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Hefazat claims arrest warrant issued to deflect Greek idol issue
[Dhaka Tribune] Salafist platform Hefajat-e-Islam...a madrassa-based false nose and mustache of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, formed in 2010 to protest against secular education. In 2011 demonstrated violentyly against women's rights and in 2013 held large rallies demanding capital punishment of Shahbag Square protesters and banning women working outside the home... issued a blurb on Monday stating the arrest warrant issued against their leaders was to deflect the idol issue on the Supreme Court premises. The Shariah law-pursuing group has been actively campaigning to remove the sculpture representing justice, claiming it is a Greek idol. They have also used children in their public protest, a political act which is forbidden in the Children’s Act 2013. Hefazat Nayeb-e-Ameer Shamshul Alam among many signed the brief, saying there is no place for idols in a Moslem-majority country and that it was strategically placed on the court grounds to undermine Islam. Hefazat leaders claimed the warrant was issued by anti-Islamic atheists to silence Islamic scholars leading the fight against the anti-Islamic conspiracy. They further threatened to launch countrywide unrest if the warrant was not withdrawn swiftly. Earlier on Sunday, a Dhaka court issued an arrest warrant against 25 people including Hefazat leaders, in a four-year-old case for instigating an attack on the Gonojagoron Moncho on February 22, 2013. A special tribunal issued the arrest warrant based on the charge sheet filed by Shahbagh police accusing 29 people of bombing. The court also ordered Shahbagh police to submit a report by April 6 on whether the accused have been placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! . Posted by: Fred 2017-03-07 |
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