It all started when the Government of Pakistan defended the brutal act of beheading of a French teacher in Paris by an Islamic terrorist weeks ago by claiming that blasphemy in the garb of freedom of expression is intolerable.
The MEPs also said that Pakistan, under the control of successive political regimes and leaders, has been well documented as a country of 'State Sponsored Terrorism'.
Hefazat-i-Islam, the Muslim political organisation that carried out the protest, demanded the Bangladesh government to severe all diplomatic ties with France and shut down French embassy.
The Print, headed by the former chief of Editor's Guild, published an article on Monday that could only ever be interpreted as apologia for Radical Islam.
A Bangladeshi Twitter user has claimed that the police has taken no action against the arsonists and the vandals but instead jailed two Hindus over comments on Facebook.
The ravaged city was home to a minority of Christians belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church, the Assyrian Church of the East, Syriac Orthodox Church, Chaldean Catholic and Syriac Catholic Church, and various Protestants.