Bangladesh considering abandoning Islam as its official religion following wake of extremist attacks

[Levina]

Bangladesh considering abandoning Islam as its official religion following wake of extremist attacks
By Jennifer Newton for MailOnline16:18 02 Mar 2016, updated 07:55 03 Mar 2016

• Supreme Court is considering dropping Islam as country's state religion
• The move is being backed by leaders of minority faiths in the country
• It comes after a string of terror attacks against Hindus and Christians
• But Bangladesh government insist terror attacks are not the work of ISIS

Bangladesh could drop Islam as the country's official religion following a string of extremist attacks against people of other faiths.

The supreme court in the South Asia nation has began to hear arguments which challenge Islam's status as the official state religion.

It comes after a spate of attacks against people of other religions such as Hindus, Christians, and minorities Shi'ites, which have been blamed on Islamic extremists.

Demonstrators protest against an extremist-related attack in Bangladesh. The country is now considering dropping Islam as the state religion
When Bangladesh was formed in 1971 after the nation split from Pakistan, it was declared a secular state.

However, in 1988 the country's constitution was amended with Islam declared as the state religion.


But this is now being disputed as illegal in the latest court battle and is being supported by religious minority leaders.

Meanwhile the US has also warned that ISIS is stepping up recruitment in Bangladesh, even though the government says the extremist problems are home grown.

Breitbart: 'We have made arrests on each and every so-called ISIS-claimed attack.

'The attackers have confessed their crimes in court. They have also confessed being a Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh member, and denied any linkage with ISIS.'

However an American director of National Intelligence has insisted attacks were the work of terrorist groups.

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An injured man is carried on a stretcher after a terror attack which saw a publisher of secular books hacked to death in Bangladesh

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A man lies injured after a Bangladesh terror attack. An American director of National Intelligence has insisted attacks were the work of terrorist groups
In a written testimony to the U.S. Senate James Clapper noted the claims of responsibility from ISIS for 11 high profile attacks on foreigners and religious minorities, and claims from the Ansarullah Bangla Team and al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent for killing at least 11 progressive writers and bloggers in Bangladesh since 2013.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh has been in political ferment since the run-up to January 2014 elections.

They were boycotted by opposition parties, and over war crimes prosecutions brought against Jamaat-e-Islami leaders over alleged involvement in atrocities during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence.

Muslims make up some 90 percent of Bangladesh’s population, while Hindus account for 8 percent and other religions—including Buddhism and Christianity—make up the rest.

@Rain Man @Robinhood Pandey @ranjeet

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

Bangladesh considering abandoning Islam as its official religion following wake of extremist attacks
By Jennifer Newton for MailOnline16:18 02 Mar 2016, updated 07:55 03 Mar 2016

• Supreme Court is considering dropping Islam as country's state religion
• The move is being backed by leaders of minority faiths in the country
• It comes after a string of terror attacks against Hindus and Christians
• But Bangladesh government insist terror attacks are not the work of ISIS

Bangladesh could drop Islam as the country's official religion following a string of extremist attacks against people of other faiths.

The supreme court in the South Asia nation has began to hear arguments which challenge Islam's status as the official state religion.

It comes after a spate of attacks against people of other religions such as Hindus, Christians, and minorities Shi'ites, which have been blamed on Islamic extremists.

Demonstrators protest against an extremist-related attack in Bangladesh. The country is now considering dropping Islam as the state religion
When Bangladesh was formed in 1971 after the nation split from Pakistan, it was declared a secular state.

However, in 1988 the country's constitution was amended with Islam declared as the state religion.


But this is now being disputed as illegal in the latest court battle and is being supported by religious minority leaders.

Meanwhile the US has also warned that ISIS is stepping up recruitment in Bangladesh, even though the government says the extremist problems are home grown.

Breitbart: 'We have made arrests on each and every so-called ISIS-claimed attack.

'The attackers have confessed their crimes in court. They have also confessed being a Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh member, and denied any linkage with ISIS.'

However an American director of National Intelligence has insisted attacks were the work of terrorist groups.

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An injured man is carried on a stretcher after a terror attack which saw a publisher of secular books hacked to death in Bangladesh

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A man lies injured after a Bangladesh terror attack. An American director of National Intelligence has insisted attacks were the work of terrorist groups
In a written testimony to the U.S. Senate James Clapper noted the claims of responsibility from ISIS for 11 high profile attacks on foreigners and religious minorities, and claims from the Ansarullah Bangla Team and al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent for killing at least 11 progressive writers and bloggers in Bangladesh since 2013.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh has been in political ferment since the run-up to January 2014 elections.

They were boycotted by opposition parties, and over war crimes prosecutions brought against Jamaat-e-Islami leaders over alleged involvement in atrocities during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence.

Muslims make up some 90 percent of Bangladesh’s population, while Hindus account for 8 percent and other religions—including Buddhism and Christianity—make up the rest.

@Rain Man @Robinhood Pandey @ranjeet

What does that have to do with Extremist attacks? Extremists attacks are the results of forced secularism.

 

[ranjeet]

Bangladesh considering abandoning Islam as its official religion following wake of extremist attacks
By Jennifer Newton for MailOnline16:18 02 Mar 2016, updated 07:55 03 Mar 2016

• Supreme Court is considering dropping Islam as country's state religion
• The move is being backed by leaders of minority faiths in the country
• It comes after a string of terror attacks against Hindus and Christians
• But Bangladesh government insist terror attacks are not the work of ISIS

Bangladesh could drop Islam as the country's official religion following a string of extremist attacks against people of other faiths.

The supreme court in the South Asia nation has began to hear arguments which challenge Islam's status as the official state religion.

It comes after a spate of attacks against people of other religions such as Hindus, Christians, and minorities Shi'ites, which have been blamed on Islamic extremists.

Demonstrators protest against an extremist-related attack in Bangladesh. The country is now considering dropping Islam as the state religion
When Bangladesh was formed in 1971 after the nation split from Pakistan, it was declared a secular state.

However, in 1988 the country's constitution was amended with Islam declared as the state religion.


But this is now being disputed as illegal in the latest court battle and is being supported by religious minority leaders.

Meanwhile the US has also warned that ISIS is stepping up recruitment in Bangladesh, even though the government says the extremist problems are home grown.

Breitbart: 'We have made arrests on each and every so-called ISIS-claimed attack.

'The attackers have confessed their crimes in court. They have also confessed being a Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh member, and denied any linkage with ISIS.'

However an American director of National Intelligence has insisted attacks were the work of terrorist groups.

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An injured man is carried on a stretcher after a terror attack which saw a publisher of secular books hacked to death in Bangladesh

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A man lies injured after a Bangladesh terror attack. An American director of National Intelligence has insisted attacks were the work of terrorist groups
In a written testimony to the U.S. Senate James Clapper noted the claims of responsibility from ISIS for 11 high profile attacks on foreigners and religious minorities, and claims from the Ansarullah Bangla Team and al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent for killing at least 11 progressive writers and bloggers in Bangladesh since 2013.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh has been in political ferment since the run-up to January 2014 elections.

They were boycotted by opposition parties, and over war crimes prosecutions brought against Jamaat-e-Islami leaders over alleged involvement in atrocities during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence.

Muslims make up some 90 percent of Bangladesh’s population, while Hindus account for 8 percent and other religions—including Buddhism and Christianity—make up the rest.

@Rain Man @Robinhood Pandey @ranjeet

I am sure once abandoned it will pole vault to West Bengal.

 

[jamahir]

any progressed country will not have religion as its abiding obsession... the abiding passion of the political system and its people must be progressiveness whose true form is socialism.

and since 2013 three progressives in india have been assassinated - all by close-range shots done by motorcycle-escaping assassins most certainly of the saffroni tendency.

i hope the indian central government makes a note.

 

[bongbang]

I am sure once abandoned it will pole vault to West Bengal.

What do you mean? Islamic state of West Bengal?

 

[ranjeet]

What do you mean? Islamic state of West Bengal?

That's the local chapter of ISIS.

 

[Levina]

any progressed country will not have religion as its abiding obsession... the abiding passion of the political system and its people must be progressiveness whose true form is socialism.

and since 2013 three progressives in india have been assassinated - all by close-range shots done by motorcycle-escaping assassins most certainly of the saffroni tendency.

i hope the indian central government makes a note.

India is not the topic here.

 

[DesiGuy1403]

any progressed country will not have religion as its abiding obsession... the abiding passion of the political system and its people must be progressiveness whose true form is socialism.

and since 2013 three progressives in india have been assassinated - all by close-range shots done by motorcycle-escaping assassins most certainly of the saffroni tendency.

i hope the indian central government makes a note.

All that you said is 100% true..
I swear it..
WHAT??? You don't believe me?
huh..why don't you believe me??
PLEASE believe me...

 

[Parul]

East Pakistan - Bangladesh was carved on basis of Religion. Hence, she can't abandoned Islam as it's official Religion.

 

[chhota bheem]

Bengalis should start drinking cow pee as well....and praying to hasina wajid and what not.

What disgrace!

A people losing their identity in hopes of being accepted

Dude,even if everyone leaves islam in BD ,when even they go out,they will still be called Bangaldeshies because thats their identity.oh by the way even if you become a nonmuslim you will still be called Pakistanie.

 

[untitled]

Well I am all for secular government but how will leaving Islam reduce extremism? Won't that make every Bangladeshi a murtid in the eyes of the extremists?

That's the local chapter of ISIS.

So how are they competing against the local chapter of RSS?

 

[Maarkhoor]

Sheikh Haseena is proven Indian agent and she can do it to make another step closer to Indian annexation of Bangladesh, which is already not in good terms of many powerful Muslim countries because of her policies and she deliberately did this so that no Muslim nation comes to help Bangladesh when India annexed it by force.

 

[ranjeet]

So how are they competing against the local chapter of RSS?

I am sure RSS must be winning in your mind.

 

[Robinhood Pandey]

Well I am all for secular government but how will leaving Islam reduce extremism? Won't that make every Bangladeshi a murtid in the eyes of the extremists?

So how are they competing against the local chapter of RSS?

I guess they are planning to abandone islam at the govt level only not on the personal level.

And if Bangladeshis feel thats right for them then they should do it. After all its their land their rules.

Etremists wont change anyway so why bother about their blackmailing ?

 

[untitled]

I am sure RSS must be winning in your mind.

I don't care for either