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Bangladesh won’t be another Afghanistan: Nizami
By UNB, Dhaka
Sat, 24 Dec 2005, 11:15:00

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami has said that when a quarter says the bombings will stop if the government resigns, expels Jamaat from the cabinet and accepts reform proposals, it exposes the purpose of bomb blasts.

“Many top-ranking JMB leaders were arrested, but a quarter is not happy,” he said Saturday at a discussion on “Terrorism in the eyes of Islam: Our Responsibility” at the Jatiya Press Club auditorium.

State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar and State Minister for Religious Affairs Mosharref Hossain Shajahan also spoke at the discussion, organized by Bangladesh Masjid Mission and chaired by its president Maulana Joynul Abedin.

Nizami, also Industries Minister, alleged that those who want to turn Bangladesh into another Afghanistan are staging the bomb blasts.

He said the coalition government has taken firm stand to root out terrorism through ‘clean heart operation’ and RAB, but a quarter who wants to grab power through the back door could not be happy with these initiatives.

State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babor said those who are behind Bangla Bhai and Shaikh Abdur Rahman will have to be smoked out.

“Those who blasted bombs and staged suicidal attacks since August 17 worked as operators only…We will have to find out who are behind Bangla Bhai and Shaikh Abdur Rahman,” he told the discussion.

“Terrorism is not confined to any particular country; many countries are plagued by the dangerous terror acts,” Babar said. “It is clear that the terrorism, being unleashed by using the name of Islam, has not the slightest link with Islam.”

He said Imams, madrasah teachers and ‘alem-olama’ have clearly mentioned that Islam does not support terror activities of militant groups. “Those who want to portray Bangladesh as a terrorist nation and Islam as a religion of terrorism are doing these heinous acts.”

State Minister for Religious Affairs Mosharref Hossain Shajahan asked the misguided militants to return to normal life, expressing the hope that the militancy will come to end in a couple of months as the people and the government are united against the menace.


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