International media conspiracy to defame Bangladesh as next Taliban country

[kalu_miah]

There are certain reporters working for foreign global media corporations and also probably on the payroll of Awami League and its supporter foreign countries and groups (India, Israel, International Islamophobia Industry etc.), who are spreading defaming news against Bangladesh, ruining its reputation as a moderate Muslim country. Lets identify these so called journalists in Bangladesh and ask for an explanation for writing such trash reports and sending them to foreign media houses. I just did a google news search on Bangladesh and found the following news headlines. Lets look at these reports, identify their reporters and identify their blatant biases:

Bangladesh Islamists rally for blasphemy law - CNN.com
Bangladesh Islamists rally for blasphemy law
By Farid Ahmed, CNN
updated 10:25 AM EDT, Sun April 7, 2013

Hardline Muslims rally in Bangladesh - Story - World - 3 News
Hardline Muslims rally in Bangladesh
Sun, 07 Apr 2013 6:18p.m.
By Julhas Alam
AP

BBC News - Bangladesh Islamists rally against bloggers
Bangladesh Islamists rally against bloggers
Anbarasan Ethirajan reports from Dhaka.

Bangladesh on boil as Islamists rally against bloggers - The Times of India
Bangladesh on boil as Islamists rally against bloggers
Caesar Mandal, TNN | Apr 7, 2013, 05.00 AM IST

Bangladesh Islamists call for blasphemy death penalty | News | DW.DE | 06.04.2013
Bangladesh Islamists call for blasphemy death penalty
"We have called the strike to protest the evil design of the Jamaat party, as they are patronizing the pious Muslims," Nasiruddin Ahmed Yusuf, a filmmaker and organizer of the civic groups' protest, told the news agency DPA.
slk/mz (AFP, dpa)

Ahmed Rajib Haider, Asif Mohiuddin, Farhana Ahmed: Bloggers in Bangladesh face threats online and off.
Bloggers in Bangladesh Face Threats Online and Off
By Rezwan | Posted Thursday, April 4, 2013, at 5:31 PM

 

[Roybot]

This was only a matter of time. Good to see the world can now see the face of "silent majority of Bangladesh"(As per resident PDF Bangladeshis). Fox in sheep skin, closet Islamists.

 

[ExtraOdinary]

If majority BD's want a taliban regime they should have it . Will be kinda fun

 

[kalu_miah]

Who is this Farid Ahmed working for? for CNN only? Read the report below and write protest letters to CNN management against this biased reporting by this Farid Ahmed.

Not sure if this is him or not, but a search turned up this image:

Bangladesh Islamists rally for blasphemy law
By Farid Ahmed, CNN
updated 10:25 AM EDT, Sun April 7, 2013
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/06/world/asia/bangladesh-blasphemy-protest/index.html

Bangladeshi Hefajat-e-Islam activists brandish sandals as they shout slogans during a rally in Dhaka on April 6, 2013.

Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of radical Muslims marched toward the capital on Saturday to demand laws to target bloggers they said denigrated Islam and the Prophet Mohammed.
The bloggers initiated a recent sit-in at Shahbagh Square demanding the death penalty for people involved in war crimes perpetrated more than four decades ago. Saturday's marchers termed them atheists who should be brought to justice for blasphemy.
The sit-in protesters at Shahbagh Square demanded the ban on Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest Islamic party in Bangladesh, which opposed the independence of Bangladesh in 1971.
Online activists who had a pioneering role in organizing the Shahbagh sit-in denied they were atheists.
Muslim hard-liners under the banner of Hefazat-e-Islam on Saturday rallied against bloggers and authors.
Meanwhile, some 25 liberal groups denounced the Hefazat rally and enforced a daylong general strike across Bangladesh, keeping capital Dhaka's communications cut off with the rest of the country on Saturday.
The Hefazat rally was supported by the large opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies, including Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
Earlier in February, a blogger was slain in Dhaka, reportedly for an anti-Islamic posting. Police last week detained four bloggers on charge of damaging religious sentiment.
The Hefazat rally branded the government as cohorts of the atheists and said they wanted it to meet 13 demands, including reinstatement of "absolute trust and faith in the Almighty Allah" in the constitution and capital punishment for those who would denigrate Islam and its prophet.
The demands included declaration of the Ahmadiyya Muslim sect as non-Muslim, a ban on free mixing of men and women, making Islamic education mandatory at all levels and no installation of any sculpture in any public place.

 

[scholseys]

Who cares what farid ahmed has to say? this farid ahmed has also been a staunch supporter of the shahbag protest.

 

[kalu_miah]

Who is this Julhas Alam? Is he just working for AP? Look at the report below and decide for yourself.

Twitter image, is this him?

Hardline Muslims rally in Bangladesh - Story - World - 3 News

Hardline Muslims rally in Bangladesh
Sun, 07 Apr 2013 6:18p.m.

Activists of Hefajat-e-Islam shout slogans during a grand rally in Dhaka (Reuters)
By Julhas Alam

Hundreds of thousands of members of a hardline Muslim group rallied in Bangladesh's capital on Saturday to demand authorities enact anti-blasphemy laws to punish people who insult Islam.

Separately, members of the group, Hifazat-e-Islam, clashed with police and pro-government activists in a district outside of the capital, leaving a ruling party supporter dead.

The massive rally in Dhaka took place amid heightened security in the capital and elsewhere in Bangladesh after Hifazat-e-Islam members targeted bloggers who they say are atheists. It also took place despite a daylong shutdown across the Muslim-majority country that was enforced by about 25 liberal and secular groups to denounce the rally.

The bloggers, who deny they are atheists, are seeking capital punishment for those found guilty of war crimes during the nation's 1971 independence war against Pakistan. They also want a ban on Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's largest Islamic party, for campaigning against Bangladesh's independence more than four decades ago. The party is a key partner of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which is led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.

Top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders are accused of crimes against humanity during the 1971 war, and two senior party leaders were convicted this year by a special tribunal. Bangladesh says as many as 3 million people were killed and 200,000 women raped by Pakistani troops and local collaborators during the war.

The organisers of the shutdown said the hardline group was not interested in protecting Islam, but that rather it wants to create an environment in the country to help Jamaat-e-Islami free the party's detained leaders.

As a result of the shutdown, roads were blocked and train and bus services were suspended, practically cutting Dhaka off from rest of the country.

Still, hundreds of thousands of Hifazat-e-Islam members managed to join the rally, most of them wearing white Islamic skullcaps.


While Hifazat-e-Islam said its rally was non-political and not aligned with the opposition, Zia's party backed the demonstration, and media reports said Jamaat-e-Islami provided funds to help organise it.

The group listed 13 demands, including reinstating "absolute trust and faith in the Almighty Allah" in the nation's constitution, which is largely secular, and passing a law providing for capital punishment for maligning Allah, Islam and its Prophet Muhammad.

The group's other demands include declaring the minority Ahmadiya sect living in the country non-Muslims and banning "all foreign culture, including free mixing of men and women".

They said the bloggers, who have held street protests to demand all convicted war criminals be executed, should be punished.

Somoy TV and the Daily Star newspaper reported that a supporter of the ruling Awami League party, Nausher Khan, died after clashes broke out in central Bangladesh's Faridpur district. Another 15 men were injured, the reports said. Faridpur is 60 kilometres (37 miles) west of Dhaka.

Saturday's rally came amid months of violence stemming from a bitter political rivalry between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government and the Zia-led opposition.

Hasina initiated the war crimes trials in 2010. Ten of the defendants convicted or on trial are from Jamaat-e-Islami, while two others belong to Zia's party.

In February, the tribunal sentenced a senior Jamaat-e-Islami party leader to death, but the decision sparked violent clashes between opposition activists and police that left more than 70 people dead.

Hifazat-e-Islam said it would enforce a daylong shutdown across the country on Monday to protest the alleged obstruction of their supporters' attempts to reach Saturday's rally.

AP

 

[the just]

So whats going on actually? If BD is officially a Taliban country(which will never happen) who will benefit more?which country will get our neat order?who will cut off our water and say it was what UN wants.who will send peace corps to UN?which country will provide cheap labor for other country.all our workers will come back home guess who will fill the gap?we will be forced to depend on one country alone.there will be no other way but to open our boarder for food for free transit? Hmmm-my 12 year old son knows the answers. Any body else?

 

[kalu_miah]

Who cares what farid ahmed has to say? this farid ahmed has also been a staunch supporter of the shahbag protest.

He is reporting for CNN, we have to care.

 

[LaBong]

How is it conspiracy? I read all the points and silent majority not only demand death sentence for blasphemy but also against "free mixing" of men and women and want to demolish all statues and sculptures. What I'm not sure is that why pdf Bangladeshis feeling shy about it. bangladesh just moving towards their roots and soon the rhetoric of amra sobai taliban bd hobe Afghanistan will become true. my best wishes.

 

[Solomon2]

@kalu_miah , are these "trashy" reports actually false or merely embarrassing?

 

[Luffy 500]

@kalu_miah, no point in opening such a thread. Now bigots from across the border will find something to troll on. WHen U have tons of our own leftist yellow media farting crap, what do U expect from westerners? Any way aljazeera reported quite fairly.

It was a gathering of lacs of people even after awami facist scums cut off all communications with Dhaka and did all sorts of facist farts imaginable to prevent the rally. Supported by all major opp. parties including awami ally JP. People from all walks of life joined the rally and the organizers made it clear that it is an apolitical platform. Awami scums R suffering from chronic diarrhea.

 

[kalu_miah]

@kalu_miah, no point in opening such a thread. Now bigots from across the border will find something to troll on. WHen U have tons of our own leftist yellow media farting crap, what do U expect from westerners? Any way aljazeera reported quite fairly.

It was a gathering of lacs of people even after awami facist scums cut off all communications with Dhaka and did all sorts of facist farts imaginable to prevent the rally. Supported by all major opp. parties including awami ally JP. People from all walks of life joined the rally and the organizers made it clear that it is an apolitical platform. Awami scums R suffering from chronic diarrhea.

Sorry Luffy 500, but we have got to identify these Mir Jafars living among us as reporters and selling our country and people to the highest bidder.

 

[Luffy 500]

@kalu_miah , are these "trashy" reports actually false or merely embarrassing?

ah.....false. Its not a rally of radicals as some of your lunatic media put it. It was joined by people from all walks of life and neither did the rally demanded anything new or out of the ordinary.The major opposition parties showed support and also the facist gov that tried to prevent the rally congratulated the organizers for holding it peacefully (quite ironic since the gov tried everything to make it violent).

 

[kalu_miah]

@kalu_miah , are these "trashy" reports actually false or merely embarrassing?

They are blatantly biased reinforcing the point of view of a political party that is openly anti-Islam.

 

[LaBong]

to put things into perspective, here's the demands by bd silent majority.

The 13 points of the Islamist group:

1. Restore the phrase ‘Complete faith and trust in the Almighty Allah’ in the constitution and repeal all the laws contrary to the holy Quran and Sunnah.

2. Pass a law in parliament keeping a provision of the maximum punishment of death sentence to prevent defaming Allah, Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) and Islam and smear campaigns against Muslims.

3. Take measures for stringent punishment against self-declared atheists and bloggers, led the so-called Shahbagh movement, and anti-Islamists who made derogatory remarks against the Prophet.

4. Stop infiltration of all alien-culture, including shamelessness in the name of individual’s freedom of expression, ant-social activities, adultery, free mixing of male and female and candle lighting.

5. Make Islamic education mandatory from primary to higher secondary levels canceling the anti-Islamic women policy and anti-religion education policy.

6. Officially declare Qadianis (Ahmadiyyas) as non-Muslim and stop their propaganda and all conspiratorial ill-moves.

7. Stop setting up sculptures at intersections, schools, colleges and universities across the country.

8. Lift restriction on saying payers in all mosques across the country, including Baitul Mukarram National Mosque, without any hassle and remove obstacles to carrying out religious activities.

9. Stop evil efforts to spread hatred in the mind of young generation regarding Islam through the misrepresentation of religious dresses and cultures in the media.

10. Stop anti-Islam activities by NGOs across the country, including in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and evil attempts of Christian missionaries for conversion.

11. Stop attacks, mass killing, oppression and indiscriminate shooting on Alem-Ulama, devout followers of the Prophet and towhidi janata (revolutionary people).

12. Stop threatening teachers and students of Qawmi madrasas, Islamic scholars, imams and khatibs and conspiracies against them.

13. Free immediately all the arrested Islamic scholars, madrasa students and towhidi janata and withdraw all false cases filed against them, compensate the victims and bring the assailants to justice.



May the force be with you, silent majority of bangladesh.