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AFTER 1991...Hindus in BD...
Hindus were first attacked in mass on 1992 by
Islamic fundamentalists. More than 200 temples were destroyed. Hindus were attacked and many were raped and killed.
[10] The events were widely seen as a repercussion against the razing of the Babri Mosque in India.
[11] Taslima Nasrin wrote her novel
Lajja (The Shame) based on this persecution of Hindus by Islamic extremists. The novel centers on the suffering of the patriotic anti-Indian and pro-Communist Datta family, where the daughter is raped and killed while financially they end up losing everything.
Prominent political leaders frequently fall back on "Hindu bashing" in an attempt to appeal to extremist sentiment and to stir up communal passions. In one of the most notorious utterances of a mainstream Bangladeshi figure, the immediate past Prime Minister
Khaleda Zia, while leader of the opposition in 1996, declared that the country was at risk of hearing "uludhhwani" (a Hindu custom involving women's
ululation) from mosques, replacing the azaan (Muslim call to prayer) (e.g., see Agence-France Press report of 18 November 1996, "Bangladesh opposition leader accused of hurting religious sentiment").
[12]
After the election of 2001, when a right-wing coalition including two Islamist parties (
Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and
Islami Oikya Jote) led by the pro-Islamic right wing
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) came to power, many Hindus and liberal secularist Muslims were attacked by a section of the governing regime. Thousands of Bangladeshi Hindus were believed to have fled to neighbouring India
[13] to escape the violence unleashed by activists sympathetic to the new government. Many Bangladeshi Muslims played an active role in documenting atrocities against Hindus during this period.
[12][14]
The new government also clamped down on attempts by the media to document alleged atrocities against non-Muslim minorities following the election. Severe pressure was put on newspapers and other media outside of government control through threats of violence and other intimidation. Most prominently, the Muslim journalist and human rights activist
Shahriyar Kabir was arrested on charges of treason on his return from India where he had been interviewing Hindu refugees from Bangladesh; this was
[15] by the Bangladesh High Court and he was subsequently freed.
The fundamentalists and right-wing parties such as the BNP and
Jatiya Party often portray Hindus as being sympathetic to India, and transferring economic resources to India, contributing to a widespread perception that Bangladeshi Hindus are disloyal to the state. Also, the right wing parties claim the Hindus to be backing the
Awami League.
[2] As widely documented in international media, Bangladesh authorities have had to increase security to enable Bangladeshi Hindus to worship freely
[16] following widespread attacks on places of worship and devotees.
After
recent bombings in Bangladesh by the Islamic fundamentalists, the government has taken steps to strengthen the security during various minority celebrations, specially during
Durga Puja.
On October 2006, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom published a report titled 'Policy Focus on Bangladesh', said that since its last election, 'Bangladesh has experienced growing violence by religious extremists, intensifying concerns expressed by the countries religious minorities'. The report further stated that Hindus are particularly vulnerable in a period of rising violence and extremism, whether motivated by religious, political or criminal factors, or some combination. The report noted that Hindus had multiple disadvantages against them in Bangladesh, such as perceptions of
dual loyalty with respect to India and religious beliefs that are not tolerated by the politically dominant
Islamic Fundamentalists of the [BNP. Violence against Hindus has taken place "in order to encourage them to flee in order to seize their property".The previous reports of the
Hindu American Foundation were acknowledged and confirmed by this non-partisan report.
[17][18]
On 2 November 2006, USCIRF criticized Bangladesh for continuing persecution of minority Hindus. It also urged the
Bush administration to get Dhaka to ensure protection of religious freedom and minority rights before Bangladesh's next national elections in January 2007.
[17][18]
In 2013, the
International Crimes Tribunal indicted several Jamaat members for
war crimes against Hindus during the
1971 Bangladesh atrocities. In retaliation,
violence against Hindu minorities in Bangladesh was instigated by the
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami . The violence included the looting of Hindu properties and businesses, the burning of Hindu homes, rape of Hindu women and
desecration and destruction of
Hindu temples.
[19]
Hinduism in Bangladesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bangladesh is on the road to becoming another Afghanistan, fulfilling the clearly stated desires of jihadists and fundamentalists to ethnically cleanse the country until the only religion is Islam, according to Bangladeshis who have fled their homeland.
American Thinker by Madeline Brooks (h/t Winterspirit) Imams describe women as filth and demand that they cover themselves. They accuse exploited female garment workers of prostitution when they are forced to work late into the night to earn a living.
Schoolchildren have to dress in Islamic garb, even if they are not Muslims. Workers are discriminated against if they are other than Muslim. Land grabs by Muslims of property owned by minorities occur all the time — with impunity. Atheist bloggers are beaten and even killed for "insulting Islam,” and all this under the supposedly secular Awami League administration.
The Hindu empire once stretched from Afghanistan to Indonesia, before the Muslim invasions whittled it down. According to Dr. Sachi Dastidar, professor of politics at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, Long Island, forty-nine million Hindus are missing from the Bangladesh census over the period of 1947 to 2001.
At the time of the partition of India in 1947, Hindus comprised thirty-one percent of the population of Bangladesh. The population of Hindus in Bangladesh is now down to a mere nine percent. The numbers are shrinking very fast due to coerced conversions; the kidnapping of girls and women, as well as rapes followed by murder; forced flight — and genocidal massacres
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