RoP in Bangladesh
Charles Johnson
Fri Dec 2, 2005 at 6:19 pm PST • Views: 201
Bangladesh faces ‘national crisis’ after serial bomb blasts.
DHAKA (AFP) - A government minister and Islamic party leader warned that Bangladesh faced a national crisis after a series of deadly bomb blasts by religious extremists calling for the imposition of strict Muslim law.
Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid called on Bangladeshis to unit against those behind the attacks in the Muslim-majority country including the first suicide bombings that killed 11 people on Tuesday.
The government has long sought to play down the influence of Islamic extremists in the South Asian nation and denies any presence of the Al-Qaeda terror network. But the blasts since August have shaken authorities.
“Terming the attacks a national crisis, Jamaat-e-Islami general secretary and social welfare minister Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid said using bombs to achieve political ends would not resolve the problem,” the official BSS news agency said.
The attacks, targeting the judiciary, police, and government buildings, have claimed the lives of 18 people including two judges. Three suicide bombers have also died and scores more have been injured, many seriously.
In the early days of LGF I posted an article about the spread of radical Islam in Bangladesh, and a Bangladeshi reader was greatly offended. He posted a comment saying there was no real problem with radical Islam in his country and that I was exaggerating the issue.
It gives me absolutely no pleasure to be proven right.
Frank says: