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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 Saturdays rally the long march, with many traveling from remote villages to the capital, Dhakas 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 Dhakas main commercial hub to protest against what they said were blasphemous writings by atheist bloggers, shouting God is great hang the atheist bloggers.
Ive come here to fight for Islam. We wont 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/
msongs
(67,347 posts)Iggo
(47,534 posts)How dare they speak ill of a religion of peace?
Kill the militant atheists!!!
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)How's that for blasphemy?