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http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/06/26/d5062601033.htm

Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sunday, June 26, 2005

International concern can't stop persecution - 20 attacks on Ahmadiyyas
in 18 months
By Shamim Ashraf

Zealots carrying out countrywide violent campaigns against Ahmadiyyas
once again disregarded the concern of world rights community by
attacking the sect members with bombs and setting fire to their mosque
in Brahmanbaria on Friday.

The attack created panic among the 20,000 Ahmadiyyas in the district
where the minority sect preached their beliefs first in Bangladesh.

One suspect was arrested yesterday at the district town after a Special
Branch (SB) team visited the spot where two dozen bombs were exploded
by the zealots. A team of army explosives experts is likely to visit
the spot today.

District Amir of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Monzur Hossain filed two
separate cases with Sadar Police Station in connection with Friday's
attack.

The attack came six days after a European Human Rights Conference on
extremism, intolerance and violence asked Bangladesh government to
ensure safety to Ahmadiyyas and restore their mosques now in capture of
anti-Ahmadiyya operatives.

The conference also asked for lifting the government ban on Ahmadiyya
publications but it could not stop the zealots from boosting the
anti-Ahmadiyya campaign.

The Amnesty International, UN Human Rights Commission, US State
Department, European Union, US-based Human Rights Watch and rights
activists at home and abroad earlier repeatedly asked the zealots to
stop persecution on the Ahmadiyyas.

In spite of the right bodies' concern, as many as 20 incidents of
attack on the Ahmadiyyas took place across the country in the last 18
months.

The persecution on the Ahmadiyyas never stopped since the
anti-Ahmadiyya campaign got a boost in 1987 when Khatme Nabuwat
Movement was founded in Brahmanbaria to lead the anti-Ahmadiyya
campaign.

The district has become the most dangerous place for the Ahmadiyyas
where the zealots captured six mosques including the main Ahmadiyya
mosque, Masjidul Mobarak, in April 1987 to oust them from the area.

Syed Abdul Wahed, a pir (religious leader) who was the head moulana of
Annada High School in Brahmanbaria, preached Ahmediat (belief of
Ahmadiyyas) in 1912.

Opposition was there against the Ahmadiyyas although they follow the
same rituals as Sunnis who constitute 90 percent of Bangladeshi
Muslims, apart from their belief about the emergence of Imam Mehdi, the
last messenger of Prophet Muhammad.

The anti-Ahmadiyya people in a total distortion of fact propagate that
the Ahmadiyyas do not believe Mohammad as the last prophet.

Organising anti-Ahmadiyya forces under the banner of Khatme Nabuwat
Movement in Brahmanbaria in 1987, local religious leader Moulana
Sirajul Islam demanded that the Ahmadiyyas should be declared as
non-Muslim.

They captured six Ahmadiyya mosques including their main mosque,
Masjidul Mobarak. Although the Ahmadiyyas got back two mosques, four
including Masjidul Mobarak are still under siege by the anti-Ahmadiyya
elements.

The zealots renamed the main mosque as 'Masjidul Fathah' and
established 'Khatme Nabuwat Tajul Ulum Madrasa' in the mosque. Moulana
Idris, personal assistant to Islamic Oikya Jote Chairman Fazlul Haq
Amini, is the principal of the madrasa.

In the continuing persecution on the Ahmadiyyas, the zealots boycotted
and outcast the sect members in different parts of the country. Some
people bombed the Ahmadiyya headquarters at Bakshibazar in Dhaka on
October 29, 1992.

The cruellest attack was the explosion of a time bomb in a mosque at
Nirala residential area in Khulna on October 8, 1999 during Juma
prayers, which left seven Ahmadiyyas killed and 27 others injured.

The fanatics confined 17 Ahmadiyya families of Uttar Bhabanipur village
in Kushtia for over a month in October, 2003.

The zealots killed Ahmadiyya imam Shah Alam in Roghunathpurbak village
in Jhikargachha upazila of Jessore on October 29, 2003. Ahmadiyyas
alleged that local Jamaat leader Aminul Islam had led the gang.

Trampling down Ahmadiyyas' fundamental rights, the government on
January 8, 2004, banned their publications for what it said was
"objectionable materials which hurt or might hurt the sentiments of the
majority Muslim population of Bangladesh".

Khatme Nabuwat groups pulled down the signboards of Ahmadiyyas mosques
at Puranbazar in Patuakhali on May 12 last year, at Chawkbazar in
Chittagong 16 days later and at Nirala in Khulna on August 11 last
year.

They hung new signboards there that branded the mosques as merely
"place of worship" and asked people not to mistake those for mosques.

The agitators also changed the signboard of Ahmadiyya mosque in Bogra
on March 11 and of another mosque in Shyamnagar, Satkhira on April 17
this year.

The zealots attacked the Ahmadiyyas of Dharmapur, Dalpara and Kazipara
villages in Badarganj upazila in Rangpur and looted their houses on
April 29 this year.

A series of attacks on the Ahmadiyyas and looting of their houses left
17 Ahmadiyyas injured, including four women, in Shyamnagar.

Unknown people set fire to an Ahmadiyya mosque in Maharajpur village in
Gurudaspur upazila of Natore on June 21.

And the latest attack came on Friday when the zealots set fire to an
Ahmadiyya mosque of Kandipara in Brahmanbaria and blasted over two
dozen bombs including some time bombs leaving two Ahmadiyyas injured.
They also hurled bombs in Bhadughar in the municipal area and Suhilpur
in Sadar upazila simultaneously.

The bombs went off one after another, sending a chill of panic among
the Ahmadiyyas who accused local Khatme Nabuwat operatives for the
attacks.

Leaders of left-leaning 11-party alliance visited the trouble-torn area
yesterday and submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner and
superintendent of police demanding arrest and trial of the attackers.

The 11-party leaders will observe a token sit-in in front of the DC
office today.

Police yesterday nabbed Sumon alias Chanchal, 22, from Mowrail area of
the town suspecting him as a bomb-maker. They started interrogating
him.
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http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/07/17/d60717013822.htm

Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Monday, July 17, 2006

Bigots' Threat - Ahmadiyyas demand protection

Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat once again urged the government to protect the
minority sect in the wake of religious extremists' recent threats of
holding them incommunicado at their houses and spreading hatred among
the villagers at Sharishabari in Jamalpur.

The minority sect also condemned law enforcers for being silent and
reluctant to act in two assault incidents on Ahmadiyyas on July 29 last
year and June 16 this year. The sect believes it encouraged the bigots
to be more aggressive.

The recent declaration of holding 'incommunicado' the Ahmadiyyas by the
extremists at Ijara Para on Thursday instigated communalism among the
common villagers, who have started boycotting the minority members
socially.
The Ahmadiyyas have become confined to their houses and refrained from
going to work after the fanatics, agitating under the banner of
'Ittefaqul Ulama', threatened of attacks on them.

The local Ahmadiyyas lodged two general diaries (GD) with Sarishabari
Police Station on July 7 and 9 in this connection but the local police
failed to ensure their security.

The fresh campaign against the Ahmadiyyas began on Thursday at a
'Khatme Nabuwat' rally in Fulbaria Ijarapara Primary School ground
where the Ittefaqul leaders asked locals to boycott Ahmadiyyas, stop
selling anything to them or have any kind of contacts with them.

The fatwa (an Islamic decree), was issued from different local mosques
including Baitun Nur Masjid during the Juma prayers Friday, instigating
the locals not to communicate with the Ahmadiyyas.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Bangladesh yesterday in a press release
expressed their concern and sought government's intervention to ensure
the safety of the minority sect across the country, a constitutional
right of all.
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http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/06/22/d6062201128.htm

Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Thursday, June 22, 2006

Ahmadiyyas seek PM protection - Bigots in Uttara continue their hate
campaign; rights bodies vow to resist mosque capture threat

The Ahmadiyya community yesterday appealed to prime minister for
protection in wake of threat by religious fanatics to attack their
mosque in Uttara tomorrow.
Mobasherur Rahman, amir of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Bangladesh,
submitted applications to the PM and state minister for home, seeking
protection and detailing the fresh hate campaign of the bigots against
the community.

An alliance of human rights organisations, the Working Group on
Minority rights, vowed to resist the fanatics on Friday, asking the
government to take necessary security measures for Ahmadiyyas in the
Ashkona area.
Meanwhile, activists of the anti-Ahmadiyya outfit-- Khatme Nabuwat
Movement Bangladesh-- from across the country started to gather at
different Kowmi madrasas in Uttara to carry out tomorrow's programme,
announced by a little known radical Islamist 'leader' Noor Hossain
Nurani.

The self-declared 'Islamist militant leader' vowed to attack the
Ashkona Ahmadiyya Mosque and loot houses of 22 Ahmadiyya families
there, the community in its letters stated.

Nurani is spreading hatred against Ahmadiyyas with false and imaginary
information about our religion, they said.

The letters said both leaders (Nurani and Mahmudul Hasan Momtazi) of
anti-Ahmadiyya outfits are out to create anarchy and disrupt law and
order in the name of Islam ahead of the general election.

"Such a declaration of terrorism and their activities in the name of
Islam are enough to ban the organisations. It is also tarnishing the
image of the country in the abroad," the letters read.

Zealots conducted hate campaign yesterday from two trucks in front of
the Ashkona Ahmadiyya Jame Mosque, vowing to oust Ahmadiyyas form the
area after capturing their mosque. The zealots took shelter at the
Northapara Babus Salam Kowmi Madrasa, Dakkhinkhan Bazaar Al Arabi Kowmi
Madrasa, Falan Kowmi Madrasa, Moktarbari Kowmi Madrasa and Askona Bazar
Boro Mosque Kowmi Madrasa.

"Encouraged apparently by the government's policy, the fundamentalists
dared to attack our men and capture our mosques across the country
again and again," Central Ahmadiyya Missionary Abdul Awal Khan told The
Daily Star yesterday.

Rights organisations-- the Ain O Salish Kendra, Bangladesh Mahila
Parishad, Bangladesh Coalition for Child Rights, Bangladesh Development
Partnership, Nari O Manobadhikar Foundation, Nari Pokkho and Durbar
Network-- yesterday announced at a press conference that they would go
to Ashkona to resist the fanatics.
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