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Singularity
05-29-2017, 05:24 AM
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Bangladesh reinstalls justice statue that irked Islamists

Originally published May 27, 2017 at 6:49 pm Updated May 27, 2017 at 10:47 pmFILE – In this May 26, 2017 file photo, a lady Justice statue lies covered with a plastic sheet inside the Supreme Court premise in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

A sculptor says authorities in Bangladesh have reinstalled the Lady Justice statue near the country’s Supreme Court, two days after its removal following complaints by Islamist hard-liners. Sculptor Mrinal Haque said Sunday, May 28, 2017 workers put the statue back in place a few hundred meters (yards) from its original location. (AP Photo/ A.M. Ahad, File) FILE – In this Feb. 28, 2017 file photo, Bangladeshi Muslim boys walk past a Lady Justice statue at the Supreme Court complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A sculptor says authorities in Bangladesh have reinstalled the Lady... (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File) More DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities in Bangladesh reinstalled a Lady Justice statue near the country’s Supreme Court, two days after its removal following complaints by Islamist hard-liners.Sculptor Mrinal Haque said Sunday workers put the statue back in place a few hundred meters (yards) from its original location.Haque, who took care of the reinstallation work overnight, said he was shocked at the statue’s removal Thursday night. He said it would be less visible in its new place.Security was tight and officials did not allow anybody inside the court area when the statue was re-erected. A dozen people nearby chanted anti-government slogans and demanded the work be stopped.The removal was to appease hard-liners who said the statue was erected last year in front of a ground used for prayers during two Islamic festivals. But it also sparked criticism and protests among liberals, cultural groups and left-wing activists.Many have accused Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of siding with the Islamists who are traditionally close to her rival Khaleda Zia, the opposition leader and a former prime minister. Hefazat-e-Islam, a platform of the Islamists, had welcomed the removal and vowed to wage new protests to press for removal of other sculptures on university campuses and intersections across the country.The statue of a woman holding a scale and sword in her hands was installed in December. The statue is wrapped in a sari, a Bangladeshi revision of the usual representation, the Greek goddess Themis blindfolded and clad in a gown. Islamists oppose idol worship and consider the Lady Justice statue anti-Islamic.The reinstallation of the statue can be seen as a blow to the hard-liners who are trying to get some political mileage ahead of next general elections expected to be held in December next year.Hefazat-e-Islam supporters have protested in front of the main mosque in Dhaka several times after the statue was erected. The group, which has a network of students from thousands of Islamic schools across the country, had threatened to launch a mass movement if the government failed to remove the statue.In 2008, protests led to the removal of a statue of a Bangladeshi mystic poet at a road crossing near Dhaka’s airport.The country of 160 million people is ruled by secular laws, but radical Islam has been rising.In recent years dozens of atheists, liberal writers, bloggers and publishers and members of minority communities and foreigners have been targeted and killed.
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Muslim Woman
05-29-2017, 05:35 AM
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I am curious to know in how many countries , there are justice statues in front of Supreme Court ? Is that the same statue ( except statue wearing Sari ) all over the world ?
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Serinity
05-29-2017, 06:07 AM
I support the removal of all statues
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Abz2000
05-29-2017, 01:44 PM
It is wrong to put erect an idol - and especially an insult and provocation when erected in places of justice, and on top of that, with a feminine figure with emphasized curves and protruding knee and leg, of course people should reject such an abomination against God.
The statue itself is indicative of the corruption and secularist atheist bias of a government who vowed not to harm or upset Quran and sunnah (quran sunnater upor agat porbe na) and the frivolity and unjust bias of it's false justice system.


.....Pledge a legiance to a flag that neglects us
Honour a man that refuse to respect us
Emancipation, proclamation, Please!
Lincoln just said that to save the nation
These are lies that we all accepted,
Say no to drugs but the governments' keep it
Running through our community, killing the unity
The war on drugs is a war on you and me
And yet they say this is the Home of The Free
But if you ask me its all about hyprocrisy
The constitution, Yo, it don't apply to me
Lady Liberty still the bi@ch lied to me...

From tupac shakur's "words of wisdom" poem - one of the most notoriously difficult videos accessible on the net - in contrast to the less political songs. Try googling it.
At least banksy's one was satire -
In 2004 noted London street artist and activist Banksy unveiled a sculpture with his own take on Justice. His sculpture, cast in bronze, weighing 3.5 tonnes and nearly 7 metres high, was a copy of the statue atop The Old Bailey but with some notable changes: the figure wears a hitched up skirt revealing a garter with a dollar bill, thigh high PVC boots and a thong:

The plinth on which it stood bore the words “Trust no-one”.

Banksy’s comment on his depiction of Justice as a prostitute was "It's the most honest depiction of British justice currently on display in the capital, I hope it stays there for good. We are learning that the people we trust with our liberty cannot be trusted."

Banksy’s hope was not realised. Two days after unveiling, the local council used a crane to remove it, citing that it could make unsafe the toilets below the square where the statue was located. Banksy undertook to reimburse the costs of removing it.

Also the unjust bias and corrupt nature of the composer of the article is obvious given the choice of wording, and the way in which it would have likely been written had it been a sculpture of the Quran is predictable.



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Bangladesh reinstalls justice statue that irked Islamists

Originally published May 27, 2017 at 6:49 pm Updated May 27, 2017 at 10:47 pmFILE – In this May 26, 2017 file photo, a lady Justice statue (idol of a woman in skintight clothing and emphasized figure) lies covered with a plastic sheet inside the Supreme Court premise in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

A sculptor says authorities in Bangladesh have reinstalled the Lady Justice statue near the country’s Supreme Court, two days after its removal following complaints by Islamist hard-liners. (Nothing hardline about it - except to hypocrites who reject Islam) Sculptor Mrinal Haque said Sunday, May 28, 2017 workers put the statue back in place a few hundred meters (yards) from its original location. (In front of a place where monotheists prostrate to the God of Abraham) (AP Photo/ A.M. Ahad, File) FILE – In this Feb. 28, 2017 file photo, Bangladeshi Muslim boys walk past a Lady Justice statue at the Supreme Court complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A sculptor says authorities in Bangladesh have reinstalled the Lady... (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File) More DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities in Bangladesh reinstalled a Lady Justice statue near the country’s Supreme Court, two days after its removal following complaints by Islamist hard-liners.Sculptor Mrinal Haque said Sunday workers put the statue back in place a few hundred meters (yards) from its original location. (With outright disrespect and reckless and unjust insensitive carelessness to the bloodshed it could cause) Haque, who took care of the reinstallation work overnight, said he was shocked (maybe quote a protest leader? ) at the statue’s removal Thursday night. He said it would be less visible in its new place.Security was tight and officials did not allow anybody inside the court area when the statue was re-erected. A dozen people nearby chanted anti-government (negative psychology) slogans and demanded (force rather than "protested against what they saw as a flagrant violation of islamic ethics" ) the work be stopped.The removal was to appease hard-liners who said the statue was erected last year in front of a ground used for prayers during two Islamic festivals. But it also sparked criticism and protests among liberals (secularist hard-liners? ) cultural groups and left-wing activists. Many have accused Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of siding with the Islamists who are traditionally close to her rival Khaleda Zia, the opposition leader and a former prime minister. Hefazat-e-Islam, a platform of the Islamists, had welcomed the removal and vowed to wage new protests to press for removal of other sculptures on university campuses and intersections across the country.The statue of a woman holding a scale and sword in her hands was installed in December. The statue is wrapped in a sari, a Bangladeshi revision of the usual representation, the Greek goddess Themis blindfolded and clad in a gown. Islamists oppose idol worship and consider the Lady Justice statue anti-Islamic (unlawful/illegal). The reinstallation of the statue can be seen as a blow to the hard-liners who are trying to get some political mileage ahead of next general elections expected to be held in December next year.Hefazat-e-Islam supporters have protested in front of the main mosque in Dhaka several times after the statue was erected. The group, which has a network of students from thousands of Islamic schools across the country, had threatened to launch a mass movement if the government failed to remove the statue.In 2008, protests led to the removal of a statue of a Bangladeshi mystic poet at a road crossing near Dhaka’s airport.The country of 160 million people is ruled by secular laws, but radical Islam has been rising.In recent years dozens of atheists, liberal writers, bloggers and publishers and members of minority communities and foreigners have been targeted and killed. And thousands of unarmed Muslim and pro democracy protesters have been shot dead in the streets - some after protesting the unlawful hanging of muslim intellectuals on trumped up charges.)
Think of the psychological effect such illusionist wizardry has on the minds of those who absorb the text without consideration, imagine the provoked spikes on an eeg reader and think of how it's filed in the brain.
Not complaining - just stating the facts since I went into someone elses media studies class in college one day and was shown the basic considerations and targeting methods of editing, no wonder so many people absorb hate because they fall into the "most secularist mainstream media is unbiased" lie, and believe it.

[video=youtube;e-jf462h_I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-jf462h_I[/video
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Simple_Person
05-29-2017, 02:50 PM
Such evil practise but nobody is noticing. By having such statue you are saying that the so called western law is justice and no other justice is better than it.

While I have looked at many instances and not even one law exceeds the Islamic law. Every time I read certain Islamic laws and the conditions and the mercy I am just baffled about it. Yet people are too blind to see it. However reality it self will show that indeed no other law will succeed expect Islamic law or rulings that are the same as Islamic law. However the decline of western civilization has already began for some time and it is destroying itself from within not even 1 bullet needs to be fired to achieve that.
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Serinity
05-29-2017, 03:10 PM
There is nothing radical about wanting to remove all statues.

We are encouraged, afaik, to do so.

Allahu alam.
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Hamza Asadullah
05-29-2017, 04:40 PM
This statue is of a Greek-Roman mythological Goddess called Themis which they want everyone to believe symbolises "justice". It is a evil pagan babylonian satanic symbol.
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Serinity
05-30-2017, 06:33 AM
Which makes it even more abhorrent. It should definitely be removed. There should be no statues at all.

And Allah :swt: knows best.
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