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Amini's threat
[Bangla Daily Star] Fazlul Huq Amini, chief of Islami Ain Bastabayan Committee, yesterday threatened to paralyse the country if the government does not annul the National Women Development Policy."We can create an impasse in the country by a one-hour notice as there are 20,000 madrasas which will respond to our call immediately," he said while addressing a rally at Jatiya Press Club auditorium in the capital. Dhaka city unit of Islami Ain Bastabayan Committee organised the rally with its Ameer Moulana Abul Kashem in the chair. Amini, also chairman of an Islami Oikya Jote ... a political party in Bangladesh. In the 2001 elections the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It has a focus on building an islamic state, and has used the madrassas to gain support... (IOJ) faction, said they would hold an Olema-Mashaekh rally on April 20 in the city and announce next programme of the party. Urging the government to disclose whereabouts of his son immediately, Amini warned that counter attacks would be carried out if his son is hit. "We will not retreat from the movement for implementing the Islamic law in the country regardless of my family is kidnapped or destroyed," the IOJ chief vowed, saying no anti-Islamic forces would be allowed to assume the state power in the future. He said they do not oppose the development of the women but those must be formulated in the light of holy Koran and Hadith (Sunnah). The members of the present cabinet do not understand the holy Koran and its language and, therefore, they are giving its wrong interpretations, he alleged. Referring to the celebration of Pahela Baishakh, Amini said, "We are not against celebrating the occasion but anti-Islamic activities were seen on that day." The rally was organised to protest the alleged killing, abduction and repression on party workers. Moulana Mohammad Ishaq, Mufti Mohammad Wakkas, Moulana Abdul Latif Nizami and Moulana Sheikh Lokman Hossain, among others, addressed the function. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-16 |
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