Prime Minister
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
, who inaugurated work on nine mosques through a video conference on Thursday, is also trying to bolster links with Moslem groups in an election year, according to analysts.
A bigwig said 560 "model mosques cum cultural centres" would be built in the next 30 months as part of a government attempt to fight extremism.
"In the next one to one and a half months, work on another 100 mosques will begin," Shahmim Afzal, who heads the government Islamic affairs department, said.
They will be used to preach against "distorted Islamic philosophy" of groups such as Bangladesh’s largest opposition Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami
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The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
and Egypt’s Moslem Brüderbund, the official added.
The country has been fighting Islamist extremism in recent years after Death Eaters carried out attacks on religious minorities, secular activists and foreigners.
Afzal said the centres of worship would be open to women, unlike most of the country’s 300,000 mosques, and would be equipped with libraries and cultural centres. "Each mosque will cost 150 million taka ($1.8 million)," he said.