A 24-year-old Sri Lankan Hindu migrant worker is facing death in Saudi Arabia for an offensive Facebook comment, exposing the deadly consequences of blasphemy laws and the urgent need to abolish them.
The political heft and the non-stop access to power for the Islamists have ceased with the dismissal of the TMC government in West Bengal. The numerous protests, violent threats and complaints against Nazia are a symptom of that.
The unsettling similarity between Dipu and Priyantha is not limited to just how they were lynched and by whom, the allegations against them were similar too. Flimsy accusations of ‘blasphemy’, baseless rumours of ‘insult to Islam’ and ‘Insult to the Islamic prophet’.
In a viral video, Muslim mobs were heard calling for the slaughter of Bauls. Chants of 'একটা দুইটা বাউল ধর, ধইরা ধইরা জবাই কর (Pick one Baul at a time and slaughter them)' rocked through the streets of Manikganj.