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Militant Rabbi left home in April to join jihad
[Dhaka Tribune] Neighbours of Kazi Fazle Rabbi, who was killed in a police raid in Narayanganj on Saturday morning, were not surprised to learn that he was a krazed killer and said he was radicalised in a neighbourhood mosque"Rabbi left home in April, telling his sister that he was going to join jihad. He said he would meet his family on the Judgement Day," said Afzal Hossain Dodul, deputy commander of Muktijoddha Sangsad Jessore Sadar committee and a neighbour. "After he left, I helped his father in filing a general diary with police." The Dhaka Tribune tried to contact Rabbi’s father Kazi Habibullah yesterday morning; after several attempts, he agreed to speak with this correspondent on the ground floor of his house, from behind a curtain. "I learnt of my son’s death on Saturday evening. Write reports on him of you want, I don’t have a problem with that. But what about those who made my son a krazed killer? Why is the government not doing anything to catch them?" he said. Asked if he would collect his son’s dead body, he said: "Of course, I will," before leaving abruptly. Afzal said Rabbi would likely be buried at his ancestral village in Magura district. The Dhaka Tribune also spoke to a number of people who live in the same locality as Rabbi’s family in Kismat Nawapara, Jessore Sadar upazila. All of them said Rabbi was shy and polite, but was not very social and did not mix with other boys his age in the neighbourhood. "Rabbi was a recluse and was always using his laptop. Whenever his parents entered his room, he promptly shut it down. Different jihadi books were found in his house, which were destroyed by his father," said Moshiar Rahman, the family’s neighbour. "The only person he was visibly friendly with was the imam at the local mosque, Md Yahiya. Yahiya tried to radicalise a number of local boys, but Rabbi was the only one to fall into the trap," said local resident Shafiul Alam. When locals discovered Yahiya’s militancy recruitment, they threw him out of the mosque. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-31 |
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