If I was a Moslem big turban I'd have a mosque in my basement--just a little hideaway where I could bonk my head on the floor fives times a day without being shot, stabbed, or blown up. How many have been killed outside (or inside) of public mosques?
Ilias Hossain Bin Helali, president of one of the Awami Olama League's factions, was stabbed twice at the southern gate of Baitul Mukarram Mosque.
Witnesses caught the attacker Mujahidul Islam, 20, and handed him over to police. In preliminary questioning, Mujahidul claimed to be a member of banned Islamist Death Eater outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT).
Akhter Hossain, joint secretary of Dhaka Metropolitan South Olama League, who witnessed the attack, said: "Just before Jumma prayers, a boy came to me, pointed towards Ilias and asked me whether or not he was Ilias Bin Helali. I said 'yes,' he thanked me and then stood to pray in the row behind us."
Because a programme to mark August 21 was being held, at which Prime Minister
...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..
was the chief guest, Helali asked his associates to remain until after his recitation of the Qur'an.
As he made his way out of the national mosque's southern gate, Mujahid handed Ilias his shoes. As he was putting on his shoes, Mujahid stabbed Ilias in the neck and then in the abdomen.
Bystanders caught Mujahid red-handed and handed him over to Paltan police.
Ilias was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital and was shifted to ward 102 after undergoing an hour-long operation.
Akhter said the attacker seemed "like an innocent."
He says he would never have guessed that a boy of his appearance could have attempted cold-blooded murder.