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 […]