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Last week, a co-worker of a Hindu man, "a poor labourer," 25-year-old Dipu Chandra Das, falsely accused him of insulting Islam. A group of Muslims seized Das -- while he was under police protection -- falsely accused him of blasphemy, and beat him to death. Then, shouting "Allahu akbar!'," they tied Das's body to a tree and set it on fire.
There was no evidence whatsoever that Das committed blasphemy. According to Dr. Taslima Nasreen, who herself was forced to flee Bangladesh in 1994 over death threats, after she was accused of blasphemy.
It is high time for the Trump Administration officially to designate Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh a Foreign Terrorist Organization and hold Bangladesh's "interim" leader Muhammad Yunus to account.
An Islamist group last week targeted the office of India's High Commission in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Footage from the scene shows protesters from a group – also linked to the July-August 2024 uprising in Bangladesh -- pulling away the police barricades.
Amid the deteriorating security situation and the hate speeches targeted at India, the Indian Visa Application Centre in Dhaka was temporarily shut down.
The move came hours after India summoned Bangladesh's High Commissioner in New Delhi, Muhammad Riaz Hamidullah, to issue a formal diplomatic protest over inflammatory anti-India statements from Bangladeshi political leaders and recent threats to India's High Commission in Dhaka.
Meanwhile, an elderly Hindu couple was found brutally murdered, their throats slit, at their home in Bangladesh's city of Rangpur. No criminal case has been filed or arrests made over the murder of the couple, whose two sons serve as police officers. The bodies of 75-year-old Jogesh Chandra Roy and his wife, Suborna Roy, were discovered on December 7 by neighbors after repeated knocks at their door went unanswered.
These attacks appear to be just the latest chapter in a war begun on March 25, 1971, when Pakistan's army began a campaign of genocide against the ethnic Bengali and Hindu communities in then East Pakistan (today's Bangladesh). There followed the 10-month Bangladesh Liberation War and later the 13-day Indo-Pakistan war. Both ended on December 16, 1971, with the surrender of Pakistan.
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There was no evidence whatsoever that Das committed blasphemy. According to Dr. Taslima Nasreen, who herself was forced to flee Bangladesh in 1994 over death threats, after she was accused of blasphemy.
It is high time for the Trump Administration officially to designate Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh a Foreign Terrorist Organization and hold Bangladesh's "interim" leader Muhammad Yunus to account.
An Islamist group last week targeted the office of India's High Commission in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Footage from the scene shows protesters from a group – also linked to the July-August 2024 uprising in Bangladesh -- pulling away the police barricades.
Amid the deteriorating security situation and the hate speeches targeted at India, the Indian Visa Application Centre in Dhaka was temporarily shut down.
The move came hours after India summoned Bangladesh's High Commissioner in New Delhi, Muhammad Riaz Hamidullah, to issue a formal diplomatic protest over inflammatory anti-India statements from Bangladeshi political leaders and recent threats to India's High Commission in Dhaka.
Meanwhile, an elderly Hindu couple was found brutally murdered, their throats slit, at their home in Bangladesh's city of Rangpur. No criminal case has been filed or arrests made over the murder of the couple, whose two sons serve as police officers. The bodies of 75-year-old Jogesh Chandra Roy and his wife, Suborna Roy, were discovered on December 7 by neighbors after repeated knocks at their door went unanswered.
These attacks appear to be just the latest chapter in a war begun on March 25, 1971, when Pakistan's army began a campaign of genocide against the ethnic Bengali and Hindu communities in then East Pakistan (today's Bangladesh). There followed the 10-month Bangladesh Liberation War and later the 13-day Indo-Pakistan war. Both ended on December 16, 1971, with the surrender of Pakistan.
'The Bangladesh Hindu Genocide': Radical Islam in Bangladesh
It is high time for the Trump Administration officially to designate Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh a Foreign Terrorist Organization and hold Bangladesh's "interim" leader Muhammad Yunus to account. Under Yunus's interim administration, Bangladesh has
