Jihadists Murder Muslims
This time it’s Bangladesh.
India’s Business Standard reports:
About 400 small bombs, suspected to have been planted by an Islamic militant outfit, exploded almost simultaneously in cities and towns across Bangladesh today killing at least two persons, including a child, and injuring 138.
A security alert was sounded all over the country immediately after the explosions which occured between 11.00 am and 11.30 am (local time), targeting government offices, courts and press clubs in all but one of the 64 districts in the first such attack in volatile Bangladesh.
No organisation has claimed the responsibility for the blasts but police suspected involvement of the outlawed militant outfit Jamiat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh after recovering leaflets under its name from the blast sites which demanded implementation of Islamic law in the country. At least 46 suspects have been arrested from different parts of the country, sources said.
The private NTV television channel said at least 138 people were injured in nearly 400 explosions of crude bombs. A rickshaw puller and a child died in the blasts.
A child and a rickshaw puller murdered. These are very “soft targets” — and who has Bangladesh offended?
According to the leaflets, Bangladesh has offended God:
The leaflets found at the sites of the blasts said “It is time to implement Islamic law in Bangladesh. There is no future with man-made law,” and “(US President George W Bush) and (British Prime Minister Tony Blair) be warned and get out of Muslim countries.”
Here’s some more information on the jihadist killers and their techniques:
Jamiat-ul Mujahideen, led by the so-called “Bangla Bhai” who is on the run, was banned early this year along with another group Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh. The two groups were accused of being behind a series of bomb blasts, including those at two local aid agencies — Grameen and Brac.
Although officials did not say what kind of bombs exploded today, TV footages showed batteries strapped together in plastic bags.
Some of the blasts rocked the High Court and Judge Court premises in Dhaka, DC offices and Judge’s courts in Narayanganj, Sylhet, Habiganj, Sirajganj, Sherpur, Mymensi ngh, Kishoreganj, Gazipur, Rajshahi, Lalmonirhat, Naogaon, Khulna, Chittagong, Bandarban, Patuakhali and other places.
The Grameen Bank is a micro-development lender. The attacks on Bangladesh’s legal institutions are the “political message.”
It’s time for the world to recognize we all have a big problem and get together and fix it, before it’s too late.
Comment by bill — 8/17/2005 @ 5:42 pm
You missed the fact that the Grameen bank aids the poorest Bangladeshi women to gain financial independence.
Comment by Om — 8/17/2005 @ 9:29 pm
I grew up in the Indian state of Assam, on the Bangladesh-India border and have travelled witin Bangladesh extensively. Bangladesh is a very underdeveloped, and poor country, and I shudder to think what would happen if the islamist idiots were to succeed. This country is in desperate need of an injection of modernisation to make live easier for its citizens, not a return to some mythical vision of the alleged Islamic glory. But, we have learnt in the past few years, Islamicts, especially of the Jihadi stripe seem to be divorced from rational thought and reality.
Comment by Ronin — 8/17/2005 @ 9:32 pm
Microloans in Bangladesh often go to women owned businesses. I’m just sayin’
Comment by carl — 8/17/2005 @ 10:18 pm
Its a good thing that the bombs were not made in Iran. While everyone is watching the nuke argument, Iran is going in the back door, and taking over the south of Iraq. http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050816-123521-1022r Papa Ray West Texas USA
Comment by Papa Ray — 8/17/2005 @ 10:44 pm
Jihadists Murder Muslims Austin Bay has more information on the terrorist bombings in Bangladesh. What’s amazing is that the Islamist radicals suspected in the bombings are also suspected of previously bombing offices of the Grameen Bank, a micro-lending organization that…
Trackback by The New Editor — 8/18/2005 @ 12:13 am
I am eternally astonished that anyone would think, “Let’s blow people up — surely they’ll put us in charge then!” Silly terrorists. FIRST you take charge, THEN you blow people up.
Comment by Shelby — 8/18/2005 @ 12:25 am
Where is the MSM on this? Checked the Fox News and CNN web sites for more info, and it’s like it never even happened… not even one headline. What gives?
Comment by kjackman — 8/18/2005 @ 1:19 am
Somehow, I don’t think the left will find a way to blame Bush for causing this.
Comment by Josh — 8/18/2005 @ 1:25 am
Blood in Bangladesh You might wonder why the fact that 100s of homemade bombs blowing up all across Bangladesh, targeting a slew of government buildings and injuring over 100 people yesterday didn’t much get deep into the news. I’m not.
Trackback by Restless Mania — 8/18/2005 @ 9:28 am
For too long have women suffered under the misogynists of Islam. Even now there are murmurings of complaint, of rebellion, of insurrection. Islam is a teetering edifice on the brink. It survives by the abuse of women. It will collapse by the same.
Comment by Arput Mehdi — 8/18/2005 @ 11:15 am