Malaysia: Crown Prince Converts to Catholicism, Shocks Muslim World -

Malaysia: Crown Prince Converts to Catholicism, Shocks Muslim World - 

Kuala Lumpur | The only son and heir of Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, Tengku Amir Shah, has sent a shockwave throughout the Muslim community worldwide as what People’s magazine has deemed “the real life Romeo and Juliet story of our time”. The crown prince of the state of Selangor in Malaysia, has relinquished all his possessions and a chance to succeed to the prestigious throne of Selangor to follow his heart and marry Spanish top model and superstar Cristina Gomez, a 16 year old who was propelled to stardom this year when she was noticed on national television in the crowd of a highly anticipated football match. The Malaysian prince known for his outlandish sex orgies and drug addiction problems, having been through rehab no less than three times in the past 18 months, has promised to change his ways and claims to be a new man.

In an interview this week with Catholic Digest Weekly, the 21 year old man admitted that his encounter with the supermodel basically saved his life. “I was living in a lustful, superficial world, where money and power brought me all the goods of the world: women, cars and drugs. But Cristina changed all that”.  Cristina Gomez who is of catholic faith, asked prince Tengku to convert to Catholicism, as to make their union legal before God and help him achieve righteousness in his life.

The baptism of the former follower of Islam at Santa Maria Cathedral this week in Braga, Portugal, has brought much criticism on the former heir to the Selangor throne by the world muslim community at large.  “This is not a spare of the moment thing. If people cannot accept the choices I’ve made and the new person I have become, then that’s too bad for them” declared the ex-prince in the same interview. “Me and Cristina are happy and that is all that counts” he commented.  The lovers are to be wed this month in San Marco Cathedral in romantic Venice and have not revealed where they are to spend their honeymoon. “That is our little secret” revealed Cristina on a hit Spanish tv talk show this week.

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Attacks on Hindus in Jessore, Dinajpur

Jessore and Dinajpur correspondents,  bdnews24.com

Miscreants have attacked houses and shops of Hindus in Jessore and Dinajpur for casting vote in the 10th national elections.

Hindu houses were vandalised, looted and torched in Maloparha of Chapatola village at Abhoynagar Upazila in Jessore on Sunday evening.

Locals said the criminals had entered Maloparha and ransacked 150 houses damaging furniture and other valuables around 7pm.

They also set fire to several houses and looted valuables.

After the incident, the panic-stricken residents left the village.

Firefighters rushed to the spot and doused the flame immediately.

Jessore Assistant Superintendent of Police (Sadar) Reshma Sharmin said activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, an ally of opposition BNP, had carried out the attack at a time when the administration was busy with counting of votes.

The Opposition boycotted the elections held on Sunday. It enforced shutdown and blockade to thwart it.

Police will file a case, the ASP said.

A local MP, Jessore Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police visited the spot on Monday morning.

The affected families were given 200 blankets.

Ranjit Roy, who was elected in Sunday’s polls, alleged the Jamaat activists had carried out the attack at the instigation of his opponent Sheikh Abdul Ohab.

Abdul Ohab was not available for comments.

bdnew24.com Dinajpur correspondent said over 100 Hindu houses and shops were vandalised and set on fire in Kornai village of Chehelgazi Union of Sadar Upazila.

The affected families took shelter at the house of a local social worker Rezaul Karim.

Hundreds of Jamaat activists continued the attacks on Hindu houses and shops with crude weapons and sticks for three hours on Sunday night.

They also ransacked and set fire to many houses and shops at the time.

The victims alleged the BNP and Jamaat activists had attacked their houses for casting vote.

They alleged they had informed the administration about the attack immediately after it was unleashed but did not get any response.

Kotwali Police Station OC Altaf Hossain said they were busy in election duty.

He said action would be taken against those responsible.

District BNP General Secretary Mukut Chowdhury denied allegation of the involvement of his party in the attacks.

Local MP Iqbalur Rahim and administration officials visited the area on Monday morning.

KOSHAI QUADER HANGED, Jamaat leader executed at 10:01pm, to be buried at Faridpur village

This Star photo taken on February 5 shows, getting life term from a war crimes tribunal, Quader Mollah flashing V-sign that triggered widespread outrage. Mollah, a key ally of the Pakistani occupation force, was hanged tonight at Dhaka Central Jail for his wartime offences.

KOSHAI QUADER HANGED

Forty-two years into Bangladesh’s bloody war of liberation, Abdul Quader Mollah, a key ally of the Pakistani occupation force, was hanged tonight inside Dhaka Central Jail for his wartime offences.

The first war criminal to pay for the 1971 crimes against humanity, the Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general was executed at 10:01pm hours after the country’s highest court dismissed his petition to review his death sentence.

“His body remained hanging for 20 minutes before it was taken down,” Dhaka Deputy Commissioner Sheikh Yusuf Mreedha told The Daily Star.

The then president of Shahidullah Hall unit of Islami Chhatra Sangha, then student wing of Jamaat, the 65-year-old completed the full circle of legal ways to save his skin before walking to the gallows.

Known as Koshai (butcher) Quader for his brutal style of torture on the freedom-seeking people during the country’s Liberation War, he declined to seek presidential clemency even though the authorities approached him thrice.

An ambulance will take Mollah’s body to his village home in Faridpur where he will be buried.

His body will be handed over to his relatives.

A special squad of Rab and police has been formed to provide them security on the way.

Earlier, Inspector General (Prisons) Main Uddin Khandaker entered the prison at 8:15pm.

Fifteen minutes later, flood lights of the prisons were turned on around 8:30apm.

Around 9:15pm, deputy commissioner of Dhaka, Civil Surgeon of Dhaka Abdul Malek, and Imam of Dhaka Central Jail Jame-Mosque Monir Hossain entered the jail.

It was Mollah’s sentence — life-term imprisonment — on February 5 which triggered a youth upsurge in the capital, known popularly as Shahbagh Movement, that later spread across the country.

The ICT-2 awarded Mollah life imprisonment on two out of six charges and different jail terms on the other three proved charges.

For weeks, Shahbagh youths continued their movement to press home the demand of execution of war criminals, forcing the government to bring an amendment to the International Crimes Tribunal law, which is the basis for the special tribunal trying the accused of war crimes committed 42 years ago.

The state on March 3 appealed with the SC against the life-term ruling, terming it “inadequate” and seeking the death penalty for his wartime offences.

On September 17, a five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain revised the verdict, sentencing Mollah to death.

After the full text of the verdict was released, ICT-2 issued death warrant for the Jamaat leader on December 8.

Published: Thursday, December 12, 2013

Buddha Goya News

The Bihar Police on Monday released the CCTV footage of serial blasts at Bodh Gaya temple on Sunday. No group has so far accepted responsibility for the attacks.

The Bihar police also released sketches of two suspects in teh serial terror blasts at Bodhgaya. The suspects have been identified as Sahidur Rehman and Saifur Rehman, both M operatives. 

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Buddhist monks from 50 countries held a special prayer inside Boddha Gaya temple for return of peace after explosions.

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police said. 

The blasts did not cause any casualty or damage to the temple and the Bodhi tree under which Buddha attained enlightenment, a police officer said. 
The temple at Bodh Gaya was built at the spot where the Buddha attained enlightenment over 2,500 years ago. It was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2002.

Home ministry confirms Bodhgaya serial blasts a terror attack, two pilgrims injured-Serial explosions inside and outside Mahabodhi temple in Bihar were a terror attack , the Home Ministry said on Sunday as it sent National Investigation Agency (NIA) and National Security Guard (NSG) teams for post-blasts investigations.

"It was a terror attack," Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami told PTI.

He, however, said so far no group has claimed responsibility for the multiple blasts and investigations were on.

Goswami said four blasts took place inside the temple complex while four occurred outside it.

Two people have been injured in the blasts hich took place between 5:30 to 5:58 am.

Arvind Singh, a member of Mahabodhi Temple Management Commitee said the two injured included a national of Myanmar and another of Tibet. They have been admitted to Magadh Medical College and Hospital, he said.

Singh said two other bombs, one near the 80 feet statue and one at bus stand have been defused.

Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) S K Bhardwaj said prima facie it seems the serial blasts have been done by some terrorist organisation.
DIG Special Branch Parasnath told PTI said, "A team of NIA officers is coming to Bodh Gaya from Kolkata."

The ADG said that there was a general alert about possibility of terrorist attacks in Bihar and the state police have tightened security.

"At Bodh Gaya temple, the police security arrangements are only outside the temple while the security inside is looked after by temple trust officials," he said.

The DIG said, "The sanctum sanctorum of the Mahabodhi Temple is intact. The temple premises have been sanitised."

The secretary of the Bodh Gaya committee Dorji said, "There were four blasts inside the temple premises.

Fortunately, there was no damage to the Bodhi Tree or the main temple structure."

"In the first blast which took place near the Bodhi tree, a table was blown up because of which two persons were injured. The second blast, I think, was inside the enclosure where books were kept. The furniture was damaged but there was no damage to the monuments or statues," he said.

Asked about the nature of explosives used, S K Bharadwaj, ADG (Law and Order) said they were low intensity time bombs.

He said, "We got information about six-seven months back that there may be a terror attack on the Mahabodhi temple.

After that we had beefed up secuirty and deployed extra forces".

Bodh Gaya Buddhist temple, around 10 km from Gaya and 100 km from capital Patna, is world famous. Lord Buddha had attained enlightenment here under the Mahabodhi tree in the temple premises.

The Mahabodhi Temple is frequented by Buddhist pilgrims from
Sri Lanka, China and Japan and the whole of southeast Asia.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama makes frequent trips to Bodh Gaya and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa had visited it six months back. A total of 52 countries have established their monasteries here.