How Arabization changed Islam in Asia
Source: Asia Times Spreading to even the remotest hamlets in the 1980s, a more devout, less tolerant creed nurtured fundamentalism across the region By Jeff Kingston In the introduction to […]
Bangladesh sentences 16 to death for burning teen girl alive
Source: DW Bangladesh sentences 16 to death for burning teen girl alive Nusrat Jahan had reported the principal of a religious school for attempted rape, but was then burnt alive […]
Bangladesh bride walks to groom’s home in stand for women’s rights
25 September 2019 Newly-weds Khadiza Akter Khushi and Tariqul Islam broke with ancient tradition during their wedding When 19-year-old Khadiza Akter Khushi led hundreds of people to the home […]
Rohingya in Bangladesh face tide of hostility as welcome turns to fear
Sep 17, 2019 – 06:13 By Poppy McPherson and A S M Suza Uddin COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – When more than 730,000 Rohingya fled into Bangladesh from […]
Bangladesh: Under-construction Ahmadiyya mosque vandalised in Netrakona
Panic gripped a handful of Ahmadiyya Muslims living in ward 1 in Netrakona town as several hundred sectarian people vandalised their under-construction mosque on Friday afternoon. About 400 people, mostly […]
Bangladesh to remove the word ‘virgin’ from Muslim marriage certificates
Source: The Guardian The word “virgin” must be removed from Muslim marriage certificates in Bangladesh, the country’s top court has said, a landmark verdict after campaigners challenged the “humiliating and discriminatory” […]
These Rohingya women were raped and had to watch their children being murdered – listen to their stories
The guilt of coming home to my own three- and five-year-old left me unable to sleep at night. Why should their lives be of more value to the world than […]
Satellite images show Myanmar’s ‘minimal preparations’ for Rohingya return: think-tank
Jul 24, 2019 – swissinfo.ch YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar has made “minimal” preparations for the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees sheltering in neighbouring Bangladesh, according to […]
Spreading the message of environment conservation & peace, Bangladeshi Ahmadi Muslim cyclists reach Chandigarh
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com CHANDIGARH: Cyclists travelling from Dhaka with the message of environment conservation and peace reached Chandigarh on Wendesday. They will be further travelling to Leh and then return. The two young cyclists from Bangladesh are Mohammad Robiul Islam and Jahangir Aalam, both members of Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Sharing about […]
Rethinking How We Talk About the History of Bengal’s Muslims
‘The Bengal Diaspora: Rethinking Muslim Migration’ fills what is missing in existing Partition Studies and speaks to our times. Rituparna Roy “Our focus on Muslim migration is deliberate. It […]
Bangladesh changes prison breakfast after 200 years
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP BGD/Dhaka Division/Dhaka Published 16.06.2019 Bangladesh authorities have upgraded a 200-year-old colonial-era breakfast menu in all its prisons, an official said Sunday, as part of a […]
Bangladesh: Ahmadiyyas arrange food for commoners on Eid day
Staff Correspondent | Published: 19:13, Jun 05,2019 The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Bangladesh to share the joy of the Eid-ul-Fitr with commoner masses offering them sweetmeats at Bakshibazar in Dhaka on […]
I thought I understood the healing power of food during Ramadan – until I cooked with refugees who’d lost everything
Most of us can’t imagine the horror of being forced to flee our homes due to war. But food is often the balm that we need to soothe our souls […]
In Bangladesh, Reimagining What a Mosque Might Be
Source: The New York Times By Michael Snyder THE AMBER DENIM mosque sits at the back of a factory compound deep in the industrial sprawl north of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s frenetic capital […]
Bangladesh: Ahmadiyya leaders allege police of discrimination
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Bangladesh yesterday alleged that police in Panchagarh are showing discriminatory attitude towards them. Leaders of the community were speaking at a press conference at its headquarters in Dhaka, where they also alleged that police did not register a case in two and a half months […]
Bangladesh: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at holds 95th national convention
Staff Correspondent | Published: 17:26, May 02,2019 | The 95th annual convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in Bangladesh begins at Ahmadnagar in Panchagarh on Thursday. — Press Release The 95th […]
Bangladesh: Cleric Demands Ahmadis Be Declared ‘Non-Muslim’
By UCAN By Stephan Uttom and Rock Ronald Rozario A prominent hard-line Sunni cleric’s call for authorities in Bangladesh to officially declare adherents of the Ahmadi sect as “non-Muslims” has triggered a barrage of criticism. Maolana Shah Ahmed Shafi, head of Hefazat-e-Islam (Protectors of Islam), an umbrella organization of radical […]
Bangladesh: Nusrat Jahan Rafi: Burned to death for reporting sexual harassment
By Mir SabbirBBC Bengali, Dhaka Share Image copyrightFAMILY HANDOUT Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused with kerosene and set on fire at her school in Bangladesh. Less than two weeks earlier, she had filed a sexual harassment complaint against her headmaster. Her courage in speaking out against sexual assault, her death […]
Nusrat Jahan Rafi: Burned to death for reporting sexual harassment
By Mir Sabbir; BBC Bengali, Dhaka Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused with kerosene and set on fire at her school in Bangladesh. Less than two weeks earlier, she had filed […]
Bangladesh: Shafi demands Ahmadiyya Muslims be declared as non-Muslims
Source: The Dhaka Tribune By Sazzadur Rahman Sazzad, Panchagarh His written speech was read by his son Anas Madani Hefazat-e-Islam chief Shah Ahmed Shafi has demanded the Ahmadiyya Muslim community—also […]