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| Bangladesh |
| Hefazat warns against an 'unlawful' force in media |
| 2014-02-12 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] 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... leaders in Chittagong yesterday alleged that a vested interest in the media had been running a propaganda against the group, the Qawmi madrasa system and the Islamic scholars with an ill-motive to instigate communal unrest. As a result, an "unlawful" force would get the chance to create trouble, the leaders said at a presser held at the auditorium of the Chittagong Metropolitan Union of Journalists. Hefazat Organising Secretary Azizul Haque Islamabadi read out a written statement at the conference on behalf of Secretary General Junaid Babunagari. The statement said a private television had recently broadcasted a controversial report named "Hefazatnama'' aiming to confuse people. The statement added that it was part of "information-terrorism" by anti-Islamic quarters from home and abroad. The statement also said a number of other media houses -- both electronic and print -- had followed suit by publishing false and fabricated information against Hefazat, Qwami madrasa and Islamic scholars. The leaders of the Chittagong-based Islamist outfit urged the government to take legal action against those media houses. Babunagari said Hefazat was a non-political organization and its movement was not for implementing the agenda of any party; rather it was for implementing of the ideals of Allah and Prophet Muhammad. He said Hefazat would hold an Islamic conference at Chittagong's Hathazari -- the home of Hefazat on February 14 and a two-day "Shane Risalat Sammelan" (an Islamic conference) on April 3-4. |
| Posted by:Fred |