Religion

Ethnic Cleansing in Bangladesh

Source: Gatestone Institute by Mohshin Habib   Despite what officials state, the Islamists of Bangladesh have been violently urging all non-Muslims to get out of the country. Buddhists, for example, mostly settled in the southeast part of Bangladesh and less than 1% of the population of 150 million, have been […]

Please save my future generation

Source: The Daily Star Inam Ahmed and Julfikar Ali Manik, from Ramu, Cox’s Bazar The Buddha statues made of gold are lost forever. The intrinsic designs of Khadi wood are lost in the inferno. The Tripitak is lost too. But for Shreemad Satyapriya Mohathero, who had just turned 83, the […]

Bangladesh Muslims torch Buddhist shrines

Source: CNN News From Farid Ahmed (CNN) — Crowds of angry Muslims attacked Buddhist shrines and homes, torching some of them Sunday in Bangladesh to protest after a photo of a partially burned Quran was posted on Facebook, police said. The protesters chanted anti-Buddhist slogans, blaming the burning of the Muslim […]

M.T.A. Amends Rules After Pro-Israel Ads Draw Controversy

Source: NY Times. By MATT FLEGENHEIMER The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved new guidelines for advertisements on Thursday, prohibiting those that it “reasonably foresees would imminently incite or provoke violence or other immediate breach of the peace.” The 8-to-0 vote by the authority’s board came three days after pro-Israel ads characterizing Islamist […]

Hypocrisy

The Express Tribune: by Anum Fatima. Why is it diffic­ult for us to bear conseq­uences of seeds of offenc­e we have sown for Christ­ians, Hindus, Ahmadi­s? As a nation that breeds on hypocrisy, it is not surprising that the last week saw mayhem descend in the country. Cinemas were set ablaze, […]

Is Something Wrong at Heart of Islam?

Credit: Jakarta Globe. Paris. British author Salman Rushdie, who lived in hiding for nine years under a death sentence from Iran’s supreme leader, said in an interview published last Thursday that something had gone wrong at the heart of Islam.Rushdie told Le Monde newspaper that his years fleeing the 1989 […]

Hate film

The Express Tribune: by Anwer Mooraj. This is not the first time it has happened. The Danes and the French had a go with those blasphemous cartoons which ridiculed Islam. They unleashed a torrent of protest in the Muslim world which took weeks to die out. British and American newspaper editors […]