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February 10, 2006
Bangladesh: Muslims Call For Death Of Cartoonists
Today, according to the Irish Evening Echo, more than 5,000 Muslims protested in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, voicing their threats against cartoonists whose work appeared in Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten.
The sad truth is that unless these people had been surfing the net, they will not have found copies of the cartoons. Like people who try to ban films which they have never seen, the protesters seem to have no idea how tame the Jyllands Posten cartoons are.
Banners carried the following slogans: "Death to those who degrade our beloved prophet!", "Hang culprits" and also demanded the expulsion of EU ambassadors from Muslim countries.
Most of those protesting were from the international organisation, Hizb ut-Tahrir, which campaigns to establish a Caliphate and ultimately world domination. Hizb ut-Tahrir maintains on all its English language websites that it disapproves of violence. Such a demonstration, with calls for assassinations, proves how dishonest Hizb ut-Tahrir actually is, and explains why it is banned in many Muslim countries.
Mohiuddin Ahmed, a local leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir, said "We have to fight against such an anti-Muslim campaign".
The leader of the corrupt coalition government, Khaled Zia, condemned the cartoons in a statement, but said she did not approve of violence, even though her party, the Bangladesh National Party is certainly no stranger to violence. Members of its youth wing, the Jubo Dal have been involved with murders, attacks upon journalists, and drug-running.
There is mounting evidence that junior parties in the coalition government have been supporting the current wave of terrorist violence committed by Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh and also the persecution of the Muslim group the Ahmadiyyas, who are regarded by Muslim extremists as "heretical" even though they practice a code of non-violence and respect for life.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at February 10, 2006 6:40 AM
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