Over the past few days, controversy has risen over a negative Facebook post that was targeted towards the large population of Muslims within Bangladesh. Protests broke out after a discriminating comment about the Islam Prophet Muhammad. With a total population of 168 million, over 90% of Bangladesh’s population is comprised of Muslims. Due to social medias quick transfer of information, the Islam community discovered the Facebook post and took matters into their own hands.

After the post surfaced, protesters immediately took to the streets and began to  accumulate a large mass. Authorities were notified of the protest and they quickly began to question the best way to handle the situation. Following the meeting, the decision was made to send security guards to the protest area in order to calm down those that were involved.

Unfortunately the attempt to calm the masses only sparked the flame to ignite even larger and the protesters began to attack the on-site security guards. The attack spurred a defensive reaction by the guards and shots were fired. After the protesters were finally extinguished, four people were killed and over 100 others were injured including police officers and protesters.

Days after the event, three possible suspects are in holding areas to figure out who hacked the mans account and made the comment. The original man who was accused claims that his account was hacked by an unknown user and the discriminative comment was then posted. Minority groups within Bangladesh claim to be targeted in the heavily populated Islamic country. With the complaint by minorities of being targeted, it will be interesting to see if Bangladesh adopts harsher laws that are more strictly pointed towards the Islamic community.

https://nypost.com/2019/10/21/several-killed-in-bangladesh-protest-over-anti-muslim-facebook-post/