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Without much criticality or evidence, we often talk about eliminating certain school streams or combining non-mainstream routes with mainstream education. ....
Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com Published: 11 May 2021 10:39 AM BdST Updated: 11 May 2021 10:39 AM BdST In the 1980s, groups of young men from Bangladesh travelled to Afghanistan to join the jihad against the Soviet occupation forces. Fast forward to present day four decades later: police believe more young Bangladeshis are pursuing the same path to extremism. ); } Three young men from Bangladesh have recently abandoned home for ‘hijrat’, or hegira migration for the cause of Islam and taken up the banner of Islamist terrorism in Afghanistan, according to officials in the police’s Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime Unit or CTTC. The police can confirm that two of them, Abdur Razzak from Cumilla and Shibbir Ahmed from Sylhet, have already made their way to the rugged, mountainous terrain of Afghanistan. ....
Jan 6, 2021 In early 2017, a tussle around a statue of a woman personifying justice became a proxy for the longstanding tensions between Islamist and secular groups in Bangladesh. The sculpture, erected in front of the Supreme Court Complex in capital Dhaka, triggered a series of protests spearheaded by Hefazat-e-Islam, a hard-line Islamist group based in Chittagong. Islamist groups deem such statues to be anti-Islamic, often associating them with idol worship a strictly forbidden practice in Islam. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina subsequently signaled support for the statue’s removal from the Supreme Court premises. Despite the outcry from secular groups, the authorities quietly relocated the statue to the annex building of the Supreme Court, away from the public eye. The ruling Awami League an in-principle secular political party is not new to the religious groups’ threats of escalating protests. In hindsight, this may look like a minor political compromi ....
Left unchecked and periodically molly-coddled, Bangladesh’s Islamist parties could spell havoc for its democracy. By December 22, 2020 Advertisement In early 2017, a tussle around a statue of a woman personifying justice became a proxy for the longstanding tensions between Islamist and secular groups in Bangladesh. The sculpture, erected in front of the Supreme Court Complex in capital Dhaka, triggered a series of protests spearheaded by Hefazat-e-Islam, a hardline Islamist group based in Chittagong. Islamist groups deem such statues to be anti-Islamic, often associating them with idol worship – a strictly forbidden practice in Islam. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina subsequently signaled support for the statue’s removal from the Supreme Court premises. Despite the outcry from secular groups, the authorities quietly relocated the statue to the annex building of the Supreme Court, away from the public eye. The ruling Awami League – an in-principle secular p ....