On August 5, a week ago, Bangladeshi President Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India following a series of violent protests.<\/p>\n
Wave of violence against Hindus in a Muslim-majority country<\/big><\/p>\n Since Hasina's flight, violence has continued in the country. Bangladesh has 165.7 million inhabitants: 91% are Sunni Muslims<\/strong>, while 8% are ethnic Bengali Hindus. There is also a small Christian minority, mainly made up of 400,000 Catholics, and a Buddhist minority, according to a report<\/a> published two years ago by the US State Department.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, two days after Hasina fled, the Bangladesh Buddhist Hindu Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC)<\/strong>, which brings together the three minorities, denounced 400 attacks on the properties of people from religious minorities, mainly Hindus<\/a>, and on between 20 and 25 Hindu temples in the country<\/strong>. In the first three days after Hasina fled, Hindus were attacked in 45 of the country's 64 districts<\/a>, prompting many from the minority group to try to flee to India. Added to this is an even more dramatic fact: the murder of more than 200 people<\/a> in the midst of this wave of violence.<\/p>\n The persecution that Christians are suffering in Bangladesh<\/big><\/p>\n Hindus in Bangladesh are suffering from a phenomenon that is unfortunately not new: attacks on religious minorities have become commonplace in Islamic countries<\/strong>. Let us recall, without going any further, that according to the report published by the Christian NGO Open Doors in January 2024, Bangladesh is ranked 26th out of the 50 countries where Christians are most persecuted<\/a>.<\/p>\n \"Bangladeshi converts often gather in small house churches due to the risk of attack. Any churches that work and evangelize among the Muslim majority face persecution<\/strong> \u2014but even historical denominations like the Roman Catholic Church are increasingly targeted by death threats and attacks\"<\/em> notes the NGO about Bangladesh,<\/a>, warning that the level of persecution suffered by Christians in that country is very high<\/strong> and was reflected in the murder of eight of them in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, in the southeast of the country, in 2023.<\/p>\n The silence of the Islamophile left in the West<\/big><\/p>\n Such news rarely reaches the mainstream media in the West. Moreover, the Western left, which shows astonishing sympathy for Islam<\/strong> while exhibiting increasing hostility towards Christianity and Judaism, is keeping absolutely silent on the persecution of Hindus and other religious minorities in Bangladesh<\/strong>. For years now, money from several Islamic countries - we already saw the case of Qatar here<\/a> - has been used to finance the blatant biases that many media outlets display when talking about Islamic countries and even Islamist terrorism, as we have already seen after the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel.<\/p>\n If Bangladesh were a predominantly Christian country and this persecution was suffered by a Muslim minority,<\/strong> we would certainly not be witnessing such an atrocious silence among the political and media left. A left that has a common denominator with Islamism: its hatred of the West,<\/strong> a hatred that has as its fruits the infamous positions of leftist politicians (for example, the socialist Pedro S\u00e1nchez and his Islamic partners<\/a>).<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n Photo: AFP. Protest in Dhaka in defense of the rights of Bangladeshi Hindus against the wave of violence they are suffering, on August 9, 2024.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On August 5, a week ago, Bangladeshi President Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India following a series of violent protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10712],"tags":[12309,22450,10713,22449,794],"class_list":["post-56780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-religion-eng","tag-bangladesh","tag-bangladesh-hindu-buddhist-christian-unity-council-bhbcuc","tag-christianism","tag-hinduism","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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