ট্যাগ secularism
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Bangladesh’s power dynamics: Yunus and Hasina’s similar tactics
The most notable distinction lies in their external support: Yunus is propped up by Islamists, Pakistan, the West, and the United Nations, while Hasina drew strength from secularists, India, and Russia
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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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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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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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Why is ‘Joy Bangla’ slogan so powerful?
“Joy Bangla” meant hail Bangla or long live Bangla, referring to the land where the Bengali-speaking people lived in undivided India. The slogan, first used by our great national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam with the spirit of Bengali nationhood in 1942, became the strongest words against domination and discrimination of the West Pakistani military rulers.…
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Negligence of the state to be blamed for murder of another secular activist in Bangladesh
He is the third secular writer to have been killed in less than three months! It was evident; even more to follow — thanks to the reluctance of the so-called progressive government! The head of state as well as her parrots are eliminating the militants during their speeches; that’s all. No effective operation is seen…
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What did Oyasiqur write that he’d be killed?
A war crimes trial campaigner, he was critical of radical Islamists in jamaat and militant organisations, he protested delay in Avijit Roy murder case, corruption of the government, violation of human rights of the indigenous people and religious minorities. But the govt neither killed him nor sued him for hurting religious sentiment. The killers including…
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কি চমৎকার দেখা গেলো, আরেকটা নাস্তিক মারা পড়লো
ঘটনাক্রমঃ * হেফাজতের হাটহাজারী মাদ্রাসার ছাত্র জিকরুল্লাহ ঢাকায় আসে শনিবার এবং যাত্রাবাড়ীর একটি মাদ্রাসায় রাত কাটায়। * রবিবার বিকেলে চার খুনি হাতিরঝিলে পরিকল্পনা করে। তারা হলো জিকরুল্লাহ, এবং মিরপুরের দারুল উলুম মাদ্রাসার আরিফুল ইসলাম, আবু তাহের ও মাসুম। আলোচনা শেষে তিনজনকে তিনটা চাপাতি দেয় মাসুম। * পরিকল্পনা অনুযায়ী সেদিন সন্ধ্যায় টার্গেট ওয়াশিকুর বাবু‘র দক্ষিণ বেগুনবাড়ির…
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Be either secular or religious, not both
Secular scholars are killed, others threatened by radical Muslims of constitutionally-secular Bangladesh in 2015, a state which recognised Islam as the state religion, based on population, and declared by an army ruler in 1986!!! The party which introduced secularism in the first constitution of 1972, now in power with the deposed military dictator, amended the…
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বাংলাদেশে উগ্রপন্থার শেষ কোথায়?
অবস্থাদৃষ্টে মনে হচ্ছে, প্রথমত যারা এসব ঘটনা ঘটাচ্ছে তাদের দল, যারা এদের উস্কানী দিচ্ছে সেইসব রাজনৈতিক ও ধর্মীয় গুরুরা, এবং সর্বোপরি ক্ষমতাবানেরা সাম্প্রতিক ধর্মীয় উগ্রপন্থীদের শিকারে পরিণত হবেনা। হবে বৌদ্ধ ও হিন্দুরা, আদিবাসীরা, দলিত সমাজের সদস্যরা, সংখ্যালঘু মুসলিম গোষ্ঠী যেমন শিয়া, আহমদীয়া ও আহলে হাদিসের সমর্থকেরা, এবং অসাম্প্রদায়িক ও ঈশ্বরে অবিশ্বাসীরা। সুবিধাবাদী ও সুবিধাভোগীদের দল…
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WikiLeaks: Gen Zia’s first address as DCMLA
This cable was sent by the US envoy in Dhaka Boster on May 3, 1976 describing what Gen Ziaur Rahman told a May Day rally at Suhrawardy Udyan. In a hastily scheduled rally on May Day, General Ziaur Rahman gave a rousing patriotic speech calling once more for unity and discipline to safeguard the sovereignty…
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