Posted on 11/24/2007 10:57:38 PM PST by camerakid400
haka, Nov 24 - Several hundred activists of the radical Islamic group Hizb ut Tahrir staged protests here before the arrival of two ships of the US Navy for distributing relief supplies among cyclone-affected people.
Two warships, USS Essex and USS Kearsarge -- each carrying 20 helicopters and 3,500 marines on board with emergency relief supplies, medical and emergency evacuation teams -- are scheduled to enter Bangladesh waters Saturday and Tuesday.
The protesters Friday carried a banner reading 'Prevent American ships from entering the Bay of Bengal in the name of distributing relief' and chanted slogans 'Go back to America' and 'US has no place in Bangladesh'.
The outfit's leader Kazi Morshedul Haque told the rally that every Bangladeshi had come forward to help cyclone victims along with the army, navy and air force, 'so it is a shame on us, Muslims, that we are allowing the US on our land'.
The protest was held amidst tight security at Baitul Muqarram, one of the country's largest mosques and a major Dhaka landmark where religious gatherings take place.
The protestors were allowed to hold the meeting, but were intercepted by the police and paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) when they tried to stage a march.
The police picked up the organisation's leaders soon after the protest, while they were returning home, the New Age newspaper reported Saturday.
While the Bangladesh Government has appealed for help from the international community and many countries have responded, pledging over $550 million and flying in relief material, Islamists have opposed the presence of the US military.
'It will be a big support for us. With the joining of US Marines and ships, our relief operation and rehabilitation in the cyclone-hit districts will be boosted,' said Brigadier General Kazi Abidus Samad, head of operation and planning at the Armed Forces Division.
The Islamist groups in Bangladesh, as elsewhere in the Muslim world, have been protesting the US presence in Afghanistan and Iraq. While the Kearsarge was in the Gulf region, the Essex was wrapping up an exercise in South Korea when they were ordered to head for Bangladesh. The ships could be used in medical evacuation and survey of the cyclone-ravaged areas and will coordinate their relief efforts with the Bangladesh military, the US embassy in Dhaka said in a statement.
We’re not ever going to be able to live on this earth with them...let all the Muslims die.
Why is this news? Sort of like reporting a meeting of the KKK.
I hope this report receives wide coverage in the Muslim world. It shows “who is what” — the problem I now have is whether the Muslim world appreciates “what” the US and the West is. I no longer accept as an assumption that the Muslim world views “good” and “evil” in any way similar to Western concepts of those terms.
P*ss be unto them then. Let them drown in their own sewage..
These are the ultimate of all brainwashed buffoons on earth. Only a harsh natural disaster that destroys their millions, can open their eyes.
Besides, IIRC, US $100 million was sent as “aid” to Bangladesh by the Saudis immediately after the cyclone. It might be that poison speaking here.
this is insane. why are we helping these muzzies? Hell, Mexico had a whole State go underwater and we didn’t mobilize crap.... and they’re our next door neighbors.... I’m sure we would at least get a thank you from them.
The world has never seen such a backward, hateful, and miscreant ideology as islam. islam is incompatible with life.
Here is a big “What if?”
What if the day comes when we all citizens on earth greet planetary visitors that give us futuristic products like hovercars, teleportation, galactic spaceflight etc.
Now just how on earth will this infestation of misguided cultish Islamic idiots handle THAT?
What if "they" come and simply view us as a source of dietary protein?
They will probably say the aliens are Zionists who should be killed.
I would point out those muslims live fat free and are abundant.
I dunno...Dennis Kucinich wants to be ambassador to Islamofascists as well as our new alien overlords
i got your back.
In Arabic, so I’ve been told, the word for “change” is synonymous with “evil”.
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According to this article, it is Hizb Ut Tahrir that is doing the protesting.
I am grateful that our Navy is providing relief in emergencies such as this cyclone.
I think about anti-Americans who say godless and evil things.
They don’t represent me, nor my country — The United States of America.
I know this sort of thing can be infuriating, but maybe we should consider some context. The article says “several hundred activists” demonstrated. This is from a population of about 150 million. Even Code Pink could probably drum up more of a demonstration — in a red state.
This probably is made into news because someone at Earth Times wants to write something to be derogatory about the U.S.
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