You would think that university professors would avoid what Western non-Muslim authorities would have us believe is a misunderstanding of Islam. Yet they do not. Now, why is that? “Scores of educators held for inciting terrorism in Bangladesh,” by Sumon Corraya, Asia News, July 15, 2016: Dhaka (AsiaNews) – Bangladeshi police have discovered that dozens […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Qur’an Test in Dhaka
The final exam is a killer. My latest in FrontPage: As Ramadan draws to a merciful close, we have in Bangladesh yet another Islamic jihad massacre, followed by the now drearily familiar attempts to obscure the Islamic character of the massacre, and to keep the public ignorant and complacent regarding the nature and magnitude of […]
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 […]