Bangladesh police say Buddhist monk killed in monastery

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A 75-year-old Buddhist monk has been killed in a monastery in southeastern Bangladesh, police said Saturday.

The body of Maung Shue U. Chak was found Saturday morning by his daughter-in-law when she went to give him some food, local police official Abul Khayer said. His throat had been slit overnight.

While no one immediately claimed responsibility for the killing, it follows a slew of murders in recent years of members of religious minority groups, foreigners, atheist bloggers and secular publishers in Bangladesh by suspected Islamist radicals. The killings have come amid growing concern that religious extremism is gaining ground in the Muslim-majority nation of 160 million.

Since the start of 2015, at least 15 people have been killed in such attacks, creating a climate of fear that has prompted some Bangladeshis to go into hiding, and others to seek asylum in the United States and Europe.

Bangladesh's government insists it is working to stop the attacks, but so far it has charged no one in any of the 15 killings since the start of last year. While there have been some arrests — mostly of low-level operatives — there have been no prosecutions so far, and authorities have struggled to make any headway in naming those planning the attacks.

Most of the attacks have a shared pattern — a handful of young men wielding knives or cleavers surround their target and hack the victim to death. The government has advised people at risk to simply lie low and try not to offend anyone.

The Islamic State group and an al-Qaida-linked group have claimed responsibility for some of the recent killings, but the authorities in Bangladesh insist that neither of the groups has a presence in the country. Instead, the authorities have blamed political opposition and local militant groups for the violence.

Last month, suspected Islamist militants killed two prominent gay rights activists, an atheist student and a university professor.

-- (c) Associated Press 2016-05-15

Bangladesh has never quite made it on my bucket list. News like makes me realize why.

Neck and neck with Pakistan and Afghanistan for the prize of most backward place on Earth.

These crimes are really disgusting , I guess with mass migration to the west we can expect some of this at home.

And they want us to believe that Islam is a religion of peace

George Harrison must be rolling over in his grave.

George Harrison must be rolling over in his grave.

I think the government should be keeping an eye on the foreign imams imported to teach and preach at mosques. Austria is refusing to renew their visas because they are teaching Wahhabi and Salifi jihad doctrine.

What virtually all non-Islamic news media fail to grasp is that what they like to call 'radical Islam' is in fact orthodox Islam. And those who adhere to the tenets of Islamic orthodoxy follow the Sira, Hadith, and Koran; they practice sunna. All other non-orthodox Muslims are apostates. All non-Muslims are kafir.

Not many kafirs can wrap their heads around these concepts, so they see the really violent, murderous side of Islam and call it 'radical'. That's amazingly ignorant. And Islam thrives in an environment of ignorance. Case in point: the monk's killer, if Muslim, was practicing sunna.

If you don't understand what is contained in the Sira, Hadith, and Koran, then kafir, you simply don't understand Islam.

Edited May 15, 201610 yr by connda

And they want us to believe that Islam is a religion of peace

Do not forget Islam was born of the sword with Mohamed killing those who did not believe that he was delivering" the word of god" ..

And they want us to believe that Islam is a religion of peace

Do not forget Islam was born of the sword with Mohamed killing those who did not believe that he was delivering" the word of god" ..

True. In fact Mohamed actually went to Europe as he was persecuted in the Middle East. He did later return to the ME

Bangladesh has never quite made it on my bucket list. News like makes me realize why.

I wen't there once - not through choice - airplane broke down. It was awful. Dacca seems to be a city with absolutely no, not one, redeeming features.

The airport was like Gloucester Bus Station after a particularly rough Saturday night. The rest of the place just went downhill from there...

Edited May 15, 201610 yr by JAG