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  Veteran Bangladesh cricketer Shakib Al Hasan receives death threat Click here to watch the video  Dhaka, Nov 16 (IANS) Ace Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has received a death threat from a fundamentalist on Facebook Live, accusing the cricketer of blasphemy. Mohsin Talukder, a resident of Shahpur Talukder Para in Sylhet, started a Facebook Live at 12.06 p.m. on Sunday, claiming that Shakib's behaviour had 'hurt Muslims'. He threatened to cut Shakib to pieces with a chopper. The young man even said that that he would walk from Sylhet to Dhaka to kill Shakib if necessary. He reportedly threatened Shakib for inaugurating a Kali Puja in Kolkata. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police, B.M. Ashraf Ullah Taher, said, "We just became aware of the matter. The video link has been handed over to the cyber forensic team. Legal action will be taken soon." Later, the youth again went live on Facebook and apologised for his action. He also advise...

  On the Hindu festival of Durga Puja, Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina termed "communal harmony" as one of the biggest achievements of her decade long rule, but reality on the ground is complex. Lawyer and activist, Rana Dasgupta, is no stranger to death threats, persecution and a battery of cases filed against him, including charges of terrorism and treason.  As general secretary of the Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, a Bangladeshi human rights group that works to unite the country's minorities, he still dreads the thought of facing a treason case filed against him back in 2001.  He was accused of supplying information about minority oppression to a British television channel. “I spoke to Channel 4 of the UK. After the BNP-Jamaat coalition won election in 2001, serious violence erupted against the Hindu community in different parts of the country,” Dasgupta said.   There were reports of harassment of Hindus, including killings, rape, looting, ...

  Lalmonirhat Correspondent,    bdnews24.com Published:  30 Oct 2020 04:17 AM BdST   Updated:  30 Oct 2020 04:17 AM BdST Angry locals in Lalmonirhat’s Burimari have burnt a man to death after beating him up for alleged blasphemy. The incident occurred on the Lalmonirhat-Burimari Highway near Burimari Land Port on Thursday evening. “We’ve heard that the angry locals beat the man to death on hearing that he had made blasphemous remarks about the Quran,” said Sumon Kumar Mohanta, the OC of Patgram Police Station. The victim could not be identified. Locals said a man came on a motorcycle and entered a mosque after the evening prayers. Hundreds of people gathered after hearing that the person said bad stuff about the Quran at the mosque. Some of the locals took the man to Burimari union council office in a bid to save him from the mob, but the angry mob broke into the office and beat him up after dragging him out. They set fire to the man and his motorcycle afte...

 20 Aug 2020 https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/cyber-radicalisation-bangladesh/?fbclid=IwAR3DcDOF01B6IjTQ59qJfzZGfeG0tBe8S5tNavWxnaJMrgj33nPhxuxQWmQ Bangladesh has seen a surge in Islamic radicalisation in the COVID-19 period as more terrorist organisations take to the internet to propagate their cause. Surprisingly, it is the urban, educated youths that are most drawn to militancy. Though radical Islamism is characterised by a critical perspective on modernism and liberalism, extremist groups have embraced modern technology to spread their message. They call it “online jihad.” Looking at the history of Islamist radicalisation, this is not a novel phenomenon. At the beginning of 21 st  century, Osama Bin Laden understood the importance of media. In 2002, he stated, “It is obvious that the media war in this century is one of the strongest methods; in fact, its ratio may reach 90 percent of  the total preparation for the battles .” Bin Laden is said ...

  (Matt Vasilogambros’s post direct from The ATLANTIC on 26 April 2016.) Islamist militants continue to target secular activists, journalists, and religious minorities in the South Asian country. The debate over Islam’s role in Bangladesh has devolved into machete attacks against secularists and religious minorities in homes and on the streets of the overwhelmingly Muslim nation. On Monday, Xulhaz Mannan, an editor at the country’s first LGBT magazine, was hacked to death in his apartment at the hands of several men who posed as couriers. One other person was killed and another injured in the attack in Dhaka, the capital. Mannan, a leading gay-rights advocate, also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Although no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, assailants in previous deadly assaults—including on journalists, minorities, and secular activists—have claimed links to ISIS. The government has, however, dismissed those links, saying ISIS does not...

  (Ruthie Blum’s article direct from The GATESTONE INSTITUTE  on 13 June 2017.) As soon as the statue of "Lady Justice," blindfolded and holding a scale, was erected in the Bangladeshi capital, fundamentalist groups began to protest, on the grounds that the piece of art was "un-Islamic" and constituted idol-worship. Since 2013, dozens of people have been slaughtered in Bangladesh, many with machetes. Although ISIS claimed responsibility for many of the brutal killings, no formal investigation into the murders was ever launched. Instead, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took the opportunity to arrest more than 11,000 people, only 145 of whom were Islamist terrorists. The rest were charged with crimes such as theft and drug-dealing, indicating that it might have been part of Hasina's crackdown on critics since her election in 2008. The arrest on May 26 of 140 secular activists in Bangladesh is the latest in a string of incidents indicating a disturbing shift towards I...