A 17-year-old Hindu girl, Dipti Rani Das, a resident of Dinajpur’s Parbatipur Upazila, has been in a jail in Bangladesh for over a year for allegedly insulting the Quran in a Facebook post. She has been denied bail 4 times.
It is the same old story that has been done to death in the South Asian Islamic nation: a rumor begins spreading about a Hindu committing “blasphemy” and “hurting the Muslim feelings,” and the Hindu quickly finds himself or herself in hot water. The story of Dipti Rani Das is just one among hundreds of such cases, but it needs to be told and widely known, because a minor girl’s future is at stake. What’s worse? No one is talking about this.
About a year ago, Dipti, a 10th grader, informed her father that her Facebook account had been hacked. Shortly after that, a rumor began circulating that she had posted some objectionable posts concerning the Quran. Furious Muslims gathered at her house. Dipti’s father, Dilip Das, a hardware trader, reprimanded his daughter in front of the crowd and apologized to the Muslims. Muslim mobs also gathered around his hardware shop, intending to destroy it, but local traders stood up in Das’s defence and convinced the mob that Das was born and brought up in the area and had been respectful of the Muslims and Islam all his life.
Through the crowd dispersed without causing any harm to the family or the shop, Dipti’s father sensed that things did not augur well for the teenager, and that it was only a matter of time before his daughter would be severely threatened. He attempted to send her to his sister’s home, but some local youths noticed her in the train. They stopped the train, dragged Dipti off it, and took her to the Parbatipur police station, where a formal complaint was lodged against the minor.
The First Information Report registered against Dipti read that she had committed “the crime of deteriorating the law and order situation by hurting religious sentiments using electronic means.” She was booked under the Digital Security Act 2018 and has been in the juvenile correction centre since, without her crime being proven in a court of law.
During this year, Dipti’s bail plea has been rejected four times; the fourth rejection was given by the highest court of Bangladesh. She was almost released from the detention centre in May, as the High Court had approved her bail on May 11. But the District Deputy Commissioner raised objections and submitted an appeal to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, pursuing a stay on the bail.
“The interim order of bail granted by the High Court Division in a pending appeal clearly shows non-application of judicial mind having failed to appreciate that the accused respondent is named in the FIR having strong prima-facie and specific over an act of committing a heinous offence under section 25, section 28, section 31 of the DSA,” read his appeal, emphasizing that the case is still under investigation and an interim bail granted to the accused may affect the prosecution’s case or influence the course of the investigation.
Section 25 criminalizes publishing information that is “aggressive or frightening.” Section 28 criminalizes speech that “injures religious feelings,” and section 31 criminalizes posting information online which “ruins communal harmony or creates instability or disorder or disturbs or is about to disturb the law and order situation” and speech that “creates animosity, hatred or antipathy among the various classes and communities.” These are non-bailable sections and are applicable on a minor as well. These provisions may allow for broad and irregular interpretations that may criminalize almost all forms of legitimate communication and threaten an individual’s freedom of expression — something that has happened routinely with Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
The “heinous crime” highlighted in the FIR, which led to the Hindu minor’s imprisonment, was an image of the Quran placed on a woman’s thighs which was allegedly posted by her on Facebook. This image of the Quran hurt that the religious sentiments of the Muslims and apparently justified her prison time.
Dipti was about to start eleventh grade when arrested. His mother, eyes brimming with tears, recounted how her ambitious daughter was looking forward to pursuing university education and becoming a software engineer. But the family will have to arrange for her marriage as soon as she gets out of jail (if she does at all) and send her away, as staying in the area would only make things difficult for her.
There are no schooling facilities in the detention centre. The quality of food is poor; Dipti’s father often sends her money for snacks. The detention centre is two hours away from her home. It has been two months since her father has visited her.
Their livelihood has suffered as well, as Muslims of the area are avoiding doing business with them after this incident. It’s just another day in the life of a hapless family from the minority community in an Islamic country, and the world doesn’t care.
Fitna says
This is Islamic ‘justice.’ Taking away someone’s freedom over a false accusation-for something that shouldn’t even be a crime. Imagine nearly 200m Muslims are terrified of a 17 yr old, that she must be jailed for their safety, what a joke.
This is what Muslims intend to do to us in the West once they get the upper hand. Everything they do revolves around their stupid, evil death cult.
Every non-Muslim is in the lion’s den by staying in an Islamic nation, it’d be like Jews remaining in Nazi Germany, sooner or later they will come after you because to them you’re the enemy forever.
I realize some people are too poor to leave, but I’m sure they can scrounge up enough cash (if they work) for a one-way train or plane ride to India. The other option is for Hindus to demand her release and use the tactics Muslims use when they’re a minority.
I think the biggest blame goes to India. Modi can use his power and influence to rescue those Hindus or make a deal to let them be sent to India. Not to mention where’s Amnesty Intl and other organizations? I guess they only care if a someone grabbed a Muslim woman’s hijab.
Islam is the greatest evil on this planet and I hope one day the world unites and eliminates this death cult once and for all. Frankly India should just retake the land Muslims stole and convert it back to a secular-democratic nation but ban Islam and turn the tables on Muslims.
Shripad Krishna says
We can take back lands stolen by Muslims: both Pakistan and Bangladesh. That would require complete cooperation from the West.
What sort of cooperation? Do not stop us. Period. We don’t need help. We’ll do it on our own. Just don’t interfere and ask us to stop the invasion. Then we’ll do it. Our Armed forces are the most powerful in the region. We can take on both Pakistan and China on both fronts. We have done it in the past and we can do it again.
We have done it 5 times: 1965 Indo-Pak War, 1967 Indo-China Skirmish, 1971 Indo-Pak War and 1999 Kargil War. All 5 times have resulted in Indian victory. Heck we broke Pakistan into two parts and created Bangladesh. This was when US and Britain were allied with Pakistan against India. Can’t we do it again? Ofcourse we can. We did it in 1965 when we occupied half of West Pakistan. All the way to Lahore. What was the result of all these Wars? All the Wars ended with India having to withdraw from occupied territories because the West demanded it. If the West had looked the other way today the entire region would have seen peace and stability. You wouldn’t even have had 9/11. The consequences of stopping India in all the 4 wars with Pakistan is what lead to WTC bombings and 9/11. Would Osama Bin Laden have ever gotten refuge in Pakistan if India was administering the region? Impossible. Do you think Taliban would have survived in Afghanistan if India was it’s neighbour? Impossible! Pakistan is like a wall between India and secularising entire Middle East. It is a wall because it is a Nuclear state. Unless the West doesn’t take the threats of Pakistan seriously you’ll have problems of Nuclear proliferation (from Pakistan to Iran and North Korea and other Islamic countries) and safe sanctuary for Jihadists inside Pakistani territory.
The West should and must make an alliance with India in tackling Pakistan. The alliance should give India free hand to deal with Islamic terror. We know how to deal with this. We have combat experience of a 1000+ years. We know their psyche and mentality really well. But it can only happen if West stops fingering India and takes India seriously.
gravenimage says
Sadly, Pakistan and Bangladesh are now almost entirely Islamic. I don’t think that *any* nation would be capable to turning these lands into civilized nations again.
I have also not heard of any Indian plan to take these lands back–can you point to anything?
Then, the idea that Western policies with India led to Jihad terror against the West. Then, Afghanistan has been a hideous stronghold of Jihad terror for centuries–long before Pakistan became a separate nation.
I certainly do agree that the West should ally with India against Jihad terror–but your idea that this would lead to its disappearance in the region is sadly not plausible.
Fitna says
Shripad and Graven,
First to Graven’s point. I don’t see Muslims occupying land stolen from us non-Muslims as a done deal, nor the fact that 100% of them have been Islamified.
I also think there is a way of retaking the land with the least amount of bloodshed. As Shripad mentioned India has defeated Pakistan in several wars in the past and there’s no reason it can’t again. Except that Pak’s nukes will be a problem in any future war.
The mistake however was to let Islam continue to exist. This is the identical mistake made by the US and other western powers whenever they conquered or ‘liberated’ Muslim nations like Iraq and Afghanistan…they allowed the same ideology to remain.
That was the perfect opportunity to install secular-democratic regimes. All you have to do is ban Islam and give Muslims the opportunity to convert to any other belief system like Hinduism or Christianity or none at all, Atheism, or allow them to leave the country or else be treated as an enemy combatant.
Shripad,
I hear you and partly agree-in fact there might not be a civilized way to resolve this. It may require total war, similar to the way we defeated Nazism during WW2.
The trouble as you mentioned is the West with their bleeding-heart Lefties will jump in and try to stop India from winning. In the same way the retarded Clinton admin stopped Serbia from defending itself in the jihad being waged against it by Kosovo.
Imagine how excited Muslims must’ve been to see us non-Muslims fighting each other to protect Islamic Fascists. What an ugly moment in our history-but the mistakes continued to pile up under Obama and now Biden…it’s disastrous.
As the Quran says: “And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter…” (Quran 2:191)
It seems Muslims own beliefs will backfire against them some day. I believe anything is possible if the will is there. Islam can be ended entirely if the non-Muslim world decided to do it.
The main thing is that as Shripad mentioned, non-Muslims need to stop getting in the way of each other when it comes to defeating Islam decisively. Even better if we can be allies and help one another expunge this death cult from our countries.
Check Burry says
No comments, we are speechless at the cruelty of islam.
Whoops theres a knock at my door.
Dhimmi says
Coerced to accept muslim rapists advances as if muslims need sentiments to rape . State organized rape
Manchester Lad says
The fact that Muslims are so insecure about their faith – they cannot tolerate even the slightest hint of questioning or disagreement about Islam – shows they must really know that Islam is based on lies, and probably don’t believe it themselves.
If they were secure in their faith, like Christians (or *any* other religion), disagreements or tiny perceived-insults from non-Muslims would not bother them at all.
Is Islam wasn’t antithetical to civilisation we could afford to feel sorry for them.
Fitna says
@MLad
You might be giving them too much credit. I think Muslims are dumber than a bag of hammers, so it’s just fake outrage because their Imams and their Quran tells them to be offended at the slightest perceived insult to their ‘precious’ religion.
They’re neither actually hurt nor offended but pretend to be because they’re told to-just as with the Mohammed cartoon contest. Like sadomasochism, “if you do ‘A’ I will strike you.” It’s just an excuse to punish, torture, persecute, jail and kill non-Muslims for manufactured injustice.
Like that poor older woman recently brutally beaten by Muslims in Belgium. I really doubt she’d be openly racist to those thugs, they just picked a weak victim to unleash their hatred upon. Not that racist insults should ever lead to assault either.
You are correct if they were secure in their faith, they should be able to easily tolerate some insults/slights…but they’re witless fools who don’t separate themselves from their beliefs, they take it literally which is what makes them truly dangerous.
Christians/Jews/Hindus ignore some of the more violent messages/stories in their holy books which is why they are largely very peaceful.
If Muslims only did the same (grow a thicker skin) they wouldn’t be a problem. Unfortunately they don’t which makes them everyone else’s problem. Either they’ll deal with us on their terms, or we will need to deal with them on ours. Ofc the latter is better for us.
Infidel says
Her family should find her a guy who’s capable of legally moving to India, so that she can go and settle there, and then maybe get a job in software engineering
tim gallagher says
Islam is nothing but a bunch evil bullying thugs. This sort of crap will definitely be what Muslims, if they ever become strong enough, will seek to impose of all of us. Keep Muslims out of all civilised, non-Muslim countries or this garbage is what we will end up with. Freedom of expression is never allowed in islam and never will be. islam is a load of backward, totally repressive crap. It is the opposite of civilisation.
Fitna says
+10 Tim
tim gallagher says
Thanks, Fitna. We see islam the same way. It such a rotten, barbaric load of crap.
sidney penny says
“hurting religious sentiments ”
Section 28 criminalizes speech that “injures religious feelings,” and section 31 criminalizes posting information online which “ruins communal harmony or creates instability or disorder or disturbs or is about to disturb the law and order situation” and speech that “creates animosity, hatred or antipathy among the various classes and communities.”
Could this not apply to Islam?
See below
http://voiceofdharma.org/books/tcqp/index.htm
http://voiceofdharma.org/books/tcqp/chii4.htm
The Calcutta Quran Petition
The Koran, also spelt as Quran, the so-called religious book of the Muslims the world over.
It is a Book which incites violence, disturbs public tranquility, promotes, on ground of religion, feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities and insults other religions or religious beliefs of other communities.
Non-Muslims have to learn to knock out Islam’s ideological fangs which are rooted in the Quran.
The Book has verses which preaches cruelty, incites violence and disturbs public tranquility. Chapter 4
The Book promotes religious enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities. Chapter 5
The Book insults other religions or religious beliefs of other communities. Chapter 6
While the Koran abounds with saying which incite violence, insult the religious beliefs of other communities and even exhort the Muslims to kill and murder non-Muslims, the problem is aggravated by yet another fact that has been true in the past and is universally true in our own times that unlike other communities Muslims are, and even fresh converts tend to become, highly orthodox people and follow the sayings of the book with a fanatical zeal with the result that whichever country has their sizable number amongst its population can never have peace on its soil.
This was said in 1985 and it is still true today 2021
The offending expressions contained in the Koran and quoted above are not so offensive in their translation in which they are so quoted as they are in the original verses in Arabic or in Urdu, the very sound of whose inimitable symphony not only sends the Muslims to tears and ecstasy but arouses in them the worst communal passions and religious fanaticism which have manifested themselves in murder, slaughter, loot, arson, rape and destruction or desecration of holy places in historical times as also in the contemporary period not only in India but almost all over the world.
Shripad Krishna says
India has done it’s part by passing CAA (which caused huge riots by Islamists in India in 2020) which fast tracks citizenship for persecuted Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Christians and Zoroastrians in our 3 neighbouring Islamic countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. What did the World do when India passed this landmark act? Every single Western nation condemned India. West should be ashamed to lecture India now on how to tackle this issue when the West left us high and dry when we passed the law. Please look inward into behaviour of your own politicians and you’ll know how crooked each one of them are. Don’t always look towards Modi to solve these issues. You have tied Modi’s hands through your politicians and media continually criticising Modi’s pro refugee policies. Now why look to Modi to solve issues? When so called Allies themselves desert you and leave you alone to defend yourself in face of Islamic aggression it is best to not sermonize.
India doesn’t take any blame for this. We cannot go into Bangladesh and extricate her out without breaking multiple international laws. If the West can promise to not interfere and keep their brain-dead, left leaning organisations in control, we can send our Army into these territories and do the needful to rescue all the minorities who have been persecuted. Can the West do this atleast? If you can then India will do whatever is needed to bring stability to this region.
Heck, when India passed CAA entire Western media was up in arms against India for “discriminating against Muslims”. 6 US Cities, including San Francisco, passed resolutions in their City Council condemning India for passing CAA. With what moral authority are you demanding Modi or India to deal with this? The last time we did it with CAA we got battered by the West. Which is surprising because except for Pakistan no other Arab countries condemned CAA. It is better if West doesn’t advice India on these matters. Especially after condemning the CAA act which was passed precisely to handle such cases. The West, especially the US, should and must hold their representatives accountable for passing resolutions against CAA. Ask whose payroll are they on? China or Pakistan? US in particular should be ashamed for letting such resolutions pass in their City Councils. I always thought US stood up for persecuted minority rights. But here you see blatant example of US siding with Islamists for God knows what joy!
Did US not give amnesty to persecuted Jews and Italians through the Lautenberg Amendment? Then why is US condemning India for passing CAA? How different is CAA from Lautenberg Amendment?
gravenimage says
I have been *so* glad to see India offering threatened non-Muslims in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan asylum.
Infidel says
Shripad
CAA is by no means enough! India needs to aggressively implement NRC, and lock up anybody who dares protest it. Also, India should stop treating Bangladesh w/ kit gloves on the grounds that Sheikh Hasina must not be weakened. She is old and could croak anytime, and what’s more: she’s proven herself absolutely incapable of cracking down on jihad activity in her country. She’s the last secular and pro-India leader Bangladesh will have, so it’s not even like an investment on India’s part
India needs to declare that it will implement NRC and expel each and every Bangladeshi and Pakistani muslim citizen from its territory. Then it needs to do that, and if there is opposition from TMC, AAP and other pro-islamic parties, they need to be cracked down upon
Unfortunately, the events of this year has shown the BJP to be absolutely supine and spineless when it comes to dealing w/ any opposition, be it Shaheen Bagh, TMC violence in Waste Bengal, Lakhimpur or Singur border. It’s no wonder that the BJP lost the bulk of seats that they contested, only doing well in the North East, where Himanta Biswa Sarma calls the shots, and in Telengana, where the BJP is in opposition and people wanted to protest anti-Hindu activity from the state government there
As for US and the CAA, it’s none of our business, but it falls in the same category as the State Department denouncing Israel for banning 5 out of 500 Pali NGOs
gravenimage says
Bangladesh: 17-year-old Hindu girl in jail for over a year for allegedly hurting Muslim sentiments
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Hideous. Like Asia Bibi in Pakistan, the West should demand that she be released.
tgusa says
Hindu girl hurts muslim feelings. Boo hoo. Cry me a river boys. Real tough guys those muslims are.