Riot police battle Islamists in Dhaka Bangladesh

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Clashes between police and Islamist protesters in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka have left at least three people dead and 60 injured.

Up to half a million protesters gathered in the city, where rioters set fire to shops and vehicles as police fought to contain them.
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They are calling for those who insult Islam to face the death penalty.

They also want greater segregation of men and women, as well as the imposition of stricter Islamic education.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22418379

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A bloodthirsty religious demand - the death penalty for speaking.

[Shadowflash]

1. Replace the word'Islam'

with 'Christianity' and it sounds just like what the teabaggers want to do here.

[Union Scribe]

3. Riiight.

No hyperbole there!

[Earth_First]

6. Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=471574

[ButterflyBlood]

4. Uh, not even close

Teabaggers want guns everywhere and unrestricted and completely out of control and reckless tax cuts with useful government spending also gutted. Pretty awful and stupid, but different from the pretty awful and stupid things mentioned in the article.

[SamKnause]

2. Religion

I saw ZERO, NADA, ZILCH, NONE women among the protesters in the video or photos. That is not what I saw during the Egyptian uprising.

Do the women in Bangladesh feel differently ?

Are the women in the country allowed to voice their opinions ?

Are all Theocracies based on what the male population wants by their interpretations of religious script ?

Has there ever been a Theocracy that had a woman as it's leader ?

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Now at least 7 killed, 60 injured

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22423815

[Bosonic]

7. 37 dead as Bangladesh cracks down on Islamists

(AFP) - Bangladeshi police broke up a protest by tens of thousands of religious hardliners and shut down Islamist television stations Monday as 37 people died in some of the fiercest street violence for decades.

Hundreds more were injured in running battles as riot police broke up the rally near a commercial district in a pre-dawn raid in the capital Dhaka.

Dozens of demonstrators were also arrested, while the leader of the protests was put on a plane to the country's second city Chittagong and the deputy chief was detained in the capital.

Hundreds of bankers and stock market traders had to sleep in their offices as the sound of gunfire echoed around Dhaka's Motijheel Commercial Area through the night.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/four-dead-bangladesh-islamists-protest-blasphemy-law-163218522.html