 Law enforcers foiled an attempt of the anti-Ahmadiyya zealots to capture Dhanikhola Ahmadiyya mosque in Trishal in Mymensingh on February 10. The fanatics however hung a signboard on a tree at Boilor Bazar, about two kilometres off Dhanikhola, asking Muslims not to say prayers at the Ahmadiyya mosque. No untoward incident took place during the agitation. The bigots have been agitating for the last two and a half years demanding that the government should declare Ahmadiyyas non-Muslim.
| They can then be oppressed and despoiled even more than they are now. |
A large number of panicked locals left their houses as the International Khatme Nabuwat Movement, Bangladesh had announced to capture the mosque and hang a signboard branding the mosque merely as a place of worship and asking Muslims not to "mistake it for a mosque".
| If it's not a mosque, then you can burn it down and make off with the silverware. |
Over 500 members of police, Rapid Action Battalion, Armed Police Battalion and Bangladesh Rifles were deployed at 19 points a few hours before the capture bid, which was scheduled to start after Juma prayers. Over 4,000 Nabuwat leaders and activists gathered at Trishal Nazrul College after the Juma prayers. Before marching to Dhani-khola, the leaders asked the local administration not to intervene in their "peaceful programme". They threatened that they would create a 'Karbala'-like situation if the law enforcers bar them from observing their programme. |