Mamunul Haque has dedicated his life to Islam. How did he misunderstand his religion so spectacularly as to think it required him to commit acts of violence against unbelievers?
“Dhaka: Leader of radical Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam, which is leading riots against PM Modi’s Bangladesh visit, arrested in 2020 violence case,” OpIndia, April 20, 2021:
Mamunul Haque, an influential leader of hardcore Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam in Bangladesh, was arrested by Dhaka police on Sunday on the charges of instigating violence, attempt to murder, assault and vandalism relating to a case filed last year. Harunur Rashid, a senior Dhaka Metropolitan Police official, informed in a short briefing that Haque was arrested from a madrassa in the capital of Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area.
The Islamist organization Hefazat-e-Islam of which Mamunul is the joint secretary is said to be the instigator behind violent riots and targeted attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Muslim-majority nation.
Several other Hifazat leaders have been accused in several cases, including planned attacks on police and police stations and vandalism which are being investigated.
More than 300 people have been arrested till now for their involvement in the cases of arson, vandalism and violence during the period 26-28 March in various towns of Bangladesh.
Mamunul Haq [sic] has been sent on seven-day remand after the police produced him before the court on Monday.
The Chief of the Hefazat-e-Islam Junayed Babunagari in a video message demanded unconditional release of all the religious leaders of the organization including Mamunul Haque and the party’s Organising Secretary Azizul Haque Islamabadi.
Violence in Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had extended an invitation to India’s PM Narendra Modi to join a March 26 celebration of the country’s 50th anniversary of independence. The radical group had warned the government of bloodshed if the visit took place.
The two-day visit was overshadowed by the violence. At least 17 supporters of Hefazat-e-Islam were killed in separate clashes with police as they attacked a police station and other government buildings, and blocked highways elsewhere in the country to wreck havoc in the country to supposedly oppose the visit.
What is Hefazat-e-Islam
Established in 2010, the Hefazat-e-Islam controls the largest number of madrasas running into thousands in Bangladesh. The organization came into prominence after its hardline Islamist demands during the 2013 Shahbagh protest movement in Dhaka.
In its 13 point demand, Hefazat-e-Islam demanded an anti-blasphemy law with death penalty as punishment, ban on erecting sculptures, declaring Ahmadiyas as non-Muslims and several restrictions on social gathering between men and women among others….
The same radical Islamist group was responsible for ransacking over 80 houses of Hindus in the village of Sunamganj, Bangladesh after a young Hindu man from the village, uploaded a video criticizing Mamunul Haque’s speech.
Many local Hindus had to flee their homes fearing for life which gave the attackers an opportunity to ransack and loot their homes.
Wellington says
Arrested for instigating violence, attempted murder, assault and vandalism?
Sounds like someone following in the footsteps of Islam’s reputed founder, one Mohammed by name. So, gee, where did this guy go wrong?
There is no way to square the Islamic theological blueprint with anything that is decent, wise and beholden to traditional concepts of liberty that go the whole way back to ancient Greece. Put another way, other major religions can adapt and have adapted to the importance of freedom—and I mean real freedom which must be accompanied by the realization and conviction that freedom does not equate to license (certainly missed upon many like the Hollywood crowd).
Islam has not adapted to this conception of freedom and never will. One example of this is that while Christians don’t go bezerk if one criticizes Jesus or Buddhists don’t go bezerk if you criticize Buddha, Muslims aplenty will indeed go bezerk to the point of killing if you dare criticize Mohammed.
Again I assert that Islam is the turd in the punch bowl of world religions. It is irredeemable. I proceed upon this assumption based primarily, though not exclusively, because of the character of Mohammed as revealed by the Islamic texts. This man anticipated Adolf Hitler in sundry ways and so it is no wonder that Hitler remains to this day greatly admired throughout the Islamic world.
gravenimage says
+1
john smith says
Seconded
jule says
Surah 2:216 Fighting is prescribed for you, & you dislike it. But is it possible that you dislike a thing that is good for you and that you love what is bad for you. (no question mark) But Allah knows and you know not.
gravenimage says
Bangladesh: Muslim leader arrested for instigating violence, attempted murder, assault and vandalism
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At least he was arrested for this–not something you can necesarily count on in a place like Bangladesh.
Infidel says
Bangladesh’s prime minister is the daughter of their founder and b’cos she was sheltered in India during the rule of regimes that massacred her father and rest of her family, she does tend to be sympathetic to her country’s Hindus, who’ve gone down from 22% to 8% of that country’s population. However, she is 73 now, and chances are that she’ll be the last pro-India leader of her country. I suspect that Bangladesh will increasingly go the way of Pakistan after she’s gone, unless India intervenes due to any failure to stop further infiltration of muslims from that country
Viktor Smith (Ex-Christi@n) says
Won’t comment on intervention, but our country needs to stop those invaders from coming to our country, and in fact we need to kick them out!
Let’s hope NRC will be implemented soon, and Uniform Civil Code too.
Infidel says
Viktor, after May 2nd, once the new government is announced, and once this second intense wave of the Chinavirus is over, they can hopefully start on NRC
In the meantime, given that there’s now a 3-pronged Bengal strain of the virus, it’s in Bangladesh’s best interests to seal their border w/ India. And hopefully, this will dissuade even the jihadis from going there, since all they’re likely to do is get infected. Since that state is now entering a new lockdown
OLD GUY says
Oh what a surprise. A muslim leader supports violence and murder.
While Christian churches teach love thy neighbor, Islamic mosque teach hate and enslave or kill thy neighbor if he/she is not islamic.
Can you see the difference?
Islam and islamic leaders want to rule the world with a dictatorship type domination that will result in genocide of non-muslim/islamic people.