Police, Islamists clash in Bangladesh, dozens hurt

[Big Don]

Police, Islamists clash in Bangladesh, dozens hurt
Reuters EXCERPT:

Sun, Jul 10 2011
DHAKA - Police in Bangladesh on Sunday fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse Islamist activists trying to enforce a nationwide strike over the removal of a Muslim phrase in the constitution, and witnesses said around 50 people were injured.

The clashes erupted when thousands of bludgeon-carrying Islamists cut off a stretch of highway leading to the capital's eastern suburbs with barricades.
The protesters also damaged several cargo trucks before the police crack down, and some 100 people were detained.
The strike, which began two days after the country emerged from a 48-hour stoppage enforced by the opposition, was called to protest a recent amendment to the constitution which dropped the words "absolute faith and trust in Allah".
The Islamists also want to scrap "secularism" as a state principle in the Muslim-majority country.

END EXCERPT
Nothing to see here, move along

 

[Carol]

Tonight they want to party like its 1947

Edit: Sarcasm aside, there were a couple of quotes from the article that I found interesting.

The strike, which was called for by 12 Islamist parties, was however, largely ignored by most people in Bangladesh, where businesses and transportation was operating as normal.

Intersting contrast to show how far away the violent Islamist thugs are from their nation's mainstream.

The two women have dominated the south Asian country's often volatile politics for two decades and are likely to face off again in the next election due by end of 2013.

Bangladesh has politics dominated by two women? Who knew!

 

[Big Don]

Note the difference between ISLAMIST and ISLAMIC. Islamic people are just like everyone else, albeit with a different religion. IslamIST people tend to go boom...

 

[granfire]

Note the difference between ISLAMIST and ISLAMIC. Islamic people are just like everyone else, albeit with a different religion. IslamIST people tend to go boom...

so you put a headline on a dork meet to make it sound like the country was on fire .....

 

[Big Don]

so you put a headline on a dork meet to make it sound like the country was on fire .....

Click link
Not my headline

 

[Carol]

so you put a headline on a dork meet to make it sound like the country was on fire .....

I think Don is right. The choice of the words is in the Reuters' article.

The term "Islamists" is accurate, IMO. Here is a Turkish news outlet's OpEd on the concept:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=muslims-vs.-islamists-2010-01-27

 

[granfire]

I think Don is right. The choice of the words is in the Reuters' article.

The term "Islamists" is accurate, IMO. Here is a Turkish news outlet's OpEd on the concept:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=muslims-vs.-islamists-2010-01-27

does not change the fact of pulling a storm in a water glass out to the forefront.

It's no different from the WBC protesting something because of their christianistic believes, or rightwing hopefuls putting their religious believes as platform for national politics....

 

[Big Don]

does not change the fact of pulling a storm in a water glass out to the forefront.

You sound like those idiots who chant "No person is illegal." Because they hate the, completely accurate, term, illegal alien...