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2021-10-17 Olde Tyme Religion
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Bangladesh: Muslims March in Dhaka, Clash with Police after Friday Prayers, 2 More Hindus Toes Up Saturday
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[BenarNews] Rock-throwing protesters and police clashed in Bangladesh’s capital as thousands of Moslems erupted into the streets after Friday prayers to express anger over an online video showing the alleged desecration of the Koran at a Hindu festival site, during a third day of inter-communal violence in the country.
In other developments on Friday, a Hindu man was killed in an attack by a Moslem mob in southeastern Bangladesh as venues hosting the annual Durga Puja festival were vandalized throughout the nation in response to the alleged desecration. At least five coppers and scores of people were also reported injured in violence on Friday — a day after four people were shot and killed during related protests.
"Over 2,000 Moslem devotees brought out a procession after Jummah prayers" at Baitul Mukarram, the national mosque, Sazzadur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told BenarNews.
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The Durga Puja festival, the biggest event on Hinduism’s calendar, ended Friday evening.
The Hindu man, a 42-year-old follower of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) — also known as Hare Krishnas — was killed in an attack in Noakhali district in southeastern Bangladesh, authorities said.
Jatan Kumar was injured and later died at a hospital, police sub-inspector Enamul Haque said, adding that nearly 150 police, including the local station chief, were maimed in the festivities.
"Several hundred Moslem devotees carried out an attack on the houses, shops and temples after Jummah prayers at Chowmuhani town," Enamul told BenarNews. "We need time to assess the damage and the actual number of injured persons."
Papu Saha, member secretary of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC), confirmed the death, saying another severely injured man was "struggling to survive."
"Several hundred Hindus were maimed. The attackers vandalized at least 12 temples, 30 shops and about 100 houses of our people," he told BenarNews.
The attackers "set fire to temples and destroyed them. They torched three cars and six cycle of violence s," he said.
Hindus make up about 10 percent of the more than 160 million people in the Moslem-majority country.
In the capital Dhaka, police arrested five people linked to the rally, Sazzadur said. BenarNews news hounds at the scene reported that the protest turned violent mostly peaceful after demonstrators started hurling sandals and bricks at the police who then fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them.
In southeastern Bangladesh, a mob attacked a puja venue in Chittagong but fled after security forces charged them with batons, Palash Kanti Dey, executive secretary-general of the Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mohajote, told BenarNews.
Police detained 50 people following the Chittagong attack, police deputy commissioner Bijoy Kumar Boshak told news hounds.
Authorities said that more than 100 people had been arrested across Bangladesh since mob violence against Hindu temples began on Wednesday. Border Guard Bangladesh troops were also deployed in 30 of the nation’s 64 districts.
"The massive attacks on the Puja temples in different parts of the country is nothing new but a consequence of regular attacks on the minority group," said Golam Kuddus, president of Sammilita Sangskritik Jote, an organization of cultural activists.
There is a group taking advantage of attacks on religious minorities, he alleged.
"There is a communal evil group in Bangladesh. They are doing such incidents at different times to make the country unstable," he added.
On Thursday, Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums ...
promised to thoroughly investigate the case, saying the culprits "will be hunted down and punished."
She also said that Hindu-majority India should remain vigilant against an escalation of any communal violence.
Her comment came after a politician asked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to express concern with Bangladesh officials over "vandalizing and desecration" of Hindu idols and temples, calling the incidents "painful and shameful."
Suvendu Adhikari, a West Bengal politician with the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said in a letter to Modi that "notorious vandals" are targeting the Hindu minority community, creating miserable living conditions.
Sayantan Basu, West Bengal BJP’s general secretary, said attacks on Hindu people in Bangladesh occur regularly.
"As a result, now the Hindu population in Bangladesh is 8 percent when it once was 24 percent. India should create pressure on Bangladesh over the issue," he told BenarNews.
In Dhaka on Friday, protesters chanted anti-India slogans and accused Hasina of being too close to Delhi.
Bangladesh’s constitution designates Islam as the state religion but upholds the principle of secularism and prohibits religious discrimination.
Despite that, communal attacks on religious minorities in Bangladesh are on the rise, the U.S. State Department said in its "2020 Report on International Religious Freedom," released in May, listing incidents of violence against Hindus, their properties and temples.
A crowd of several hundred looted, vandalized and set fire to Hindu family homes in Cumilla after rumors spread that local Hindus supported French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo
... A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
’s publication in La Belle France of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, initially published in 2015 and reprinted in September 2020, the report said.
Two Hindu men have been killed in fresh religious violence in Bangladesh, police officials said Saturday, taking the death toll to six from recent unrest in the Muslim-majority country.
Protests began on Wednesday after footage emerged of a Koran being placed on the knee of a Hindu god during celebrations for the Hindu festival Durga Puja. The minority community make up about 10 percent of the population.
Police said the latest violence occurred in the southern town of Begumganj when hundreds of Muslims formed a street procession after Friday prayers on the final day of Durga Puja.
More than 200 protesters attacked a temple where members of the Hindu community were preparing to perform the last rites of the 10-day festival, local police station chief Shah Imran told reporters.
The attackers beat and stabbed to death an executive member of the temple committee, he said.
On Saturday morning, another Hindu man's body was found near a pond next to the temple, district police chief Shahidul Islam told AFP.
"Two men have died since yesterday's attack. We are working to find the culprits," he added.
Anti-Hindu violence spread to more than a dozen districts across Bangladesh this week after footage emerged on social media of the Koran incident.
At least four people were killed late Wednesday when police opened fire on a crowd of around 500 people attacking a Hindu temple in Hajiganj, one of several towns hit by the disturbances.
At least 150 Hindus were injured across the country, community leader Gobinda Chandra Pramanik told AFP, and at least 80 makeshift temples had been attacked. Authorities did not confirm the figures.
Hindus have often fallen victim to communal violence in the country of 169 million.
Local authorities said they have deployed extra security including paramilitary border guards to control any further unrest.
On Friday violence broke out in the capital Dhaka and Chittagong, prompting police to fire tear gas and rubber bullets at thousands of brick-throwing Muslim protesters.
High-speed mobile phone internet services were shut down in an apparent bid to prevent the violence from spreading.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met leaders of the Hindu community on Thursday and promised stern action.
"So far around 90 people have been arrested. We will also hunt down all the masterminds," Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said. 
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