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| Bangladesh |
| Jamaat leader thinks its a crime |
| 2011-04-07 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-e-Islami acting Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam said yesterday staging demonstrations holding the Koran in hands, and attacks on demonstrators are similar crimes. And Ameer of Islami Andolan Bangladesh Rezaul Karim said on the day it is not proper to demonstrate on streets with the Koran in hands during hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... They made the remarks in response to questions at separate pressers at their party offices in the city yesterday. They faced the questions as demonstrators with the Koran in their hands were seen during the April 4 hartal called by an Islamist group to protest the National Women's Development Policy. Rezaul Karim also said his party is opposed to use of children for picketing during hartal. But Azharul Islam avoided a direct reply when asked if his party supports engaging children in picketing for hartal. "If Awami League can use children in picketing, then why not others," he said. On the women development policy, the Jamaat leader said if they (Jamaat is a component of the BNP-led four-party alliance) come to power again, they will cancel the policy, Replying to a question, he said the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women goes totally against the tenets of the Koran as it stands for equal rights of men and women in inheritance. Jamaat will go for countrywide demonstrations on April 9 protesting "police attacks" on its leaders and activists on Tuesday, and demanding release of its jugged leaders, Azharul Islam announced. Rezaul Karim said some provisions of the women development policy contradict Islamic laws, and the Mohammedans of the country will not accept this policy. The party announced its programmes to "save Islam and the country". These include a mass rally at Muktangan today in the city, day-long demonstration tomorrow, national education seminar on April 11, submitting memorandum to the president on April 12 and mass sit-in on May 2 and 3. |
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