A recent report published in Bangladesh’s national daily, Protham Alo, shows that the Hindu population in the Islamic country is declining steadily; the Hindu population has declined by over 7.5 million in the past 50 years of the country’s independence, although Bangladesh’s total population has more than doubled. In 1971, the Hindu population of Bangladesh was 10,313,000. Had the population rate stayed stagnant, there would have been around 20,219,000 Hindus in the Islamic state today. But according to the last census, the number of Hindus in Bangladesh stands at a little over 12,700,000, indicating there has been a loss of 7.5 million Hindus from the country.
The first population census conducted after Bangladesh’s independence in 1974 showed that the Hindus constituted 13.5 per cent of the country’s total population. There have been four censuses carried out after that. The latest census, in 2011, reveals that Hindus now make up 8.5 per cent of the population. Two reasons are given for the decline in the Hindu population, as per the report published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) on the 2011 population and housing census: migration out of the country and a lower fertility rate.
Some Hindu couples choose to have fewer children, while Muslims mostly believe in increasing their population and that family planning is against the will of Allah. More noteworthy is the fact that Hindus in Bangladesh are leaving the country in large numbers. Whether it’s the social scientists, political leaders, or leaders of the Hindu community, they all agree that migration out of the country is the key reason for the reduction in the Hindu population of Bangladesh.
Professor Abul Barakat of Dhaka University, who has invested decades researching the social, political and economic reasons behind the minority exodus from Bangladesh, asserted, “No one wants to leave their own motherland, their own hearth and home, to go to another country. It is because of persecution that the Hindus are leaving Bangladesh and that their numbers are fast decreasing. Many of them have lost everything due to the Enemy (Vested) Property Act and have left the country. This has mostly happened among the weaker Hindus in the villages. There are more reasons.”
Further, a team of researchers from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases in Bangladesh and other organizations have observed that a higher neonatal mortality rate in the Hindu community is also resulting in Hindus leaving Bangladesh. Why are more Hindu infants dying within the first 28 days of their birth, as compared to infants from other groups? Are they being denied proper health care? The United Nations, through its various programs, has invested massive funding in the upgrading of healthcare facilities in Bangladesh. Do the Hindus get their fair share of these medical facilities?
Then there is the Islamic jihad violence which is a common and an almost daily occurrence in Bangladesh. Mass slaughter of Hindus in well-orchestrated riots by Muslims is all too common in the country. In the year of its independence, over 300,000 Hindus lost their lives in the infamous 1971 Bangladesh Genocide. Bengali Hindus were killed in the Shankharibazar massacre, Ramna massacre, and Sutrapur massacre of 1971 as well. In recent times, the Hindu minority, their homes and livelihoods were targeted in the 2012 Fatehpur violence, 2012 Hathazari violence, 2012 Chirirbandar violence, and attacks on the Hindus in multiple districts of Bangladesh in 2013 and 2014. Hundreds of Hindus were also the victims of the 2016 Nasirnagar violence by murderous Muslim mobs.
Mass conversions of Hindus to Islam through fear or force in these 50 years cannot be overlooked, either. Then the new Muslims would force or threaten other Hindus to convert to Islam, and the vicious cycle continues. Even Hindu Rohingyas in Bangladesh’s refugee camps have been forced to convert to Islam by the majority Muslim Rohingyas, who are also refugees in Bangladesh.
If this trend continues, chances are that it will take Bangladesh another 40 years to eliminate the last Hindu from the country, regardless of which political party comes to power. That would be a step closer to Ghazwa-e-Hind, and the next target will be India.
Infidel says
Years ago, I recall meeting an elderly Bangladeshi Hindu man who blamed Bangladeshi Hindus for leaving that country and leaving those remaining at the mercy of the muslims. He apparently didn’t think that saving the lives of one’s own family was worth it. While there are those who lament this, I do welcome this exodus, and also hope that those Hindus who choose to remain there avoid having kids at all, since those kids would be bombarded by islamic activities, be it dawa, rape-jihad and so on. Since 1971, the Hindu population has gone down from 26% to 8%: it needs to come down to 0%
In the meantime, India needs to grow a pair and implement the NRC, and expel each and every Bangladeshi muslim back to Bangladesh, regardless of what the powers that be in Dhaka would like. Oh, and stop treating them as a friend, much less an ally
Fitna says
The same genocide and ethnic cleansing of non-Muslims will soon be coming to Europe, Canada, Israel and any other nation stupid enough to have a large Muslim population and allows it to keep growing.
As the Quran says “drive them out from where they drove you out.” I think they deserve the same medicine in return. Muslims are the real invaders in India and anywhere that is not Saudi Arabia…they should all be sent there.
Fitna says
The trouble is that India has a weak leadership, limited funds but also if they try to reconquer land that Muslims stole, the ‘international community’ (mostly muslim countries) will come down on them like a ton of bricks.
So the only sensible option for minorities in Muslim-majority countries is to leave and expel Muslims from non-Muslim countries. Another option is for India to arm them so they can carve out their own country.
Hank says
” The same genocide and ethnic cleansing of non-Muslims will soon be coming to Europe”
I would call it the “India experience” is coming to Europe. Once the critical mass of Muslims in Europe has been reached (thanks to the Islamic Migration Jihad being allowed by the EU) a cry for their own autonomous area or Islamic country will be demanded and then WHAAM!! – A Pakistan 2 will be born right in the middle of Europe. Just like India suffered.