Bangladeshi Savages Lynch Eight People Over Child Abduction Rumours.

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bangladesh-lynchings-mobs-child-abduction-rumours-dhaka-a9020031.html

[Mamyalynne]

How on earth to stop the rumour mill that is running rampant there, I have no clue.

Dreadful.

[retrocop]

Perhaps judicial hanging of all the witches in public. That will show 'em ( the gullible) how good their voodoo works.

[youngmafbog]

It's not good, but this is what happens if justice is perceived not to be done, even without backward mentality.

[anotheoldgit]

All part of their culture, I suspect.

[ProfessorMaisie]

The one victim named in the article appears to be from the Hindu community - about 8% of the total population. If the others are also Hindu (or from anywhere outside of the majority Sunni Muslim population) then this is just part of the ongoing oppression suffered by all religious minorities in Bangladesh.

If the pretext for such action wasn't witchcraft, then blasphemy would serve. And it's not really necessary to be backward-looking and superstitious - this is about politics first and foremost. It's the way most Muslim states purge, or otherwise cow, their 'non-believers' - take a look at the demographics of Muslim states, how do you think they manage to be so disproportionate? As we in the West become more diverse, they become less so.

Bangladesh is relatively diverse by Muslim standards at only 88% Sunni Muslim and 2% Shia - but not for much longer.

[Gromit]

// AOG All part of their culture //

Do I detect a subtext here.
8 people murdered out of a population of 163 million, but that is enough for AOG to detect a cultural trend and brand 163 million people as savages.

So what of do we make of 43,516 knife crime incidents in the UK in past 12 months.
Are we off the scale in terms of savagery ?

[douglas9401]

Excellent spot Gromit, our crime cancels out that on the sub-continent.

They're actually in credit and should be grateful to you and yours for keeping an eye out for unwarranted slurs then comparing those to something completely unconnected.

In effect nothing happened and peace reigns.

[Gromit]

Hi Douglas,
43,516 knife incidents don’t cancel out 8 Murders. Both are regrettable conclusions. But we should be careful of tarring everyone with the same brush. Obviously the nation of Bangladesh are not all savages based on this small sample, and neither are all brits knife wielding maniacs.

[KARL]

Crowd/sheep/electorate behaviour takes many forms in different places and lots of examples of catastrophe/tragedy are evident. Isn't there somewhere something written about the splinter and the beam ?

[night-fury]

This is true. But child abductions happen there.

[retrocop]

Isn't it strange that certain ABers talk down the amount of knife crimes occurring regularly in the UK as if the numbers are insignificant and trite comments like,'what Knife crime. Doesn't happen. Never seen it in our village' are trotted out. I suspect because of the similar ethnicity of the perpetrators and victims here. Yet......... when it suits we have comparisons made, as in this case, that the crimes carried out in ethnic countries,where life is considered cheap in any case, are totally rare compared with the annual slayings in the UK.

[AZardoz]

Even the Beeb is not innocent, nor are the other VIP finger-pointers:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1668476.html
The police ? ... plod as the Keystone Kops.
Please watch Monty Python if you still don't get it:


The mob wants YOU !

[pastafreak]

The last lynching in the US was as recent as 1981. After most of us were born. Part of the "culture" of a particular group. One that many on here would identify with...white Anglo Saxon. This is only a reminder that this way of thinking can occur in many diverse societies.

[fender62]

pastafreak, /1981. After most of us were born/ few decades before that...