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Just like the baby SuPa POwA!
Bengali Hindus leaving India for Bangladesh, raising intriguing questions
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Just like the baby SuPa POwA!
Stop trolling. Economic growth has nothing to do with any religion. Religion is the main reason for all kind of conflict. South asia should follow Chinese model. No religion and focus on economy only.
i know. what can you do! maybe next generation will be smarter.
How do you want to bar the Saudian Wahabi preachers when that country will donate money to build 560 mosques in BD?
Bangladesh Embarks on Building 560 Mosques with Saudi Financial Aid
Prapti Rahman
Dhaka
2017-04-28
Muslims participate in prayer services at Baitul Mukarram, the national mosque of Bangladesh, April 21, 2017.
Star MailThe Bangladesh government’s decision to build 560 mosques nationwide with almost $1 billion in money from Saudi Arabia could turn counterproductive if conservative groups exploit them to promote Wahhabism over the more moderate Sufi practice of Islam, analysts said.
This week Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s cabinet approved a proposal to build the mosques in each town to spread Islamic culture across the predominantly Muslim South Asian country whose constitution guarantees secular rule.
The government’s Islamic Foundation will oversee construction expected to cost 90.6 billion taka (U.S. $1 billion), officials said. It will be paid through a Saudi grant of 80.17 billion taka ($967 million) with Bangladesh covering the rest.
“Experience shows that the Saudi ideology of Wahhabism spreads incitement against other faiths. People of Bangladesh are peaceful and they are respectful to all religions,” Abdur Rashid, chairman of the Islamic Studies department at Dhaka University, told BenarNews.
Popular in Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism stresses the literal interpretation of the Quran and its followers see other religions, including other strains of Islam, as infidels. Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda and the Islamic State are subscribers of the ideology, which Saudis started spreading in the 1970s.
Sufism, on the other hand, is a less puritanical form of Islam popular in South and Southeast Asia, including Bangladesh. Sufism promotes attaining a spiritual connection with Allah, not establishing Islam through a violently literal interpretation of the Quran.
Rashid cautioned against the government’s decision, saying “there is risk of spreading Wahhabism across the country through these mosques” on the pretext of nourishing Islamic culture.
“So, the government will have to be careful so that violent Wahhabism is not expanded,” he said.
On a positive note, he said the mosques could be used as temporary shelters during natural calamities such as cyclones and floods.
Design plans call for each mosque to have separate prayer and ablution facilities for men and women, a library with materials for children, and guest rooms and training facilities for imams. Construction is to finish by December 2019.
Political concerns
Bangladesh will be holding its next general election in the year 2019, and an opposition leader said Hasina’s government could be using the mosque construction-project for political purposes.
“The prime minister and the government have been patronizing them (Islamic groups) to get votes in the 2019 general elections,” Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the secretary general of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), told BenarNews. The election is tentatively scheduled for January 2019.
Hasina has come under similar criticism lately for siding with the hardline Hefazat-e-Islami’s call to remove the Lady of Justice statue from outside the Supreme Court building, saying the statue of a Greek goddess is unbefitting for Bangladesh. About 90 percent of the country’s 160 million people are Muslims.
Her government also faced accusations from opposition parties of trying to win Muslim votes over its decision to recognize degrees from Qwami madrassas as the equivalent of general master’s degrees.
City of mosques
The mosques are not needed, according to leader from Bangladesh’s Sufi Muslim minority that has been violently targeted by religious extremists.
“Saudi finance is a concern. They may use their money to promote Wahhabism through these mosques,” Rezaul Haq Chandpuri, who is with a federation representing Bangladeshi Sufis, told Agence-France Presse, adding that religious minorities would feel “helpless and insecure.”
Bangladesh already has more than 250,000 mosques, Religious Affairs Minister Matiur Rahman told members of parliament in November 2015. The capital Dhaka, often referred to as the city of mosques, is home to 6,000, according to the Islamic Foundation.
Planning Minister A.H.M. Mustafa Kamal told reporters on Tuesday that Hasina proposed the mosque project during her visit to Saudi Arabia last year and the Saudi King approved it.
Shamim Mohammad Afzal, director general of the Islamic Foundation under the ministry of religious affairs, told BenarNews his organization was prepared to build the mosques.
“Site selection is complete. This initiative of the government will spread the peaceful spirit of Islam,” he said.
Yes but its not so easy. Bd still has 25 percent illiteracy rate not to mention another 25 percent is barley educated. And then you have millions low skilled work in gulf bringing toxic arab wahabi mentality when they visit bd. Saudis i meet in canada most guys and some girls as well all go to night clubs...party like there is no tmr...and then give lecture about religion.
Indonesia is different as they dont have huge work force in gulf also has lot better economy, better education rate, bd is not as same league as Indonesia. To become devloped country you need certain value like good work ethics, integrity, etc which is missing in Bangladesh. These ppl will go to saudi Arabia for hajj yet same ppl will take bribe...involved in unprecedented corruption...lying. maybe new generation are different. Time will tell which way bd goes in next 20 years.
We need more??? Bd already has so many.How do you want to bar the Saudian Wahabi preachers when that country will donate money to build 560 mosques in BD?
Bangladesh Embarks on Building 560 Mosques with Saudi Financial Aid
Prapti Rahman
Dhaka
2017-04-28
Muslims participate in prayer services at Baitul Mukarram, the national mosque of Bangladesh, April 21, 2017.
Star Mail
The Bangladesh government’s decision to build 560 mosques nationwide with almost $1 billion in money from Saudi Arabia could turn counterproductive if conservative groups exploit them to promote Wahhabism over the more moderate Sufi practice of Islam, analysts said.
This week Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s cabinet approved a proposal to build the mosques in each town to spread Islamic culture across the predominantly Muslim South Asian country whose constitution guarantees secular rule.
The government’s Islamic Foundation will oversee construction expected to cost 90.6 billion taka (U.S. $1 billion), officials said. It will be paid through a Saudi grant of 80.17 billion taka ($967 million) with Bangladesh covering the rest.
“Experience shows that the Saudi ideology of Wahhabism spreads incitement against other faiths. People of Bangladesh are peaceful and they are respectful to all religions,” Abdur Rashid, chairman of the Islamic Studies department at Dhaka University, told BenarNews.
Popular in Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism stresses the literal interpretation of the Quran and its followers see other religions, including other strains of Islam, as infidels. Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda and the Islamic State are subscribers of the ideology, which Saudis started spreading in the 1970s.
Sufism, on the other hand, is a less puritanical form of Islam popular in South and Southeast Asia, including Bangladesh. Sufism promotes attaining a spiritual connection with Allah, not establishing Islam through a violently literal interpretation of the Quran.
Rashid cautioned against the government’s decision, saying “there is risk of spreading Wahhabism across the country through these mosques” on the pretext of nourishing Islamic culture.
“So, the government will have to be careful so that violent Wahhabism is not expanded,” he said.
On a positive note, he said the mosques could be used as temporary shelters during natural calamities such as cyclones and floods.
Design plans call for each mosque to have separate prayer and ablution facilities for men and women, a library with materials for children, and guest rooms and training facilities for imams. Construction is to finish by December 2019.
Political concerns
Bangladesh will be holding its next general election in the year 2019, and an opposition leader said Hasina’s government could be using the mosque construction-project for political purposes.
“The prime minister and the government have been patronizing them (Islamic groups) to get votes in the 2019 general elections,” Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the secretary general of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), told BenarNews. The election is tentatively scheduled for January 2019.
Hasina has come under similar criticism lately for siding with the hardline Hefazat-e-Islami’s call to remove the Lady of Justice statue from outside the Supreme Court building, saying the statue of a Greek goddess is unbefitting for Bangladesh. About 90 percent of the country’s 160 million people are Muslims.
Her government also faced accusations from opposition parties of trying to win Muslim votes over its decision to recognize degrees from Qwami madrassas as the equivalent of general master’s degrees.
City of mosques
The mosques are not needed, according to leader from Bangladesh’s Sufi Muslim minority that has been violently targeted by religious extremists.
“Saudi finance is a concern. They may use their money to promote Wahhabism through these mosques,” Rezaul Haq Chandpuri, who is with a federation representing Bangladeshi Sufis, told Agence-France Presse, adding that religious minorities would feel “helpless and insecure.”
Bangladesh already has more than 250,000 mosques, Religious Affairs Minister Matiur Rahman told members of parliament in November 2015. The capital Dhaka, often referred to as the city of mosques, is home to 6,000, according to the Islamic Foundation.
Planning Minister A.H.M. Mustafa Kamal told reporters on Tuesday that Hasina proposed the mosque project during her visit to Saudi Arabia last year and the Saudi King approved it.
Shamim Mohammad Afzal, director general of the Islamic Foundation under the ministry of religious affairs, told BenarNews his organization was prepared to build the mosques.
“Site selection is complete. This initiative of the government will spread the peaceful spirit of Islam,” he said.
Are an idiotic wahabi supporter? Then for you it is a win-win.[/QUOTE]
Are an idiotic wahabi supporter? Then for you it is a win-win.
Do not you see how we and they win? We win because there will be an infusion of Saudi money and we all will study theology and will be awarded an eternal Paradise. KSA will win because of this Wahabi education it will get more of our troops to die in the Yemen front.
Wahabism Is a disease, its fuels hard right fundamentalism and stupid hard right Islamic preachers, its a loss for Bangladesh. Bangladeshs culture is from people like lalon Shah and sufi preachers that first reached bengal. Also a loss of bd troops life's. If those stupid KSA corrupt scumbags want Bangladesh to be involved in Yemen conflict they should find another way, instead of corrupting Bangladeshi cultural fabric. Bd should not get involved in Iran - Saudi proxy war. It should remain neutral.
No, Wahabism may not be a disease because it teaches us the true religion like the ISIS/Taliban ones. You see, how the Muslims from every corner of the world rushed to the ISIS camps and participated in killing the innocents and raping the minority women? It is a part of true religious culture, no doubt!!
BD troops can be promised Paradise for participating on behalf of KSA and being killed. 72 angels are what is important.
Either BD joins the war again Iran-Yemen axis or its workers are sent back home. is there any choice in the long run?
Most of those isis bastards came from Saudi Arabia, its under reported, some Saudi segments even supported it. Wahabism supports fundamental terrorism its bad news for Bangladesh.
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