Source: Daily Star MIXING RELIGION WITH POLITICS An otherwise little known group Hefazat-e-Islam has become instrumental in winning election, especially at a time when everyone has thought that secularism in Bangladesh taking a strong foothold. Political use of religion–especially Islam–is back, and it seems to have all the ingredients to […]
Source: BDNews 24 A Dhaka court has remanded three Hifazat-e Islam activists for four days to police custody in two cases filed over the May 5 violence in capital Dhaka’s Motijheel. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Erfanullah also rejected bail petitions of the detainees on Monday. Police on Sunday detained Hifazat’s […]
Source: BD News 24 By Reazul Bashar It was Monday morning, at around 11am, when a stroll at Paltan Intersection towards Comrade Moni Singha Intersection revealed heaps of ashes lying on the footpath to the left. There were rows of bookstalls selling old books there even until Sunday noon. Hifazat-e […]
Source: BD News 24 Kamal Hossain Talukder DHAKA: Hifazat-e Islam had lost control over its Sunday’s rally, Junaid Babu Nagari, Secretary General of the organisation, told detectives during interrogations on the first day of his police remand. When asked who were then controlling the rally, Monirul Islam, Joint Commissioner, Detective Branch, […]
Source: The Daily Star. DHAKA: A number of copies of the holy Quran were burnt when the stalls and pushcarts of hawkers were set ablaze during the violence at the south gate of Baitul Mukarram mosque Sunday afternoon. Hundreds of people gathered near the south gate of Baitul Mukarram […]