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Aug 14·edited Aug 14

The upheaval in Bangladesh has been completely mischaracterized in the Western media.

It paints the deposed PM Sheikh Hasina as a dictator who was authoratarian who committed "human rights violations". In reality she checked the rabid Islamist elements in the this country with >90% Muslim population.

Now Islamist mobs are out for minorities including Hindus. When this godforsaken country was liberated from genocidal Pakistani Army in 1971, its Hindu population was over 20%. Today it is about 7%. Tells you all about this bigoted religion and how it treats its minorities.

American diplomat Gary Bass' memoir, The Blood Telegram, from those days when he was posted in Dhaka remains essential reading.

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Coverage might help Trump and Israel so it’s a no go

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The MSM are brainwashed elites that only care about the oppressor narrative BS. Although Hindus in Bangladesh are now the oppressed it doesn’t matter because of their broader every Muslim is a victim narrative.

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I think West Bengal should encourage them to move there. Not only would it be be a virtuous thing to do, but it would be demographically advantageous to have a bunch more Bengali Hindus to supplement its dwindling majority

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>>> Al Jazeera condemned coverage of the violence against Hindus in Bangladesh as “Islamophobic,” and the AFP seemed more concerned about “misinformation” over the scale of the violence than the violence itself. The New York Times ran with the headline, “Hindus in Bangladesh Face Revenge Attacks After Prime Minister’s Exit.”

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Any idea why the Western MSM would be trying to cover up or downplay the events in Bangladesh? I'd have hoped that when covering a country and populations so geopolitically neutral to America as Bangladesh that the MSM would also have approached it with mostly neutrality. Guess not.

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Not when you consider that the Muslim religion is the oppressed and all other religions are oppressors . MSM follow these rules of oppressed and oppressors , it's not just about black and white any more.

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