ট্যাগ Hefazat-e-Islam
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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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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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Awami League’s soft Islamization became a boomerang
Islamization of Bangladesh took place several times—from 1975-96, 2001-06, 2007-08, and 2024-25—every time at the hands of the military or army-backed governments—extensively—with the media and civil society leaders going with the tide. The previous Awami League, the lone secularist force, also allowed a soft Islamization, apparently under pressure from the military intelligence and the Jamaat-backed…
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How dangerous are the Afghan returnee militants of Huji-B?
Bangladesh has been talking about Islamist militancy and extremism, or an armed struggle to establish a Shariah-based state, since early 1999. Members of the Bangladesh branch of the Pakistani militant outfit Harkatul Jihad al-Islami or HuJI attacked poet Shamsur Rahman with the intention of killing him on January 18 of that year. After that, in…
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Qawmi education and Hefazat
Sholakia imam Maulana Farid Uddin Masud, Islamic Foundation DG Shamim Afzal and Hefazat Dhaka unit leader Maulana Yusufi joined the Somoy TV talkshow on Qawmi madrasa. In the wake of “civil war” threat from Hefazat chief Shafi a day before, the education ministry yesterday dropped the draft law from agenda in cabinet meeting. The Qawmi madrasa…
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Islam still safe in Bangladesh, then why tense?
Also published in CNN iReport Couple of months back, majority people were talking about the possible outburst of a third force, a non-political platform that may become a factor to decide the fate of the next general elections due before January. The unpleasant situation became evident because of the widespread misdeeds of the ruling government…
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Fanatics vs Scholars over Shahbagh ‘atheists’
Confrontation over ‘atheist’ issue has been mounting high amid government steps and court’s directions to stop propaganda against Islam and the Occupy Shahbagh protesters, who are demonstrating since February 5 to demand capital punishment for all war criminals and a ban on Jamaat-e-Islami, top leaders of which are the identified war criminals and are facing…
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