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Fanatics now target journos
Staff Correspondent

Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir men attacked and injured at least 15 journalists in front of Baitul Mukarram Mosque in Dhaka and Chittagong Press Club yesterday.

In disguise of activists of different Islamic parties, Jamaat-Shibir men launched an attack on electronic and print media personnel at Baitul Mukarram Mosque when they were covering a procession of Khelafat Andolon and some other parties.

Immediately after the Juma prayers yesterday, a group of youths, under the cover of other Islamic parties, came out of the south gate of the mosque and hurled abusive words at journalists there.

Carrying large bamboos, sticks, brick chips, and shoes, they blasted the media for “patronising and supporting the atheists” of Shahbagh movement.

At one stage, they attacked reporters and camerapersons in which camerapersons of ATN Bangla, ATN News, Maasranga, Ekattur TV and Independent Television suffered injuries.

Police were seen inactive during the attack on journalists.

After the initial attack, more Jamaat-Shibir men gathered in front of the south gate and launched another attack that lasted for over 10 minutes.

They broke the cameras of two television channels, witnesses said.

During the hour-long fierce clash that ensued between Islamic bigots and police, a photographer and two reporters also suffered injuries.

Deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Motijheel Division, said after police, Jamaat-Shibir men have now started to attack the media.

“I will ask all media to beware of Jamaat-Shibir,” Deputy Commissioner Anwar Hossain said while talking to reporters.

In Chittagong, five journalists including two photographers were injured when Islamic bigots attacked them in front of the port city press club.

In a clash between Bangladesh Chhatra League and Jamaat activists in Jhenidah, a reporter of a local newspaper was also injured.

Different bodies of journalists protested and condemned the attacks.

In separate statements, leaders of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists, Dhaka Union of Journalists, Dhaka Reporters' Unity, Crime Reporters' Association of Bangladesh, Political Reporters' Forum and Rural Journalists Foundation also demanded arrest and punitive actions against those responsible.

Triggered by the “lenient” punishment of Jamaat leader Quader Mollah for crimes against humanity, people of all walks of life gathered at Shahbagh in the capital for 17 straight days demanding death penalty for all war criminals.

At least five top Jamaat leaders are being tried at international crimes tribunals in connection with crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War of Bangladesh.

Fanatics now target journos
 
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This protest was just a jamat action. Their targets were journalists, gonojagoron moncho.
Jamat general secretary commanded this directly from baitul mukaaram.
They didnt fully finish their prayer they were there just for vandalism.

you know how many people protested all over the country after Jummah?? Thousand times more than all of your pro-shahbagi mob..... you people used to say only 5% were jamati??
 
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Attacks, rampage in major cities
Gonojagoron manchas vandalised

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Star Report

The Jamaat-e-Islami and its likeminded Islamist organisations yesterday unleashed violence in major cities of the country in a showdown to counter the countrywide movement against the war criminals of 1971.

In Chittagong, several thousand supporters of different radical Islamist organisations vandalised many structures and the Gonojagoron Mancha site in front of the press club on Jamal Khan Road.

A group of the fanatics also entered into the press club building and vandalised windowpanes and assaulted several journalists there.

In the face of resistance by law enforcers at the time, the supporters charged on to police. At least four policemen were injured, one with bullet, in the clash.

The injured -- Inspector of Khulshi Police Station Pravash Chandra Dhar, Sub-Inspector of Kotwali Police Station Md Kamruzzaman, its Assistant Sub-Inspector Mafizur Rahman and constable Mohammad Jahangir of Armed Police Battalion -- have been admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH).

Of them, constable Jahangir sustained bullet injury in the right leg when police had been trying to disperse the protestors, said Additional Commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Banaj Kumar Majumder.

He said 25 people had been detained from different areas of the port city in connection with the rampage.

Around 2:00pm, activists of Hefazat-e-Islam assaulted five photo journalists and TV cameramen at Anderkillah intersection when the party supporters brought out a procession from Anderkillah Shahi Jam-e Mosque.

Photo journalist of Daily Inqilab Ahmed Kutub was critically injured in the attack and was admitted to CMCH.

Eye witnesses and police said a group of Hefazat-e-Islam activists right after the Juma prayers had started chanting slogans against "atheists" inside Anderkillah mosque and brought out a procession to take position at Anderkillah intersection.

Shibli, who performed his prayers in the mosque, said the activists had started chanting slogans even before the munazaat [supplication] ended.

Several thousand activists of different Islamist organisations including Jamaat, its student wing Shibir, Hefazat-e-Islam, Islami Oikkya Jote, and Nabi Premik Jagrata Janata, with processions from different part of the city gathered at Anderkillah intersection.

Around 3:00pm, they brought out a procession from there towards Jamiyatul Falah Jatiya Mosque at Wasa Intersection. On its way, the mob hurled stones at the bureau offices of newspapers Amader Shomoy, Kaler Kantho, The Daily Sun, banglanews24.com and private TV channel Bangla Vision.

Thereon, a large group of the procession suddenly paraded on to Jamal Khan Road through Cheragi Pahar intersection breaking through police resistance.

The procession on its way vandalised windowpanes of several buildings on both sides of the road in a bid to create panic among people.

Reaching the Gonojagoron Mancha site, the activists vandalised wooden structures bearing slogans against war criminals and tore down banners and festoons and set fire to those. They also tried to pull down the portrait of Shaheed Janani Jahanara Imam after getting into the press club building. During the time, the activists chanted slogans against the Shahbagh movement activists terming them infidel.

After the rampage, the activists again gathered at the Jamiyatul Falah mosque and held a rally at Wasa Intersection around 3:30pm. At the rally, Mufti Izharul Islam Chowdhury, president of Nizami Islam Party, demanded capital punishment to those bloggers, who had organised the Shahbagh movement.

He called Law Minister Shafique Ahmed, Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu and Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid "atheists" and leftist, and demanded their resignation.

Izharul also announced a grand rally at Hathazari Parboti High School for Monday.

While returning from the rally around 4:00pm, Jamaat-Shibir activists once again tried to proceed through Jamal Khan Road. But they faced resistance from locals, including Bangladesh Chhatra League, and a clash erupted. Police lobbed several teargas canisters to bring the situation under control.

Deputy Commissioner of CMP (south) Abdullah Hel Baki said they were continuing their drives to catch those who had been involved in the violence.

Meanwhile, agitated locals in retaliation against the Jamaat-Shibir violence set fire to shops inside the Mahanagar Jamaat office premises at Dewanbazar around 9:20pm. Jamaat leaders, however, claimed that the locals had also set their office on fire.

RAJSHAHI
Jamaat-Shibir activists clashed with police at different points in the city yesterday afternoon, leaving around 50 people, including 10 policemen, injured.

During sporadic clashes, the activists hurled brick chips and blasted handmade bombs targeting the law enforcers while police fired several hundred rubber bullets, teargas shells and sound grenades to disperse them.

Jamaat-Shibir men ransacked the Ekattor Mancha at Alupotty during a half-an -hour-long chase and counter chase between them and law enforcers that began around 2:00pm.

After Juma prayers, Jamaat-Shibir men from different areas brought out a procession under the banner of Hefajat-e-Islam and paraded towards the zero point, said SM Moniruzzaman, commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP).

They later separated into several groups and marched towards Alupotty and ransacked loud speakers, chairs, tables, banners and posters of the Ekattor Mancha.

The activists also hurled brick chips at a passing vehicle of Rajshahi Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton. The mayor narrowly escaped the attack but his vehicle was partially damaged.

Police intercepted their procession at Kumarpara when the activists started throwing brick chips at the city unit Awami League office there.

As the Jamaat-Shibir men blasted several bombs and hurled brick chips at the law enforcers, police fired several hundred rubber bullets, teargas shells and sound grenades to disperse them.

The areas of Kumarpara, Shaheb Bazar, Ganakpara turned into battle fields during chases and counter chases between police and activists.

Jamaat-Shibir men also damaged glasses of several roadside offices including Uttara Bank, Dhaka Bank and IFIC Bank and some 12 other shops in the areas.

Some 10 policemen, including RMP DC Golam Mahmud, OC Alamgir Hossain, constables Sabuj and Ruhul Amin, and Bazlur Rahman, a youth, were injured during the clashes.

Police arrested some 26 people from the scenes of the clashes, reports our Rajshahi correspondent.

Around 30 Jamaat-Shibir activists were reportedly wounded, party sources said.

At Laxmipur in the city, some nine people were injured when Jamaat-Shibir men attacked the law enforcers from their procession.

SYLHET
A student of Sylhet MC College was killed and 50 others were injured during sporadic clashes between law enforcers and activists of different Islamic organisations in the city yesterday.

The deceased was identified as Mostafa Morshed Tahmid, 18, son of Nurul Mostafa, an employee of Jalalabad Gas Transmission and Distribution Systems Ltd.

Mostafa, a first-year student of HSC, was not involved with any political party, family sources said.

After Juma prayers, students of different madrasas and imams from different mosques brought out a procession in the city under the banner of Olama Mashayekh Parishad and other Islamic organisations, witnesses said.

When their procession reached Chouhatta area around 2:55pm, the activists stormed the Shaheed Minar there and vandalised its iron gate and boundary wall.

They also vandalised the window panes of an adjacent Trust Bank office and torched a pick-up truck, two motorbikes and a human hauler of police parked near the bank.

On information, a fire fighting team rushed to the spot and doused the flames.

When the processionists resorted to vandalism in front of the Krishi Bank building there, police fired rubber bullets to disperse them, witnesses added.

Some 426 shotgun bullets, 40 rubber bullets, 28 teargas shells and 18 sound grenades were shot to bring the situation under control, said Rezaul Karim, deputy commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police.

He said around 35 policemen were injured during sporadic clashes between law enforcers and processionists at Chouhatta and nearby Court point, Zindabazar, Alia Madrasa, Rikabi Bazar and Ambarkhana areas.

Police arrested 35 people from the spots of the clashes, he added.

Over 50 people were injured, 20 of them by rubber bullet, during the clashes. The bullet-hit were admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.

Around 4:00pm, several activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) brought out a procession at Zindabazar protesting the vandalism at the Shaheed Minar and ransacked Al Hamra Shopping Complex in the city.

Some on duty journalists were assaulted by the BCL men. The activists of the pro-Awami League student body also set fire to five bikes of newsmen.

They also vandalised an ATM booth of Islami Bank at Taltola, hurled brick chips at Sylhet Women's Medical College at Mirbokshtola, damaged glasses of Ibne Sina Hospital.

Additional police forces, BGB and Rab members were deployed in the city.

KHULNA
Sporadic clashes between law enforcers and Jamaat-Shibir men in different parts of Khulna city left around 25 people, including three policemen, injured yesterday.

Witnesses said the clashes started when a procession of supporters of Jamaat and likeminded parties brought out a procession from Dackbanglow area and was obstructed by police near Sangeeta Cinema. The procession was heading towards the Nirdolio Gonomancho at Shibbari intersection.

The activists pelted police with brick chips and blasted several homemade bombs forcing law enforcers to retaliate with rubber bullets and teargas.

A group of unidentified people also went on a rampage at Shibbari and set fire to the Ward-19 office of Awami League in the area. They also blasted several homemade bombs during the attack. Additional police force rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control.

Attacks, rampage in major cities
 
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Sheikh Hasina Declared Unwanted in West Bengal, India

প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা এবং তার মন্ত্রিসভার সদস্যদের পশ্চিমবঙ্গে ঢুকতে না দেয়ার হুমকি দিয়েছেন ইসলামী সংগঠন। মুক্তিযুদ্ধের বিরোধীদের বিচারের নামে বাংলাদেশে যা চলছে, তা বন্ধ না করলে এই পদক্ষেপ নেয়া হবে বলে জানায় সংগঠনগুলো।

গতকাল বৃহস্পতিবার কলকাতার হাজী মহসিন স্কোয়ারে সারা বাংলা সংখ্যালঘু যুব ফেডারেশন আয়োজিত বিক্ষোভ সমাবেশ থেকে একথা বলা হয়। তাদের সঙ্গী ছিল পশ্চিমবঙ্গ সুন্নত আল জামাত, ওলামা পরিষদ, মাগরেবি বাঙ্গাল আঞ্জুমানে ওয়ারোজিনসহ ৯টি সংগঠন। বিক্ষোভ সমাবেশের পর সংগঠনগুলো কলকাতার বাংলাদেশ উপ-দূতাবাসে একটি স্মারকলিপি পেশ করে। এসময় নাখোদা মসজিদের ইমাম মুহম্মদ শফিক কাজমিও ছিলেন।

পরে জমায়েতকারীদের পক্ষে কামরুজ্জামান এবং পশ্চিমবঙ্গ সুন্নত আল জামাত-এর সভাপতি আব্দুল মতিন বলেন, মুক্তিযুদ্ধের বিরোধীদের বিচারের নামে বাংলাদেশে প্রহসন চলছে। মৌলবীদের মিথ্যা মামলায় জড়ানো হচ্ছে। আন্তর্জাতিক আদালতে এসব মামলার বিচার করতে হবে।

তারা বলেন, আমরা মুক্তিযোদ্ধা ঘাতকদের বিচারের বিরোধী নই। কিন্তু বাংলাদেশে বিচারের নামে যা চলছে তার বিরোধী। শাহবাগে হাসিনার পৃষ্ঠপোষকতায় ইসলাম বিরোধী প্রচার চলছে। তাই আমরা একজোট হয়ে এর প্রতিবাদ করছি। মামলা প্রত্যাহার না করলে হাসিনা, তার পরিবারের লোকজন এবং আওয়ামী লীগ মন্ত্রিসভার সদস্যদের কলকাতায় ঢুকতে দেব না।

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Another question.DID THIS PEOPLE PROTEST IN FAVOR OF FREEING JAMAAT LEADERS?OR,DID THE PROTEST AGAINST ATTACKS AGAINST THE PROPHET(PBUH)?THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!
 
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you know how many people protested all over the country after Jummah?? Thousand times more than all of your pro-shahbagi mob..... you people used to say only 5% were jamati??

U are saying they were jamati. Again u said they were mullahs. What to believe.
Most of them just came to protest peacefully. but jamat provoked ppl to do vandalism.
Jamat and islami oikkojot took part in action.
They have no love for islam.
They done all this to save their rights of politics.
 
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This protest was just a jamat action. Their targets were journalists, gonojagoron moncho.
Jamat general secretary commanded this directly from baitul mukaaram.
They didnt fully finish their prayer they were there just for vandalism.
Do U think that cleverish ness like bracketing each and every anti-Islam’s protest/agitation as Jamaati's one is sellable more. U guys might have Media and muscle in hand but there are 4, 50, 000 Masjids in BD, in where more rational and powerful messages get spread 5 times a day. So, give up UR cunning practice.

This mullahs has got lack of knowledge they come to streets without knowing the facts.

Muslims didn’t buy it
Staff Correspondent

The imam of a Dhanmondi mosque yesterday incurred the wrath of the devotees for making derogatory comments about slain blogger Ahmed Rajib Haidar.

“Rajib got his due punishment. But death is not enough. His body should be exhumed and burnt,” Syed Zulfikar Zahur, the imam of Tawakul Mosque, said while delivering the Juma sermons.

The people got furious and many stood up in protest.

“Calm down”, Zulfikar shouted. He also criticised covering of Rajib's coffin with the national flag and termed the Shahbagh activists as junkies.


At one stage, his deputy started conducting the prayer.

Anwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Dhanmondi Police Station, said police stayed there till the end of the prayers. However, no further trouble was created.

A Dhanmondi resident who regularly goes to the mosque said the imam yesterday crossed the line.

As the Shahbagh movement gained momentum with tens of thousands of people demanding maximum punishment for war criminals, the Jamaat-Shibir men started smear campaigns against the frontline demonstrators.

Days before the brutal murder of Rajib on February 5, anti-religion blog posts were published in his name. The Shahbagh protesters dismissed those as fake.

Yesterday, imam of a mosque, next to Tamirul Millat Kamil Madrasa at the capital's Mirjahirbag, during the Juma prayer yesterday said those who are silent over alleged blog posts of Rajib have no faith in Allah and they are indeed atheists.

The remark sparked protests from devotees. However, everyone cooled down within moments and the prayer began.
Ha ! Ha !! Internet Hindu or its type has been appointed as Muslim's mouth-piece, REALLY EPIC.
 
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Another question.DID THIS PEOPLE PROTEST IN FAVOR OF FREEING JAMAAT LEADERS?OR,DID THE PROTEST AGAINST ATTACKS AGAINST THE PROPHET(PBUH)?THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!

Nothing specifically they protested they just want to hang the so called nastic bloggers.
And they want their political rights.
In a Islamic country any attacks come to islam any muslim cant tolerate that.
They could peacefully do everything.
Now seeing their action everything is clear now.
 
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