Silenced: How Apostasy And Blasphemy Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide - Plot & Excerpts
After making this proclamation, Rahman personally led an armed mob to attack the Ahmadi mosque in the Jhikargachha district of Jessore. Mohammed Shah Alam, the local Ahmadi imam, died from injuries received outside his mosque. One Ahmadi described the brutal attack and Shah Alam’s murder: They started hitting us with bamboo sticks. They beat us and beat us. We tried to escape but it was not possible. Shah Alam was being beaten particularly harshly by Aminur Rahman and Shahid. They continued hitting us with the bamboo sticks, particularly on the head. I could see that Shah Alam was getting badly injured. They beat his brain out of his head. I could see it. We asked them to stop as we could see Shah Alam was dying and had to be taken to hospital. But they did not. In 2009, Welhelmina Holle, a Christian teacher in Seram, part of Indonesia’s Maluku Islands, was accused of blasphemy for allegedly insulting Islam in a comment she made while tutoring a sixth-grade student. The student reported the offense to his parents, and rumors quickly spread through the local Muslim community.
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