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BANGLADESHTREADING THE TALIBAN TRAIL

EditorJAIDEEP SAIKIA

Islam is on rise in Bangladesh.

In coming days the South Asia will witness a more intense Islamic terror.

Aniruddha
Ali riaz vreferences a 8 march 1999 public meeting in Dhaka, where IOJ supporters held up banners and chanted the slognas.

“Amra sobai hobo Taliban, Bangla hobe Afghanistan”(“We will be the Taliban. andBangladesh will be Afghanistan”)

Aniruddha
Ali riaz vreferences a 8 march 1999 public meeting in Dhaka, where IOJ supporters held up banners and chanted the slognas.

Because of fundamentalist Islamism, Bangladesh was liable to become the “next Afghanistan”.

Aniruddha
A new York Times article followed in 23 January 2005.

Madrassa-Schools for terroristsTotal number of madrassas in

Bangladesh is 8,897.They are monitored by rich

Islamic countries like Saudi-Arabia.

Madrassas are essentially free and run on the name of religion,

3.34 million pupils are now studying at Bangladesh’s Thousands of

Madrassas, nearly five times as many as even in Pakistan.

Bangladesh- Independent Islamic stateSince 1971, Bangladesh witnessed dismantling of its secularist principles.

A constitutional amendment in 1988 declared Islam as state religion in Bangladesh.

Islamic teachingsThe vast majority of Islamic schools or madrassas are simply teaching students to be more devoted Muslims.

And to be a devoted Muslim is to be a good Terrorist.

Islamisation of Bangladesh

Deletion of Article 12: It effectively withdrew the mandate for a secular government.

Article 8: Replacement of the word “secularism” with the words “absolute trust in the almighty Allah.”

Addition of Clause 2 of Article 25: “The state shall endeavor to consolidate, preserve and strengthen fraternal relations among Muslim countries based on Islamic solidarity.”

Islamic lawAccording to Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh’s constitution should be replaced by an “Islamic form of government” and Islamic law.

It opposes- “nationalist, secularist, and socialist leaders”

Jamaat’s five line motto includes a declaration that “Jihad is our means.”

Jamaat-e-IslamiJamaat has been concerned in

the killing of university professors during the bloody events of 1971.

Jammat was banned from political activities , but in 1977 was allowed once again to participate in the Bangladesh politics.

Islamic teachingsMadrassas follow a form of Deobandi Islam that was taught in the 1950s. They define Muslim politics in opposition to Indian nationalism.

Islam can never be secu;arUnited states feels that moderation continues to determine Islamic practice in Bangladesh, then it should think again.

There can be no improvement in Bangladesh until Islam is there.

Terrorist links with MadrassasJamaat and Islami Chhatra Shibir have ties to madrassas.

These organizations have been implicated in a number of bombings and politically and religiously motivated assassinations.

Indo-Bangladesh borderThe Bangladesh Rifles (BDR)

have routinely clashes with the Indian Border Security (BSF).

BSF deputy commandant, B.R. Mondal and fifteen BSF jawans were murdered, and some of the BSF jawans were killed were slung on bamboo poles and carried away like animals.

The Indian Border Security Force (BSF): “The rebel from North-East India maintain at least 195 camps inside Bangladesh.”

Claim of Bangladesh to India’s North East was greater than that of India.

Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami-Bangladesh (HUJI-B)

Their main objective is to establish Islamic rule in Bangladesh.

It has demonstrated connections to Osama Bin Laden.

Their leaders and members have demonstrated willingness to resort violence to advance its agenda.

HUJI-B -Connections to Osama Bin Laden

HUJI-B’s founder, Fazul Rahman, was one of the main signatories to Osama Bin Laden’s 23 February, 1998 fatwa, “World Islamic Front Statement Urging Jihad against Jews and Crusaders,” which declares US civilians to be the legal target for attack

Islamisation of North-East

Pakistan with Bangladeshi complicity is engaged in strategic, deliberate campaign to destabilize North East and Militaries Bangladeshi Islamic migrants.

Plight of Hindu Minorities in Bangladesh

Hindus in Bangladesh make up for less than 10% of total population

Hindu Places of worship were ransacked.

Villages were destroyedHindu women were raped.All this because Hindu tended to

vote “Awami League.”

Ethnic Cleansing of Hindus in

1941

1951

1961

1974

1981

1991

2001

0.00%

5.00%

10.00%

15.00%

20.00%

25.00%

30.00%

Hindu Population of East Bengal/East Pakistan/ Bangladesh

Hindu Population

Aniruddha
Sources: Bangladesh: A country Study, Ed. J.Heitzman & R.L. Worden, 2nd edition, Fedral Research Division, Library of Congress, Publisher US Army, 1989, pp. 250, 255

Torture of Non-MuslimsSalam Azad wrote a book about

the plight of the minorities and growing Islamization of his country-Bangladesh.

Most of his works are banned in Bangladesh.

Because of persecution, Azad’s wife and he are now temporary resident of India.

Usurped Hindu landsBecause of Atrocities in Bangladesh by

Muslims, millions of Hindus emigrated to West Bengal and Tripura

The land they left behind was taken over by the State.

Land was leased to others through Evacuee Property Management Committee.

US State Department:“Approximately 2.5 million acres of land was seized from Hindus and almost all of the 10 million Hindus in the country were affected”

Aniruddha
Abul barkat ed., An enquiry into Causes and consequences of Deprivation of Hindu Minorities in Bangladesh through the Vested Property Act(Dhaka Prip Trust, 2000).

Non-Muslims Massacred by BNP

On 16 November, Gopal Krishna Muhuri, Principal of Nazirhat College in Chittagong, was shot dead at his home.

A journalist Shahriar Kabir was arrested, who has sought to publicize abuse against Hindus.

Christians were killed by bombs in the church of Baniachong.

A Buddhist religious priest named Gyanjoti Bhikku at Raujan under Chittagong District was killed.

Hindus were not allowed to vote in Bangladesh

In1992, during the government of Khaleda Zia, many anti-Hindu pogroms took place.

Hindus were not allowed to vote in 2001 because they refused to forgive Khaleda Zia.

Hindus were threatened by the members of BNP-led alliance not to vote.

Within 45 days after the election conducted, million of Hindus were tortured.

Hindus Raped and Massacred in Bangladesh

The attackers entered the home of a college student, ransacked the house, looted valuable and raped her in front of her mother.

The attackers came at night, told the family that they should leave the area because they voted for Awami League. Then they tied up the husbands and raped the women.

Aniruddha
In Azimnagar, bhanga, faridpur.On 6 october about 9 P.M.
Aniruddha
In Dec 2001 report titled, "BANGLADESH: ATTACKS ON MEMBERS OF THE HINDU MINORITY,"The AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL provides the following information:

Jiziya-The tax of being a Non-Muslim8 December 2001, Bangladeshi

newspaper reported: 50 Christian families in Notre were subjected by the nightmare of the hoodlums.

Give ransom or Girl, ordered hoodlums

Raping Hindus out of BangladeshReligious cleansing of Hindus is

the primary goal.The underlying policy is “jane

maaris na, ijjat maar” (don’t kill them, rape their women).

Condition of Minorities in Bangladesh

The minorities of Bangladesh have only three options.

To change their faith and become Muslims

To leave the country, leaving behind all their possessions in Bangladesh

Get external support to combat the situation.

Rohingyas-A Muslim Minority in Burma

In 1978, 2,00,00 Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh after Burma’s military government had launched a campaign to rid the area of Illegal migrants.

In 1980s, more radical elements among the Rohingyas broke away from the RPF to set up Rohingyas Solidarity Organization(RSO).

Nearly 100 RSO rebels were reported to be undergoing training in the Afghan provience of Khost with Hizb-e-Islami Mujahideen.

Bangladeshi in DelhiMore than 1,50,000 Bangladeshis

who have migrated to Delhi, primarily from the districts of Khulna, Bagerhat, Faridpur, and Barisal.

Politicians like H. K. L. Bhagat have organized ration cards and free weekly medical care for these migrants

History DistortedSchool children of Bangladesh are made to believe that the Marauders of 1971 were “Indians”

History books only referred to the “allied” forces assisting the freedom fighters without naming any Country.

Indian sacrifice gone in vain

India contributed in blood, sweat, and money to Bangladesh liberation war in 1971.

Sacrifices made by Indian soldiers have been totally erased from public memoies.

After Independence, Bangladesh gave up secularism and projected India not as a neighbor but as a bully.

Economic persecution of Minorities

In 1993, BNP government enacted a law.

Minorities were not allowed to withdraw a large amount from the banks.

The commercial banks also stopped the disbursement of business loans to Minorities.

Local officials and law enforcing agencies side with the Muslim majority population against the minorities.

Indian Congress encouraged Migration Since 1961,Congress party

encouraged illegal migrants from Bangladesh to build up its Vote Bank.

The Congress and its successor has always ranked winning elections and remaining in power on higher priorities than security and integrity of the country.

Increasing population of Bangladesh

Bangladesh declared Islam as state religion in 1988.

Muslim personal law sanctions a plurality of wives.

They do not practice Family Planning.

Increasing population results in poverty and Lebensraum.

Bangladesh- Haven for Smugglers Bangladesh is a transit point for

drugs and precious stones.Myanmar cannot send drugs to

Bangladesh without traveling through India’s North East.

Bangladeshi ports are outlets for this illegal trade.

Drugs TradeAbout 80% of heroin from

Myanmar is sent through this route.

The entire operation fetches 600 to 1,000 crore Indian rupees annually.

About one-fifth of this amount goes into the pockets of very important people of these countries.

Bangladeshi Lebensraum Bangladesh’s prerogative to

increase its population just as it pleases.

Bangladesh consider it as their divine right to migrate in search of “lebensraum”.

Bangladesh consider it as a responsibility of the neighboring countries to provide jobs, shelter and food to its illegal immigrants.

Assam-If they want to survive in their land

Refuse to sell their land to any Bangladeshi, at any cost offered.

Ask the politicians what his stand on the Bangladeshi issue is.

Ask the elected representatives, what progress has been made towards the detection, disfranchisement and deportation of foreign nationals.

Population of Assam

1901 197102468

10121416

Assam Population increased from 3.29 million to 14.6 million within 70

years

Assam Population

Population of AssamAssam population has doubled

itself within 30 years because of massive infiltration from Bangladesh.

AGP Reveled: No government has the courage to say that it would prefer to rather fall than to remain a government for the illegal immigrants.

Works on “role of Indian army” by Secular Bangladeshi intellectuals was pilloried and banned.

Bangladesh has emerged as the biggest illegal arms bazaar in the South Asia region.

It is Unrealistic to that believe that the conditions under which Bangladesh was born would remain that forever

Islamic countries to help Terrorist

The United Nations settled the refugee crises eventually.

But wealthy Saudi Arabian charity Rabita al Alam al Islami began sending aid to the Rohingya refugees in 1978.

In 1980, more redical elements among the Rohingyas broke away from the RPF to set up the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO).

General Ziaur RahmanIn 1977, he de-secularized the

constitution, legitimized the banned, communal and Islamist fundamentalist parties.

He shifted the country’s foreign policy towards forging close ties with Pakistan, China, Saudi Arabia other Muslim countries.

Relations of Bangladesh with PakistanBangladesh’s intelligence

community NSI and the DGFI have close links with Pakistan’s Intelligence community ISI.

Bangladesh-Pakistan relations are too close, including ties of marriages.

The ISI and the DGFI have been conjointly fomenting cross-border terrorism in India’s north-east.

DGFIDirectorate General of Forces

IntelligenceDGFI supports ATTF and the NLFT

for frequently killing and kidnapping Bengali Hindus for Ransom.

DGFI bribes the Indian journalists and Editor.

At the marriage of the daughter of a Kolkata-based journalist, the DGFI supplied a quintal of Hilsha fish.

Aniruddha
ATTF-ALL TRIPURA TIGER FORCE
Aniruddha
NLFT-NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT OF TRIPURA

Al-Qaeda

ISI in the mid-1990s had been instrumental in creating the Taliban movement and also had extensive contacts with Al-Qaeda.

Soon after Taliban were expelled, 3,000 Al-Qaeda fugitives from Afghanistan fled to Pakistan, and thence to Bangladesh via Nepal.

DGFI-Political contact in India

During the last parliamentary elections in

India 2004, about 7 candidates received

significant amounts of money from DGFI in Kolkata

DGFI has classified Indian journalists and media commentators in four categories.

Reds: Die-hard anti-BangladeshiPink: Opposed to the present BNP-

Jamaat regimeYellow: Actively cooperative, but

do not want others to about itGreen: most trusted, serve

Bangladesh with great dedication

Greens in IndiaThere are about 30 Greens in

IndiaThey are among newspaper and

TV reporters, news editors, political editors, bureau chiefs, resident editors, correspondents of foreign media house, freelancers and executive aditors.

DGFI pays them.

Illegal Bangladeshi Muslim-migrants in Assam

According to 1971 census, districts of Assam, Dhubri, Barpeta, Hailakandi and Goalpara are Muslim Majority Districts.

Three other Districts, Karimganj, Nagaon and Morigaon had more than 40% Muslim Population.

Globalization of Islam

In an Interview with the Karachi-based newspaper, Ummat on 28 September, 2001, bin laden said:“There are areas in all parts of the world where strong jihadi forces are present, from Bosnia to Sudan, and from Burma to Kashmir,”

Society can not hope to survive unless it can provide all services it needs from within.A society that lacks skilled and unskilled workers is removed or replaced.Today no society can survive, without its full complement of skilled and semi-skilled workers.