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On May 21, 2004, a powerful homemade bomb rocked the Sufi shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal in the northeast Sylhet of Bangladesh that resulted in the death of two local men. The bomb was either planted or hurled at devotees attending the Jumma prayer.
| Sounds like the local version of Lashkar e-Jhangvi, doesn't it? |
An estimated 50-60 people had received injuries from the blast. Among them was British High Commissioner Anwar Chowdhury, the newly appointed diplomat for United Kingdom to Bangladesh. Mr. Chowdhury is originally from Sunamganj, Bangladesh. His visit to the shrine was widely publicized. Therefore, there is ample reason to believe that the bomb was targeted for him....
| I'd say that was a good guess. The fact that it's a Sufi shrine would be gravy... |
There is more to the Sufi shrine blast than meets the eye... Only in January 2004, another powerful bomb rocked the sleepy provincial town... One of the very vocal Islamists by the name Maulana Delwar Hossain Saidee, a Jamaati-e-Islami politician, visited Sylhet town admonished the local Muslims for venerating the Sufi saint Shahjalal...No sooner had Maulana Saidee leave Sylhet town a powerful bomb was detonated.
more in the article - the Sunni Wahabis actually hate the Ahmaddyas even more than they hate the Sufis or the Shia. |