Tag: Hefazat-e-Islam
In a provocative display that has ignited fears of escalating religious tensions, leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami—a pivotal ally of the Yunus-led interim government and key patron of Touhidi Janata mobs—organised a large-scale picnic featuring cow…
Even as the Yunus-led puppet regime unleashes a flood of politicised “investigations” to whitewash its own failures and shield Islamist agitators like Hefazat-e-Islam—the very mob that torched buildings, vandalised vehicles, and terrorised Dhaka in 2013—the…
A delegation of Hefazat-e-Islam led by Mamunul Haque—who is the Secretary General of Bangladesh Khilafat Majlish and Joint Secretary General of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh—is currently on a visit to Afghanistan. They arrived in the country’s capital,…
বাংলাদেশে সশস্ত্র জঙ্গীবাদের ঘটনা ১৯৯৯ সাল থেকে নিয়মিত দেখা গেলেও ২০০৬ সালের পর বড় একটি ছেদ পড়ে। কেননা তখন তিনটি বড় সংগঠনের–আল-কায়েদাপন্থী হরকাতুল জিহাদ আল ইসলামী বাংলাদেশ (হুজি-বি), জামায়াতুল মুজাহিদিন বাংলাদেশ (জেএমবি) ও জাগ্রত মুসলিম…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…