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Here's TN's article:

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Protesters attacked statues, temples and houses

 

Muslim protesters have attacked Buddhist villages in Bangladesh, after an image said to show a burnt Koran was posted on social network site Facebook.

 

Witnesses said angry crowds set fire to homes and temples in the Cox's Bazar district, forcing families to flee.

 

A curfew has been imposed and security forces are patrolling the streets.

 

The man accused of posting the image is in protective custody. Police say he was tagged in the photo but did not post it himself.

 

'Premeditated communal violence'

Buddhists in the area, in south-east Bangladesh, said their possessions were stolen before their homes were destroyed.

 

"Before they set fire to my home, they looted everything," said resident Sumoto Barua.

 

"They took our possessions, money, gold and even computers. Then they torched the house. I am now living under open sky."

 

The violence erupted on Saturday and continued into the early hours of Sunday.

 

Hundreds of protesters are said to have rampaged through Buddhist neighbourhoods, smashing statues, burning down monasteries and attacking houses.

 

The violence spread to the outskirts of the port city of Chittagong, where a Hindu temple was also attacked.

 

Bangladeshi Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir visited the scene and described the violence as "premeditated and deliberate acts of communal violence against a minority".

 

District Commissioner of Cox's Bazar, Jaynul Bari, told the BBC Bengali service the government was already helping the victims.

 

"We have distributed food rations for them. The army will supply more food," he said.

 

"We are giving them building materials. The home minister has ordered that all the homes and the temples be restored to their former condition with the funds provided by the government."

 

The authorities have now deployed additional security to prevent further violence and a curfew has been imposed in the worst affected area of Ramu sub-district.

 

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Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir visited the scene and condemned the violence

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Ah yeah, this shit. Yes, whenever someone else do something, it totally involves me because we are related somehow. The folks that did these riots really have to grow up. If I follow their line of thinking, I would be hating on while devils, communists and Japs. The sins of the individual is their owns. It involves no one else but that bastard that did it.

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I am not sure what that is supposed to prove, Duke. Anyone can take a religious symbol and claim what they're doing is in the name of this or that god, but it doesn't mean the construct of that religion actually supports or condones violence in any way. The proof is in the content of the teaching itself. Islam has some things that seem to support violence in the name of Allah, but many large groups within Islam reject that interpretation as well. So it's not clear-cut there, nor does the New Testament support those kinds of things anyway.

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I think any violence perpetrated by a group of religious people reflects more on the people than on the religion. I do though think that religion can push people to acts that they may not have committed otherwise; the problem stemming from the fact most things in most religious texts are so open to interpretation, not to mention the fact that they were all written when violence was the solution to everything. Basically, there is just far too much text in religious texts I think this is the problem more than the tenets of the religion itself.

This was my point.

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Here it is if you missed it. Get it before it's gone again. Also, while I believe the pastor is genuine, from the mimimal reading I've done about it, the mo is obviously acting whether he realises it himself or not.

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Can I just go on a bit of a rant here and say how fucking despicable it is for people, politicians even, to be saying that the Newtown shooting happened because "we took God out of our schools"?

 

Fuck you Fuck you FUCK YOU.

 

I don't know much of a self-absorbed prick you have to be to come out and say that kind of heinous shit a mere day after some nutjob shoots a bunch of kids, but I can sincerely say that I hope you all get brain cancer. Whether you're a christian or not, any sane person with a shred of common decency should be self-aware enough to know just how grossly inappropriate it is to say something like that, to use an elementary school shooting as a platform to push your sanctimonious crap. Who do you think you're going to convert with that kind of selfish behavior? Do you think anyone who isn't already as delusional as you is going to hear you say that and appreciate the sentiment? Do you really think you're accomplishing anything by trivializing what happened except making people resent you, maybe even your entire religion?

 

Well guess what. You're not. So cut the political bullshit and SHUT THE FUCK UP.

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Link to the graphic used. Warning, it's a PDF.

 

It makes me wonder...

 

How do literalists explain contradictions in the Bible?

Free will is usually used to explain bad things happening but I like that this turns it around and has people choosing to be good.

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