John Kerry will be surprised, but no sane person should be. The idea that poverty causes terrorism, and that showering Muslim countries with money will end it, has been shown to be false again and again — although it is still a core assumption of U.S. foreign policy. The New York Times reported in March […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Pass/Fail in Bangladesh
“The gunmen were doing a background check on religion by asking everyone to recite from the Quran. Those who could recite a verse or two were spared. The others were tortured.” This from the jihad attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery, in Dhaka. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the English naturalist Henry Bates, a contemporary of […]
Bangladesh: Muslims murder 20 hostages, 13 others saved
Prime Minister Hasina said: “Anyone who believes in religion cannot do such act. They do not have any religion, their only religion is terrorism.”… Yet the jihadis “did not hit people who could recite verses from the Quran. The others were tortured. The gunmen asked everyone inside to recite from the Quran. Those who recited […]
Bangladesh restaurant jihad attack: Those who could recite Qur’an were spared
“The gunmen were doing a background check on religion by asking everyone to recite from the Quran. Those who could recite a verse or two were spared. The others were tortured.” And even in the face of this, which we saw before in the Westgate Mall jihad massacre in Kenya and in other jihad massacres, […]
Ramadan in Bangladesh: Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” take hostages in restaurant
“Jamuna Television reported, quoting a kitchen staff worker at the restaurant who escaped the attack, said that the gunmen chanted ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God Is Great) as they launched the attack.” It actually means “Allah is greater,” i.e., greater than your god. They screamed this as they began their attack because they consider their attack a […]
Ramadan in Bangladesh: Muslims hack Hindu priest to death at temple
“He was preparing morning prayers with flowers at the temple early in the morning and that time three young people came by a motor bike and killed him with machetes and fled away,” secure in the knowledge that they had pleased their bloodthirsty god. “Hindu priest hacked to death in Bangladesh,” Reuters, July 1, 2016: […]
Yet again: Muslims hack to death Hindu monastery worker in Bangladesh
Another. It’s open season on non-Muslims in Bangladesh. Authorities there have a tough time dealing with this, because these attacks are popular among Bangladeshi Muslims. “Hindu monastery worker hacked to death in Bangladesh,” PTI, June 10, 2016 (thanks to JK): DHAKA: A Hindu ashram worker was on Friday hacked to death by unidentified assailants while […]
Bangladesh police on jihad murderers: “people think they have done the right thing”
“‘In general, people think they have done the right thing, that it’s not unjustifiable to kill’ the bloggers, gay people and other secularists, he added.” In the face of the popular support for these jihad murders, the government is capitulating: “As a result, even as the government has condemned the killings, it has urged writers […]
Bangladesh: Muslims brutally slaughter 70-year-old Hindu priest, leave his head nearly severed
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) “Experts say a government crackdown on opponents, including a ban on Bangladesh`s largest Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami following a protracted political crisis, has pushed many towards extremism.” Yes, of course, that’s what the “experts” always say: that jihad terror activity is the fault of non-Muslims. If […]
Bangladesh: Muslims murder wife of anti-terror cop and Christian grocer
“Babul Aktar is an efficient police officer and played a key role in apprehending Islamists. They might have killed his wife because they failed to get him.” Will the Islamophobia never end? “Wife of Bangladeshi Anti-Terrorism Policeman Stabbed, Shot Dead,” Reuters, June 5, 2016: DHAKA — The wife of a senior Bangladeshi police official known […]
Bangladesh: Muslims plotted to bring down government for the Islamic State
“Their aim was to use violence against the Bangladesh government back home and bring it under the self-declared caliphate of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).” “Four plead guilty to financing terrorism,” by Ronald Loh, The New Paper, June 1, 2016: They were workers by day, but by night, they were planning to […]
Bangladesh: Islamic State murders doctor who “called to Christianity”
Proselytizing for any other religion is forbidden in Islamic law. Not that this has anything to do with… “ISIS claims responsibility for doctor’s murder in Bangladesh,” PTI, May 21, 2016: The ISIS Saturday claimed responsibility for the killing of a homoeopathic doctor in western Bangladesh, as the Muslim-majority country reels under a series of brutal […]
Bangladesh: Muslims beat Hindu, make him do sit-ups by holding ears for “insulting Islam”
“Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.” — Barack Obama, Cairo, June 4, 2009 “Hindu teacher in Bangladesh beaten up, made to do sit-ups by holding ears for ‘insulting’ Islam –Watch,” Zee News, May 15, 2016 (thanks to Benedict): Dhaka: In yet another incident of mob justice against minorities in Bangladesh, a Hindu headmaster of […]
Bangladesh: Muslims hack Buddhist monk to death inside temple
Jihad killers are able to operate with impunity in Bangladesh, while the government denies that they’re really in the country at all. “Buddhist Monk Hacked To Death In Temple,” Sky News, May 14, 2016: An elderly Buddhist monk has been hacked to death in a temple in Bangladesh, the latest in a spate of murders […]
Bangladesh: Muslims hurl bombs at home of Christian family
Will the Islamophobia never end? “Christian home targeted in Bangladesh bomb attack,” AFP, May 3, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Unidentified attackers hurled crude bombs at the home of a Christian family in Bangladesh on Tuesday leaving two people injured, police said, amid rising attacks on religious minorities in the Muslim-majority nation. The […]
Bangladesh: Al-Qaeda releases video of murder of gay rights activist
Yet even as this is happening, woe to you — from the gay community — if you dare to point out Sharia persecution of gays. When AFDI ran ads highlighting the mistreatment of gays in Islamic law, the San Francisco City Council issued a resolution condemning not that mistreatment, but our ads. Gay advocates such […]
Bangladesh: Muslims hack to death Hindu accused of criticizing Muhammad
It is open season in Bangladesh on anyone who dares to challenge, or is perceived to challenge, Islam in any way. Meanwhile, in the West, criticizing Islam won’t get you hacked to death (yet); it will just get you excoriated as a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe” and excluded from all gatherings of decent folk. This stigmatization […]
Bangladesh: Two Hindus jailed for defaming Islam
We are much more enlightened in the West. We have the freedom of speech. We don’t jail people for defaming Islam. We only vilify them as “racists” and “Islamophobes,” and try to have them barred from polite society. Everyone knows if we just don’t provoke the poor Muslims, they will not attack, and all will […]
Bangladesh: Muslims hack to death editor of nation’s first LGBT magazine
Enforcing their vision of morality by means of murder, as we often see with Sharia supremacists, who are clearly on a spree in Bangladesh. “Editor of Bangladesh’s first LGBT magazine hacked to death,” by Samuel Osborne, Independent, April 25, 2016: A senior editor of Bangledesh’s first LGBT magazine has been hacked to death, police say. […]
Bangladesh: Islamic State claims responsibility for murder of professor
“His neck was hacked at least three times and was 70%-80% severed.” “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) “Islamic State claims responsibility for murder of Bangladeshi professor,” Daily Times, April 25, 2016: DHAKA – Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the killing of university professor in Bangladesh for “calling to atheism”. […]