Sunday, September 30, 2012

Muslims in Bangladesh Burn Down Buddhist Temples While Protesting a Photo on Facebook


Activists of Islamist group Bangladesh Jamiyat-e-Hizbullah chant slogans during a protest rally near the national mosque in Dhaka September 29, 2012. — Photo Reuters.

It makes perfect sense doesn't it?  You're a Muslim in Bangladesh and you partake in a protest against some random photo put up on Facebook by someone you THINK is a Buddhist so you decide that the only way to get back at the person that put up that photo is to burn down four Buddhist temples.  I suppose if someone 5000 miles away draws a picture of Mo then you have to burn down a Hindu temple too then, right?

Nothing but tools, I tell ya.

The story comes from DAWN.



Muslim protesters torch Buddhist temples, homes in Bangladesh


BANGLADESH: Hundreds of Muslims in Bangladesh burned at least four Buddhist temples and 15 homes of Buddhists on Sunday after complaining that a Buddhist man had insulted Islam, police and residents said.

Members of the Buddhist minority in the Cox’s Bazar area in the southeast of the country said unidentified people were bent on upsetting peaceful relations between Muslims and Buddhists.

Muslims took to the streets in the area late on Saturday to protest against what they said was a photograph posted on Facebook that insulted Islam.

The protesters said the picture had been posted by a Buddhist and they marched to Buddhist villages and set fire to temples and houses.

Police said they had deployed extra security forces and banned gatherings in Buddhist-dominated areas.

“We brought the situation under control before dawn and imposed restrictions on public gatherings,” said Salim Mohammad Jahangir, Cox’s Bazaar district police superintendent.

Many people in predominantly Muslim Bangladesh have been angered in recent days by a film made in California that mocks the Prophet Mohammad.

Muslims in Bangladesh and beyond have also been outraged by violence over the border in Myanmar where members of the majority Buddhist community clashed with minority Muslims this year.

Police had escorted the man accused of posting the insulting photograph and his mother to safety, Jahangir said.

Sohel Sarwar Kajal, the Muslim head of the council in the area where the arson took place, said he was trying to restore communal peace.

“We are doing everything possible to quell tension and restore peace between the communities,” he told reporters.

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