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Not News: Bangladeshi Islamists Threaten To Kill Atheists - News: In The UK.
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Not News: Bangladeshi Islamists Threaten To Kill Atheists - News: In The UK.
BRITAIN'S most senior policeman has ordered a security review for 10
Bangladeshi political activists after they were named in a hit list compiled
by Islamic extremists.
Met Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe has personally intervened
following a series of death threats and sinister break-ins at the Britons'
homes.
The intimidation even includes the targeting of fundraising efforts for
the victims of the Bangladesh building disaster.
"We will eliminate your entire ancestry," one fundraiser was told in an
anonymous Facebook message.
Another threat from Facebook user Islam Power reads: "We will exterminate
all the atheists like you who work against Islam. Final warning."
The 10 bloggers, singers, writers and charity workers have been denounced
as "atheists", a condemnation some worry will be taken as a cue by jihadists
for assassination.
The threats are linked to the volatile politics of Bangladesh where dozens
of activists have been murdered in recent weeks.
Security experts fear the violence might be exported as bloodshed on
Britain's streets.
The 10 on the hit list are leaders of the UK arm of the Shahbag campaign
calling for justice against those accused of war crimes during the 1971
independence struggle with Pakistan.
The alleged war criminals, whose atrocities included genocide, rape and
murder of academics and journalists, were pro-Pakistan.
Many have since become leaders of the Islamist Jamaat e Islami party,
which wants an Islamic republic of Bangladesh.
BRITAIN'S most senior policeman has ordered a security review for 10
Bangladeshi political activists after they were named in a hit list compiled
by Islamic extremists.
Met Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe has personally intervened
following a series of death threats and sinister break-ins at the Britons'
homes.
The intimidation even includes the targeting of fundraising efforts for
the victims of the Bangladesh building disaster.
"We will eliminate your entire ancestry," one fundraiser was told in an
anonymous Facebook message.
Another threat from Facebook user Islam Power reads: "We will exterminate
all the atheists like you who work against Islam. Final warning."
The 10 bloggers, singers, writers and charity workers have been denounced
as "atheists", a condemnation some worry will be taken as a cue by jihadists
for assassination.
The threats are linked to the volatile politics of Bangladesh where dozens
of activists have been murdered in recent weeks.
Security experts fear the violence might be exported as bloodshed on
Britain's streets.
The 10 on the hit list are leaders of the UK arm of the Shahbag campaign
calling for justice against those accused of war crimes during the 1971
independence struggle with Pakistan.
The alleged war criminals, whose atrocities included genocide, rape and
murder of academics and journalists, were pro-Pakistan.
Many have since become leaders of the Islamist Jamaat e Islami party,
which wants an Islamic republic of Bangladesh.
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