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by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
October 17, 2008
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When Dhaka is busy in ensuring proper atmosphere for holding next general election by December 2008, several ultra-Islamist groups mostly known as pals of Al Qaeda are gradually becoming active thus exposing fangs of nasty radicalism in the second largest Muslim nation in the world. Weekly Blitz has always been providing various informative and analytical reports to its readers on the danger and risk of rise in Islamist millitancy especially madrassa based mashroom growth of religious extremism. Bangladeshi government has alwayd been ignoring all such investigative reports and had tried several times to shut down the voice of Weekly Blitz.
Notorious gangs of Rapid Action Battalion [RAB] intruded into Weekly Blitz office in March 2008 and abducted me and another colleague of mine at gun point thus looting valuables. Despite repeated written complaints, Bangladeshi government never took any action against the culprit RAB men, which evidently proved that in fact a very influential quarter right within the government was very much behind such notorious actions of RAB. We even came to know that the secretary in charge of Ministry of Home Affairs himself was behind such notorious crime of RAB and he was the man who did everything finally to salvage RAB men from any departmental action. It is even learnt that the Home Secretary is keeping hidden relations with various Islamist millitancy groups and is giving instigations to various madrassas in staging 'Jihad' in the country and establishment of Sharial Rule.
But, a very recent incident in the capital of Bangladesh, which took place just on Wednesday left a very strong message to the locals and international community that Bangladesh is already within the grips of neo-Talibans. Notorious and ferrotious Mufti Noor Hossain Noorani, who bombed the office of Weekly Blitz in July 2006 and left life threats on me, is once again behind this broad day crime. According to newspaper reports, around 2,000 Islamists and Al Qaida pals on Wednesday forced government authorities to pull down a monument of Bauls on the roundabout at Zia International Airport in Dhaka after they had tried to raze and rallied against the sculpture. Members of law enforcing agencies and various intelligence agencies were seen silently watching the destruction of the neo-Talibans. The Dhaka City Corporation six months ago decided to erect a monument at the place as part of the city beautification program. Sculptor Mrinal Haque about three months and a half ago started building the monument, sculptures of five Bauls holding Ektaras, single-stringed instruments, symbolizing the exuberance of the Bengali culture. The initiative was sponsored by a private bank. Authorities in Airport Police Station told newsmen that the Islamists were allowed to pull down the sculptures under the instruction from 'higher authorities' in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
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