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Bangladesh scholars issue fatwa on militant killings
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 15 - 06 - 2016

Bangladeshi religious scholars said on Monday they have issued a fatwa against the killings of minorities and secular campaigners in the country, where police have arrested over 10,000 people in a crackdown on militancy.
Nearly 50 people have been killed over the last three years in a wave of gruesome attacks targeting Hindus, Christians, Sufi Muslims and campaigners in the country. Many were hacked to death with machetes.
Farid Uddin Masuod, who heads the Council of Bangladesh Clerics, said over 100,000 scholars had signed the fatwa, or religious edict, which will be made public on June 18.
"The fatwa unequivocally said these killings of non-Muslims, minorities and secular activists are forbidden in Islam," he said.
"We've said these killings are illegal and are crimes against humanity," Masuod said.
The announcement came as police said they had detained 3,115 people on the fourth day of a nationwide anti-militant drive, taking the total number to 11,307.
Bangladeshi authorities had faced criticism for failing to tackle the violence, but Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina vowed at the weekend to catch "each and every killer."
She has accused the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its religious party ally, Jamaat-e-Islami, of orchestrating the killings to destabilize the country.
However, the BNP says 2,100 of its activists have been arrested and accuses the government of using the crackdown to suppress political dissent.
Most of those arrested are wanted for criminal offenses unconnected with militancy. Deputy inspector general of Bangladesh police A.K.M Shahidur Rahman said just 145 of those arrested were members of Islamist militant groups.
Masuod said the police crackdown was important, but the scholars' fatwa would discredit any hard-line groups that try to defend the killings. "The fatwa clearly says these killings are not a just part of Jihad, but mere acts of terrorism," he said.
Last week an elderly Hindu priest was found nearly decapitated in a rice field and a Hindu monastery worker was hacked to death, while a Christian grocer was murdered near a church.
Other victims have included liberal activists and secular bloggers along with two foreigners and two gay rights activists.
Authorities reject claims of responsibility by the Daesh group and a South Asian branch of Al-Qaeda and say they have no presence in the country.
Instead they blame two homegrown militant groups for the murders.


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