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by Monir Hussain
• March 28, 2015 at 5:00 am
"Moreover
[the children's] mindset [in the Islamic Madrasa education] is nurtured
with a message of hatred towards all non-Muslim communities... Islam is
the only true religion, all other religions are false -- this is what
they are taught from the beginning by the Madrasa teacher. They also
chant nonstop the mantra that all nonbelievers (in Islam) are Kafirs and
infidels fit to be destroyed by all true Muslims." — Shudhansu S.
Tunga, author of A 20 Million Billion Trillion Dollar Loss: The Story
of India's Downslide Independence.
In
such a small land as Bangladesh, roughly the size of the U.S. state of
Iowa, there are 15,000 officially registered madrasas, accompanied by
200,000 teachers "teaching" four million "students."
If one adds to it the number of unregistered madrasas, the number is as
high as 64,000.
"Bangladesh
is appeasing the most insidious and violent strains of Islam... That
appeasement of theocratic demands and naked threats must end, now."
— Bob Churchill, Director of Communications, International Humanist and
Ethical Union.
One
can imagine from the number of madrasas and mosques -- abetted by a
government that turns a blind eye to lawlessness -- how many people
listening to hate preaching are now being raised to be "Soldiers of
Allah."
Dissent is not tolerated in the monolithic Islamic society of
Bangladesh. Extremist Islamic forces not only vandalize the idols and
temples of the Hindus or Buddhists, they are also kill anyone who speaks
out against radicalization or Islamization.
The extremist Islamic forces mostly target university teachers,
engineers, writers and bloggers, one after another -- whoever is not in
total accord with their faith, including anyone secular-minded.
Notably, it was after the founding the International Islamic Front
for Jihad in 1998, that Bangladesh experienced the first major attack
conducted by Islamists, on March 6, 1999. It killed 10 and critically
injured 105 innocent people who were listening to music at a cultural
program organized by Udichi, a secular cultural organization.
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