Dear Alochoks
If you look closely at these activists you will find them to be
intelligent, educated, financially independent and from good
families. The real ring leaders will not have been born in Bangladesh
but born in the UK, France, Germany etc. They have a single mission -
the reinstatement of the Khilafah from Turkey to Malaysia. They have
been sent to Bangladesh as part of this 'global mission'. These
activists have also been trained to be skilled in close combat. They
are also trained to deal with adversity and challenges. Being picked
up by the Deshi police is like drinking a glass of water for them.
They are dangerous. I remember a decade ago attending a semina inthe
House of Lords on 'democracy in Bangladesh'. The entire evening was
hijacked by an activist from this group who spoke for an hour non
stop about democracy being an evil forced upon the ummah. He ruined
the program. They also ruined seminars at SOAS. Of late this group
has lost its leader - the infamous Omar Bokhri Mohammed. He left this
group as it was 'not radical enough' and set up another outfit called
the Al Mujahiroun. I remember watching Omar speak at a seminar on
Bosnia at the LSE - he has a magical ability to indoctrinate and
mesmerise. These same skills are passed on to activists. These
activists in angladesh will effortlessly radicalise dozens of
intelligent young men. This group - and all similar extremists -
should be banned outright. Bangladesh ahs yet to prove its own
credentials in the war on terror.
The absence of moral leaderrship in centre politics drives some
people to extremes. It is this vacuum that is exploited by radicals
in predominantly Muslim countries.
On the other hand watching Hasina and Khaleda tear each others hair
out decade after decade will probably radicalise me in the end!
Regards
Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bd_mailer@...> wrote:
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> 3 varsity teachers among 11 militants held
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> Twelve Hijbut Tahrir activists, three of whom are
> university teachers, have been arrested in front of Rajshahi
> City press club on the eve of holding a press conference
> yesterday. Focus Bangla
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> Police arrested 11 Hijbut Tahrir activists at Sonadighi crossing in
the Rajshahi northwestern city yesterday on the eve of their pre-
announced press conference.
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> Among the arrested ones there are three university teachers. The
three arrested teachers are Prof. Dr Syed Golam Mawla of Management
Department and Prof. Ahmed Jamal of Chemistry Department of Dhaka
University and Mamun Ansari of the private Southern University in
Dhaka.
>
> Police said they arrested the Tahrir men as "suspected militants"
after they reached Rajshahi by a microbus to hold the press
conference at the local Press Club at 1pm for announcing programme of
the party. They were detained around 12:30pm on Thursday at Rajshahi
Press Club.
>
> The others held are believed to be students of different
universities in the country. They are Masud Kawser, son of Shafiqul
Islam of Chandpur district, Omar Farook, son of Sadiqul Islam of
Chapainawabganj, Moniruzzaman Masud, son of Harunur Rashid of
Noakhali, Saddam Hossain, son of Mohammad Hossain, and Mozammel
Haque, son of Shamsul Islam, of Brahmanbaria, Akhtar Hossain, son of
Ali Hossain of Chittagong, Jahedul Islam, son of Aftab Uddin of
Kishoreganj, and their microbus driver Jahangir Alam, son of Abdur
Rahman of Noakhali district.
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> Police also seized the microbus carrying them, 12 mobile-phone sets
and huge leaflets and posters of the party from the possession of the
Tahrir activists.
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> This group's abortive debut here came as a major matter after the
JMB militants' march through this city at the height of their
vigilance operation in the district and their eventual nemesis.
>
> Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Detective Branch Ekramul
Hossain said the university teachers and others were arrested
as "suspected militants" in apprehension of their "subversive acts".
>
> Carrying leaflets with anti-government statements in violation of
the state of emergency was also cited as a ground for taking them
in.Arrested DU teacher Golam Mawla said they convened a press
conference
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> at Rajshahi City Press Club a day before the party's central press
conference at the Engineers' Institute Auditorium in Dhaka. The DU
teacher also named Mohiuddin Ahmed as their party's central leader.
>
> Prior to arranging the press conference, the party activists
distributed leaflets in the city-heart Saheb Bazaar area after Tarabi
prayers on Sept 9. The party leaflets also carried anti-government
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> slogans.
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> The party undertook steps to spread and propagate its activities by
holding the press conference in Rajshahi for the first time, sources
said. But police forestalled the move.
>
> In the leaflets the group also urged the Muslim Ummah to unite
during the holy month of Ramadan and "regain the lost glory". They
also made a call for what they said "toppling the government for
restoration of Khilafat (caliphate)".
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> Especially, Rajshahi's Bagmara area was a stronghold of Islamic
militants under JMJB, the operations wing of JMB, and Sarbahara
outlaws in the last few years.
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> Back then, JMB's second-in-command Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai
had launched a cleansing operation in 2004 against the outlaws in a
bid to eliminate them. After the deadly drive, the terrorist
activities were somehow under control.
>
> Bangla Bhai and JMB chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman and four other
leaders were hanged in two judges' killing cases of Jhalakati last
year.
>
> http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/09/19/news0828.htm
>
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