You can now easily calculate how much illiterate Khaleda Zia is! You can also imagine how much illiterate are the people who support her!
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> Whole of Bangladesh is now Shahbaghâ™
> February 28, 2013 | Filed under: News | Posted by: yazdan
> Reazul Bashar and Ashik Hossain
> Tens of thousands of people on Wednesday chanted slogans
> demanding death to all convicted war criminals in a Dhaka neighbourhood
> where no party other than Jamaat-e-Islami usually stages rally.Â
> The organisers of â˜Ganajagaran Manchaâ™ of Shabagh intersection were
> overwhelmed by the huge crowd thronging the cityâ™s commercial hub
> Motijheel to join a rally.
> This was the third rally organised in Dhaka outside Shahbagh, where
> the unprecedented protest against the life sentence of Jamaat leader
> Abdul Quader Molla, galvanised millions of Bangladeshis to take to the
> street.
> The two other protest rallies were held at Mirpur and Rayerbazar,
> both witness to a spate of mass murders during the 1971 Liberation War.
> The organisers said although their movement demanding death sentence
> to war criminals and a ban on Jamaat started at Shahbagh, it has already spread across all corners of Bangladesh.
> âœOur protest is not only confined to Shahbagh, it has reached
> everywhere across the nation,â Bangladesh Chhatra Moitree President
> Bappaditya Basu told the rally.
> He called upon the people to set up â˜Ganajagaran Manchaâ™ at each school, college and locality.
> Demonstrations at the iconic Shahbagh intersection, now christened as â˜Prajanma Chattarâ™, rolled into the 23rd day on Wednesday.
> The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Feb 5 awarded life
> imprisonment to Molla, sparking off a wave of anger and frustration,
> drawing people to Shahbagh to form mass protests.
> The Islamist party which opposed Bangladeshâ™s birth also held a rally at Motijheel on the day prior to the start of the Shahbagh movement.
> The rally by the â˜Ganajagaran Manchaâ™ in the business district came a day before the ICT-1 is expected to deliver a verdict on Jamaat leader
> Delwar Hossain Sayedee on charges of crimes during the nationâ™s
> nine-month bloody independence struggle in 1971.
> People from the broad spectrum of the society started flocking to
> Motijheel carrying national flags and shouting slogans. Thousands of
> students of the cityâ™s several schools and colleges also joined in.
> The rally kicked off around 3.40pm with singing of national anthem.
> The wife of Liftman Zafar Munshi, who died in an attack by the
> activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir â" the student affiliate of the
> Jamaat-e-Islami â" came and expressed solidarity with the movement.
> âYou have already shown Jamaat-Shibir that they have no place in this country by rejecting two of their strikesâ, said Imran H Sarkar,
> spokesperson for the â˜Ganjagaran Manchaâ™.
> âœI urge you to resist tomorrowâ™s strike by Jamaat and Shibir and show them their places.â
> Thousands of supporters roared in solidarity with the resistance call from â˜Ganjagaran Manchaâ™.
> Talking directly to the International Crimes Tribunal, he said, âœWe
> do not impose any pressure on you. Please continue working in a neutral
> manner. Do not fear Jamaat -Shibirâ™s anarchy and terror.â
> He demanded death penalty for Sayedee saying, âœSupport the call of the nation. Do not be confused. Do not have fear.â
> The blogger also requested media outlets to not run any advertisements for institutions involved with Jamaat-e-Islami.
> Speaking at the rally, Bangladesh Chhatra Union General Secretary
> Hassan Tarek slated the international human rights organisations for
> â˜questioning on-going the trial process of the war criminalsâ™.
> He alleged such organisations had indeed opposed Bangladeshâ™s War of Independence from Pakistan.
> Bangladesh Chhatra League General Secretary Siddiqui Nazmul Alam also spoke on the occasion
> There will be a continuous sit-in at Shahbagh starting from Wednesday night. People from all walks of life have been asked to join a mass
> procession that will be taken out from Shahbagh at 10am on Thursday
> amidst the shutdown
> The protesters went back to Shahbagh following the end of the rally.
> â˜Alllahâ™s house no political officeâ™
> A delegation of the Olama Mashayekh slated Jamaat for using mosque to further their political agenda after expressing solidarity with the
> protest.
> âœMosque is not an office of any political party,â Maulana Abdul Momen Shiraji said in his address to the thousands in the rally.
> He said the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque is the â˜house of Allahâ™, â˜not a party officeâ™.
> âœThose who set the house of Allah on fire do not conform to Islam.â
> Shiraji said: âœIslam talks about humanity, peace and love towards
> other religions. Over 100,000 messengers of Allah talked about humanity
> in Islam.
> He also urged everyone to stay alert against the on-going conspiracies related to Islam.
> Olama Mashayekh Parishadâ™s Abdul Halim Shiraji said,â Islam does not
> suit Jamaat. Donâ™t pay heed to propaganda by those who had led killing,
> rape and loot.â
> He alleged Jamaat was spreading false propaganda against the slain
> Shahbagh movement activist Ahmed Rajib Haider that he had defamed Islam.
> He supported the demands of the youths for hanging the war criminals
> saying: âœThe law of Allah permits killing for a killing. So these
> killers deserve nothing other than death sentence.â
> âœThey (war criminals) deserve several deaths. The Olama Mashayekhs
> will pronounce their death sentence as per the Sharia law if tribunals
> fail to do so,â he added.
> Source: bdnews24
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