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Yes, savages school us on tolerance and interfaith dialogue and mutual understanding. Bloody murderers.
Four killed in 'blasphemous bloggers' riot in Bangladesh, AFP, February 23, 2013 (thanks to Kenneth)
BANGLADESH
police fired live rounds in fierce clashes with Islamists demanding the
execution of bloggers they accuse of blasphemy.ADVERTISEMENT
Two people were shot dead by police in the northwestern town of Palashbari, and two others died elsewhere, police said.
Parts
of the capital Dhaka were turned into a battlefield as thousands of
protesters attacked police with bricks and sticks in front of the
national mosque. Officers there retaliated with rubber bullets and tear
gas.The
country's 12 Islamic parties called the protests after Friday prayers
in nearly half a million mosques nationwide, demanding the execution of
bloggers whom they say blasphemed Islam and the Prophet Mohammed.Tensions
have risen in the Muslim-majority nation over allegedly anti-Islamic
blog posts by Ahmed Rajib Haider, who was hacked to death last week near
his home in Dhaka.
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In
recent weeks Haider and fellow bloggers had launched huge protests
demanding a ban on the largest Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami, and the
execution of its leaders for alleged war crimes in the 1971 independence
conflict with Pakistan.
Since
Haider's death, Bangladeshi social media has been flooded with his
alleged blog posts and with those by other bloggers mocking Islam,
triggering protests by a number of Islamic groups and clerics.
At
Palashbari at least 4000 Islamists attacked police with home-made bombs
and sticks, prompting officers to respond with live fire, district
police chief Nahidul Islam told AFP.
At least four people were killed and about 200 injured.
In
the northeastern city of Sylhet a young man died as police shot rubber
bullets and tear gas after protesters went on a rampage, attacking and
torching vehicles, Sylhet metropolitan police commissioner Nibas Chandra
Majhi said AFP.
Uzzal Dutta, an emergency doctor at the city Hospital, said 31 people were admitted and most had injuries from rubber bullets.
One person was killed in the western district of Jhenidah.
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Police said clashes also broke out in the port city of Chittagong, the northern city of Bogra where 15,000 protesters.
In
Dhaka violence broke out outside the Baitul Mukarram national mosque,
where protesters also attacked around a dozen journalists.
Police
tried to thwart the protest by locking the gates of the mosque where
tens of thousands of people were performing their weekly Jumma prayers.
Sayeed
Khan, an emergency doctor at Dhaka medical college hospital, said that
up to 50 people had been admitted, most with injuries from rubber
bullets.
"Several cases are very critical," he said.
The
government has warned of tough steps against those who incite social
tension, and urged newspapers and blogs not to publish defamatory
writings against the Prophet Mohammed.
It has cracked down on anti-Islam blogs and also given police protection to some bloggers in the wake of Haider's murder.
Police
have yet to comment on a motive for Haider's killing. But his brother
said Haider was targeted by Jamaat's student wing for his online
activities.
The killing of Haider was the second attack in Dhaka in less than a month against a blogger critical of Islamist groups.
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