[ April 24, 2024 ]
There is an ongoing jihad in Bangladesh against all those who dare to dissent from the Islamic sharia line or criticize Islam in any way. Zafar Iqbal is a longtime proponent of free speech and secularism. For all too many Muslims in Bangladesh, that makes him an “enemy of Islam,” and deserving of death. This is the future of the West, if we don’t recover an understanding of the importance of free speech, and begin to defend it.
“Top Bangladesh sci-fi writer stabbed in head at seminar because he’s an ‘enemy of Islam,’” South China Morning Post, March 4, 2018:
Saturday’s attack on Zafar Iqbal in the northern city of Sylhet was just the latest in a series of stabbings of secular or atheist authors and bloggers in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
Story continues below advertisementIqbal, a long-standing champion of free speech and secularism, remains in stable condition in hospital where he is being treated for stab wounds to his head.
Police detained 21-year-old Faizul Hasan, a former Islamic seminary student, and were investigating any ties to radical groups.
Colonel Ali Haider Azad Ahmed from the Rapid Action Battalion police unit said Hasan told investigators it was “his duty as a Muslim to resist those who work against Islam”.
“He has said Dr Zafar Iqbal was an enemy of Islam,” Ahmed said.
Police said Hasan, whose father was a teacher at an Islamic seminary, may have had links to extremists blamed for attacks on secular and atheist writers in the last four years.
Suspected Islamist radicals have killed around a dozen such writers and bloggers, including an American atheist blogger of Bangladeshi origin.
Police have blamed home-grown Islamist extremist group Ansarullah Bangla Team – also known as Ansar al Islam and linked to al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent – for most of the attacks….
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20 Comments
6 years ago
And the pope supports more such “immigrants” into christian lands
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6 years ago
Islam, the only “Freedom of Religion” that will get any non muslim killed. Freedom Of Religion is 100% 1 sided in Islam!
Islam is a cult that teaches its followers the acts of rape, murder, theft, pedophelia, beasiality.
6 years ago
Reply to
Nefarious420
And the pope supports more such “immigrants” into christian lands while he has not voiced his outrage against atrocities by muslims in muslim lands https://tinyurl.com/ydy9xkxs
And this fraud hides behind 40 ft walls and criticises Trump for building a wall ! Worst Hypocrite ? or Leftists Anti-christian, pro-islam trojan horse ? you decide.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
You’re right. Muhammad never had sex with an ELEVEN YEAR OLD GIRL. That guy Nefarious420 is just a bigot! Muhammad was a great guy!
6 years ago
Reply to
MarkJReynolds
You are right, big plonker mo had sex with a nine year old girl. For sure she was a virgin and big mo liked virgins.
6 years ago
Reply to
MarkJReynolds
Well, considering the lunar calendar, utilized at that time … she was only eight … Unless he became impotent … he was probably still using it, when she was eleven.
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6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
In Islam Freedom Of Religion is Freedom From Other Religions, always kill the non believers in allah.
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6 years ago
Reply to
Nefarious420
Are you sure FoR is one sided in pisslam? Then why do Sunnis fight with Shi’ites? What of Wahabbis, why are they seperate from ISIS? Why do Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Queda, the Taliban, and the Pisslam Brotherhood each have their own people/identity? Pisslam is so F-ed up they turn on each, kill each other, and leave nothing behind resembling humanity and civilzation. (After 1400 years of pisslam, the middle east is AFU, with one tiny bit of sanity, Israel.) F-ing pisslamists do nothing for themselves, much less other people. The spend all their time trying to PERvert and take from other nations and their people. They contribute nothing to humanity. Aside from BHO (which was a F-ing joke), what other pisslamist has won the Nobel prize? Which pisslamic nation is leading the world in cancer research, space exploration, renewable energy, economics, human rights? One of, if not the worlds oldest civilization is Persia. What is Persia today, what has become of this ancient, once rich, powerful nation? It was around before pisslam and now pisslam is the “religion” of all of Persia (Iran) and the middle east. The ME is a F-ing litter box. F- pisslam. No pisslamist deserves to live if they are going to live as they do. Pisslam must be destroyed.
6 years ago
ALL disbelievers are ‘enemies of Islam/Allah’ (key ayahs) https://quran.com/41/28 https://quran.com/4/101
6 years ago
“his duty as a Muslim to resist those who work against Islam”. It is the duty of all human beings to not only resist islam, but completely destroy every trace of it.
6 years ago
No doubt this unfortunate man is a member of Flaccid Flower’s “goon squad” as well. I hope Dr. Iqbal makes a complete recovery and continues his efforts in opposition to the damned, dumb, deadly, Jew hating, fascist death cult called islum.
Long live the Hindu Nationalist Party!
6 years ago
At least this banger moslem stayed in bangerdouche. Look to NYNY and see what happens if they make it to the United States and get their hands on a Home Dopey truck.
6 years ago
What, the religion of peace has an enemy?
6 years ago
Why can’t muslims play Bingo?
Every time they here B1 they blow up
