Thursday, August 20, 2020

Fighters of Free Speech, Victims of Islamofacism

 I would like to collect the names of people who got killed for speaking their mind and people who were victims of Islamofacism. 

India

Kamlesh Tiwari: He responded to insult used by SP leader Ajam Khan about RSS pracharaks and he was killed by two Muslims at his home. Akbaruddin Owaisi insulted Sita mata in rally, that made him secular leader.

Rajpal : A pamphlet published and distributed by some Muslims in Lahore, depicting the Hindu goddess Sita as a prostitute. To protest, Aryasamaji Pandit Chamupati wrote Rangeela Rasul in 1927, on the life of Mohammed. Rajpal was the publisher of the book, he didn't reveal name of the author. There were several attempts on his life, he was stabbed to death by a carpenter named Ilm-ud-din on 6 April 1929. It is banned in India. Dont forget to read the book, pdf is available on internet. 

Swami Shraddhanand: He was a social worker, sanyasi and Freedom Fighter. His work included widow remarriage, fighting un-touchability, bringing Hindus who converted to Islam and Christianity back to the fold. He was killed by Abdul Rashid, when he was sick, resting in his room. 

Bangladesh

In Bangladesh violent Jihadist circulated a list with more than 80 names of free thinkers whom they wished to kill.  Most of them were atheist. By 2 July 2016 a total of 48 people, including 20 foreign nationals, were killed

Dr Avijit Roy: U.S. citizen and founder of the influential Bangladeshi blog Mukto-Mona ("Freethinkers"). Killed by machete in 2015, when he came to Bangladesh to participate in some events. His wifes fingers were chopped. 

Ananta Bijoy Das: He was an atheist blogger.   He had authored three books on science, evolution, and revolution in the Soviet Union, and headed the Sylhet-based science and rationalist council. 

Niloy Chakroborty: Six men armed with machetes attacked him at his home in the Goran neighborhood of Dhaka and hacked him to death. Niloy had written in Mukto-Mona, a blogging platform for secularists and freethinkers, was associated with the Shahbag Movement. He had attended the public protest demanding justice for the murdered bloggers, Ananta Bijoy Das and Avijit Roy.

Mong Shwe Lung Marma: A Buddhist farmer and the vice president of ward seven of the Awami league. The victim was killed near the site of a previous killing of another Buddhist. 

Shyamananda Das: A Hindu temple worker, was hacked to death by three suspected Islamic militants on motorcycles in the Satkhira district.

Not possible to write about everyone here. 

Netherlands

Theo van Gogh: He was a film director, actor, producer and author. He was shot and stabbed on 2 Nov 2004, a letter was pinned to his chest by use of a dagger, also injured some bystanders and left on the scene a note containing death threats to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who went into hiding. The note also threatened Western countries and Jews. 

Theo was working on Working from a script written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, van Gogh created the 10-minute short film Submission. The movie deals with violence against women in some Islamic societies; it tells the stories, using visual shock tactics, of four abused Muslim women. The title, Submission, is a translation of the word "Islam" into English.

His last book (2003) was Allah weet het beter ("Allah Knows Best"), in which he strongly condemned Islam. 


Denmark 

Kurt Westergaard:   A Danish cartoonist who created the controversial cartoon of a terrorist, although not the Islamic prophet Muhammad as it is often claimed, wearing a bomb in his turban. Since the drawing of the cartoon, Westergaard has received numerous death threats and been a target of assassination attempts. As a result, he is under constant police protection. 

France

Charlie Hebdo Shooting: Stéphane Charbonnier and 11 more people were killed by gunmen. The cover of a 2011 issue retitled Charia Hebdo (French for Sharia Weekly), featured a cartoon of Muhammad. 

But the magazine also published time to time more satirical work on Christianity and Judaism, but that did not cause any danger!

Pakistan

Tahir Ahmad Naseem: An american citizen he was lured into coming to Pakistan and arrested under blasphemy case. During trial he was attending court and a guy shot him. That guy is a hero now. 

Pastor Rashid Emanuel: Pastor Rashid Emmanuel and his brother Sajid, who were Christians. The brothers were shot and killed while being escorted by the police from a district court. Both had denied the charge of blasphemy.

Shahbaz Bhatti : Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs (a Roman Catholic member of the National Assembly), was killed by gunmen in Islamabad as he was travelling to work, a few weeks after he had vowed to defy death threats over his efforts to reform Pakistan's blasphemy laws.

Salman Taseer: He was governor of Punjab, was shot 27 times by his own bodyguard Mumtaj Qadri. He tried to help Asia Bibi, the poor christian lady who was in trials in a Blasphemy case. Later Asia Bibi was acquitted as there was no proof. 


List is too long. Cant write. Between 1987 and 2017 at least 1,500 people were charged with blasphemy and at least 75 people involved in accusations of blasphemy were killed in Pakistan, according to official figure. 

Not one of them was hanged after trial, but they were killed by guards, or public or something like that. 

Pakistan has blasphemy laws which makes it difficult for any non muslim to defend himself. 

PPC  295B Defiling, etc., of Quran. Punishment: Imprisonment for life.

PPC  295C      Use of derogatory remarks, spoken, written, directly or indirectly, etc. defiles the name of Muhammad.  Punishment: Mandatory Death and fine. Trial must take place in a Court of Session with a Muslim judge presiding. 













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