http://www.sindhtoday.net/south-asia/34753.htm
Bangladesh Islamists threaten to 'burn alive' cultural activistsDhaka, Nov 9 (IANS) Cultural activists at the
Rajshahi University campus in western Bangladesh have filed three
complaints with police after receiving alleged death threats by radical
Islamists for staging a play last Monday.
The Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of the
Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), country's largest Islamist party, has threatened
to 'burn alive' the activists, alleging their play had defamed Prophet
Mohammed.
Along with the like-minded Sachegtan Chhatra Samaj, the Shibir has
targetted the university unit of a cultural body, Udichi Shilpi
Goshthi, and attacked an Udichi activist Hosne Ara Farzana Thursday.
Udichi general secretary Abu Sayem filed two complaints with the police, the New Age newspaper said Sunday.
As per the complaints, the Shibir activists distributed copies of
daily newspaper Al-Ihsan in which a report termed those who staged the
play as 'murtad' (apostates) and Anjuman Al-Baiyanat announced a reward
for the people who would kill the murtad.
The cultural activists Saturday met the university's acting
vice-chancellor, Mamnunul Keramat, and the proctor, Enamul Haque, and
demanded punishment of the Shibir activists.
Several hundred Shibir activists Saturday held demonstrations on the campus in the presence of police.
At a separate meeting they held on the campus, they again threatened
to burn alive 'anti-Islam cultural activists in the university'.
In an editorial, New Age Sunday asked why the government was
'completely inactive against the fascist forces' of the Shibir who 'are
not only threatening cultural activists and secular and progressive
groups but issuing open declarations to burn alive any citizen who
participates in them'.
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