“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
Clashes were reported in Dhaka, Rajshahi, Chittagong and several other major Bangladeshi cities, the Times of India reports.
Activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami party have been hurling stones and handmade bombs at security forces, who were deployed in great numbers in anticipation of a new wave of protests after the hearing.
H/T Oz-Rita
I wonder if this is how they invented the Tuna Salad
H/T M
Tunisian police forces stand guard in Tunis. (AFP)Tunisian police fired tear gas to disperse Salafist Muslims in a residential area in southwest Tunis on Saturday, after they tried to set up tents to preach in, the interior ministry said.
“Security forces intervened with force to disperse between 200 and 300 people who wanted to set up, without prior authorization, tents around and inside the mosque in Sidi Hassine Sijoumi,” interior ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui told AFP.
“Police fired tear gas to disperse them as they were throwing rocks and petrol bombs,” Aroui said, adding that calm had been restored by late Saturday.
Tunisian news agency TAP, however, reported “violent clashes” between police and 1,000 Salafists who had come to set up large tents in the area.
TAP said the clashes erupted after prayers in the afternoon around the Bilal mosque in the Sidi Hassine Sijoumi area, where the Salafists used knives and Molotov cocktails.
H/T Wrath of Khan
PUBLISHED: 10:33 GMT, 9 May 2013 | UPDATED: 14:40 GMT, 9 May 2013
Ali Haider Gilani (pictured), son of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, was kidnapped today during campaign rally by gunmen
Gunmen attacked an election rally in Pakistan’s southern Punjab province on Thursday and abducted the son of a former prime minister, intensifying what has already been a violent run-up to Saturday’s nationwide elections.
Ali Haider Gilani, the son of ex-premier Yousuf Raza Gilani, is running for a provincial assembly seat in the district of Multan.
He was attending an election event in the town of Multan on Thursday – the last day of campaigning across Pakistan – when the gunmen pulled up, started shooting, grabbed and threw him into a vehicle and drove off, officials and witnesses said.
A resident of Multan who attended the rally told a local TV station that the attackers first pulled up in a car and motorcycle outside the venue where the younger Gilani was meeting with a few hundred supporters.
When he came out of the building, two gunmen opened fire, killing one of the people in Gilani’s entourage.
‘One of the gunmen grabbed Haider who had blood splashed on his trousers,” said Shehryar Ali in comments aired by Pakistani television broadcaster Geo News.
A Punjab government official, Rao Iftikhar Ahmad, said one of Gilani’s guards was killed and five people were wounded in the attack.
This guy grew up in Toronto from the sounds of it. And the bearded clam at the back seemed quite amused by it all.
I wonder if the person doing the reporting is aware that all the rioting and killing was the jihadis and religious muslims demanding the faux-right to kill anyone who is islam-critical, or does not accept its total supremacy within Bangladesh, a nation with millions of non-muslims?
H/T M
Just look at all that peace. We need that kind of peace in Canada. I say we bring them all here and pay them to do this. Oh wait we already…
H/T M
DHAKA, May 6 (Reuters) – The death toll on Monday from clashes in Bangladesh between police and hardline Islamists has risen to 20, police said, as violence spread from the capital Dhaka to other parts of the country.
Of the total, 13 people died on the outskirts of Dhaka, five were killed in the southeastern city of Chittagong and another two died in Bagerhat in the south.
On Sunday, around 200,000 Islamist supporters marched in Dhaka to press demands for reforms that critics say would amount to the “Talibanisation” of a country that maintains secularism as state policy.
People killed in Chittagong yesterday.
WARNING: This video starts out as a banal thing of burned out motorcycles and then near the end goes lord of the flies. Just another look at the peace islam brings to all.
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It turns out that in Bangladesh and elsewhere in South east Asia, competing mosques, presumably for the title of most peaceful, routinely attack each other and burn each others mosques and contents down to the ground. I am reliably informed that is what happened here.
Of course, there will be no blasphemy charges or any other legal fallout because all that crap is just for we infidels. When tards do it, its all in keeping with the fine upstanding example set by the pirate Mohamed.
I am hoping to get a translation of this video soon for the details.
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Some Korans and books of hadiths were set on fire in this protest, apparently by muslims. I can’t tell if this was a mistake that occurred when they tried to burn down the market adjacent to a mosque or if this was deliberate to make a point or what.
If anyone can find an article paste it in the comments and Ill move it up into this space.
H/T M
Mail Online has this article with pictures. 10 dead and hundreds injured.
Another RT video showing how a lifetime of studying islam prepares you to run down the street shouting threats, wishing death on those who won’t obey you and waving sticks around like rabid monkeys.
More to come shortly.
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Meanwhile, in Jordan….this is a photo of last night’s event. Tribal violence escalating, gun battles and hand grenades used, interstates blocked, Western media not covering…
Unrest rising in the South of Jordan. Bedouin militias roaming the south, blocking streets and kidnapping opponent, despite desperate calls by locals for the king to intervene, King remains silent, some say in fear…
If there was a single event marking the end of Ataturk’s political culture and replacement with sharia, this would probably be it as History tends to record it when these sorts of things happen to the famous.
ISTANBUL — A court here handed down a suspended 10-month jail term on Monday for Fazil Say, an internationally acclaimed Turkish pianist and composer convicted of insulting Islam and offending Muslims in postings on Twitter.
Mr. Say, 42, who has performed with major orchestras around the world in places including New York, Berlin and Tokyo, said during earlier hearings that the accusations against him went “against universal human rights and laws.” The sentence was suspended for five years, meaning that the pianist will not be sent to prison unless he is convicted of re-offending within that period.
In recent years, many intellectuals, writers and artists have been prosecuted for statements about Islam and Turkish identity, both of which the pro-Islamic government seeks to shield from criticism.
H/T Magic Martin
Mansoura University clashes between members of the Free Islamic Movement and other students left 12 injured Tuesday, four of whom reported being shot. The rest suffered bruises and abrasions. A bus belonging to FIM was also damaged in the fights.
In response, the university’s President Sayyed Abd el-Khaleq announced the campus will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday with the exception of students taking exams, reported state-run Al-Ahram newspaper.
According to reports, students, who were also FIM members, were bused to the campus, wearing T-shirts that read “Neither Brotherhood nor Salafis, we are young people who love religion.”
What can I say. This is just plain weird.
Thank you Bear for the translation and I forget who hipped me to the location of the video but thank you.
The faces of the assailants on the rooftop of the Cathedral
This is likely all in aid for the new corridor Pakistan wants to carve out of India to create a new, larger more powerful nation that includes Pakistan, A large swath of India and Bangladesh.
H/T Magic Martin
