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Richard Benkin ist ein amerikanischer Menschenrechtsaktivist, Mitbegründer von Interfaith Strength, Journalist, Schriftsteller und Dozent.Benkin arbeitete an seinem Ph.D. an der University of Michigan und schrieb die Dissertation The Social and Cultural Development of Jewish Communities in Eastern Europe über Juden in Osteuropa.

Benkin setzte sich für die Freiheit des bangladeschischen Journalisten Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury ein, nachdem dieser wegen des Schreibens von Artikeln, die vor dem Aufstieg der islamischen Radikalen warnten, inhaftiert wurde. Choudhury wurde 2004 entlassen. Wikipedia

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“Bangladesh is heavily invested in advertising itself to Americans and other potential trading partners as a "moderate Muslim country."… Over the last few decades, however, they have come more and more under the thumb of radical jihadis. Yet, they have not stopped trying to portray themselves as what they perhaps were at one point, and few Americans know that the reality is not what they are saying it is.”

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Benkin, Richard L. (2012). A quiet case of ethnic cleansing: The murder of Bangladesh's Hindus. New Delhi: Akshaya Prakashan. p.300.

“Scholars, journalists, activists, and others have an almost knee-jerk tendency to praise Bangladesh's beginnings as a secular nation and trace its slide into Islamist domination from the 1975 assassination of its founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. That praise is warranted - but only to a limited extent, for secularism and any semblance of democratic ideals were in their death throes long before Sheikh Mujib was.”

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Benkin, Richard L. (2012). A quiet case of ethnic cleansing: The murder of Bangladesh's Hindus. New Delhi: Akshaya Prakashan. p.167

“The attack on Bangladeshi Hindus is a crime against humanity. In and of itself, it is severe enough to spur our moral outrage and cause us to take action to stop it. But to make matters worse, it has been spreading across that open border into West Bengal, India. One would think these Hindu victims of Islamist terror would find a safe haven in the largest Hindu nation on earth, but they have not.”

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Benkin, Richard L. (2012). A quiet case of ethnic cleansing: The murder of Bangladesh's Hindus. New Delhi: Akshaya Prakashan. p.142.