ক্যাটাগরি History
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ইউনূস ছোটবেলা থেকেই মিথ্যেবাদী, সুবিধাবাদী
১৯৪৭ সালের ১৩ই আগস্ট। চট্টগ্রাম নগরীর বক্সিরহাট এলাকার রাস্তাঘাট ও সব বাড়িঘরে পাকিস্তানের চাঁদ-তারকাখচিত পতাকা ও সাদা-সবুজ ফেস্টুন উড়ছে; রাজনৈতিক বক্তব্য ও হাজার হাজার এলাকাবাসীর ‘পাকিস্তান জিন্দাবাদ’ শ্লোগানে মুখরিত ছিল পুরো এলাকা। মধ্যরাতের আগেই ২০ নং বক্সিরহাটের (সোনাপট্টি) দোতলা বাড়ির ছাদ থেকে আতশবাজি পোড়ানো হয়। বড়ির কর্তা দুলা মিয়া সওদাগর ছিলেন মুসলিম লীগ ন্যাশনাল গার্ডের…
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Pro-Pakistani Yunus’ hatred against Awami League and Hindus is not new
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has said that the attacks on minorities, particularly Hindus, following the August 5 changeover were politically, not religiously, motivated. During a meeting with US Senator Gary Peters on March 18, he claimed that the interim government had taken swift action against the perpetrators. Yunus’ statement implies that “revenge attacks”…
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Jihad in Bangladesh: AQIS vs ISIS
The strategies and focus of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Bangladesh reflect their broader organizational goals, operational approaches, and ideological underpinnings, tailored to the local context. While both groups aim to establish Islamic governance and wage jihad, their methods, priorities, and engagement with Bangladesh…
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2012-22: Countries where daughters are raped by fathers!
The alarming rise in the incidents of child rape, gang rape, and even rape of daughters by their fathers in Bangladesh and many other countries will shock any conscious person in any part of the world. On the other hand, the sex perverts will be inspired—thanks to the lax enforcement of laws and the rise…
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2013-15: Documentation of madrasa rapes in Bangladesh
The article discusses reported cases of madrasa rapes in Bangladesh, focusing on the abuse of both boys and girls by religious figures. I’ll analyze this in the context of some common questions: What do these incidents mean? And why do religious scholars commit such crimes? What do the laws say? My response will draw on…
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Sheik Moinuddin—Yunus’ special assistant—was demoted for inefficiency, irregularities
The interim government appointed Sheik Moinuddin as a special assistant to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, according to a Cabinet Division notification issued on March 5. He has been given executive authority over the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges. A US expatriate, Sheik Moinuddin, has extensive experience of working in the public infrastructure sector. According…
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Analyzing extremist group JMB’s ideology and intentions
The ideological roots of the Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (Assembly of Mujahideen) are deeply embedded in Salafi-Jihadist thought, influenced by global movements like the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda, as well as local Islamist groups like Jamaat-e-Islami and the Ahle Hadith movement. Long article: History of Jamaat-linked JMB’s bloody jihad Its ideology rejects secularism, pluralism, and Western…
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Factbox: Minority repression by Yunus government supporters neglected
Apart from physical harm to the minority community people of Bangladesh, hundreds of houses, business establishments and religious sites have come under attack, vandalism and looting since the August 5 changeover. On the other hand, minorities were forced to resign from many educational institutions. In its report on the first 100 days of the Yunus…
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Yunus lied about his complicity in govt-ouster plot
Conspiracy, lies, treachery, diversion, ungratefulness, and blame games are the common features of Nobel laureate and former Grameen Bank managing director Prof Muhammad Yunus. He would take credit for positive elements and never admit his faults or crimes—be it a tax evasion case or benefits from a friend or well-wisher. He has no shame. The…
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How did Pakistan, US react to Bangabandhu’s 7th March speech?
Bangabandhu’s 7th March speech, considered to be his unofficial proclamation of independence, came as a response to President Yahya Khan’s announcement on March 6 of a new date of the national assembly. Awami League supremo Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made his most inspiring speech on March 7, 1971, demanding an unconditional transfer of power and urging…
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Anti-quota movement: Statements of major political parties in the early days
June 5: After a High Court bench ordered the reinstatement of the freedom fighter quota in government jobs, Nurul Haque Nur, the founder of the Chhatra Odhikar Parishad, which launched the quota reform movement in 2018, said: “I think reinstating the quota system that students had abolished through an active movement for about 7 months…
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Brief timeline: 1971 Liberation War and birth of Bangladesh
Starting from mid-February till January 10, 1972, this brief timeline mentions every important event of the Bangalee’s struggle for independence and efforts to thwart it through genocide by Pakistan, its allies, and local collaborators, like the Pace Committee, Razakar, and al-Bard forces. This timeline will remind you about diplomacy and dirty politics, the deadliest genocide…
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Documentation of 1971 Hindu genocide in Bangladesh
In 1971, the West Pakistani rulers launched an offensive in East Pakistan to subdue the Awami League and its supporters, as well as Hindus. Ethnic (Hindu) cleansing, forced pregnancy of Hindu women, and deliberate killing of Hindu males to exterminate Bangalee Hindus as a race were the key agenda of the Pakistani military. As part…
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How US State Department spread rumors to fuel Bangladesh’s July uprising
As discussions over the alleged role of the US deep state in overthrowing the Awami League government keep growing, many of the mysterious activities that took place during the July-August movement are unfolding every day. Since early February, some student coordinators and Islami Chhatra Shibir leaders have revealed on social media how they planned the…
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Yunus finally forms his political party with Islamist elements
Nearly 78 years after chanting the slogan “Pakistan Zindabad” with much enthusiasm, the son of Dula Mia Saudagar, a Chittagong-based goldsmith and member of the Pakistan Muslim League National Guard, 85-year-old Muhammad Yunus successfully finalized his own political organization, the Jatiya Nagorik Party or the National Citizens’ Party (NCP), on February 27, a day before…
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Terrific operations of Islamic State (ISIS) in Bangladesh
Until 2015, Bangladesh witnessed militant attacks using improvised devices, grenades and machetes on secularists, Awami League members and the police since 2000. The Middle East-based Islamic State (ISIS), which began operations in 2015, had similar targets. The ISIS was formed by former members of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami (HuJI-B), Hizb ut-Tahrir, Ahle…
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The unfinished trial of Rangpur al-Badr commander ATM Azhar
I’m astonished at what the deposed Awami League government had in mind as it left the last legal battle of convicted war criminal ATM Azharul Islam pending for five years and let Jamaat-e-Islami claim the trial farcical now! The Supreme Court’s Appellate Division rejected his appeals against the death penalty pronounced by the International Crimes…
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1971: East Pakistan had many pro-Pakistani army officers
The highest-ranking East Pakistani army officer was Lt Gen Khwaja Wasiuddin, one of the very few to reach the general officer or flag rank
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Disinformation campaign against Awami League: Yunus’ double standards or crime?
After taking office in August last year, the Yunus administration has been supplying the legacy media with information on alleged corruption and enforced disappearance by the Awami League leadership and the security forces in the midst of an investigation when there is a strong public perception of the matters. Without minimum verification, the media outlets,…
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Russia’s prediction was right: Biden-Hillary conspired to unseat Sheikh Hasina
Now that the Trump administration is taking extensive actions to uncover the Democrat’s conspiracy behind the Russia-Ukraine war, people are starting to believe that the disinformation campaign against Vladimir Putin was a conspiracy. Putin was right about Bangladesh, that the US was conspiring an uprising after the January 7 elections last year to overthrow Sheikh…
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US embassy was complicit in Sheikh Mujib’s assassination plot
Some pro-Pakistan army officers of the Bangladesh Army, unable to cope with their defeat in the Liberation War, carried out a brutal massacre at Dhanmondi No. 32 on August 15, 1975, resulting in the death of the then President Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members. Secret documents of the US State Department reveal…
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Jamaat-backed AQIS jihadists out to eliminate Awami League, hit India
Armed militant attacks and calls for jihad have been seen regularly in Bangladesh since 1999, but there was a sudden slowdown in 2005—only after numerous fatalities—with the arrest of a top leader of the Bangladesh branch of Pakistan-based Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HuJI-B), Mufti Abdul Hannan. The following year, after months of denial of their existence,…
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History of Jamaat-linked JMB’s bloody jihad
From 2001 to 2006, at least 54 extremist organizations and foreign militant-fundamentalist organizations under the cover of Islamic NGOs and with the support of the BNP-Jamaat government created a nationwide terrorist network. At that time, under the orders of MPs and ministers and with the cooperation of the police and RAB, they carried out all…
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Yes, it was a US-backed army coup on August 5 to recreate 1/11 after 17 years
From 2005 till January 1, 2007, the same civil society leaders linked to the US embassy were highlighting the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) as a corrupt political entity that patronizes pro-Pakistani jihadist elements, even though the Jamaat-e-Islami and Hefazat Islam’s mother organization Islami Oikyo Jote–a pro-Taliban Qawmi madrasa platform–were also part of that coalition government.…
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As rivalry grows, role of Yunus, US embassy, expat journos, Chhatra Shibir in July-August anarchy is exposed
On February 17, SM Shahed Emon, a student coordinator of the July Uprising, posted a detailed post on Facebook about the role of Jamaat-e-Islami’s student organization Islami Chhatra Shibir and Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, who later became the Chief Adviser to the interim government formed after the fall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.…
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No freedom of press in Bangladesh: Media mum on OHCHR report’s discrepancies
Five days have passed since the OHCHR released the full report on the July-August riots in Bangladesh, yet no media outlet dared publishing any analytical news on it even though the discrepancies are clear. It clearly shows the state of press freedom under the US- and jihadist-backed interim government led by Nobel Prize winner Prof…
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জুলাই অভ্যুত্থানে শিবিরের ভূমিকা নিয়ে ছাত্র সমন্বয়ক ও শিবির নেতাদের বক্তব্য
নতুন দলের দখল নিয়ে ঝগড়ায় নিজেরাই সব ফাঁস করে দিচ্ছে (১) নতুন দলের দখল নিয়ে ঝগড়ায় নিজেরাই সব ফাঁস করে দিচ্ছে (২) নতুন দলের দখল নিয়ে ঝগড়ায় নিজেরাই সব ফাঁস করে দিচ্ছে (৩) নতুন দলের দখল নিয়ে ঝগড়ায় নিজেরাই সব ফাঁস করে দিচ্ছে (৪) আজ ১৭ই ফেব্রুয়ারি জুলাই অভ্যুত্থানের এক ছাত্র সমন্বয়ক এস এম শাহেদ…
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Jihadists enjoying impunity boast how they came to power and want to establish Shariah law in Bangladesh
As days are passing by, radical Islamists and extremist elements have gained more strength in Bangladesh since the August 5 changeover through mob violence, rumours–thanks to the US-sponsored and army-backed interim government’s patronization and silence of the legacy media. In the last six months, several jihadist coordinators of the student movement, and leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami…
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How Hillary Clinton abused power to help Prof Yunus and punish Sheikh Hasina
After the Awami League came to power in 2009, when the irregularities and misdeeds of Grameen Bank started to be exposed, Prof Yunus sought Hillary Clinton’s help. In an email on September 17, Dr Yunus asked Hillary to “find a way to clear her [Sheikh Hasina] mind of all the terrifying thoughts” she had about…
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Muhammad Yunus: A fraudster and hypocrite since childhood
August 13, 1947. The Pakistani crescent-starred flag and white-green festoons were flying on the streets and houses of the Boxirhat area of Chittagong city; political speeches and “Pakistan Zindabad” slogan by thousands of locals filled the entire area. Before midnight, fireworks were set off from the roof of a two-storey house at 20 Boxirhat Road…
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