No one does something that large numbers of Muslims consider to be “un-Islamic” is ever safe in a country such as Bangladesh.
“Islamist mob attack on Bangladeshi mystic singer sparks uproar,” UCA News, July 1, 2024:
Rights activists in Bangladesh have slammed police for siding with Islamic hardliners, who attacked a mystic singer for allegedly engaging in unIslamic practices.
Activists have accused the police of attempting to settle the matter out of the court instead of recording it as a criminal case.
“The administrative attempt to conceal a crime” is a concern, said a June 30 statement from 25 leading human rights activists.
A mob of some 50 people burned down the tin-made house of 90-year-old mystic singer Chaina Begum and attacked her on June 26 in her Takimara village in southwestern Bangladesh, local reports said.
The singer is a follower of Lalon Shah, a 19th-century Bengali musician, philosopher, and social reformer.
Begum had built the house recently beside the grave of her husband, Gazi Uddin Shah, who was also a singer and follower of Lalon….
Members of Jamaat-e-Islami, the country’s largest Islamist political party and ruling Awami League, were involved in plotting the attack, local sources say.
Begum’s fellow mystic singers, also known as Bauls, protested the attack, and Begum reportedly filed a police complaint against 40-50 suspects.
The rights groups’ statement said the increasing attack on non-Muslims shows the growing influence of Islamic hardliners who routinely target humanists, minorities, and cultural activists in the Muslim-majority nation.
The police attempt to settle a crime of this nature shows “the process of institutionalizing criminal activities to the next level,” the statement pointed out….
Islamic hardliners in Bangladesh consider Bauls heretics and frequently attack them, accusing them of engaging in un-Islamic acts and hurting Muslims’ religious sentiments….
somehistory says
It’s so very important not to “hurt mozlums’ religious sentiments.”….because if they can claim that someone has done this…whether or not it is true….they get to burn down homes, threaten and murder, and the government of mozlum-ruined nations pat them on the back and say ‘good job.’
Real hurting of mozlums’ religious sentiments needs to happen….like putting them behind bars for life, feed them hog’s head cheese and use dogs as guards when they do such things as what they did to this elderly woman.
Lock them up and throw away their unholy book of demon filth and the keys to their cells.
They and their so-called ‘government’ will reap as they are sowing.
OLD GUY says
What brave islamic followers attack a 90 year old woman. And they (islamic followers) complain of islamophobia by non muslims? What arrogance and cruelty the followers of islam express.
abu taleb says
Comparing the number of responses of the beating of old woman in France and the burning of 90 year old singer in Bangladesh, there is avery big different.
Probably it is true that the readers in JW are too busy concerning the cases in white people countries. What a shame.
JS says
Ok, sure Mr. Abeed.