The 1,400 year war. Always a battle. In the modern era, the battle is between Islam and secularism – anti freedom, anti-love, anti-Jew, anti-Christian, anti-woman, anti-unbeliever, anti-life. Just terror. Show me one Muslim country under Islam law that isn’t bloody hell.
This photo of a Bangladeshi couple kissing in rain went viral – and got the photographer assaulted
The picture has become the latest topic of controversy in a country where secular nationalism and Islamism have long battled each other.
On Monday, a young Bangladeshi photographer, Jibon Ahmed, posted a picture of a couple kissing gently as a monsoon shower hit. The location is Dhaka University and behind the couple seemingly in love, people go about their business. A man checks his phone under an umbrella and a couple of tea vendors remain busy
Ahmed posted the picture with the caption, “This is a poem of the blessed rains, let love be free.” The photo immediately went viral. Some people appreciated it for the beauty it conveyed, others assigned to it a political sentiment, which is always close at hand in a country where secular Bengali nationalism and Islamism have long battled each other, and bitterly.
This picture taken from TSC, DU today by Jibon Ahmed and this is real Bangladesh. Islami fundamentalism will be destroy from our country by such kind of love n practice….Love u Bangladesh… pic.twitter.com/15zUkfaeGR
— Nuruzzaman Labu (@labu8080) July 23, 2018
Soon, however, the matter jumped from the internet into the real world. Barely hours after he had posted the photo, Ahmed was assaulted by other photographers at Dhaka University. Some reports on social media claim Ahmed has been fired from his job as a photojournalist with a news website.
The attack on Ahmed sparked outrage. Fahima Durrat, a professor at Dhaka University, wrote that only people “who are used to molestation feel ill when seeing a photo of love or friendship”.
Shocking to see the outrage against this photograph and physical assault on the photographer. We should kiss everywhere and we should kiss often. Let’s fight back. One kiss at a time! #kiss #Bangladesh #viral #TSC #moralpolice #photography #jibonahmed https://t.co/1U3rfmYG39
— Shehzeen Choudhury (@ShehzeenSays) July 25, 2018
Memes have since appeared, pointing out the hypocrisy of attacking a sign of love in a country with so many problems.
This is not the first time Ahmed has taken on Bangladesh’s Islamists. In 2015, he photographed the murderous attack on Bangladeshi-American atheist blogger Avijit Roy and then helped Roy and his wife reach the hospital. The bloodied photo of Roy’s wife pleading for help from the crowd bought global attention to the targeting of freethinkers and rationalists in Bangladesh.
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Bangers from bangerdouche. What else is to be expected?
Islam has no tolerance for love or affection.
Valentines day is BANNED in Muslim dominated countries.
Yes, such as Pakistan!
“The attack on Ahmed sparked outrage. Fahima Durrat, a professor at Dhaka University, wrote that only people
“who are used to molestation feel ill when seeing a photo of love or friendship”.
Understandable. They are used to being raped and molested.
To see caring and affection would make them feel worse since they will NEVER have that.
Agree. And the first Muslim democrat president imported 200,000 yearly legal and illegal muslims and
deported christians back to ISIS to be slaughtered
after they tried to make it to America http://tinyurl.com/mtc3xch
And those who dared to help were threatened to shut up and MSM would not cover it !
The most nefarious agenda by the DNC, is to continually ‘insert’ the ‘imported Voters’ into the last bastions of reason, the states where the Electoral College brings sanity into the equation.
Within a few election cycles, let alone another generation, of outnumbering ‘inserts’ [birth rate of at least 7 to 1.. all taxPayer subsidized], there will be no intelligence left in the system, to vote for conservative leaders. Those rapidly outnumbered few that are concerned with the USA’s survival of individual
Freedom..
Christianity is under attack from all horizons, including within. The ‘Gates of Vienna’ have been breached. There is no longer, the leadership, the likes of ‘Charles Martel’.
And Bangladesh still calls itself a moderate secular democracy, LOL
while you were sleeping its been renamed Islamic secular state ! whatever that means.
Absolutely unbelievable. Damn savages.
This is what it looks like when there are too many Muslims in this world. It will only get worse. The world will have to fight them eventually . Now they have to fight one at a time, eventually they will have to fight all of them and either one side or the other will win. There is no living with them side by side.
Correct. No negotiations or compromises. Their way or no way! http://bit.ly/2MZWyCn
I am glad I am 82 years old, but I am very sorry for my two daughters and their five children, and one day their children. I will not be here to see the results of all those Muslims overwhelming the world and destroying every good thing in it.
Want to destroy a country? Bring in the Moslems. Want to destroy its government? Make a Negro its “President”. Want to start a war? Then bring in a woman. Yes, it’s Hillaryous.
The lieberals got the plan down good.
GREAT COMMENT! It would be funny, but unfortunately, it’s true.
There are some good blacks out there like Dr. Ben Carson and Allen West but by and large they are not representative of the majority. With few exceptions, most women make terrible leaders too. Le Pen and Thatcher come to mind as good examples. Instead we see the Booker’s and Pelosi’s dominate the gender category.
I must admit…I had hoped the African-American community would have made more progress in recent years. Apparently not, as millions are still enmeshed in the victim complex.
True. Why do women gravitate towards the fringe elements once elected? Why can’t they represent the majority, regardless of their gender?
Ban Islam from the USA
If Hillary became POTUS, we would have another Europe.
Ban it from this planet!! http://bit.ly/2MZWyCn
I don’t see a topic in which to place this link. So this will have to suffice. I got it from Dr. Bill Warner’s website, politicalislam.com
It is the Pew Report on Islam. Worth reading: http://bit.ly/2MZWyCn