Human rights activist and exiled Bangladeshi blogger Asad Noor revealed that the minority community is now being forced to join ‘Jamaat-e-Islami’ in Bangladesh. Noor made the revelations in a Facebook post on Sunday and he informed on Saturday that members of the radical Islamist outfit visited Kalmati Ward No.2 in Khuniagach Union of Lalmonirhat Sadar Upazila.
They preyed upon 27 poor, destitute Hindus and forced them to join ‘Jamaat-e-Islami.’ According to the media reports, the radicals threatened to kill the victims and remove them from the nation. The impoverished Hindus had to comply with their diktat. The Jamaat-e-Islami members forced them into signing some forms and gave them Islamic books to brainwash them into changing their Hindu Faith.
During the forced induction of Hindus into the radical outfit Hafiz Mohammed Shah Alam, the Assistant Secretary of the Jamaat-e-Islami (Lalmonirhat Branch), was present. The 27 victims were administered an oath of allegiance under Apexndix 11 of the Constitution. The incident comes after the lynching of a Hindu boy named Utsab Mandal by a Muslim mob on accusations of ‘blasphemy’ in the Sonadanga residential area of Khulna city.
Muslim students have forced as many as 60 Hindu teachers, professors and the government officials to resign from their positions. There have been at least 205 attacks on Hindu temples, shops and businesses since the ouster of Sheikha Hasina as Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
Since the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5, over 205 incidents of violence have been reported against Hindus and other minority groups across 52 districts in Bangladesh. This surge in attacks has left hundreds injured and has driven thousands to flee their homes in search of safety.
Islamists are consistently targeting Hindu homes, businesses and temples in Dhaka. In one of the videos shared by ‘Voice of Bangladeshi Hindus’, a woman can be seen narrating, ‘They came and looted our house. They took away our money, gold and whatever valuable that was left with us. They also abducted my 14-year-old boy’.
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