PM for legal action against vandalism in name of Islam
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday told the parliament that her government wouldn’t tolerate non-Islamic activities like arson attacks and vandalism in the name of Islam and vowed to take legal actions against those involved in such activities.
‘I can only tell that legal action will be taken against those responsible for such misdeeds,’ said the leader of the house while delivering valedictory speech in the twelfth session of the 11th parliament that was prorogued on Sunday after three working days amid a massive surge in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mentioning that the Hefajat started mayhem when the nation was set to celebrate the golden jubilee of the country’s independence from March 17 to 26, she said, ‘Did Hefajat do it alone? The BNP-Jamaat alliance is behind it.’
The prime minister said that it was sure that all the Hefajat men were not involved in the mayhem.
Hefajat men spread a rumour relating to killing of people in the Baitul Mukarram Mosque on March 26 and conducted destruction from March 26 to March 31, she added.
The prime minister said that BNP and Jamaat gave separate messages supporting the Hefajat on March 27 and 28 which was part of the conspiracy against the state.
After calling hartal, the Hefajat, without any provocation, had carried out vandalism across the country, attacking Awami League offices, houses of AL leaders and activists and government offices.
Mentioning that Hefajat men even damaged the Quran, Sheikh Hasina questioned what kind of Muslim they are.
The prime minister said that the BNP and Jamaat had no political ideology as they supported Hefajat in protest against the arrival of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to attend the golden jubilee celebration of independence but they welcomed Modi when he reached Bangladesh.
The Hefajat has been conducting destruction in the name of Islam while the BNP and Jamaat are giving them patronage, she said.
Referring to Hefajat’s joint secretary general Mamunul Haque’s stay with a woman at a private resort at Sonargaon in Narayanganj (on Saturday), she said that he went to a resort with a woman for entertainment after conducting the mayhem.
She added that the Hefajat leader first introduced the woman with whom he was held as his wife and later he told his real wife (over phone that was leaked last night) that he had to introduce the woman as wife due to the situation arose at that time.
She called upon the Hefajat men to realise what kind of leadership they have.
Describing the Islam as a religion of peace, stability and development, the prime minister said that words like extremism, terrorism and adultery were added to the Islam due to misdeeds of some people.
She said that such kind of activities wouldn’t be acceptable in any way and her government would not tolerate anything which would lead to the destruction of Islam, the best religion of the world.
The prime minister, however, called upon the countrymen to have patience, saying, ‘I will say to the countrymen to have patience. We have to have patience.’
The people of the country will in no way accept non-Islamic activities in the name of Islam, she added.
She stated that as many as 116 countries, including the USA, the UK, France, Canada, and Russia, and 33 international organisations, including OIC and the UN, gave felicitation messages marking the birth centenary of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and golden jubilee of the country’s independence.
The prime minister described pouring messages in large numbers from abroad as a matter of pride for the countrymen. A group of people could not be happy with this, she said and questioned, ‘Why?’
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