Religion of depraved savagery
Gunmen in Bangladesh kill prosecutor
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Unidentified gunmen in southern Bangladesh shot and killed the prosecutor in the case of six Islamic militants who were convicted and executed in a bombing that killed two judges, a news report said Thursday.
Assailants shot Hyder Hossain in the head at close range as he was returning home from a mosque after evening prayers, the United News of Bangladesh agency reported.
Hossain, 53, prosecuted a case against the militants of the outlawed Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh group who were charged in the 2005 bombing that killed two judges in Jhalakathi district, 75 miles south of the capital, Dhaka.
Another lovely part of the world, touched by the magic of the Religion of Peace.
Thai Jihad
Buddhist woman burned alive in Muslim south Thailand
YALA, Thailand, April 11 (Reuters) - A Buddhist woman was shot and burned alive in Thailand's violence-torn Muslim-majority south on Wednesday, prompting angry protests in front of visiting army chief Sonthi Boonyaratglin.
Watcharaporn Boonmak, 26, was ambushed by gunmen as she rode her motorcycle through a Muslim village in Yala, one of the three southern provinces roiled by three years of separatist insurgency in which more than 2,000 people have been killed.
"She might have been shot in the stomach before they set fire to her and her motorcycle," a Yala police officer, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters by telephone.
One of her relatives told Reuters that witnesses at the scene heard Watcharaporn, a garage clerk, screaming and crawling along the road for help but nobody dared respond for fear of reprisals.
And we all continue to apologize for our impressions that this religion is a violent, callous, and sadistic one.
"Hyder Hossain"? Hmmm, sounds like the guy might be a Muslim. Oh wait, he was coming home from a mosque, I guess he must have been a Muslim. And he prosecuted Islamic terrorists, knowing that his life was at risk. What better way to acknowledge his heroism than to insult his religion?
April 11, 2007 8:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think you're being a bit harsh actually.
How many people did the IRA kill over Protestant/Catholic disputes.
For that matter what about all the Christian Serbs raping the Muslim Bosnians and wiping out the Muslim Kosovars?
There's good and bad people, no matter what the religion.
Why can't we all just agree to hate those fucking Zoroastrians!!! Uhura Mazda my ass, who names a god after a crap japaneze car and second string star trek actor, I ask you? I think we need to pull together. I mean, when you come down to it, dig down deep enough, and isn't every bad thing in the universe the product of some damned Zoroastrian? All hail the eernal power of flame, my incandescent farts. Down with Zoroastrianism!!! And those miserable Mithraites! And you can't trust those Attis worshippers.
I think we need to apply hate where it needs to be applied. To ancient dead religions, where it belongs.
April 11, 2007 9:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
"For that matter what about all the Christian Serbs raping the Muslim Bosnians and wiping out the Muslim Kosovars?"
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You see, that's where you have it wrong, it is the Serbs who are victims of muslims. Perhaps you should pay greater attention to what is going on in the world today.
According to the apologists for jihad on this site, we are to believe Christians, Jews, Hindus, Bhuddists and others are also committing beheadings and other forms of mass murder on a daily basis in the name of their God. None of you can bring yourselves to acknowledge the uniquely evil, murderous and hateful ideology that islam represents, and is inflicting on the world. It is PC to equivocate and pretend that all religions are currently equally guilty of inflicting mass violence around the world, although it has no basis in reality.
April 21, 2007 12:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
None of your commenters are apologists for jihad, LEL. The only jihadi, the only one who sees an innate and bloody conflict between the Islamic world and everyone else, is you.
April 21, 2007 1:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
the problem is "moderate" muslims aren't doing enough to tackle the problem. Christian and Jewish extremists are feircely opposed by others of their faith who denounce their extremism -- not so with Islam. it's going to take another 50 years at least for the islamic world to reform. we're going to be reading these headlines for quite a while.
April 11, 2007 10:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Uh huh. One of those 'moderate' muslims was assassinated on his way from a mosque. Why don't you go look up his family and tell them he wasn't doing enough.
Well, we'll just move these goalposts all over the field shall we?
I'm well on the way towards feeling that "moderate muslim" is one of those passive-aggressive borderline racist phrases like "good negro."
What people seem to mean when they say "moderate muslim" has no reflection in the political or religious views of any Muslim in a Muslim context, but merely speaks to whether we feel that they're pro-west at the moment.
Saddam Hussein was a 'moderate muslim' in the 80's, when he was fighting Iran, gassing Kurds and blowing up an American destroyer. The Saudi royals are 'moderate muslims' notwithstanding their support for Islamic extremists. The Kuwaiti royals are 'moderate muslims' notwithstanding their committment to feudalism, their antipathy to civil rights and their dedication to robbing their own country blind. The Mushareff regime in Pakistan and the Mubarak regime in Egypt are "moderate muslims", however, the nearly identical Assad regime in Syria is not.
April 12, 2007 8:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
okay delete moderate and sub mainstream Muslim.
Let me give an example -- Pat Robertson goes on TV and calls for Hugo Chavez assassination. An outcry from Christian leaders forces him to retract and apologize.
This doesn't happen in the Muslim world. We saw King Abdullah call America's occupation "illegitimate" (what does he call a monarchy), but there were no words of protest against Sunni extremists that are blowing up Shiite civilians. The same for Pakistan where mosques are routinely attacked by one sect or another.
Western Muslims are in a unique position, because they have the freedom to speak out against the lack of freedom and intolerance in the Islamic world. Go on the CAIR website or the Arab American Institute. You won't fund much condemning Islamic intolerance and extremism. You will find plenty criticizing Bush. It doesn't take much courage to blame Bush for what is happening in Iraq. It would take a helluva a lot to start blasting the ayatollahs of Iran, the Saudi regime, Kaddafi and hold them accountable for their words and deeds.
April 12, 2007 8:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do you read Arabic and monitor Arab Islamic websites? If not, how can you know that Muslims do not condemn the Sunni bombers in Iraq?
April 13, 2007 8:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
the reference was to Arab political leaders and advocacy groups.
arab press is diverse with the full spectrum being expressed.
April 13, 2007 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm frankly disturbed by your failure to criticize the policies of Yog-Sothoth.
The trouble with that is that Pat Robertson says these kinds of things on a regular basis. Pat Robertson has friendships and warm relationships with mass murdering tyrants like Mobutu or Taylor. Pat Robertson uses relief donations to subsidize his business activities in Africa.
And Pat Robertson is still welcome with the fold, embraced by Christian leaders. I can't imagine a scummier person, and yet he is consistently tolerated and welcomed. Only when he gets in trouble with the public do they become uncomfortable around him. Once it blows over its "Praise the lord and pass the gravy!"
I'm thinking you've picked a bad example there.
(a) It's perfectly respectable to call the occupation 'illegitimate', America did after all invade on false pretenses for purposes which have failed to be substantiated, and which has consistently failed to deliver on its obligations to the Iraqi people.
(b) That's just wrong. Abdullah and other prominent Saudi's have condemned Sunni attacks on Shiites in Iraq and have expressed concern over actions in Pakistan. Maybe ... do you homework?
ROTF!!! Particularly when the alternative is taking your own fair share of blame for beating the war drums, lol.
April 14, 2007 9:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'd also like to say that you'll never meet a 'moderate' member of the Cthulhu Cult, or a 'moderate' disciple of Thoth.
Save our hate for dead religions.
April 12, 2007 8:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Seems to me that Hyder Hossain did something to tackle the problem.
April 12, 2007 2:59 AM | Reply | Permalink