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Bangladesh
Islamist parties blame 'outsiders' for violence
2013-02-26
[Bangla Daily Star] Eight Islamist parties now blame it on "intruders".

They claim those who tore and burned the national flag and vandalised Shaheed Minars during the protest against the "atheist" Shahbagh bloggers on Friday do not belong to their organizations.

Shah Ahmadullah Ashraf, ameer of Khelafat Andolon, yesterday told The Daily Star that Jamaat activists or personnel from government agencies might have intruded into the protest and unleashed a wave of terror across the country to "blame each other".

He, however, declined to elaborate.

Khelafat Majlish, another major component of the eight-party combine, at a press briefing yesterday claimed conspirators in disguise attacked journalists and desecrated the national flag on Friday and put the blame on Ulema (Islamic scholars).

Leaders of both Khelafat Andolon and Khelafat Majlish claimed the eight Islamist parties have no links with Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
in their movement against "anti-Islamic bloggers ".

Earlier, leaders of an Islami Oikya Jote
... a political party in Bangladesh. In the 2001 elections the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It has a focus on building an islamic state, and has used the madrassas to gain support...
faction, Nejami Islam Bangladesh and Khelafat-e-Islami -- components of the eight-party -- told The Daily Star that their activists were not involved in violence during Friday's protest against the Shahbagh movement.

The mass demonstration at Shahbagh has been calling for capital punishment to 1971 war criminals and a ban on Jamaat and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir
... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
Jamaat and like-minded parties dismiss the demand by labelling the movement as one "run by atheists".

However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
the Shahbagh protesters have all along maintained respect for all religions and made no comments that might hurt people's religious sentiment.
Posted by:Fred

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