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MowCowWhoHow III

(2,103 posts)
Fri May 20, 2016, 02:50 PM May 2016

Homeopathic practitioner hacked to death in Bangladesh

Source: Deutsche Welle

A homeopathic doctor was hacked to death by machete-wielding attackers in western Bangladesh on Friday. A university professor was also badly wounded in what police suspect to be the latest attack by Islamic militants against people of different beliefs in the majority-Muslim country.

Sanaur Rahman, who ran a homeopathic medical clinic, was riding a motorcycle in the town of Kushtia with his friend Saif uz Zaman on Friday morning when at least three men, also on a motorbike, blocked their path and launched an attack.

A bloody machete was found at the scene of the attack, 150 miles (245 km) west of the capital, Dhaka. Initial reports varied on Rahman's age, putting him at either 58 or 55, while Zaman was reportedly 45.

Rahman was on his way to a free weekly clinic he operated when the attack occurred.

Read more: http://www.dw.com/en/homeopathic-practitioner-hacked-to-death-in-bangladesh/a-19273841

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Homeopathic practitioner hacked to death in Bangladesh (Original Post) MowCowWhoHow III May 2016 OP
If only the West hadn't colonized that part of the world... romanic May 2016 #1
Geez... SkyDaddy7 May 2016 #13
Christians would have done much the same ... JustABozoOnThisBus May 2016 #17
Totally agree except... SkyDaddy7 May 2016 #21
There's been quite a few killed (or suspicious deaths) among them recently right here in the U.S. forest444 May 2016 #2
This story is horseshit. Archae May 2016 #6
+1 nt. SkyDaddy7 May 2016 #15
Homeopathy: The Secret Science Frank Cannon May 2016 #3
compassion? humanity? renate May 2016 #5
Believing in woo awoke_in_2003 May 2016 #10
WOW Person 2713 May 2016 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author DisgustipatedinCA May 2016 #12
I KNEW someone LiberalElite May 2016 #16
bummer, man 6chars May 2016 #4
Much as I consider holeopathy to be pure woo, this guy didn't deserve to be hacked to death. Archae May 2016 #7
i knew i should have bought that KILL ALL EXTREMISTS button. pansypoo53219 May 2016 #8
He was Tillered. nt valerief May 2016 #9
No good deed...nt Jitter65 May 2016 #14
The poor dears couldn't help themselves. US foreign policy made them do it!!! Coventina May 2016 #18
Homeopathy Medical Clinic TipTok May 2016 #19
The victim did not deserve to die Benitos May 2016 #20
Bangladesh machete murder claimed by IS Eugene May 2016 #22

romanic

(2,841 posts)
1. If only the West hadn't colonized that part of the world...
Fri May 20, 2016, 02:52 PM
May 2016

...then those poor oppressed jihadi militants wouldn't have hacked that man to death.

SkyDaddy7

(6,045 posts)
13. Geez...
Sat May 21, 2016, 07:38 AM
May 2016

...Those "poor oppressed jihadi militants" are being FORCED to attack almost anyone for anything on nearly a daily basis all due to the policies of the West, especially US Policy...One must feel extreme sorrow for the Jihadis under such Islamophobic pressure they don't have much choice!

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,339 posts)
17. Christians would have done much the same ...
Sat May 21, 2016, 09:59 AM
May 2016

... in the fourteenth century.

Especially if this homeopathic practitioner weighed the same as a duck.

So criticism of cultural practices cannot be tolerated.

(also sarcasm, sort of, because actual criticism will earn a "hide&quot

SkyDaddy7

(6,045 posts)
21. Totally agree except...
Sat May 21, 2016, 02:38 PM
May 2016

I'm guessing the Christians in the 14th century would've went with the human bonfire or the slow death by torture rather than death by a thousand machete cuts for some homeopathic practitioner...Especially if he weighed the same as a duck!

renate

(13,776 posts)
5. compassion? humanity?
Fri May 20, 2016, 03:32 PM
May 2016

Just a couple of suggestions.

Sorry you don't like what this guy did for a living.

Response to Frank Cannon (Reply #3)

Eugene

(61,874 posts)
22. Bangladesh machete murder claimed by IS
Sat May 21, 2016, 03:17 PM
May 2016

Source: BBC

Bangladesh machete murder claimed by IS

21 May 2016 Asia

The Islamic State group (IS) said it was behind the killing of a homeopath in western Bangladesh on Friday.

Mir Sanwar Rahman was hacked to death by three attackers with machetes riding a motorbike in Kushia district.

His friend, university tutor Mohammad Saifuzzaman, was seriously injured in the same attack.

There has been a series of murders of religious minorities, secular activists and academics in Bangladesh in recent months.

Both of the men attacked on Friday were said to be followers of the mystic tradition of Baul music, seen as heretical by some Muslims.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36349897
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