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| Bangladesh Moslems Debate With Christians About Religion |
| 2005-08-27 |
| From Compass Direct Police have yet to find the killers of Tapan Kumar Roy and Liplal Mardi, two Christian men who were brutally murdered in Bangladesh on the night of July 27. Roy, 27, and the 21-year-old Mardi (not Marandi, as missions groups previously reported) worked with Christian Life Bangladesh (CLB), a registered non-governmental organization. Along with educational films on health care and AIDS prevention, they often showed the âJesusâ film at the invitation of local villagers. Edward Ayub, a respected Christian leader in Bangladesh, said the two men had received verbal threats from Hafez Abdullah al-Mamun, the supervisor of the madrassa (Islamic school) in Dhopapara village, Faridpur district, where the two men were based. .... Police arrested a young man named Yunus Kazi on August 2 on suspicion of murder but released him that night after questioning. Kazi is the nephew of a former local politician, Kazi Sirajul Islam. Many area Christians believe Kazi was released as a result of the influence his uncle still wields. .... Ayub recounted another incident on August 9 in which three young Christian men were threatened with death. The men, identified only as Helal, Iqbal and Masud for security reasons, were distributing tracts on the streets of Dhaka when they were approached by two Muslim men whom they later described as gangsters. Having read the tract, the men began asking questions and eventually a large crowd gathered. Two imams (Muslim religious leaders) were summoned; after reading the tract, they declared it was the âwork of infidels,â in which case it would be âno sinâ if the young men were killed. Helal, Iqbal and Masud were then taken to the banks of a river, where the mob beat them and further intimidated them. A gun was pushed into Helalâs pocket, and the mob threatened to call the Rapid Action Battalion -- which has powers to arrest anyone possessing unregistered firearms. The mob threatened to kill them. The gangsters then told the Christians they could purchase their lives with a sum of money. The young men declined. The situation was eventually defused after five hours of tense confrontation. .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #3 Another Sylwester post I can't criticize for posting - a welcome trend, Mikey |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-08-27 18:11 |
| #2 "Is Too", Is Not", "Is too", "Is not", "Is too" (etc) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-08-27 18:04 |
| #1 I don't see how this could work. "Our position is that Jesus Christ was the son of God." [Bang][Bang] |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-08-27 11:54 |