Leading Hindu priest decapitated in Bangladesh

[Coventina]

Source: Yahoo news (via AFP)

Dhaka (AFP) - A top Hindu priest was decapitated by attackers in northern Bangladesh Sunday and two worshippers wounded, police said, in the latest assault targeting minorities in the Muslim-majority nation.

Two assailants armed with pistols and cleavers attacked Jogeswar Roy, 45, the head priest of Sri Sri Sant Gourio Math, at his home in the temple on Sunday morning, officials said.

"The priest was preparing for morning prayers when they pounced on him and slit his head from the body at the verandah of his home inside the temple," said Shafiqul Islam, a government administrator in the sub-district Debiganj where the temple is located.

"We recovered a blood-stained cleaver from the spot," he said.

Two devotees were wounded in the attack including one who was shot as he tried to save the priest, he added.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/leading-hindu-priest-decapitated-bangladesh-115527074.html

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The article goes on to say that the suspected motive is Islamic extremism.

[SkyDaddy7]

1. It has to be connected to US foreign policy...

I'm sure someone will tell us how shortly.

[villager]

3. Perhaps the CIA will quite making Devil's Deals with Islamic extremists now?

[trillion]

9. And who on earth can we thank for our failed foreign policy on ISIS. Heck that created ISIS?

hmmm I can think of some secretaries of states and that one guy is still in office.

Yes, this is failed foreign policy because ISIS has said they did it.

[MariaThinks]

31. did those bogeymen in office also create the taliban?

[The Second Stone]

39. I'm pretty sure that ISIS was created by its members

are you saying that President Obama and Sec. Clinton and Sec. Kerry created ISIS? If so, you don't belong at this web site.

[SkyDaddy7]

47. Thank-you!

But unfortunately there are many more who think like that here on DU. Rather than except the fact a small % of people can be radicalized by Islam they MUST blame it all on US foreign policy even when it has NOTHING to do with it...The same people have no issue understanding that people can be radicalized by Christianity but there seems to be some type of mental block with Islam.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

54. "If so, you don't belong at this web site"

Sadly don't know if that's true anymore. Cavesters and Paulites abound.

[Tab]

2. Jeezus

This is getting out of hand

[Eugene]

4. Isis claims responsibility for killing of Hindu priest in Bangladesh

Source: Reuters

Isis claims responsibility for killing of Hindu priest in Bangladesh

Reuters in Dhaka
Sunday 21 February 2016 18.01 GMT

Suspected Islamist militants have stabbed to death a Hindu priest at a temple in Bangladesh and shot and wounded a devotee who went to his aid.

Police said the attack on Sunday was perpetrated by a local militant group, while Islamic State claimed responsibility in a statement issued via social media.

Bangladesh has experienced a wave of militant violence in recent months, including a series of bomb attacks on mosques and Hindu temples.

Some of the attacks have been claimed by Isis, which has said it was behind the killings of a Japanese citizen, an Italian aid worker and a policeman.

Five or six attackers cut the throat of the priest, Jogeshwar Roy, 55, as he was organising prayers at the Deviganj temple near Panchagar, 308 miles north of the capital, Dhaka, police said.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/21/isis-claim-responsibility-killing-hindu-priest-bangladesh

[mtasselin]

5. heading

I hate to say it, but the world is heading towards a world war. I am not sure who is behind it, but I have my suspicions.

[roamer65]

6. Certainly seems like it is heading that way.

It has a very 1914'ish feel to it.

[Ed Suspicious]

26. I'm thinking all of this heading talk is dicey in this particular conversation.

[Trajan]

7. Look ... This is religious brutality

Heads have been separated from necks since ... well ... since stone axes, I suppose ... Some tens of thousands of years ago ...

To kill a priest .... There is a specific intent to attack, or even eradicate, a titular head of a theological faction. It's fanatical adherents of one religion attacking another religion by murdering it's members ... It's apparently been happening for a very long time, and it will probably continue to happen ... It's the murder part which reveals the depravity of their belief system ... At it's core, it is inhumane ... Any belief system that promotes the murder of innocent human beings is amoral ...

[trillion]

10. But it's also policy, just like the drug war beheadings.

It can massively be traced back to US policy. I mean, ISIS announced they did this one.

[FrodosPet]

11. From 610 AD until Reagan? Bush Sr? Bush Jr? Islam and the west lived in peace and cooperation

Crusades? What Crusades?

[trillion]

12. This is for a bigger discussion than I'm ready to get into. It's all about the CIA and overthrowing

democracies as well as toppling stable emerging regimes for far more corrupt ones. Here's a quick google:

I think all you have to do is look at the history of Iran in the 20th century to get an idea of what has really happened:

"In 1953, the CIA led a coup against Mossadegh–Operation AJAX–and eventually overthrew the leader, as well as the promise of Iranian democracy. The Shah re-assumed its control, the West had its predictable oil supply and cozy relations with Iran, and as these images suggest, life for most seemed to be pretty comfortable–however superficially.

What these photos don’t show, though, is the resentment that many Iranians felt toward the United States and its hypocrisy when it comes to self-determination and democracy. This anti-Western resentment would incubate in fundamentalist fringes over the next several years and culminate in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which would overthrow the Shah monarchy. Except this time, their proposed replacement was not a man of democratic reform like Mossadegh.

It was Ruhollah Mostafavi Moosavi Khomeini, whose hatred of the West would dictate his every political move, even at the expense of the Iranian people. Once in power, Khomeini expelled virtually every hint of Western modernity for an Iranian “authenticity” as defined by an absolute zealot, and the West has since been left with a monolithic, fundamentalist regime more difficult to negotiate with than Mossadegh ever was. "

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/shah-iran

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Give up the Crusades. There are modern reasons for Middle East.

[leftynyc]

16. What a bunch of horseshit

Like the Sunni and Shia's got along so fucking famously until the US got involved. You should be embarrassed at this line of argument. isis is just the latest name for Islamic extremists who have been killing each other since the great schism. Just fucking stop it already.

[MariaThinks]

33. its naive thinking or purposeful lying to deny the truth.

[leftynyc]

36. I'm embarrassed

there are those on my side of the aisle that try this bullshit. They're no different than those on the right claiming the kkk are Democrats because that's how it was in 1860s. To these historical imbeciles, history started with the reagan administration and the Sunni's and Shia's were one big happy family until then. It's nauseating.

[MariaThinks]

41. the only way to stop isis after the bush invasion was to put more military on the ground

and to go after the radicals and crush them. I think Obama should have gone harder against Islamic state.

[leftynyc]

42. That wouldn't have done

anything for Syria. Or North Africa. isis is everywhere and has been for some time.

[SkyDaddy7]

49. That would only be temporary...

And then it would be right back to 30, 50, 80 dead US Soldiers on month from IEDs, Snipers, etc., because who is going to hold the territory after our guys take it? NOBODY, we would have to & our guys would be sitting ducks!

Eventually the American public grows tired of the hundreds of BILLIONS we are spending on the 100,000+ troops we have over there & the flag draped coffins coming home every month & we withdraw...Empower ISIS like never before!!!

President Obama knew exactly what he was doing!! THANK REASON & RATIONAL THINKING he is POTUS!!!

[MariaThinks]

32. muslims were beheading people before the us came into existence

[trillion]

37. Nobody disputes that. However ISIS beheading in Bangladesh is relatively new.

You know what. Welcome to my ignore. This is the kind of level I keep seeing with Hillary supporters.

No depth and accusing someone of being GOP if they have depth and bother to fact check.

Sorry, you should have gotten my ignore with your gop accusation. I'm a progressive liberal Dem. Goodbye.

[MariaThinks]

38. Hopefully you'll never read this. Truly intelligent people aren't so thin skinned. Happy to say

goodbye to you

[leftynyc]

43. NO DEPTH?!!!

Are you fucking kidding me. You're the one who blames every fucking thing on the west and you accuse others of no depth. Go put anyone who actually has a nuanced, reality based view on isis on ignore. That way you wont have to be embarrassed when your position is splayed open for the narrow, shallow bullshit it is. Put me on ignore now or I'll be forced to challenge your shallow bullshit all day.

[leftynyc]

44. I see the

"west is responsible for all ills" posters are putting anyone who calls out their bullshit on ignore. Good thing they're also cowards. They add nothing to the conversation and only makes the rest of us look like uninformed imbeciles.

[Coventina]

45. It's actually a little amusing, at least to me.

The strategy seems to be:

1) Blame Hillary, Obama, the US in general
2) Next, bring up totally unrelated matters
3) Insist that the other party research and prove YOUR position
4) Hurl insults
5) Run away

[leftynyc]

46. They think just because they

put people on ignore, all the posts proving what utter bullshit their position is disappear for everyone. They think history started with the Reagan administration.

[Coventina]

50. Yeah, the evidence is still there for all to see.

It's like when toddlers cover their eyes and think you can't see them.

Guess we're foxhole buddies again, yeah?

[leftynyc]

52. Looks that way

Fine by me...you're excellent company.

[Person 2713]

8. A Hindu priest? WTF? This is so wrong

[whatthehey]

13. Religion had nothing to do with this, no doubt.

[trillion]

25. The racist Muslims in the country have latched on to ISIS and are using it to kill minorities

and pretty much anyone who doesn't think like them. That's one of the scary things about ISIS, it's taking hold all over the world. It's in Africa too.

It is also what scares me about the RW ideology. The racists are using it to ultimately try to kill other races. That's what's behind their calls for a race war and the growing politicizing of the right to hate and kill minorities even all over Europe and the Eastern Block. ISIS causes the immigrants to flee and their presence in Europe fuels rw hate and make it dangerously more racist.

The US policies in south America - are doing it on this side of the ocean where we may actually have far more beheadings. The people fleeing the violence head for our borders and the right uses them for their hate rhetoric that they are the problems in this country somehow taking subsides from our gov, and to call for a race war. What's going on both sides of the ocean can be traced directly to US policy for decades. But the current stuff can be traced to Obama and Hillary and the Honduras Coup that got rid of the leftwing president and destabilized that country - causing the mass violence still going on today and the Hondurian refuges at our border. They also screwed up South America with the Plan Columbia. I have to get to work so can't post more. It's no accident. Ogliarchs on both side of the ocean are profiteers in all of this.

[muriel_volestrangler]

48. No, this really does pre-date ISIS - and al Qaeda, and the Taliban

Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected final appeals from two opposition leaders against death sentences for atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence, rulings that are likely to spark protests by their supporters.

Muslim-majority Bangladesh has seen a rise in Islamist violence in recent months, with two foreigners and four secular writers and a publisher killed this year.

Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, 67, secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was found guilty of five charges including torture and the murders of intellectuals and minority Hindus while he commanded Al Badr, an auxiliary force of the Pakistani army, during the war to break away from Pakistan.

Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, 66, former legislator from former premier Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was convicted in October 2013 on charges of genocide, religious persecution, abduction and torture during the war.

http://europe.newsweek.com/bangladesh-opposition-leaders-hang-war-crimes-395762

[SkyDaddy7]

51. You're ruining that person's...

BLAME IT ALL ON THE RACIST WEST! narrative! LOL!

[trillion]

53. Thank you for SUBSTANCE! I will read into this.

[Democat]

14. DUers will blame Obama and Bush

And anyone except the person with the knife.

[Coventina]

15. They just can't help themselves, the poor dears.

"I must decapitate this Hindu priest in Bangladesh, because, Obama!"


Thanks Obama!!

[Coventina]

22. So now you're spouting right-wing talking points that Obama is responsible for Daesh?

[trillion]

23. No, these are NOT right wing talking points, they are FACTS that left wingers with credibility

are trying to stop our war party government from doing further. The RW have done the same techniques and also need to be stopped. I'm a LIBERAL-PROGRESSIVE-INFORMED-DEM.

And welcome to my ignore. I should have put you on ignore when I saw your depth days ago. The level you are on! Goodbye.

[Coventina]

24. OK, laters then!

Still waiting for a single "fact" that links Obama with this crime, though.

[Ed Suspicious]

27. Blowback by Chalmers Johnson might be an expanding read for you.

[Coventina]

28. I'm well acquainted with the book. Still does not change the fact that Muslims have been attacking

Hindus in that area of the world since the 10th century.

I don't see how that is Obama's fault.

[MariaThinks]

34. like i said, naive or purposeful lying

these problems predate Obama and Hillary. Google it if you're interested. But I suspect the truth is not something you are interested in. You have more venom for our leaders than the murderers who committed the brutal killing.

[trillion]

35. No they don't. GOOGLE?

I think I would attribute your post to what you are doing.

I welcome you correcting me on this and then I will say I'm wrong and not bring up these things.

Show me how Hillary isn't involved in the Honduras Coup? My vetting found all of this was true. I was told about it in General Discussion Primaries.

I think it is you not vetting here.

"You have more venom for our leaders than the murderers who committed the brutal killing. " TOTAL BS.

[MariaThinks]

40. Bernie must be embarrassed of some of his supporters

we were talking about ISIS and Bangladesh. But stupid way to try to change the conversation.

[leftynyc]

17. It's nauseating

and fucking embarrassing on top of that. Because the US obviously went back in time to 1400 years before we were even a country to start the Sunni/Shia divide. The historical ignorance is astounding.

[Coventina]

18. We're also responsible for the Islamic attempts to forcibly convert Hindus since the 10th century.

Clearly, again, all Obama's fault!!

[leftynyc]

19. I don't know about you

but I'm EMBARRASSED at the arguments I'm seeing on here blaming Bush/Obama for this.

[Coventina]

21. It is embarrassing and disheartening to see such ignorance on display.

We (Democrats) at least here on DU, sort of pride ourselves with being the educated, thoughtful party, not given to knee-jerk reactions and convenient bogey-men.

There's plenty to blame Bush, and even Obama for, without pinning this lunacy on them.

The United States has done plenty of bad things. But we are NOT the source of all evil in the world.

[MariaThinks]

30. they are apologists for a barbaric belief

[MariaThinks]

29. beheading is the radical muslim answer when stoning and suicide bombings aren't enough.