Thursday, October 31, 2013

Hefazat-e-Islam, Bangladesh: Its Doctrines Are Brazenly Un-Islamic

By Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi, New Age Islam
30 October 2013










Supporters of Hifazat-e Islam pictured holding wooden stakes in Dhaka as they begin a rally to support a countrywide shutdown

Bangladeshi woman journalist Nadia Sharmeen aged 26 who was beaten up badly by the Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh goons, now appears to be more courageous, committed and determined in her journalistic career. Being a Muslim woman, she has every Islamic right to continue with this decent and dignified job. Therefore, she speaks out in clear, strong and spirited words leaving some straightforward questions that create sparks in every thinking Muslim mind and require us to find their answers from the Hefazat-e-Islam ideologues: 
“Why would I give it (journalism) up because of some cowards? Who are they if not cowards? When 50- 60 or more of them beat up one unarmed woman? Is that their way of showing respect to women? How can they claim to be protectors of Islam when they treat women this way? How can they protect Islam if they can't protect a woman journalist at their own event?” (Political Islam & the Elections in Bangladesh, a report by Frances Harrison)
 

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