about 300K of the 140 mln people
in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
DHAKA, BANGLADESH (BosNewsLife)-- Muslim clerics and neighbors have ordered the father of a Muslim man who converted to Catholicism to remain confined to his home in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka until retaliatory punishment can be carried out against the convert, Christians said Thursday, October 16.
"Are you not ashamed that your son became Christian?" the founder of a mosque here reportedly asked Ruhul Amin Khandaker, father of a 32-year-old businessman who went to Australia earlier this year to court a Philippine Catholic woman, converting to her faith in April.
"Why did you not sacrifice your son like cattle before telling the news to us,?" Christian news agency Compass Direct News quoted the mosque as saying. Khandaker said he has become a social outcast and that his family members live under threat from their fellow Muslims.
His son, Rashidul Amin Khandaker, has reportedly applied for protection from Australian immigration officials as he believes police in 88 percent-Muslim Bangladesh would do nothing to protect him from Islamists threatening to kill him. Read more ...
"Are you not ashamed that your son became Christian?" the founder of a mosque here reportedly asked Ruhul Amin Khandaker, father of a 32-year-old businessman who went to Australia earlier this year to court a Philippine Catholic woman, converting to her faith in April.
"Why did you not sacrifice your son like cattle before telling the news to us,?" Christian news agency Compass Direct News quoted the mosque as saying. Khandaker said he has become a social outcast and that his family members live under threat from their fellow Muslims.
His son, Rashidul Amin Khandaker, has reportedly applied for protection from Australian immigration officials as he believes police in 88 percent-Muslim Bangladesh would do nothing to protect him from Islamists threatening to kill him. Read more ...
Source: BosNewsLife
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