[Bangla Daily Star] It was all lies -- outright and outrageous -- but it worked. Jamaat's propaganda machine used a photoshopped image of Delwar Hossain Sayeedi...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
's face on the moon yesterday to entice people to unleash a second wave of terror that left at least 19 people, including a policeman, dead in five districts.
Bogra witnessed the worst, as Jamaat-Shibir men assembled locals through repeated announcements over loudspeakers that "Sayeedi's face was seen on the moon and it's your holy duty to save him; otherwise, we all will go to hell". Around 4 in the morning, they launched into attacks on police in different upazilas.