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Dateline Bangladesh and the Religion of Peaceful Explosions strikes again:

Three More Bomb Suspects Arrested

You tell me. Are they ROPE'ers?

The three detained in Chandpur following confessional statements of two earlier arrested suspects, were Zakir Hossain Mullik, 29, Md. Kawser, 29 and Khondoker Mahfuz, 22.

Ya think?

Police recovered a number of Islamic books, CDs, leaflets, pictures and iron rods from the house...

Iron rods????

This also just out of Bangladesh:

At least fifty people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers and with police over establishing supremacy and having marijuana openly in broad daylight. Police and witnesses said marijuana and gambling have been a regular affair at the Chachuri Bazar. On Wednesday, some youths from Fuldaha village went to have marijuana beside the shop of local fish trader who objected their acts. At this the youths got furious and beat him up indiscriminately triggering a tension among three villages - Chachuri, Fuldaha and Purulia.

Also from Bangladesh. These little economic tidbits make me smile:

No move to arrest prices of essentials

The holy of month of Ramadan begins Wednesday or Thursday of this week subject to the appearance of moon. The Muslims all over the world welcome this month from the core of their hearts in the hope that they will be able to go nigh to the Mercy of God, by observing restraint in the matter of worldly pleasures and keeping fast till the Shaowal moon is sighted. In this month, the merchants, both the retailers and the wholesalers, reduce the price of the essential commodities that the poor can buy at ease and without afflictions. But in our country, the case is just opposite.

Prices go up uncontrolled as the merchants consider the month of Ramadan to make quick money. It means they are away from ethics and morality. Hazrat Muhammad (SM) cautioned against hoarding of the foodstuffs and creating artificial crisis. In this regard, the government and the Islam oriented political parties have something to do. They must circulate the sayings of the Prophet (SM) and should try to motivate the merchants accordingly. There is no need to fix the price of particular items like beef, mutton and buffalo meat. If the traders learn the real object of Islam, price will automatically come down without the interference of the government.

Learn the real object of Islam, butchers!!!! Kill the Kafir!

Another update on Bangladeshi Ramadan Gouging here.

They've been busy little beavers in Bangladesh:
August 17 bomb blasts: Investigating officials preparing charge-sheets

More Economic News to make me smile. This time from Iran and it's stock market. Scrolling required so I've given you the full text here:

TEHRAN, Oct. 7--An outspoken lawmaker here on Friday blamed political slogans for the tumbling indices at the stock market, stressing that speculations such as severance of ties and going to war with some countries could only give rise to a possible stock market collapse. Iraj Nadimi, rapporteur of Majlis Economic Commission, told ISNA that certain political commentaries will only aggravate the flight of capital.

“Certain slogans, including calls for cutting off ties with some countries as well as those advocating the country’s involvement in a new war along with prevailing mismanagements could accelerate the process of capital flight from the country,“ he said, adding that tumbling indices are caused by growing political and economic instabilities.

He criticized those who are trying to introduce the new government as a ’new revolution’ for causing further instabilities, stressing that the Ahmadinejad administration will, indeed, continue reform procedures at managerial levels.
As the stock market situation worsens day after day, Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) secretary general insisted earlier that the indices will begin to go up within the next few weeks, blaming psychological shocks for tumbling indices.

Hossein Abdeh-Tabrizi said the UN nuclear watchdog’s resolution against Iran was also responsible for indices hitting record lows but fell short of explaining why the situation has become so fragile in the past few months.

There are more than two million shareholders in Iran, where some 80 percent of the capital market is controlled by quasi-state companies.

Most shareholders rushed to sell their shares soon after the market nose-dived on June 25, when the result of the ninth presidential election was announced.

Not only has the market failed to recover from unprecedented panic-selling, it has worsened day in, day out since election day.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the key June 24 vote on a platform of economic and social justice, promising the people that they will ’see the actual outcome of the rise in oil revenues on their tables’. (ed note: see the Love Fund here.)

However experts remain ever more concerned about the prospect of the national economy plunging into a fresh crisis following the drastic fall in stock market indices.

Ramadan kareem, y'all!