Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Bangladesh's Section 13?

State censorship, sharia-style:
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is promising to punish atheist bloggers found guilty of defaming Islam and “hurting people's religious sentiments." 
Giving in to pressure from Islamic extremists, Hasina made her pledge to punish atheist bloggers on Sunday, March 31, after a group of Bangladesh Islamic scholars submitted a list of bloggers who they alleged had committed blasphemy
Recently the Jamaat-e-Islami and several other Islamist groups have been alleging that atheists and other "anti-Islamic bloggers" have been defaming Islam; while at the same time Bangladesh’s growing secular movement, led by a group of atheist bloggers, has been demanding tough punishment for Islamic extremists accused of war crimes dating back to internal struggles in the early 1970’s. 
Last Friday, March 29, tens of thousands of Islamic extremists took to the streets of the Bangladeshi capital calling for the introduction of blasphemy laws and demanding the arrest of “atheist bloggers who insulted Islam” and to pass laws punishing those who “insulted Islam in the parliament.”...
I hear the extremists have a pet name for the blasphemers: "bully bloggers." ;)

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