selected reports from The Daily Star, The Times of India, news24.com, Aljazeera, bdnews24.com, The New Age and Dhaka Tribune are compiled re the Hefajat-e-Islam rally in Dhaka and the violent turn of events on the 5th and 6th of May 2013
selected reports from The Daily Star, The Times of India, news24.com, Aljazeera, bdnews24.com, The New Age and Dhaka Tribune are compiled re the Hefajat-e-Islam rally in Dhaka and the violent turn of events on the 5th and 6th of May 2013
One of the most disastrous consequences of the strife in the tribal areas of central India is that thousands of adivasi men and women remain imprisoned as under-trials, often many years after being arrested, accused of ’Naxalite/ Maoist’ offences.
Today it might be the case that people in many of the Muslim majority countries are veering around the idea of giving more space to Islam in governance but it has not been the case earlier. In fact, during the 1960s, the predominant ideology within the Arab world was in fact pan-Arabism which deemphasized religion and emphasized the creation of socialist, secular states based on Arab nationalism rather than Islam. And in many other newly independent countries, with a significant population of Muslims which had their own genesis in leading anti-colonial struggles, there was still more space for running governments on secular principles.
Video recordings from Panel Understanding Shahbag: Bangladesh at a Crossroads held at City University of New York on May 2, 2013 (Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm)
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