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The Straight Story

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Fri Apr 12, 2013, 01:10 AM Apr 2013

Bangladesh protesters demand blasphemy law

Bangladesh protesters demand blasphemy law

Hundreds of thousands of people have held protests in Bangladesh to demand that the government introduce an anti-blasphemy law that would include the death penalty for bloggers who insult Islam.

Protest organizers called Saturday’s rally the “long march”, with many traveling from remote villages to the capital, Dhaka’s Motijheel area that became a sea of white skull caps and robes.

Supporters of Hefazat-e-Islam, an Islamist group which draws support from tens of thousands of religious seminaries, converged on Dhaka’s main commercial hub to protest against what they said were blasphemous writings by atheist bloggers, shouting “God is great – hang the atheist bloggers”.

“I’ve come here to fight for Islam. We won’t allow any bloggers to blaspheme our religion and our beloved Prophet Mohammed,” said Shahidul Islam, an imam at a mosque outside Dhaka who walked 20km.

http://muslimvillage.com/2013/04/11/38131/bangladesh-protesters-demand-blasphemy-law/

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Bangladesh protesters demand blasphemy law (Original Post) The Straight Story Apr 2013 OP
religion - the gift that keeps on giving nt msongs Apr 2013 #1
Goddam militant atheists, with their blogs and their words. Iggo Apr 2013 #2
Every time I see demands for blasphemy laws, it makes me want to do this. backscatter712 Apr 2013 #3

Iggo

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2. Goddam militant atheists, with their blogs and their words.
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 02:34 AM
Apr 2013

How dare they speak ill of a religion of peace?

Kill the militant atheists!!!

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