Calling all Muslim bounty hunters!

It never ceases to amaze the Colonel that individual priests in the Muslim hierarchy in any locality or country can decide that someone should be killed.

To vary our earlier Jerry Falwell example, we see in this post, again, the unfettered discretion of people -- with no other intellectual accomplishment or life experience than having acquired a knowledge of the Islam and the sharia (of unknown accuracy or depth) -- to call for the extrajudicial killing of local unfortunates or even non-Muslims halfway around the globe.

This post puts the lie to the proposition that jihadis are somehow the source of all current disorder and pathology in the Muslim house. Witness that thousands of Bangladeshis demonstrated demanding the death of a Hindu woman who dared to speak out about living in a Muslim majority land. Thousands, mind you, did this daily.

That's thousands of fanatics, or thousands of ordinary Muslims? Take a guess.

Our recent post, Muslim kaleidoscope, links to the killing of a supposed "blasphemer" in Pakistan by a shopkeeper and a student.

Samurai shopkeeper? Or ordinary Muslim?

Islam is not an ideology that has any meaningful hierarchy to it. It must have the flattest organizational chart in the world and seems to operate from the non-Fuehrerprinzip that anarchy is The Steady State of Islam^TM unless, that is, too much publicity attends specific instances thereof.

In the event of embarrassing publicity, it becomes expedient for authority figures to step in with obfuscatory bullshit interpretations of what the "real" Islam requires. The recently-witnessed, objectionable, aberrational conduct is simply quite beyond the pale, deah boy.

Maybe just more of those Muslim "misunderstanders"!

Anyway, here's yet another instance of Muslims going after someone to make his or her life a living hell for daring to say anything critical about Muslim society or Islam:

The life of 43-year old Taslima Nasreem (pictured) has been littered with difficulties and successes, but she has been a persistent target for crazed Islamists. In her native Bangladesh, she qualified as a doctor, but she also wrote a column for a paper and became an author. In her first novel, called Lajja, or "Shame" she documented the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh, as well as the oppression of women..

But with Islam, to expose its ugly truth always brings violent reaction. Bangladeshi imams but a bounty upon her head of $5,000, and then the fundamentalists forced the government to bring criminal charges, for "deliberately and maliciously hurting Moslem religious sentiments". Every day, thousands demonstrated in the country she had grown up in, demanding her death.

"India: Islamists Want Author Taslima Nasreem Deported." By Giraldus Cambrensis, Western Resistance, 6/15/06.