Killings in France trigger Bangladesh protests against Macron

[snoop1130]

Killings in France trigger Bangladesh protests against Macron

 

Muslims try to remove the barricades as they take part in a protest calling for the boycott of French products and denouncing French president Emmanuel Macron for his comments over Prophet Mohammed's caricatures, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 30, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

 

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Muslims protested in Bangladesh on Friday after killings by a Tunisian migrant in a French church prompted a vow by President Emmanuel Macron to hold his ground against attacks on his country's values and freedom of belief.

 

France, home to Europe's largest Muslim community, was engaged in a war against Islamist ideology and more militant attacks were likely, interior minister Gerald Damarnin warned.

 

Protesters marching through the streets of Dhaka, the capital of Muslim-majority Bangladesh, chanted "Boycott French products" and carried banners calling Macron "the world’s biggest terrorist".

 

"Macron is leading Islamophobia," said demonstrator Akramul Haq. "He doesn't know the power of Islam. The Muslim world will not let this go in vain. We'll rise and stand in solidarity against him."

 

France raised its security alert to the highest level on Thursday after a knife-wielding man shouting "Allahu akbar" (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman in a church and killed two more people before being shot and taken away by police.

 

"We will not give any ground," Macron said outside the church in the city of Nice, vowing to deploy thousands more soldiers to guard sites such as places of worship and schools.

 

France had been attacked "over our values, for our taste for freedom, for the ability on our soil to have freedom of belief", he added.

 

A judicial source in France said a 47-year-old man had been taken into custody on Thursday evening on suspicion of having been in contact with the perpetrator of the attack.

 

The violence has come at a time of growing Muslim anger over France's defence of the right to publish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad, and protesters have denounced France in street rallies in several Muslim-majority countries.

 

Several leaders in Asia expressed support for France after the attacks on Thursday, the birthday of the prophet.

 

"It is just the most callous and cowardly and vicious act of barbarism by terrorists and should be condemned in the strongest possible way," said Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

 

Morrison had expressed his support to Macron, he told media on Friday.

 

"We share values. We stand for the same things," he said.

 

Morrison also condemned as absurd comments by former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad that Muslims had a right to be angry and kill "millions of French people for the massacres of the past".

 

"Freedom of expression is a right, calling for violence is not," the U.S. ambassador to Malaysia, Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir, said on Twitter in response to Mahathir's comments.

 

Mahathir said his comments were taken out of context, while a senior Malaysian government figure, Abdul Hadi Awang, said Macron's comments could not be justified.

 

"The French president’s statement exposes his hostility against Islam and its followers," said Abdul Hadi, a leader of the Malaysian Islamist party PAS. 

 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also voiced support for Macron's position and condemned the violence.

 

"I strongly condemn the recent terrorist attacks in France," Modi said on Twitter on Thursday. "India stands with France in the fight against terrorism."

 

Thursday's attack came less than two weeks after a middle-school teacher in a Paris suburb was beheaded by an 18-year-old assailant who was apparently incensed that the teacher had shown a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad in class.

 

France has suffered a string of Islamist militant attacks, from bombings and shootings in 2015 in Paris that killed 130 people to a 2016 attack in Nice that killed 86 when a militant drove a truck through a seafront crowd celebrating Bastille Day.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-10-30

 

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[YetAnother]

6 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

after a knife-wielding man shouting "Allahu akbar" (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman in a church and killed two more people

i forget where in the koran it says that is ok

[from the home of CC]

can't fight hate with hate but they're going to try..

[holy cow cm]

7 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

France raised its security alert to the highest level on Thursday after a knife-wielding man shouting "Allahu akbar" (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman in a church and killed two more people before being shot and taken away by police.

Considering Mohammed to be a god is way off base. Lunatic who backed killing and raping is not a god.

[sammieuk1]

Looks like they need to take a few days off from killing each other and concentrate on the French then. it will all be back to normal next week blowing themselves up in the name of whoever ????   

[Thorgal]

No face masks and safety distances in Bangladesh?

[Opl]

Dacca's stop over on the flight to Asia is already a pain, what about an entire life in Bangladesh - don't change anything - and make sure to boycott France, please. 

Edited October 31, 2020 by Opl

[jesimps]

Cases these Muslims. One of them beheads a poor innocent woman worshipper and kills two other in a church; another beheads a schoolteacher for teaching free speech, so they start protesting about the French getting slightly pear-shaped about it. This after the French had been generous enough to give them shelter in their country.

[Geoffggi]

If the muslims don't like living in Europe move to a muslim governed country simple ............!!!!

[Emdog]

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire

Those extremists believe they are doing good, making the world a better place. Same was true for Hitler and others

[owl sees all]

Call in the Daleks.

[ChrisY1]

24 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

Brainwashed, unwashed, inbred, uneducated morons. Let them boycott every western country, then, every western country can stop sending millions of dollars of aid to them. Throw them back to the dark ages were they obviously want to be.

They actually live in the dark ages already....France (and much of Europe) needs to rid the country of these people....

[Opl]

1 hour ago, Thorgal said:

No face masks and safety distances in Bangladesh?

 Bangladesh presents the face of a moderate Muslim country in search of modernity

[Scott]

Inflammatory post and replies removed.

 

[robblok]

15 hours ago, YetAnother said:

i forget where in the koran it says that is ok

Same place where some Christians get their inspiration in killing doctors that perform abortions. 

 

Religion is evil.

[Pattaya Spotter]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

France, home to Europe's largest Muslim community, was engaged in a war against Islamist ideology and more militant attacks were likely, interior minister Gerald Damarnin warned.

A day late and a dollar short...the horse left the barn decades ago.

[malathione]

And yet no one protested against the atrocities, the beheadings and killing of innocents in the name of religion. No one protested against the imams and religious authorities that perpetuate such crimes. It's a sad world we live in where murder is not condemned but the outrage it generates in a society is protested against.

[Opl]

2 minutes ago, malathione said:

And yet no one protested against the atrocities, the beheadings and killing of innocents in the name of religion. No one protested against the imams and religious authorities that perpetuate such crimes. It's a sad world we live in where murder is not condemned but the outrage it generates in a society is protested against.

 

Absolutely correct!  Questions to people saying that these terrorists  do not represent Islam: What about tens / hundreds of thousands of people who protest in the Muslim World... screaming / promising "death to the French" , "death to France", "death to Macron" etc following Macron's speech on Free Speech?  Doing so they clearly support the Islamists  terrorist and they applaud their killings.

Are they Muslims or they too have nothing to do with Islam?
Is this still a plot against Islam?

Do they too, misunderstand the Religion of Peace? 

[Enzian]

The current Italian government suspended Salvini's earlier security decrees, with the result that hundreds of Tunisians are landing on Italian territory in Lampedusa and then being transported to the Italian mainland. 

Then they walk away from the asylum processing system and spread through Europe. It was one of those who committed the crime in Nice. It's like the Europeans have suicidal tendencies for allowing things like this to develop and not taking the necessary steps to correct it. They have a record of this. I liken it in a strange way to the Germans in the 30s following a disturbed leader into a war that, once the Americans were committed, they never had a chance of winning.

[SomchaiCNX]

1 hour ago, Geoffggi said:

If the muslims don't like living in Europe move to a muslim governed country simple ............!!!!

They like the social security systems in Europe need a picture?

[SomchaiCNX]

Can you imagine what happens if the garment industry stops buying stuff from Bangladesh?

THat would be a complete disaster.

[malathione]

5 minutes ago, Opl said:

 

Absolutely correct!  Questions to people saying that these terrorists  do not represent Islam: What about tens / hundreds of thousands of people who protest in the Muslim World... screaming / promising "death to the French" , "death to France", "death to Macron" etc following Macron's speech on Free Speech?  Doing so they clearly support the Islamists  terrorist and they applaud their killings.

Are they Muslims or they too have nothing to do with Islam?
Is this still a plot against Islam?

Do they too, misunderstand the Religion of Peace? 

The is no doubt that they are Moslem and the face of Islam. I do not know if they represent the majority or simply  a vocal and dangerous minority. I find it disquieting that no moderate voice is heard.

[SomchaiCNX]

57 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said:

They actually live in the dark ages already....France (and much of Europe) needs to rid the country of these people....

Not only France."return to sender" however "address unknown" ???? still NGO's and other snowflakes keep on supporting them by providing boat services for them. ???? 

[chuang]

1 hour ago, Geoffggi said:

If the muslims don't like living in Europe move to a muslim governed country simple ............!!!!

I doubt ....EU must stop them from coming...

[Oliver Holzerfilled]

"Muslims try to remove the barricades as they take part in a protest calling for  t̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶o̶y̶c̶o̶t̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶ F̶r̶e̶n̶c̶h̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶d̶u̶c̶t̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶d̶e̶n̶o̶u̶n̶c̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶F̶r̶e̶n̶c̶h̶ p̶r̶e̶s̶i̶d̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶E̶m̶m̶a̶n̶u̶e̶l̶ ̶M̶a̶c̶r̶o̶n̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶ c̶o̶m̶m̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ ̶o̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶P̶r̶o̶p̶h̶e̶t̶ ̶M̶o̶h̶a̶m̶m̶e̶d̶'̶s̶ c̶a̶r̶i̶c̶a̶t̶u̶r̶e̶s̶ more toilets in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 30, 2020.

[NorthernRyland]

37 minutes ago, Enzian said:

It's like the Europeans have suicidal tendencies for allowing things like this to develop and not taking the necessary steps to correct it.

Western Liberalism is in crisis. The West has been trained to not see race and reject nationalism in favor of universalism. Now we can no longer distinguish between friends and foes. A Tunisian Muslim or an Irish Catholic are one of the same to us.

[Surelynot]

God I hate all religions and all religious people....not enough to go killing and beheading them though.

[KarenBravo]

.......and they wonder why Islamophobia exists.

[FritsSikkink]

An idiot behead an innocent woman and these morons complain about the other party. Stop subsiding these countries immediately.

[Opl]

15 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

An idiot behead an innocent woman and these morons complain about the other party. Stop subsiding these countries immediately.

 

Tunisian in deadly Nice terror attack turned to religion after teen troubles

Same causes, same consequences, same storytelling too... 

- One of 11 siblings, dropped out of high school and had worked as a motorcycle mechanic, - he had been arrested in his home country in 2016 for violence and using a knife. 

-“he drank alcohol and used drugs. I used to tell him, ‘we are poor and you’re wasting money?’ He would reply if God wills it, he will guide me to the right path, it’s my business’,” 

“My brother is a friendly person and never showed extremism,” “He respected all other people and accepted their differences even since he was a child.”

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/tunisian-suspect-in-nice-attack-turned-to-religion-after-teenage-troubles/

Edited October 31, 2020 by Opl