The Gun country, USA, has witnessed another mass shooting !
LGBTQ community attacked again by homophobic theists!
Liberal Democracy attacked again by Islamist terror !
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The Gun country, USA, has witnessed another mass shooting !
LGBTQ community attacked again by homophobic theists!
Liberal Democracy attacked again by Islamist terror !
Attackers wielding machetes have killed a village doctor and wounded his friend, a university tutor, in western Bangladesh, police say.
Mir Sanwar Rahman, known for offering villagers free homeopathic medicines, was hacked to death early on Friday in Kushtia district.
No group has said they carried out the attack.
There has been a spate of murders of religious minorities, secular activists and academics in Bangladesh recently.
Mr Rahman and tutor Mohammad Saifuzzaman were ambushed as they travelled on a motorbike in their village.More than 20 people have been killed in attacks by suspected Islamists in the last three years.
An elderly Buddhist monk was hacked to death on Saturday while a Hindu priest, two prominent gay activists, a law student and a university professor were also murdered in recent months.
The killings have been blamed on various hardline groups, including so-called Islamic State (IS) and Ansar al-Islam, a Bangladeshi militant group affiliated to al-Qaeda.
The government has denied that IS is present in the country. Instead, it has blamed opposition parties and local Islamist groups, such as Ansarullah Bangla Team and Harkatul Jihad.
The opposition have denied any involvement and say the government’s accusations against them have hampered a credible investigation.
All those killed were nonconformers. They were not strict followers of Sunni Islam. The latest victim, Mir Sanwar Rahman was a follower of Lalon’s philosophy.
They were arrested in 2006 for their alleged part in three bomb explosions that took place in Malegaon in India’s Maharashtra state. The blasts took place on 8th September, 2006 , close to a mosque immediately after the time of Friday prayers. 37 people were killed, mostly Muslims.
After 10 years, on April 25, 2016, they were set free by the court saying there is no evidence against them.
With in few weeks of the blast in 2006, the state Police had arrested them. They were 9 men, most of them members of banned Students Islamic movement of India, an Islamist organisation which had played its part in trying to radicalize Indian Muslims and also in some terrorist activities. Police claimed that those arrested had close links with Pakistani terror groups. The investigation was later handed over to India’s premier investigation agency, the Central bureau of Investigations (CBI). CBI also confirmed what the state Police claimed.
After the Mumbai Islamist terror attack of 2008, a separate National agency was set up by Indian government to investigate terror attacks. The National Investigation Agency, NIA , while probing other cases caught hold of one Swami Aseemanand. In 2010 he confessed before a magistrate that he and some of his Hindutva activist friends of a group called Abhinav Bharat were responsible for the 2006 Malegaon blasts. Later the NIA came to a conclusion that Hindutva groups were probably responsible not only for Malegaon 2006 blasts, but also for blasts in Indo-Pak Samjhauta Express (February 2007), the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad (May 2007), the Ajmer Dargah (October 2007), and then Malegaon once again in September 2008.
Aseemanand – Image credit Vivek singh for the Caravan
In 2011 the NIA did not oppose the bail plea for the 9 men. Thus after 5 years they were able to get out of jail. In 2013 NIA told the court that there is no good evidence to incriminate them. Now after another 3 years the court has pronounced them not guilty.
Many a time Indian Police has been accused for “manufacturing” terrorists in high-profile terror cases . With a Hindutva supporting government in Delhi and many of the states this may not be the last time that innocent people are put in jail for terrorism while real culprits roam free. Also there is a question mark on the future of terror cases in which members of the Hindutva outfits are the accused. Still this judicial verdict give us hope that though delayed, justice will be delivered in the end.
The killings in Bangladesh continue.
Xulhaz Mannan and a friend were hacked to death in Dhaka today at Mannan’s residence. He worked as a protocol officer of former US ambassador Dan Mozena for a long time. He was also associated with USAID.
Xulhaz Mannan. This photo is taken from his Facebook page.
BBC identified Mannan as senior editor of Bangladesh’s first LGBT magazine.
The attackers tricked Mannan to open the door saying they have brought him a courier.
Islam like most other religions forbids homosexuality.
It seems no one can stop Islamists in Bangladesh.
No, this is not an old news. It happened again.
A progressive secular professor of Rajshahi University in Bangladesh was hacked to death early on Saturday.
The Charlie Hebdo editorial did create a lot of confusion among Left liberals. Many liberals in the west thought it was Islamophobic and racist. But for those who had directly witnessed the fascist nature of the religion,, there was not much confusion. May be real life experience determines our perspective.
Here listen to what Eiynah, the Pakistani atheist, now living in Canada, have to say in her podcast.
She says :
We must be wary,,careful to walk that very thin line between Islamist apologist parts of Left and the anti Muslim parts of the Right. True secularism resides somewhere in between those extremes. Somewhere I think Charlie Hebdo hits perfectly. Which is why it causes scurrying panic among false rebels who for some reason wish to hold anti liberal religions in high regard.
Charlie Hebdo , the French satirical magazine,, whose journalists were brutally gunned down by Islamic terrorists, is at the receiving end again. The attack is not directly from the Islamists, but indirectly through the regressive Left.
What was their crime ?
I am also scared, Sir, scared of getting killed. But what else can I do? It’s better to die rather than living by keeping my head down.
This documentary film shows public beheadings, floggings, mindless violence on women and clamp down on any one showing mildest dissent against the regime.
No, this is not about ISIS. Not about North Korea or Iran.
Hundred and six civilians were killed in a deadly air strike on a village market 2 weeks ago. Unfortunately the news never got a prominent position in the headlines of International media. There was not much of a condemnation or horror expressed.
