Posted on 07/01/2016 8:05:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
For more than two years, a spate of brutal murders has rocked the South Asian nation. At first the killings had a clear pattern, targeting well-known secular writers in the capital, Dhaka. The attacks seemed designed to silence those who dared to criticize Islam.
One of the most high-profile of these -- the murder of the Bangladeshi-American writer Avijit Royin 2014 -- took place right outside Dhaka's annual book fair.
Then in April this year, a well-known LGBT activist and his friend were murdered while they were at home.In recent weeks these attacks extended into the countryside, increased in frequency, and targeted everyone from university professors to a seemingly random selection of Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, and even Sufi Muslims.
The death toll has now risen past 40.
One clear thread connecting the murders is the barbaric and medieval mode of attack: machetes.
But who is masterminding the killings? So-called Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed a number of the attacks through its media affiliates, but the Bangladesh government has consistently denied any ISIS presence in the country. Other attacks have been claimed by local Islamist groups. Police have said that most of the suspected attackers were members of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, or JMB -- a banned Islamist group.
There's no clear consensus on the veracity of the claims, even amongst the region's top terror analysts. "ISIS does not go around stabbing individuals in marketplaces," said Ajai Sahni, Executive Director of the South Asia Terrorism Portal. Sahni said ISIS-affiliated media may be claiming some of the attacks because it makes the group's reach seem larger.
But terrorism expert Sajjan Gohel of the Asia-Pacific Foundation said the JMB can now be seen as closely aligned to ISIS.
(Excerpt) Read more at dhakatribune.com ...
I Still think its Valier Jarrett and Obama running that show
East Pokistan wuz not setup to accommodate Islam?
Some JV group no doubt.
bangladash. one sixth the size of Texas, ten-times the population density, insignificant GDP. Nearly all mooselimb. What a prize.
Fine by me. They’re all Moozlems. If they’re serious they can take the lead in this war with Isis. Did they ever thank India for helping them in their war with Pakistan-another Moozlem country?
Fine by me. They’re all Moozlems. If they’re serious they can take the lead in this war with Isis. Did they ever thank India for helping them in their war with Pakistan-another Moozlem country?
But I was planning a family vacation there
We invested in a company buyin sand there,sigh
Islam hates books, hates hindus, and seeks to ‘purify’ Bangladesh for Islam.
The last act of the 1971 Pakistani genocide against Bangladesh (that had already claimed up to three million lives) was to gratuitously murder a thousand intellectuals in Dhaka.
Their murderous hinduphobic war was already lost at that point - these murders were a final act of demonic spite.
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