...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
yesterday warned that the government would not allow anyone in Bangladesh to do politics over people's religious sentiment.
"At least, this can't be done in Bangladesh ... we won't allow this to happen," she told a function in the capital's Osmani Memorial Auditorium.
The women and kiddies affairs ministry organised the programme to mark the 85th birth anniversary of Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib, wife of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The PM said various incidents are happening now in the country and the government is tackling those. "At least our government is not sitting idle."
The wave of terrorism and militancy that spread to different parts of the world had also hit Bangladesh, she noted. "We're trying to check those incidents with an iron hand."
Hasina said 90 percent people in Bangladesh are Moslems, and there were so many attempts to unleash terrorism and murderous Moslem activities in the country.
"But Bangladesh is a non-communal country. This is how Father of the Nation had brought independence to the country ... we're building the country by following that path and we want to continue with it."
Expressing sorrow over the suicide kaboom on a mosque after Juma' prayers in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
on Friday, the PM questioned, "Are they Moslems? How those people who commit suicide and kill other Moslems can be Moslems? Which religion are they protecting?"
The al-Qaeda claimed that they had been killing bloggers here, said Hasina. "So where's the answer to this conflict? Moslems are killing Moslems by carrying out suicide kabooms. Also, they are killing people and bloggers for writing against religion. Then which one is true? Which particular path people should follow?"
She also questioned in whose interest the bloodletting has been going on.
Terming Islam the religion of peace, she said those who are polluting Islam do not believe in any religion.