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Bangladeshi Police Tell Atheist Bloggers to Stop Criticizing Religion if They Want to Avoid Being Killed
There we go. If only those atheists stopped criticizing religion, this problem would just go away!
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Don’t hurt religious sentiment, IGP to bloggers
Terming hurting one's religious sentiment as crime, Inspector General of Police (IGP) has advised the free thinkers not to hurt religious sentiment in their writings.
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"IGP AKM Shahidul Haque said: 'According to laws if any one hurts one’s feelings, he will be punished by the law.'"
So... what? People that hack bloggers to bits are now classified as "the law"? Are these police sanctioned vigilantes? Plus, I'm pretty sure being murdered and cut up counts as hurting someone's feelings too...
Ah, but in Bangladesh, it appears that hurting someone's feelings is a bigger crime than taking a life...
And we thought America was the land of over sensitive people
Punished by the law of what? Sharia law?
I don't get it, if their faith is so strong they have no qualms with hacking someone to death in God's name, then why would a handful of skeptics be such an existential threat?
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