Archive - 2013
March 20th
Timeline of attacks on Hindus (Feb 28 to March 8)
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28th February and 1st March
• Jamaat-Shibir fanatics wreaked havoc on the Hindu community across the country. They vandalized at least six temples, including one of Buddhists, and torched houses and business establishments of Hindu people in Noakhali, Gaibandha, Chittagong, Rangpur, Laxmipur, Thakurgaon, Sylhet, Chapainawabganj and elsewhere in the country.
March 19th
The British parliament will raise the issue of the attack on the religious minorities
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The issue of attacks on the religious minorities throughout Bangladesh by the Jaamat-Shibir activists after the death verdict of war-criminal Delowar Hossain Sayeedi is being raised in the British Parliament.
March 15th
Grassroots Shibir activists not happy with “un-islamic” lifestyle of top Jamaat families
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Translated from The Daily Janakantha. Original: http://goo.gl/2M7Ak
March 13th
An outline of how to ban Jamaat-e-Islami based on international experience
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An attempt at translating this wonderful article "আন্তর্জাতিক অভিজ্ঞতার আলোকে জামাত নিষিদ্ধকরণ রূপরেখা" by হাসিব
March 12th
BNP - The Comedy Continues.
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I'd like to start this piece with a disclaimer - I have not been payed to criticize BNP (or been bribed with free biriyani to support Shahbag).
CNN silences a report exposing Islamist’s White House Scam
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An iReport article that exposed an email scam regarding a petition submitted to the White House is recently taken down by CNN. The White House petition is organized by Jamaat-Islami-Bangladesh (JIB), demanding support from the Obama administration to stop the war crimes tribunals currently held in Bangladesh.
March 11th
The Dirty Tricks of Jamaat Shibir
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Since the establishment of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) to prosecute the war criminals of Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Jamaat-e-Islami is desperately trying to foil the trial in order to save its top leaders, who are indicted for war crimes.
Islami Chattra Shibir: A memoir
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There is this recent tendency to proclaim that Jamaat-e-Islam’s student wing Islami Chattra Shibir is no worse than BNP’s student wing Jatiyatabadi Chattra Dol and the ruling party Awami League’s student wing Bangladesh Chattra League. While superficially rational, this comparison is actually based on a profound confusion and negligence of the facts.
March 10th
Brother of witness, musician Bulbul, against Golam Azam murdered
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Railway police recovered the deadbody of lyricist & composer Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul's younger brother from beside the Kuril flyover of the capital.
The musician was a witness against former Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Golam Azam in the International Criminal Tribunal.
Twitter and #shahbag: why we care
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We may use Facebook or other online social media for sharing our status to friends, to post some pictures of what we are eating or what movies we just watched, but may be it's time we realized the real power of social media to democratize people and technology. While many of us have a computer/cell phone with internet connection, let's think about what we can do with these tools.