A madrassa teacher and a local mosque imam were “tied to trees and beaten up” for trying to prevent a child marriage in the Noakhali District of Hatia Upazila in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh. As the title below indicates, they were “tortured for a good deed,” and that good deed was trying to protect […]
Bangladesh: Jihadis suspected as two officials at Sufi shrine have their throats slit
“It might be one of those Islamist militant groups who think shrines conduct unholy practices and spread misconceptions of Islam.” “Millions of Bangladeshis worship at shrines, but militants consider Sufis — followers of a mystical form of Islam — and other shrine-goers as heretics and grave worshippers.” Militants such as Muhammad: “Narrated Abu Hurairah: The […]