Bangladesh to Remove Jihad from Madrasa Textbooks October 25, 2017 The new textbooks of the Bangladesh Madrasa Education Board will not contain any chapters with lessons on Jihad, for the first time in nearly four decades. The Bangladesh Madrasa Education Board – also known as the Alia Madrasa Education Board […]
Source: Time BY Feliz Solomon / Dhaka, Bangladesh 12:06 AM ET U.N. agencies convene Monday in Geneva to request a sum of $434 million to fund a massive emergency response to the Rohingya refugee crisis in eastern Bangladesh, where nearly 600,000 people have crossed the border after fleeing recent violence in Myanmar. […]
By AFP – Oct 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Rohingya refugees, who crossed the border from Myanmar two days earlier, walk after they received permission from the Bangladesh army to continue […]
Source: Reuters By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. refugee agency urged Bangladesh on Tuesday to speed up vetting of up to 15,000 Rohingya refugees “stranded” near the border […]
Source: The Guardian Agence France Presse Friday 6 October 2017 00.43 BST Bangladesh on Thursday announced it would build one of the world’s biggest refugee camps to house all the 800,000-plus Rohingya Muslims […]
Source: Reuters By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – Hard-pressed to find space for a massive influx of Rohingya Muslim refugees, Bangladesh plans to chop down forest trees to extend a […]
(Editor: if they can prove they are Myanmar citizens…) By AFP – Oct 02,2017 – Jordan Times In this photo taken on Sunday, a Rohingya Muslim refugee holds her child as she waits to see a doctor at a medical centre at Balukhali refugee camp near the town of […]
Source: The Washington Post By Max Bearak KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh — Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s de facto leader, recently claimed that an unprecedented exodus of half a million Rohingya Muslims from […]
Source: The New York Times By HANNAH BEECH BALUKHALI, Bangladesh — Nazir Hossain, the imam of a village in far western Myanmar, gathered the faithful around him after evening prayers last […]
Source: BBC News Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been arriving in Bangladesh with minimal belongings they gathered in a last-minute rush. They say they had to flee to […]
Source: Associated Press By AL-EMRUN GARJON and TOFAYEL AHMEDo COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — The Bangladeshi prime minister was traveling Tuesday to struggling refugee camps that have absorbed hundreds of […]
Source: BBC News More than 18,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state have entered Bangladesh in less than a week, aid workers say. The crisis erupted after Rohingya […]
Source: Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A Bangladesh court has sentenced to death 10 leaders and activists from a banned Islamist group for a plot in 2000 to kill […]
Source: BBC News A well-known Bangladeshi human rights activist has disappeared after leaving his home in the capital Dhaka on Monday. Farhad Mazhar – a columnist who is often critical […]
Source: New Republic Are Protestants concealing a Catholic-size sexual abuse scandal? BY KATHRYN JOYCE June 20, 2017 It was a hot day in July, a Saturday afternoon, and Kim James […]
Source: http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/06/12/ahmadiyya-faith-found-space-bangladesh/ | Tarek Mahmud The Ahmadiyya ideology, a variation of the Muslim faith developed by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadian, came to Bangladesh with a parcel of medicines in 1912, according to the Pakkhik Ahmadi – a fortnightly magazine of the Ahmadiyya community in Bangladesh. Doulat Ahmed Khan, a lawyer who lived […]
Source: http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/06/12/life-constant-fear-ahmadiyyas-bangladesh/ “There are people who do not consider Muhammad (Pbuh) the last prophet. The Quadiani community is among them. They believe more prophets will appear after Muhammad (Pbuh). Their belief is in firm contradiction of the Qu’ran and Sunnah.”… This passage is an excerpt from a creative questionnaire which was […]
Source: http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/06/12/a-history-of-repression/ | Tarek Mahmud There exists a pervading culture of attacking the Ahmadiyya community in Bangladesh The Ahmadiyya community in Bangladesh has found itself a victim of attacks for over half a century. Since 1963, 13 Ahmadis have been killed. From 2000, about 100 attacks on the Ahmadiyya community have been […]
Dhaka Tribune: In 1912. a lawyer in Brahmanbaria sent for medicine from a pharmacy Lahore, which arrived in a package containing a brochure of the Ahmadiyya ideology The Ahmadiyya ideology, a variation of the Muslim faith developed by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadian, came to Bangladesh with a parcel of medicines […]
Source: The Guardian A statue of Lady Justice has been removed from the supreme court building in the Bangladeshi capital after objections from Islamist groups. The sculpture, by the local […]