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October 6, 2006

Bangladesh: Muslim Bigots Fail To Destroy Mosque

We reported yesterday on the attempts by the International Khatme Nabuwat Movement Bangladesh (Nabuwat Khatme) to have Bangladesh's Ahmadiyya Muslims declared in parliament to be "non-Muslms."

The group, founded in 1987, has been active in campaigns of violence, intimidation and even starvation of Ahmadiyya communities. They have tried to have mosques closed down by force, and on regular occasions they mount attacaks at Ahmadiyya mosques, using bricks and staves as weapons. Last year on June 25 they used bombs and arson in one mosque attack. By then, there had been 20 attacks in eighteen months.

Though they have assistance within government, from the Islamist parties of the Islami Oikya Jote and the Jamaat-e-Islami, their most recent attempt to have the Bangladesh parliament declare the Ahmadiyyas as non-Muslims was ignored. The group, which is led by Noor Hossain Nurani, had declared that in response to having the government ignore its request, it was preparing an intimidation campaign today.

The Khatme Nabuwat had declared its target to be an Ahmadi mosque located in Tejgaon in Dhaka, the capital. This evening, after Juma prayers, hundreds of Khatme supporters, armed with staves and bamboo sticks, gathered at a road intersection (pictured).

They intended to attack the Nakhalpara mosque in the area. Five senior leaders of the group handed a placard to the officer-in-charge of Tejgaon Industrial Zone Police Station this afternoon. They wanted the sign to be erected by police outside the Ahmadiyya mosque.

The placard read: "This is the den of the Kadianis, don't be confused considering it as the mosque of the Muslims."

At the rally at Nabisco intersection following the evening prayers, speakers claimed the government did not want to pass an anti-Ahmadiyya bill in parliament because it did not want to listen to people who wore tupi caps and beards.

The police prevented them from gaining access to the mosque. The spiritual leader of the group, Maulana Mahmudul Hasan Mamtazi tried to raise the bigots' spirits by reminding them of their successful violence at Patuakhali, Chittagong, Khulna, Bogra and Satkhira. He referred to the only political victory the group had gained, when on January 8 2004, the government under Khaleda Zia banned all Ahamadiyyah publications as they contained "objectionable material which hurt or might hurt the sentiments of the majority Muslim population of Bangladesh".

Mamtazi said to his vigilantes: "The government was forced to ban all kinds of books of the Ahmadiyyas following our movement."

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 6, 2006 5:44 PM

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