{UAH} ISIS Claims Hacking Death of Hindu Priest in Bangladesh

ISIS Claims Hacking Death of Hindu Priest in Bangladesh
By Jack Moore On 6/8/16 at 1:05 PM

Police guard a Hindu temple on March 20 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. On
Tuesday, the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) claimed
responsibility for the death of a Hindu priest, as a spate of attacks
carried out by jihadis continue.


The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) claimed responsibility on
Tuesday for the grisly killing of a Hindu priest in Bangladesh as a
series of suspected Islamist attacks continue in the country.
In a statement, the radical Islamist group said that its "soldiers of
the caliphate" were behind the hacking to death of 70-year-old Ananta
Gopal Ganguly.
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"God willing, the knives of Mujahedeen will continue until we cleanse
Bangladesh from the wrath of polytheism," the statement read on the
group's semi-official Amaq news agency.

Ganguly was traveling to his temple in the western district of
Jhenaidah when three men on a motorcycle attacked him. His body was
discovered in a field near the temple and his head almost completely
severed from his body.

A Bangladeshi government spokesman told the BBC that ISIS militants
were not behind the attack, blaming Ganguly's death and other recent
attacks on domestic militants, saying that the radical Islamist group
has no presence in the country.
While ISIS lacks infrastructure in many countries where it has claimed
attacks, the group's rise to become the flag-bearer of the global
jihad has influenced many radical Islamist lone wolves or cells within
those countries. Affiliates of the group have also sprouted in several
countries such as the Philippines, Afghanistan and Yemen.

The killing of Ganguly is the latest is a spate of violent attacks
against figures from various sections of Bangladeshi society. On
Sunday, assailants killed a Christian man at a food store in
northwestern Bangladesh, while attackers killed the wife of a police
chief fighting militant groups in the southeastern city of Chittagong
on the same day.

Al-Qaeda, ISIS's rival in the competition to lead the global jihad,
has also claimed a series of attacks in Bangladesh in the past year,
including the murder of the editor of the country's only LGBT
magazine, alongside his friend in March. Suspected Islamist militants
have also targeted professors and secular writers.

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