{"id":17069,"date":"2016-07-03T12:12:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T17:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=17069"},"modified":"2016-07-03T12:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T17:12:26","slug":"learning-from-terrorist-tactics-in-bangladesh-attack-those-who-could-recite-qurran-were-spared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/03\/learning-from-terrorist-tactics-in-bangladesh-attack-those-who-could-recite-qurran-were-spared\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning From Terrorist Tactics: In Bangladesh Attack, Those Who Could Recite Qur&#8217;ran Were Spared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17070\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/attacks.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"attacks\" width=\"620\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gunmen were doing a background check on religion by asking everyone to recite from the Quran. Those who could recite a verse or two were spared. The others were tortured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And even in the face of this, which we saw before in the Westgate Mall jihad massacre in Kenya and in other jihad massacres, authorities will continue to insist that this has nothing to do with Islam. We live in a truly insane age.<\/p>\n<p>Those who could cite Quran were spared: Gulshan attack victim\u2019s family,\u201d by Rashidul Hasan,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailystar.net\/city\/those-who-cited-quran-verse-were-spared-1249228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Star<\/a>, July 2, 2016:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those who could recite a verse from the Quran were spared, others were tortured, said a rescued hostage of the Gulshan restaurant attack where at least two lawmen were killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe others were tortured by the gunmen,\u201d said Rezaul Karim, father of Hasnat Karim who was held hostage inside Holey Artisan Bakery in the diplomatic zone for over 10 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Hasnat Karim, his wife Sharmin Karim and daughter Safa, 13, and Rayan, 8, went to celebrate Safa\u2019s birthday at the Spanish restaurant in Gulshan\u2019s Road no-79 last night.<\/p>\n<p>The birthday celebration took a dangerously unprecedented turn when gunmen stormed into the restaurant and took about 20 people, including foreigners dining there, hostage.<\/p>\n<p>They were finally rescued after a joint drive of the military, paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh, police and elite force Rapid Action Battalion pushed a heavily-manned offensive this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey (gunmen) did not behave rough with the Bangladesh nationals,\u201d Reazul said quoting his victim son Hasnat. \u201cRather they provided night meals for all Bangladeshis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gunmen were doing a background check on religion by asking everyone to recite from the Quran. Those who could recite a verse or two were spared. The others were tortured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the gunmen were done with the foreign nationals dining in the eatery by 11:00pm last night. By the end, five gunmen sustained bullet injuries and \u201cprobably died.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2016\/07\/bangladesh-restaurant-jihad-attack-those-who-could-recite-quran-were-spared\">Jihad Watch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe gunmen were doing a background check on religion by asking everyone to recite from the Quran. Those who could recite a verse or two were spared. The others were tortured.\u201d And even in the face of this, which we saw before in the Westgate Mall jihad massacre in Kenya and in other jihad massacres,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3312,4002,1704,5072,74,5699,2413,2726,5539,2990,5705,272],"tags":[545,1083,1645,3362,12671],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}