga as well. While most of the expletives were beeped out on the show, we have tried to provide the closest possible translations of the Bengali slang. Apart from these, in numerous comments people said that they were unfollowing her upon learning that she was a Hindu. Muslims, irrespective of gender or age, tagged each other, directing people in their network to unfollow her because she was a Hindu. Samonty further revealed that around a thousand people unfollowed her that day.
In response to the Islamic attack, Samonty said that she was raised in Bangladesh, but it never occurred to her that she didn’t belong there; she has, however, now been introduced to the jihadi side of the society of which she is a part. Looking into the camera, she asserted that she took extreme pride in the family she was born into and the religion she belonged to. She emphasized that it was not Hindus who carried explosives onto a plane, and pointed out that the recent attacks on the Hindus were carried out for alleged blasphemy against Islam, though everyone knows now who is the real culprit was (a Muslim man, Iqbal Hossain, placed a Quran at a Durga Puja pavilion, triggering an anti-Hindu pogrom in Bangladesh).
Samonty is not the first Bangladeshi celebrity to be harassed for not being a Muslim. All hell broke loose when National Award-winning actor Chanchal Chowdhury posted a picture of him with his mother on Mother’s Day this year. As he has a religiously ambiguous name, most people had no idea he was a Hindu. However, the bright vermillion on his mother’s hair partition (a sign of matrimony worn by Hindu women) gave away his religious affiliation. Rabid religious fanatics came out of the virtual woodwork to spew vitriol against him and hurl revolting epithets at his mother. Some suggested that he must convert to Islam, while others explained how every human being is born a Muslim, but goes astray after he starts worshipping idols.
Things are not very different either for Hindu sportsmen in Bangladesh. A couple of years ago, Hindu cricketer Liton Das drew massive hate for being a Hindu after he shared good wishes for Durga Puja on social media. Some Bangladeshi Muslims can get remarkably creative with their slurs. One Md Metun stated that the status of the Hindu goddess Durga was lower than that of a strand of a fur on a dog’s paw in a Muslim’s home (domesticating dogs is haram in Islam). Liton was compelled to concede and take down the picture featuring good wishes for Durga Puja.
Interestingly, in portraying itself as a sad, hapless, underprivileged South Asian country struggling with lack of educational and medical infrastructure, Bangladesh has received massive grants from international welfare bodies. But beyond that pity-arousing surface, Bangladesh is home to hundreds of thousands of Muslims who have no interest in the growth of their country. Their efforts are all directed toward hating non-Muslims, forming massive mobs and ransacking Hindu villages, putting up fake stories of blasphemy by Hindus, and then attacking them. If they are not able to attack anyone physically, these religious zealots quench their fanaticism by hounding non-Muslims online. It is funny because just a couple of forefathers ago, this entire demography was a Hindu civilization converted to Islam through the application of force or fear, by some Muslim invader or the other from across Asia.
mortimer says
– Quote from article: (“Muslims, who had so far been unaware of her religious background, hurled unimaginable abuse at her, including: “You are a sub-human”; “You Hindu whore”; “F*ck you and f*ck your fake idol-worshipping religion”; “Dirty Hindu maid,” and so on.’)
What? Muslim Benghalis are BIGOTS ??? Say it isn’t so!
The SECOND LARGEST GENOCIDE of the 20th century occurred in BANGLADESH in 1971 and was prosecuted by the Pakistani Army during ‘OPERATION SEARCHLIGHT’.
– REPORT OF AMERICAN CONSUL May 1971:
On May 14th, (American) Consul Archer Blood sent a telegram to Washington entitled “The Hindu Slaughter.” He wrote that “the army’s standard pattern in its operations is to have soldiers enter villages, question the citizens as to where the Hindus live, and execute the males.”
On May 19th he informed Washington that “a young Western Pakistani officer (a fighter pilot by profession) admitted that the army is conducting a systematic killing of the Hindus.” The officer justified the actions, saying, “the Hindus are enemies and we must cleanse East Pakistan,” and that, “the killing is conducted under the auspices of jihad, a holy war.” Blood added that “in some instances Pakistani soldiers boasted that they came to East Pakistan to kill Hindus.”
(Note: the Bangladesh Muslims apparently want to complete the unfinished business of 1971 during which 3 million Hindus were slaughtered.)
mortimer says
Note: If Robert Spencer revises ‘The History of Jihad’, he should include the 3 million killed in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) as VICTIMS OF JIHAD … that was the official policy of the Pak Army.
This genocide of 3 million Hindus and the rape of 400,000 Hindu women was TRUE JIHAD. The criminals were not punished.
q.v. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide
Boycott Turkey says
More hatred and intolerance from Bangladesh it’s just a other Pakistan and why are they calling Hindus idol worshipers when they worship a black stone and a peadophile prophet they are sick vile people those people are demonic
Infidel says
At this point, I blame the West! Not for not giving ?holes like Bangladesh enough aid, but for giving them even a cent in aid at all in the first place!
As for Ms Shoumi, she’s finally realizing what most Hindus on the right have recognized and have been saying for the longest time. Hopefully for her, there’s no looking back, and that she joins the ranks of people committed to a permanent war against islam
European pagan says
When this kind of muslims live in Bangladesh, I don’t know why they don’t want Shamima to go there
Infidel says
Yeah, she’d fit right in! In fact, she could become a leader there. Actually, this objection has come from the ruling Awami League, which has pretensions of being secular in that country
tgusa says
Infidel,
You may know more about this than I do but in 1972 there was a concert in the USA for Bangladesh refugees. As hard as I try to find out it is unclear who that concert sought to aid. If you look it up the religious connotations they are simply not documented. And so that leads me to suspect the concert was perhaps assisting the baddies? Omission is a red flag for me.
Infidel says
tgusa
This was probably the George Harrison/Ravi Shankar concert held for Bangladesh. At the time, while their refugees were pouring into India, the Pakis were fighting a movement that refused to accept the imposition of Urdu on them. This was a linguistic movement which for a while seemingly united East Pakistani Hindus and muslims, but the brunt of Paki excesses fell on East Pakistani Hindus
That said, once the war was over and the Pakis were gone, the new muslim leaders of Bangladesh refused to restore Hindus properties, including temple properties that had been seized by muslims
The concert itself wasn’t out to support the evil side, but they made a lot of assumptions about East Pakistani muslims that over time, turned out to be false. Like they assumed that language trumped faith when it came to those people, but that was true only for the Hindus: over time, since they were under no pressure to learn Urdu, the muslims were now free to focus on jihad for their religion
Incidentally, in today’s Bangladesh, a huge percentage of muslims regret that war of secession against Pakistan, and are actively looking at islamizing their language, such as replacing the script w/ Nastaliq, which is the standard script for Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Pashto and other languages spoken by muslims
tgusa says
Infidel,
I assumed that you would have an insight in to that area. Thank you for your reply.
OLD GUY says
Not surprised to hear that islam hates Hindu’s, islam hates everyone that is not islamic. Wake up people ISLAM is not your friend and will enslave you or kill you just because you are not islamic.
RP says
Kind of Muslims who are supported by so called Indian restaurants in UK, who sell halal
Infidel says
Yeah, I look for halal signs if I visit an Indian restaurant, and if I see it, I know not to shop there. Talking about US, of course, but the same applies anywhere
rp says
Muslims of Bangladesh are supported by $$$$ from so called Indian restaurants in UK, who sell halal