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May 01-11, 2002 News in Bangla from the "Daily Ittefaq"

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25-May-02 (Asia Pacific Media Services Limited) Is religious extremism on the rise in Bangladesh? - Extremist influence is growing, especially in the [Bangladesh] countryside. A foreign diplomat in Dhaka said: "In the 1960s and 1970s, it was the leftists who were seen as incorruptible purists. Today, the role model for many young men in rural areas is the dedicated Islamic cleric with his skull cap, flowing robes and beard."

16-May-02 (Daily Star) Government bans Matir Moina, hopefully for the moment: Are we becoming what some quarters are accusing us of? - The ban has come saying that it is "religiously sensitive"... The government is aware that Bangladesh was billed as "cocoon of terror" and as a fundamentalist country. The latest decision on Matir Moina will definitely influence world opinion against us ...

16-May-02 (Daily Star) Court orders for proper preservation of Shahriar's video cassettes The chief metropolitan magistrate's (CMM) court, Dhaka, yesterday granted a petition seeking proper preservation of video cassettes, seized from writer and columnist Shahriar Kabir....

15-May-02 (Independent) Buddhists threaten movement if killers not arrested by May 20 - The Committee for the Movement of Justice for Gyan Jyoti Murder threatened to launch action programme if the killers of the Buddhist monk are not arrested by May 20.

15-May-02 (Daily Star) Bertil Lintner and all that - We have to prove to us and to the world at large that thousands of religious schools are not producing potential Frankensteins.

15-May-02 (Daily Star) Letters to Editor: Breeding intolerance in Bangladesh - Is there any legal accountability [in Bangladesh] at all for what someone says into a microphone in public? A week or so ago, in the main street in Haluaghat, a man was proclaiming, "Kill the Christians. Show your support of the Palestinians!" or words to that effect. I am just a plain Englishwoman and, in my country, people trying to 'incite people to hatred' in this way would be promptly picked up by the police and an almighty fuss would be made.

15-May-02 (Daily Star) Letters to Editor: Communalism in perspective - ... how are Bangladesh's Hindus faring compared to Muslims in 'communal', 'anti-Muslim' India?

15-May-02 (Daily Star) Another Buddhist monastery attacked in Ctg - Miscreants have attacked another Buddha Bihar (Buddhist monastery) in Rauzan, about two kms off Hingala Buddha Bihar where a monk was killed on the night of April 21...

11-May-02 (Daily Star) Fresh attack on Hindu families in Natore - At least 50 people were injured when Hindus of Basantapur village came under renewed attack Wednesday night by criminals allegedly belonging to the BNP.

07-May-02 (Daily Star) Three 'criminals' snapped with home minister in Raozan held - Police have arrested three ruling party-backed alleged criminals from different areas in Raozan on suspicion of their involvement in the murder of Buddhist monk Gyanajoti Mahasthabir.

07-May-02 (Yahoo News) Malaysia's Mahathir Says Muslims to Blame for Own Woes - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Tuesday that the world's Muslims had only themselves to blame for the poverty, misery and violence afflicting much of the Islamic world...Mahathir said Muslim education had concentrated too much on religious dogma, neglecting worldly subjects such as science, mathematics and philosophy.

07-May-02 (Observer) Practising What Is Preached - And here is a Home Minister who promises us nothing less than the sky. No wonder therefore that after six months, the Muhuri murder case has made hardly any progress in its investigation. Most likely the same fate awaits the cases involving the murder of two religious persons.

07-May-02 (Observer) Kali Cuts Across Both Hindu and Muslims Cultures -  There are many problems in Faridpur town, but religious fundamentalism is not one of them ...

03-May-02 (Daily Star) Letter to Editor: Bangladesh and terrorism - As to why the FEER report made such a furore over Bangladesh is obvious. We do not like to be called a nation of terrorists. Fair enough. But that does not mean that we should be blind to facts....

01-May-02 (Daily Star) Editorial: Death of a priest outraeous beyond measure - In the span of a week, two men of religion -- a Buddhist monk and a Hindu priest -- have been murdered in the Chittagong region, in almost identical manners and under similar circumstances....

01-May-02 (Daily Star) Letter to Editor: Maintain communal harmony - Muslim, Hindu, Christians or Jews-- whatever religious norms and beliefs we follow, we must remember that above all we are human beings....

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04-Apr-02 (HK Consul General) Bangladesh Govt. Reply to the report published at FEER (pdf format) - In a country that is deeply committed to democratic practices and tolerance, religious disharmony is farthest from the people's mind. On the contrary, Bangladesh has been universally described as a moderate, functioning Muslim democracy...

04-Apr-02 (BBC News) Bangladesh bans economic magazine - Bangladesh bans the latest issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review, after it described it as a land of rising fundamentalism and religious intolerance.

03-Apr-02 (Times of India) Bangladesh bans Far Eastern Economic Review issue - Bangladesh on Wednesday banned the current issue of the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review, which described the country as "a cocoon of terror". A government statement said the sale, publication and distribution of the magazine's April 4 issue had been banned because it contained an "anti-Bangladesh campaign and statements critical of Bangladesh".

03-Apr-02 (Zee News) Bangladesh ministry blasts HK magazine on article - Bangladesh's foreign ministry on Wednesday said an article in the latest issue of the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review magazine describing the mainly Muslim country as a land of rising fundamentalism and religious intolerance was baseless.

04-Apr-02 Issue cover-date (FEER) BANGLADESH Cocoon of Terror (By Bertil Lintner)- Rising fundamentalism and religious intolerance are threatening secularism and moderate Islam. The implications for the region and beyond are grave, but it's not too late for a counter-revolution

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