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| In Bangladesh, ‘Religious Zealots’ Attack, Shave Head of Teen Baul Singer |
| 2021-09-25 |
| [BenarNews] Three men have been arrested on suspicion of forcibly cutting the long hair of a 16-year-old singer in northern Bangladesh, police said Wednesday, in the latest case of hardline Moslems harassing performers of a traditional Bengali folk genre. A group of five Bangladeshis assaulted and shaved the head of the teenage Baul folk musician Mehedi Hassan on Saturday in the Shibganj sub-district in Bogura district, about 128 miles northwest of Dhaka, police said. Singing Baul songs is not an offense, said Sirajul Islam, chief of the Shibganj sub-district police. But Islamic hardliners in Moslem-majority Bangladesh see these wandering Baul minstrels — influenced by Hinduism, Buddhism and Sufi Islam — as apostates and heretics. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Hank Cinq Day-O gratias America redde pro victoria! Owre kynge sent forth to Araby Owre grace and myght of chyvalry Whych wrought for hym so mervelusly His sonne also for kynge chose we. |
| Posted by: Clyde the Hairy8275 2021-09-25 20:23 |
| #3 The Bangladeshi maids working in Indian homes are of the same disposition as these POS. Sometimes I think South Asians failed to evolve. |
| Posted by: Wren 2021-09-25 14:40 |
| #2 "Bauls!" cried the Queen. "If I had two, I'd be King." |
| Posted by: Hank Cinq 2021-09-25 13:08 |
| #1 Cutting the hair. So they aren't serious. Hoping the fresh shaven will be redeemed? Ears now, that would leave a mark. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-09-25 12:46 |