More on this story: days after a Hindu temple dedicated to the Hindu deity Ganesh was vandalized and burned down in Bhong city, Pakistan, another South Asian Islamic country, the erstwhile East Pakistan, has followed the same line of bigotry. We must give credit to Bangladesh for outdoing its former masters and taking down not just one Hindu temple, but four.
On Friday night, a group of Hindu women in the Shiali village of Rupsha Upazila in Khulna took out a religious procession from the local Purba Para temple and were headed for the Shiali crematorium. They had to pass by a local mosque to reach their destination, and crossed paths with an Islamic cleric, who registered his objections to the procession. This spiraled into a heated altercation between the Hindu devotees and the Muslim cleric. As it was already past 9PM, both parties decided to take the matter up with the police the following day.
However, on Saturday, August 7 between 3 and 6PM, a mob of Muslims launched an ambush attack on the Hindus of Shiali village. Hundreds of Muslims joined this frantic mob and entered the village armed with locally-made makeshift weapons including cleavers, hatchets, and axes. Their first target was the four major Hindu temples in the village; they were desecrated and torn down in minutes by the mob. Six smaller temples in the proximity became the next targets, and were razed to the ground as well. Idols of Hindu deities at the Govinda Temple, Shiyali Purbpara Durga Temple, Shiyali Purbapara Hari Temple, and Shiyali Mahasmashan temple were crushed to bits.
But the ire of the Muslim mob was not placated by the desecration of these Hindu temples alone. They shifted their ire to human beings and their livelihood. Dozens of shops belonging to the Hindus, including Ganesh Mallick’s drug store, Sourav Mallick’s tea and grocery store, Srivastava Mallick’s grocery store, Anirban Hira’s tea shop and his father Majumdar’s shop situated in the local marketplace, were plundered; over fifty-five Hindu houses were ransacked and emptied of valuables. The jihadi crowd also looted milching cows and other cattle belonging to the Hindus, which provided a source of nutrition as well as income to the hapless people from the marginalized community. Numerous unarmed Hindu villagers were assaulted and suffered severe injuries in this clash; many were brutally beaten when they tried to defend their shops from the jihadist plunderers.
The mayhem lasted for hours. Once the thirst for Hindu misery was satiated, the mob decided to disperse. By this time, some Hindus had informed the local police, and some had formed groups to confront the jihadis. However, Shaktipada Basu, the president of the Rupsha Thana Puja Celebration Parishad, accuses the police of chasing away the Hindus when they first went to complain to the Shiali Camp police station. “Police of the Shiali camp resisted the Hindu villagers when they wanted to chase the attackers during the attack,” alleges Basu.
Khulna Superintendent of Police Mahbub Hasan informed the media that a heavy police contingent had been deployed in the area of clash and claimed that the unrest had been brought under control. “We are working with local people,” Hasan briefed the press.
Attacks on the minorities have become a routine recourse for the jihadis of Bangladesh. On the occasion of Eid al-Adha last month, Kotalipara Upazila of Gopalganj district in Bangladesh carried out a similar orchestrated attack on the local Hindus, raiding Hindu houses and Hindu-owned businesses, and assaulting Hindus. No part of the plan for destruction was omitted in that act of mob violence, either.
Back in March 2021, triggered by a social media post allegedly made by a Hindu youth named Jhumon Das, a series of planned attacks was carried out on Hindu homes in the area of Das’s residence in Sunamganj. Das’s immediate arrest by the police couldn’t pacify the fuming mob, which targeted other Hindus who had no relation to the alleged offense, just for the fun of it. Economically deprived Hindus struggling to make ends meet were stripped of their last resources in the mob violence in Shalla Upazila.
The media’s colossal indifference to all this, and the inaction of the police in the face of these repeated acts of terrorizing the minority emboldens the mobs’ bloodlust and thirst for destruction and loot. They act upon these desires with unmatched impunity. They know for a fact that they have been made into a global victim by the Leftist platforms that shape the popular narrative; hence they have neither the fear of repercussions nor any reputation to salvage.
Elizabeth Lawson says
It is clearly evident that these individuals, by their conduct in India and right across the world, are criminals. No matter the plaint of being members of an organization intolerant of women, and all who do not share their violent and primitive ideology, their conduct screams of homicide, robbery, rioting and anarchy. The Indian army needs to quell the activities of these criminals.
gravenimage says
Elizabeth, I don’t think that India is apt to invade Bangladesh. Instead, Hindus there should take India up on her offer of asylum.
Uma says
Good Morning,
May be you are right.
Mr.Modi Government to intervene.
These Bangladesis are regardless.
They have forgotten about the help of India in 1971, fighting against Pakistan.
Regards
Uma
Keith O says
The old saying goes that yo can only kick a dog so many times before it turns around and bites you.
Sooner or later, hopefully sooner, these people WILL turn on these animals and flog the crap out of them.
Then, maybe, just maybe, the authorities will be forced to take action against these Jihadist mobs.
Even peaceful people will eventually take action to protect themselves.
Infidel says
Only problem: Hindus are a mere 8% of the population. So fleeing to India is their only option. One thing India should do is start cracking down on its own jihadis and start persecuting them until they flee to either Pakistan or Bangladesh. Except that Modi, unlike in his first term, is a disaster as prime minister these days
gravenimage says
Agree, Infidel.
gravenimage says
Keith, dhimmitude demands that Infidels *never* fight back. If they do, they are all fair game for genocide. Bangladesh–almost 90% Muslim–is not going to protect its non-Muslim population.
Keith O says
GI, what’s the old saying
“better to die on your feet than live on your knees”.
This is one Pagan who will go out the same way I came into this world. Kicking and screaming and covered in someone else’s blood!
gravenimage says
Bangladesh: Muslim mob vandalizes multiple Hindu temples, loots Hindu-owned shops, ransacks Hindu homes
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Just awful. Hindus–and other Infidels–are terribly persecuted by Muslims in Bangladesh and Pakistan. They should take India up on her offer of asylum.
Mike 2 says
I thought Partition was meant to sort out the insurmountable differences between Hindus and Muslims. Where did it all go wrong?
Derek says
@ Mike: The partition was indeed meant to sort out the differences. It was the price that Hindus were required to pay. The price was paid but the goods were not delivered. The Indian leaders suddenly embarked upon a soft approach to the Muslims and in their wisdom truncated the partition. Since then, Jihad continued in Pakistan and (now) Bangladesh. In India, a Darul Harab was established. The mistakes that are being made in Europe and the US were made. Appeasing the Muslims became the national policy. Slowly and surely the democratic laws and the constitution were used by the Mullahs to tie up Hindus in knots and now they are in a zugzwang.
If war against Jihad has to be fought and won, the West may take the cue from what has happened in India. Games of appeasement have been played. You would bend your back to appease Muslims – your back would break, you would tie yourself in knots by your own laws while they laugh at your misery as they steadily attain the object of global Darul Islam. It wont stop there as then they would fight and kill each other.
So if you want to save all that humankind has achieved, stop this bogey of Islamophobia. The rest of the world is living in fear – as Muhammad had ordained. Sorry if I sound pessimistic.
Infidel says
There should have been a complete exchange of populations, w/ no muslims remaining in India, and no non-muslims remaining in Pakistan/Bangladesh. Gandhi and Nehru sabotaged that, and insisted that India be a secular country, while successive Congress governments kept pandering to muslims for 70 years. In fact, the BJP too tends to do that in different states in varying degrees. And now there are 180 million muslims in India, so if they were to be expelled to Pakistan and Bangladesh, both countries would see a 50% population increase, which no country would tolerate
OLD GUY says
Open borders to islamic people will bring this to a neighborhood near you soon.