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| Analysts: After Leader’s Death, Bangladesh’s Most Powerful Islamic Group May Fracture |
| 2020-09-28 |
| [BenarNews] Bangladesh’s most powerful faith-based organization, the hardline 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... , may split after the death of leader Ahmed Shafi last week, say analysts who expect infighting between a faction allied with the prime minister and one that supports the opposition. Political observers expects a war of succession over who will take the reins of the organization that controls 25,000 madrassas, or religious boarding schools, in the Islamic majority country. |
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