INSIDE STORY OF THE RISE OF "ISLAMIC FANATICISM" IN BANGLADESH:
CHITTAGONG: Militant Islamist outfits Hizbut Tawhid and Hizb ut-Tahrir appear to have revived their organisational activities including recruitment of members through internet. Interestingly enough, they have chosen Facebook for their social networking.
A good number of activists belonging to these militant groups have Facebook accounts with similar profile pictures to propagate their ideas and confrontational thoughts to the young. Both the groups tend to incline youngsters to join them in Jihad.
Hizbut Tawhid was banned by the government several years ago. The organisation publishes Jihadi booklets from 31/32 PK Roy Road, Pustak Bhaban, Bangla Bazar, Dhaka. Hizb ut-Tahrir has also a ban on its activities since October 22, 2009.
Written by Bayazid Khan Panni, alias Selim Panni, the book ‘Dajjal’ compares the western civilisation to the marauding demon Dajjal. It calls for elimination of Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims and instigates Jihad against the United States, West and Israel. Bangladesh government banned publication and marketing of the book on May 10, 1998. Hizbut Tawhid men on the Facebook site only confine themselves to posting link of the book and tagging the like-minded people with the cover of the book instead of taking part in exchanges.
Hizb ut-Tahrir men continue networking and making useful exchanges, maintaining highest security. Hizbut Tawhid men have over 15,000 Facebook accounts using the cover picture of ‘Dajjal’ as profile picture.
Of them, one Moshiur Rahman Fazlu had 1,176 friends in his account as of Friday. At least 700 of his Facebook friends have the same profile pictures of Dajjal. Fazlu and most of his friends confine activities only to posting the same thing over and over again and tagging the others with a picture. Zim Zubaer, a potential Hizb ut-Tahrir activist, identified himself as a BUET student in his profile and said he is for establishing “Comprehensive Implementation of Sharia Laws — The Caliphate”.
Tahrir men mainly have two Facebook groups -- “Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh” comprising 46 members and “One khilafah” comprising 1,357 members.
In the Facebook accounts they identify themselves mostly as brother, sister or soldier of Khilaphah. They also have at least 500 more such groups under different names keeping the same ideology and messages on their profile info.
There are also some 2,000 accounts and 1,785 groups on the Facebook supporting Hizbut Tawhid and Hizb ut-Tahrir. These groups include Ayman Bin Moshi, Dajjal, The Judeo-Christian Civilization, Islam, Islam and Dajjal, Anti-Dajjal, Awareness of Dajjal, Beware of Dajjal, Dajjal Representative, Dajjal and True Islam, This Islam Is Not Islam, and Dajjal Documentary. Through these accounts they call for subscription for CAUSE and raise fund in the name of helping Palestinian children and carrying out movement.
Hizbut Tawhid brings out a publication named “Tawhid Prokashan”. It publishes an e-paper titled “Akhbare Tawhid” that contains articles of Imam Mahadi (a leader of Hizbut Tawhid), notes from Bayazid Khan Panni, news of arrested operatives, the phone numbers and addresses of their local leaders, and even wedding news of their activists. The last edition of the paper was published on March 02. On its website, Hizb ut-Tahrir also released an announcement of the rally they held at Muktangan in Dhaka on August 13 and requested people to join it. Besides, they post notes or articles very carefully and carryout campaign through local blogs and other social media.
Such networking by the militant outfits will influence common people and inspire them to join them. A source requesting anonymity observed that this type of cyber-activity has become a great threat to the national security. The rules and regulations of the internet service providers of Bangladesh need to be more stringent to check subversive activities.
Law enforcers in Bangladesh succeeded much in containing militancy through continuous drives. But they seem unaware of their activities through internet.
IT experts think if the government wants, such activities via internet can be stopped within a minute. Major Md Asfaque of Rapid Action Battalion-7 of Chittagong said they are watching the activities of the militant outfits closely. [Source: Hizbut Tawhid, Tahrir active on Facebook-->by Nirjhar Mazumder, Daily Sun, 5th September, 2011]
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"Prior to our event on Friday the 4th of July, Jamate Islame Hind had invited Hizb ut-Tahrir India to speak at the demonstration they had organized along with all the other Muslim groups of India at the Israeli embassy. Also one of the members of Hizb ut-Tahrir advocated at the Supreme Court of India spoke at the protest. Around 200 people had attended that protest".
In July, 2009, a very strange article came up in Sunday Times, with the heading, "British Islamists plot against Pakistan". In the article which was penned by Nicola Smith from Lahore said, the following: British militants are pushing for the overthrow of the Pakistani state. Followers of the fundamentalist group Hizb ut-Tahrir have called for a “bloodless military coup” in Islamabad and the creation of the caliphate in which strict Islamic laws would be rigorously enforced.
Members of the group, which describes itself as the Liberation party in Britain but is banned in Pakistan, revealed last week that it had targeted the country as a base from which to spread Islamic rule across the world.
The Sunday Times has obtained the names of a dozen British Hizb ut-Tahrir activists based in Lahore and Karachi, or commuting between Britain and Pakistan. There are believed to be many more.
Tayyib Muqeem, an English teacher from Stoke-on-Trent, said he had moved to Lahore to convert Pakistanis to the movement.
At Lahore’s Superior College, where Muqeem has set up a Hizb ut-Tahrir student group, he said the organisation’s aim was to subject Muslim and western countries to Islamic rule under sharia law, “by force” if necessary.
In a caliphate, “every woman would have to cover up” and stoning to death for adultery and the chopping off of thieves’ hands would be the law, he said.
He added that Islamic rule would be spread through “indoctrination” and by “military means” if non-Muslim countries refused to bow to it. “Waging war” would be part of the caliphate’s foreign policy.
One of Hizb ut-Tahrir’s strategies in Pakistan is to influence military officers, he revealed.
Shahzad Sheikh, a Pakistani recruit and the group’s official spokesman in Karachi, talked openly about persuading the army to instigate a “bloodless coup” against the present government who, he said, were “worse than the Taliban”.
“It is the military who hold the power (in Pakistan) and we are asking them to give their allegiance to Hizb ut-Tahrir,” he said. “I can’t explain to you in detail how we are trying to influence the military . . . We never disclose our methodology of change. You may say it’s a coup.”
In 2003 four army officers were arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of being linked to extremist groups, although the groups and men have not been named. A Hizb ut-Tahrir insider at the time claims they were recruited by the organisation’s “Pakistan team” while training at Sandhurst.
The group is believed to have been set up in Pakistan in the early 1990s by Imtiaz Malik, a British-born Pakistani who may still be operating underground as its leader in the country. In 1999 a call was sent to British Hizb ut-Tahrir members to move to Pakistan. This prompted the movement of some of the UK’s “top quality” activists to south Asia.
“Pakistan was neglected and ignored until it had a nuclear bomb and then the global leader realised it would be a good strategic base for the caliphate,” said Maajid Nawaz, one of the organisation’s pioneers in Pakistan, who has since renounced the group.
Nawaz claimed at least 10 British activists were planted in each of Pakistan’s main cities. “The traffic has been increasing ever since and people are always going back and forth (to the UK),” he added.
“Hizb ut-Tahrir sets the mood music for suicide bombers to dance to,” said Nawaz, who has now started an initiative to “claim Pakistan back” from extremists.
Hasan-Askari Rizvi, a former professor in Lahore who is now a security analyst, said: “This organisation was brought to Pakistan by Pakistani Britishers. People were impressed that these young, educated Brits were so committed to Islam that they came to Pakistan.”
The group spreads its message through a secretive network of small groups. Its recruitment campaigns among students are clearly bearing fruit: evidence was found of cells in Lahore’s major universities and private colleges.
Last month, precisely on, 15th August, 2011, an article appeared in a Bangladeshi English portal, where it was mentioned that "of the 15 activists of banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir arrested from a procession in the city on Saturday, at least 10 are the students of different educational institutions. According to Paltan police, detained Radi Shafiq, Jamil Ur Rahman, Sabbir Ahmed alias Akash are the students of the Institute of Business Administration and A M Sayedul Islam of mathematics department of Dhaka University.
Syed Jaim Abdullah is a student of a private university, Ashiqur Rahman of North South University, Safayet Ullah Shaon of Dhaka City College, Habibur Rahman of Tejgaon College and Sharif Shah Miraj of Government Science College. Manirul Islam alias Piyas, Asif Rahman and Mohammad Faysal are former students of Udayan College, Dhaka College and Dhaka Polytechnic Institute respectively while Ahmed Nizam is an employee of a private firm", which raises lot of questions regarding indoctrination of students. The government of Bangladesh, banned Hizb ut-Tahrir on October 22, 2009 citing it had been carrying out subversive and anti-democratic activities in the country.
Bangladesh is a Bengali Muslim majority country where people in general do not support extremist ideas of "Political Islam", but off late the things are changing very fast, with the active participation of the Islamic--ultras, like Jamaat-e-Islami, Hizb ut tahrir, JMB, Harkatul Jihad etc who have been trying their level best to make this country another pakistan. But the good point is that in general the people of Bangladesh have not responded to this brand of "Fanatical Islam" too much. The influence of 24 hour Islamic fanatical channels like Peace TV, is having a devastating effects on the young mind-set, in whole of the Indian sub-continent.
The official website of Jamaat-e-Islami states that, "Jamaat-e-Islami further believes in the universality of al Din (The Religion) which Allah revealed to mankind through a succession of Messengers who all contributed to evolving an equitable system of life (Al Din al Haq) until its completion with the arrival of Mohammed (peace and blessings be upon him), the last Prophet, sent by Allah as "the seal of the Prophets" ...which interpreted correctly says that it believes in the concept of '"Political Islam". Their official website further says, "Acting Ameer of Bangladesh Jamat E Islami Mr Maqbul Ahmad told that the oppression and tyranny is the historic trend.Followers of Islamic movement are to march forward to achieve desired goal. Virtually oppression and tyranny upon leaders & workers of Jamaat have been going on because of two reason (sic): one of the reason is that we are firmly determined to establish Islam in our society and also we are uncompromised to establish the truth. So it is possible to ensure human freedom only by establishing Deen to overcome all sorts of tyranny & oppression by the activist of Islamic movement".
Hizb ut-Tahrir insists that it does not engage in terrorism. The organization is not recognized by the State Department as a known terror group. Its supporters, however, blasted capitalism while calling for a rise of Islam during Sunday's conference.
"Hizb ut-Tahrir is one of the oldest, largest indoctrinating organizations for the ideology known as jihadism," Walid Phares, director of the Future of Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told FOXNews.com.
"The aim of this conference is to recruit within the Muslim community in America," he said. "The Middle East governments go after them, but in the U.S. they are protected, so having a base here is going to help their cells around the world."
They're "more dangerous than many groups that are on the State Departrment's terror list" because we tend to focus on terrorism, and figure any Muslim not engaged or linked to ut must be a "good Muslim." As Phares says in his books, the problem is a lack of education in this country. During the Cold War we understandably focused on the communist threat. During the 1990s we thought we could ignore the world and concentrate on spending the "peace dividend." The Bush Administration had a golden opportunity to educate the public about jihadism, but chose to tell us the problem was just terrorism. President Obama has dumped the term "War on Terror." Unbelievably, we're moving backwards.
Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Party of Liberation) has a propaganda video on Youtube. They've disabled the link enabling others to post it elsewhere, so you'll have to go over there to watch it. [This is an old article. Source: theheadhunter.com]
In this connection Wikipedia writes: Anti-Hindu prejudice is a negative perception or religious intolerance against the practice and practitioners of Hinduism. Anti-Hindu sentiments have been expressed by Muslims in Pakistan, Bangladesh, leading to significant persecution of Hindus in those regions, such as the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities by Pakistan, and the recent demolition of Hindu temples in Malaysia.
There are also allegations of Anti-Hinduism voiced by members of the Hindu diaspora in the West against their host societies, notably in the United States, where these form part of the so-called "culture wars", with cases such as the California textbook controversy over Hindu history.
SO ULTIMATELY WHERE ARE WE HEADING OR WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE HINDUS....!!
References:
In July, 2009, a very strange article came up in Sunday Times, with the heading, "British Islamists plot against Pakistan". In the article which was penned by Nicola Smith from Lahore said, the following: British militants are pushing for the overthrow of the Pakistani state. Followers of the fundamentalist group Hizb ut-Tahrir have called for a “bloodless military coup” in Islamabad and the creation of the caliphate in which strict Islamic laws would be rigorously enforced.
Members of the group, which describes itself as the Liberation party in Britain but is banned in Pakistan, revealed last week that it had targeted the country as a base from which to spread Islamic rule across the world.
The Sunday Times has obtained the names of a dozen British Hizb ut-Tahrir activists based in Lahore and Karachi, or commuting between Britain and Pakistan. There are believed to be many more.
Tayyib Muqeem, an English teacher from Stoke-on-Trent, said he had moved to Lahore to convert Pakistanis to the movement.
At Lahore’s Superior College, where Muqeem has set up a Hizb ut-Tahrir student group, he said the organisation’s aim was to subject Muslim and western countries to Islamic rule under sharia law, “by force” if necessary.
In a caliphate, “every woman would have to cover up” and stoning to death for adultery and the chopping off of thieves’ hands would be the law, he said.
He added that Islamic rule would be spread through “indoctrination” and by “military means” if non-Muslim countries refused to bow to it. “Waging war” would be part of the caliphate’s foreign policy.
One of Hizb ut-Tahrir’s strategies in Pakistan is to influence military officers, he revealed.
Shahzad Sheikh, a Pakistani recruit and the group’s official spokesman in Karachi, talked openly about persuading the army to instigate a “bloodless coup” against the present government who, he said, were “worse than the Taliban”.
“It is the military who hold the power (in Pakistan) and we are asking them to give their allegiance to Hizb ut-Tahrir,” he said. “I can’t explain to you in detail how we are trying to influence the military . . . We never disclose our methodology of change. You may say it’s a coup.”
In 2003 four army officers were arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of being linked to extremist groups, although the groups and men have not been named. A Hizb ut-Tahrir insider at the time claims they were recruited by the organisation’s “Pakistan team” while training at Sandhurst.
The group is believed to have been set up in Pakistan in the early 1990s by Imtiaz Malik, a British-born Pakistani who may still be operating underground as its leader in the country. In 1999 a call was sent to British Hizb ut-Tahrir members to move to Pakistan. This prompted the movement of some of the UK’s “top quality” activists to south Asia.
“Pakistan was neglected and ignored until it had a nuclear bomb and then the global leader realised it would be a good strategic base for the caliphate,” said Maajid Nawaz, one of the organisation’s pioneers in Pakistan, who has since renounced the group.
Nawaz claimed at least 10 British activists were planted in each of Pakistan’s main cities. “The traffic has been increasing ever since and people are always going back and forth (to the UK),” he added.
“Hizb ut-Tahrir sets the mood music for suicide bombers to dance to,” said Nawaz, who has now started an initiative to “claim Pakistan back” from extremists.
Hasan-Askari Rizvi, a former professor in Lahore who is now a security analyst, said: “This organisation was brought to Pakistan by Pakistani Britishers. People were impressed that these young, educated Brits were so committed to Islam that they came to Pakistan.”
The group spreads its message through a secretive network of small groups. Its recruitment campaigns among students are clearly bearing fruit: evidence was found of cells in Lahore’s major universities and private colleges.
Last month, precisely on, 15th August, 2011, an article appeared in a Bangladeshi English portal, where it was mentioned that "of the 15 activists of banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir arrested from a procession in the city on Saturday, at least 10 are the students of different educational institutions. According to Paltan police, detained Radi Shafiq, Jamil Ur Rahman, Sabbir Ahmed alias Akash are the students of the Institute of Business Administration and A M Sayedul Islam of mathematics department of Dhaka University.
Syed Jaim Abdullah is a student of a private university, Ashiqur Rahman of North South University, Safayet Ullah Shaon of Dhaka City College, Habibur Rahman of Tejgaon College and Sharif Shah Miraj of Government Science College. Manirul Islam alias Piyas, Asif Rahman and Mohammad Faysal are former students of Udayan College, Dhaka College and Dhaka Polytechnic Institute respectively while Ahmed Nizam is an employee of a private firm", which raises lot of questions regarding indoctrination of students. The government of Bangladesh, banned Hizb ut-Tahrir on October 22, 2009 citing it had been carrying out subversive and anti-democratic activities in the country.
Bangladesh is a Bengali Muslim majority country where people in general do not support extremist ideas of "Political Islam", but off late the things are changing very fast, with the active participation of the Islamic--ultras, like Jamaat-e-Islami, Hizb ut tahrir, JMB, Harkatul Jihad etc who have been trying their level best to make this country another pakistan. But the good point is that in general the people of Bangladesh have not responded to this brand of "Fanatical Islam" too much. The influence of 24 hour Islamic fanatical channels like Peace TV, is having a devastating effects on the young mind-set, in whole of the Indian sub-continent.
The official website of Jamaat-e-Islami states that, "Jamaat-e-Islami further believes in the universality of al Din (The Religion) which Allah revealed to mankind through a succession of Messengers who all contributed to evolving an equitable system of life (Al Din al Haq) until its completion with the arrival of Mohammed (peace and blessings be upon him), the last Prophet, sent by Allah as "the seal of the Prophets" ...which interpreted correctly says that it believes in the concept of '"Political Islam". Their official website further says, "Acting Ameer of Bangladesh Jamat E Islami Mr Maqbul Ahmad told that the oppression and tyranny is the historic trend.Followers of Islamic movement are to march forward to achieve desired goal. Virtually oppression and tyranny upon leaders & workers of Jamaat have been going on because of two reason (sic): one of the reason is that we are firmly determined to establish Islam in our society and also we are uncompromised to establish the truth. So it is possible to ensure human freedom only by establishing Deen to overcome all sorts of tyranny & oppression by the activist of Islamic movement".
Hizb ut-Tahrir: Terrorism is not the Issue:
Hizb ut-Tahrir, a jihadist group that is currently holding a conference in a Chicago suburb, is trying to spin their way out of bad publicity by denying ties to al Qaeda. From Fox News today
Roughly 500 members of Hizb ut-Tahrir -- a global Sunni network with reported ties to confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Al Qaeda in Iraq's onetime leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- met inside a Hilton hotel in Oak Lawn, Ill., to host "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam."
"Free market, organization, capitalization -- all has failed and brought disaster to America," said one of the group's speakers.
Whether they engage in terrorism or are linked to al Qaeda is irrelevant. The purpose of the jihad is to spread the faith by any means possible, and for Hizb ut-Tahrir the goal is to reestablish the caliphate and impose sharia law on all Muslim ruled dominions. Fortunately the protesters outside their conference near Chicago get it:
Walid Phares gets it too. From the Fox story.
But some terrorism experts say Hizb ut-Tahrir may be even more dangerous than many groups that are on the State Departrment's terror list."Hizb ut-Tahrir is one of the oldest, largest indoctrinating organizations for the ideology known as jihadism," Walid Phares, director of the Future of Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told FOXNews.com.
Phares said that Hizb ut-Tahrir, rather than training members to carry out terrorist acts like Al Qaeda, focuses instead on indoctrinating youths between ages of 9 and 18 to absorb the ideology that calls for the formation of an empire -- or "khilafah" -- that will rule according to Islamic law and condones any means to achieve it, including militant jihad.
Hizb ut-Tahrir often says that its indoctrination "prepares the infantry" that groups like Al Qaeda take into battle, Phares said.
"It's like a middle school that prepares them to be recruited by the high school, which is Al Qaeda," he said. "One would compare them to Hitler youth. ... It's an extremely dangerous organization."
Phares said Hizb ut-Tahrir has strongholds in Western countries, including Britain, France and Spain, and clearly is looking to strengthen its base in the U.S."The aim of this conference is to recruit within the Muslim community in America," he said. "The Middle East governments go after them, but in the U.S. they are protected, so having a base here is going to help their cells around the world."
They're "more dangerous than many groups that are on the State Departrment's terror list" because we tend to focus on terrorism, and figure any Muslim not engaged or linked to ut must be a "good Muslim." As Phares says in his books, the problem is a lack of education in this country. During the Cold War we understandably focused on the communist threat. During the 1990s we thought we could ignore the world and concentrate on spending the "peace dividend." The Bush Administration had a golden opportunity to educate the public about jihadism, but chose to tell us the problem was just terrorism. President Obama has dumped the term "War on Terror." Unbelievably, we're moving backwards.
Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Party of Liberation) has a propaganda video on Youtube. They've disabled the link enabling others to post it elsewhere, so you'll have to go over there to watch it. [This is an old article. Source: theheadhunter.com]
There are also allegations of Anti-Hinduism voiced by members of the Hindu diaspora in the West against their host societies, notably in the United States, where these form part of the so-called "culture wars", with cases such as the California textbook controversy over Hindu history.
SO ULTIMATELY WHERE ARE WE HEADING OR WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE HINDUS....!!
References:
(ii) The Daily Star
(iii) Bengal Under Attack
(iv) The Sunday Times
(v) Facebook Group: Beware of JAAMAT-E-ISLAMI,HIZB UT TAHRIR and other fanatics in Bangladesh..
(vi) Jamaat-e-Islami
(vii) *Photo Courtesy: Facebook Group: Beware of JAAMAT-E-ISLAMI,HIZB UT TAHRIR and other fanatics in Bangladesh..
(viii) The Red Hunter
(ix) Bare Naked Islam
(x) Counter Terrorism Blog
(v) Facebook Group: Beware of JAAMAT-E-ISLAMI,HIZB UT TAHRIR and other fanatics in Bangladesh..
(vi) Jamaat-e-Islami
(vii) *Photo Courtesy: Facebook Group: Beware of JAAMAT-E-ISLAMI,HIZB UT TAHRIR and other fanatics in Bangladesh..
(viii) The Red Hunter
(ix) Bare Naked Islam
(x) Counter Terrorism Blog
