Gollum Posted March 1, 2015 Author Posted March 1, 2015 Danda and Texy, sorry to hear about the sufferings of your families. Many people in Kolkata have relatives who have witnessed the horrors of 1971 firsthand. Curse the Pakistanis and Jamaatis, and hopefully the selfish Hindus get their act together.
Shivaji bhonsle Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 How is that Panther dude is allowed to spout his nonsense, here? Incredible.
Tapioca Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 Bangladesh has lots of liberal Muslims but their voice has been snuffed out by these Jamaatis. Extremists are always the loudest. Bangladeshi Muslim community in the US is extremely gracious and friendly. It's a shame that they're letting these Pro-Pakistani jihadis dictate terms. Incredibly sad. My mother's side...whole family 9 children..all escaped to Kolkata within a single day. Mother's uncle, niece, aunts...many of them who stayed back were murdered. Properties grabbed illegally. Went to visit the surviving members about 12 years ago in Chittagong. At noon, some Islamic prayer came on TV...and everyone in the house went into a moment of silence...I was like wtf? Was told to be quiet and not make much sound 'til the prayer is over. No explicit instruction to do so from the community but they never take any chance...living in constant fear...I guess. Was it under the PM-ship of Khaleda or Hasina, and is there any difference between them when it comes to preaching religion using government media ? Not surprised if this is the status under the Khaleda regime but Hasina is more liberal/secular.
Texan Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Those images are extremely disturbing and unfortunately, it seems that any reasonable voice is immediately silenced by some hooligans. Unfortunately, the cancer has spread world wide and now, no country, no land is safe any longer. Religious identity of a particular religion has transcended all boundaries of country, culture, heritage, etc.
Texan Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Its not a nice thing to say at this stage but one must see the kind of place they are in before doing this kind of writing. Kudos to him for trying but he was being naive if he thought it was safe to write freely in that part of the world. RIP.... The blogger let his guard down... Shouldn't have travelled to that country in the first place... Shouldn't have gone on a casual evening walk... Should have taken some security.. Those who had invited him, should've ensured some security for him... He was visiting his home town from what I have read. No matter what the situation is, would you really feel unsafe visiting your home town? I'll give you an example. A number of swine flu cases have come to light in multiple places in India. So, say one Indian living in US decides to visit his hometown in India during this time, would you then start blaming him if he contracts swine flu and dies?? Didn't he know many people were suffering from swine flu?? It is stupid and naive to blame him. One usually always feels safe in one's hometown.
Texan Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Some absiolute pathetic posts from the usual suspects. Is there a single person who will support this incident. But pretty sure of it was Hindu violence the same people will support 2) These people cannot see that they display the exact same mentality as the animals who did this Look at Gollum's post. His solution seems to be, Hinduism should be a carbon copy of this and do to them as they do to other They have absolutely no clue that Hinduism's biggest strength is it's tolerance and acceptance. But no, let's make Hinduism and India a carbon copy of those we hate. As long as it's our religion doing this, it should be ok. Complete ignoring that this is the exact same thinking which has led to this in Pakistan and Bangladesh. They believe exactly like you, that instead of giving space to minorities, they should be kept under control. Just because the religions are flipped doesn't mean the thinking isn't the same You just prove the 'liberal's right by every post P.S. Why do hardliners feel the need to LABEL others? Is it so they do not have to debate the actual points. Muslim hardliners label everyone else as kaffirs. Some Indians use liberals. pseudo etc to label people You posted such a long post without even condemning the original incident reported in the thread. And then you wonder why some people are labelled as pseudos.
bulbul Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 You posted such a long post without even condemning the original incident reported in the thread. And then you wonder why some people are labelled as pseudos. You are barking at wrong tree,he is one dimensional.
Gollum Posted March 2, 2015 Author Posted March 2, 2015 http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2015/03/02/rab-arrests-farabi-over-avijit-murder Bangladesh arrest prime suspect in murder of Avijit Roy. Good job !!! But as usual protest rallies against Sheik Hasina Govt by Jamaat E Islaami supporters in Dhaka planned.
Texan Posted March 5, 2015 Posted March 5, 2015 End of a Secular Bangladesh? Covered in blood, she stands over the body of her husband lying on a sidewalk on the Dhaka University campus. Onlookers, their faces stunned and fearful, circle the protagonists in what looks like a macabre scene from a Bengali jatra, or village opera. Except this is not a play. The dead man is Avijit Roy, the Bangladeshi-American blogger known for his staunch atheism, and he has just been butchered with machetes. Islamist extremists are suspected in the attack. This picture was relayed around the world after Mr. Roy and his wife, who were living in the Atlanta suburbs, were brutally attacked during a visit to Bangladesh as they were returning by cycle rickshaw from a book fair. The spot where the attack took place is close to the university’s teacher-student center, where young people typically crowd around the tea stalls debating politics, philosophy and current affairs. Some 25 years ago, I sat on those rickety wooden stools and discussed the same issues Mr. Roy wrote about in his blog, Mukto-mona (Free Mind) and his recent book, “The Virus of Faith.†We students openly proclaimed our atheism. We probably provoked some strong reactions, but we did not fear for our lives. We were proud of the Bengali tradition of secularism, unique to the Indian Subcontinent. Bangladesh has changed. The expansion of the garment industry and the rise of microfinance and community development banks put an end to the stereotype of Bangladesh as a “basket case.†But economic empowerment also brought mass access to information. Today the disenfranchised and disgruntled can identify themselves with extremists anywhere in the world. What is their common identity? Religion. When India was divided in 1947, East Bengal became part of Muslim Pakistan purely on the basis of its religious majority. A year later, Urdu was imposed as the national language. The Bengali language has always been linked with secular Bengali nationalism. Protests followed, and on Feb. 21, 1952, the Pakistani police opened fire on students at Dhaka University. That day — perhaps the beginning of the conflicts that culminated in the 1971 war of independence — is remembered every year in Bangladesh and in the Indian state of West Bengal, and the monthlong book fair is one of the commemorative events. When I tried to visit the fair just a few days before Mr. Roy was killed, I couldn’t make it through the crowds at the entrance to the university campus. The writer Avijit Roy's wife, Rafida Ahmed Bonya, at Dhaka Medical College hospital on Friday after she received a blow to her head from unidentified assailants.Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi-American Writer, Is Killed by Machete-Wielding AssailantsFEB. 27, 2015 I had gone back to Bangladesh with two of my children so they could experience the sounds and colors that I grew up with. The first sign that things had changed was at Heathrow, when an attendant at the Bangladeshi airline desk said that we would not be allowed to enter the country because of the Israeli stamps on our British passports. I explained that I had visited with the same passport before, and we entered Dhaka without any hiccups. My confidence in Bengali liberal-mindedness thus restored, the children and I got in a motorized rickshaw, headed for the port of Sadarghat. On the way, my 13-year-old daughter observed, “I thought it would be much more colorful. Are there no women in Dhaka?†Looking around, I realized that most women were covered in black burqas or hijabs — a style that I had seen in such large numbers only in the Middle East. Many of their male companions wore long white dishdashas and skullcaps. I remembered that stretch as being one of the most colorful streets, with shop fronts spilling over with spices and trinkets, men and women loudly bargaining to get the best deal. Even in Dhaka’s swanky areas, I was dismayed to find stores filled with hijabs and full-face coverings, with signs on the front windows reading “For True Muslim Women.†Were the Muslim women of my childhood, who simply flung the ends of their saris over their heads, not “true†enough? My father was Muslim, but before I became an atheist, I had embraced my ancestral Hinduism, visiting temples and lighting lamps for the festival of lights, Deepavali. I never feared being treated as an apostate. Now I do. Now if a passport control officer in Dhaka asked me what religion I belonged to, I would think twice before saying I was a former Hindu. Or worse: an atheist. Thinking of Mr. Roy’s book, “The Virus of Faith,†I asked my Bengali friends: How did this virus find such a welcome platform? How did it spread so far that secularism has become a restricted word? “Unfortunately, over the past decade or so, all the attacks on secular thinkers — who include people from all religious backgrounds — were committed by self-styled defenders of Islam,†Jibanananda Jayanta, a Dhaka-based social activist, told me. This prompted many secularists from Muslim backgrounds to distance themselves from Islam. They were in turn accused of blasphemy. The poet and author Taslima Nasrin went into exile in 1994 to flee death threats from Islamist radicals. But what were then threats or fatwas became in more recent years coldblooded killings on crowded streets. Some friends described the murder of Mr. Roy as “copycat violence,†imitating similar attacks by fanatics elsewhere — part of the globalization of Islamism. In 2004, another writer, Humayun Azad, was severely injured during an attack that also occurred at the annual book fair. And in 2013, Ahmed Rajib Haider, an atheist blogger, was killed by machete-wielding Islamic radicals. In both of those cases, the attackers demanded that the government pass a law against blasphemy, similar to the one that exists in Pakistan. Although the current government has strongly opposed such a law, it has nonetheless catered to Islamic political parties by harassing and arresting many secular bloggers. It has also used the existing law against hurting “religious sentiment†to punish dissenters. After Avijit Roy’s murder, mourners placed a banner at the temporary memorial near the site of the attack. Its words could not be more true: “If Avijit is beaten, so is Bangladesh.†Lipika Pelham is the author of the memoir “The Unlikely Settler.†http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/opinion/end-of-a-secular-bangladesh.html?_r=0
Texy Posted March 5, 2015 Posted March 5, 2015 Was it under the PM-ship of Khaleda or Hasina' date=' and is there any difference between them when it comes to preaching religion using government media ? Not surprised if this is the status under the Khaleda regime but Hasina is more liberal/secular.[/quote'] Yes it was under Khaleda regime. Excellent article. Secular Bangladesh is either dead or dying at a fast rate.
randomGuy Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Islamists hack another blogger to death in Bangladesh http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/03/30/islamists-hack-another-blogger-to-death-in-bangladesh/ RoP strikes again.
randomGuy Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Three assailants cornered Washiqur Rahman, a 27-year-old Bangladeshi blogger, outside his Dhaka home on Monday and hacked him to death with meat cleavers. Police said the attackers rained their blows on Rahman's head, "distorting" his face. Rafida Ahmed, the injured wife of the slain blogger Roy, recently accused elements of the local police of standing by idly while her husband was butchered. "While Avijit and I were being ruthlessly attacked, the local police stood close by and did not act," Ahmed told Reuters in mid-March. She demanded an end to "a legal culture of impunity, where writers can be killed without the killers being brought to trial."
mishra Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 They are epitome of hypocrisy. What hypocrisy. over 40% of British muslim found it was justified to kill Charlie Hebdo.
mishra Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Yes it was under Khaleda regime. Excellent article. Secular Bangladesh is either dead or dying at a fast rate. Bongs I have met till now are way more tolerant than Muslims from any other part of world. But such news arent helping their image.
Gollum Posted March 31, 2015 Author Posted March 31, 2015 These things happen in all Muslim majority countries, only being reported in Bangladesh because they are somewhat more tolerant and straight thinking. All this will give a big boost to Islamists in WB and Mamata isn't half the leader Hasina is.
Gollum Posted May 4, 2015 Author Posted May 4, 2015 Local Al-Qaeda Claims February Murder of US Citizen in Bangladesh: Intelligence Group - Asim Umar, the Indian-born head of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, has claimed responsibility for a string of attacks that killed several secular writers and intellectuals in Bangladesh and Pakistan, including Avijit Roy who was hacked to death on a Dhaka street in February. - The video, posted on Youtube on Saturday, was first spotted by SITE Intelligence Group. The video included images of murdered bloggers and secular activists. - “Al-Qaeda operatives in the Indian sub-continent have recently assassinated several blasphemers,” Asim claimed in the video - “Like the companions of the Prophet who defended him with their lives,” Umar said in a statement that was released online over the weekend, “the mujahideen of al-Qaeda have dispatched to hell many who blasphemed against God, and insulted the Prophet.” - The video message said: “And the killing mission started in Pakistan with the murder of the secular Dr Shakeel Auj and Urdu blogger Aneeqa Naz.” Karachi University Islamic Studies scholar Shakeel Auj, assassinated last year while on his way to a meeting with Iranian diplomats had earlier been condemned by Islamist clerics in Karachi for his purportedly blasphemous views. Aneeqa Naz was a secular blogger who called for better treatment of minorities in Pakistan. - “And extended to Bangladesh where Rajib Haider had earlier been assassinated.” - “Meanwhile, the accused atheist professor of Rajshahi University and the American citizen Avijit Roy have also been killed using a butcher’s knife,” adds the video text. American citizen Avijit was brutally murdered by fanatics on February 27, during a trip to Bangladesh with his wife. Both Avijit and Bonna are naturalised US citizens, and were here because two of Avijit’s books were published in this year’s book fair. Ahmed Rajeeb Haider, a blogger, an architect, and an activist of the Shahbagh Gonojagoron Mancha movement, was hacked to death in the capital’s Pallabi on February 15, 2013. Secular blogger Md Oyasiqur Rahman Babu was hacked to death on March 30 this year, in Tejgaon, Dhaka allegedly for his atheist views. On November 15 last year, unidentified assailants hacked Prof Shafiul to death with machetes in broad daylight near his Choddopai residence close to the Rajshahi University campus. - “From Waziristan to Charlie Hebdo, this war is one,” Umar said, “whether it is waged upon us with drones or with Charlie Hebdo’s pen, with the International Monetary Fund or World Bank’s policies, or with the satanic conspiracy of Kerry-Lugar bill, which sought to humiliate the believers, or whether it is waged with the hate-filled words of Narendra Modi, which call for Muslims to be burned live.” - “In France, Denmark, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other countries, enemies of the Prophet are slandering him with words which makes the hearts of the followers of Allah run cold, and the hearts of hypocrites glow.” - Bangladesh police investigators had earlier this year, attributed the killings of Roy, Haider and Islam to an al-Qaeda affiliate known as the Ansarullah Bengali Team. Ansarullah’s death squad, alleged to be led by North-South University Student Redwanul Rana, is said to have compiled a list of 84 progressive intellectuals for assassination, eight of whom have been killed so far. Late last year, an Ansarullah Bengali-language video, ‘Eradicate Democracy’, asked Bangaldesh’s “patriotic armed forces” to rise against the government and set up a Caliphate in Bangladesh. Few details have become available on Ansarullah’s precise links to al-Qaeda, though video of its cadre training in Pakistan has been released in the past. Umar’s statement also eulogises a Bangladeshi jihadist it says has been killed in a drone strike in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, though he is identified only by a pseudonym. The video also holds out tantalising clues to Umar’s Indian origins—notably his use of the word Sahukar for capitalists, a word rarely used by native Urdu or Punjabi speakers. Believed to be a graduate of the famous Dar-ul-Uloom seminary in Deoband, with family roots in both Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, Umar is thought by India’s intelligence services to have migrated to Pakistan in the 1990s. In the following years, Umar studied at the Jamia Uloom-e-Islamia, a Karachi seminary that has produced several top jihadist leaders, including Maulana Masood Azhar, leader of the Jaish-e-Muhammad, Qari Saifullah Akhtar, who headed the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, and Fazl-ur-Rehman Khalil, the leader of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. Umar, intelligence sources say , was mentored by Nizamuddin Shamzai, a cleric with close links to the Taliban, who once bragged about having been a “state guest” in Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Following studies in Karachi, Maulana Umar is believed to have joined Fazl-ur-Rehman Khalil’s Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, teaching briefly at the Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania seminary in Akhora Khattak, and serving at the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen’s training camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. He emerged as major Islamist ideologue in Pakistan, producing several best-selling books propagating the idea that jihad would lead to an apoclyptic war that would, in turn, hasten the coming of judgment day. wwF4prRPD_Y http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2015/may/03/al-qaeda-takes-responsibility-avijit-killing http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/world/asia/bangladesh-al-qaeda-indian-subcontinent-attack-on-bloggers.html http://indianexpress.com/article/world/neighbours/al-qaeda-branch-claims-murder-of-bangladesh-born-us-blogger-avijit-roy/ http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/local-al-qaeda-claims-february-murder-of-us-citizen-in-bangladesh-intelligence-group-760254?pfrom=home-world
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