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An Open Letter

Bangladesh

Dear Sunni Wahabi Scum, I am writing this to you on behalf of a nation that is still mourning the loss of several innocent and beautiful lives. It seems like you have succeeding in corrupting the minds of some of our youth with your hateful and destructive dogma. It seems like you have....    Full story...

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Terror can only succeed with our cooperation

International

Think what your enemy wants you to do, and do the opposite. No maxim of war is so ignored. Since the world has answered the dreams of Islamic State. It has drenched their deeds in fame, glorified its perpetrators with vilification and defined them as warriors not murderers. Deeds of the most....    Full story...

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Mehdi Hasan: How Islamic is Islamic State?

Contemporary Debate

The conventional wisdom suggests a violent reading of the Quran is at the heart of Islamic State's political violence – but it's wrong. It’s difficult to forget the names, or the images, of James Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Haines, Alan Henning and Peter Kassig. The....    Full story...

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Bangladesh Pushes Back as Warnings of ISIS Expansion Gather Steam

Bangladesh in Intl. Media

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Last month, United States officials told Bangladeshi authorities that they had information suggesting that terrorists linked to the Islamic State were preparing to ramp up activity within Bangladesh’s borders. In the days that followed, a series of unusual....    Full story...

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Bangladesh on the Brink-New York Times

Bangladesh in Intl. Media

Bangladesh is on the edge of political chaos, and the intransigence of both the ruling Awami League and the opposition Bangladesh National Party is to blame. Unless both parties take immediate steps to pull back from entrenched positions, restrain the violent elements of their activist bases and....    Full story...

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Bangladesh governement to assure peaceful political Activity: USA

Foreign Relations

The United States is gravely concerned by the ongoing unrest and violence in Bangladesh. We deplore the unconscionable attacks including bus burnings, throwing incendiary devices, and train derailments that have killed and wounded innocent victims. We condemn in the strongest terms the use of....    Full story...

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Bangladesh's government 'seeking to marginalize' the opposition

Bangladesh in Intl. Media

Fire bombs, trains derailments, street protests – Bangladesh is witnessing a surge in political violence which has killed 50 people. DW speaks to analyst Jasmin Lorch about how the government is reacting to the turmoil. On early Tuesday, February 3, fire bombs were thrown at a packed....    Full story...

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AQ-ISIS: The Hikmah Behind the Methodology, A Comparative Analysis between the Islamists and Jihadi-Salafists

Contemporary Debate

The brute reality of the rise of ISIS and their constant reverberations forced down our throats courtesy of the mainstream media has opened the debate on the hikmah, or wisdom, behind the methodology of the salafi-jihadists {AQ, ISIS}. There are many schools of thought towards establishing the....    Full story...

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Islam is missing in ISIS (Islamic State)!

Contemporary Debate

Summary: True Islamic State is the pride and joy of the Muslims, yet ISIS’s Islamic state is a disgrace. True Islamic State is a point of unity for the Muslims from all over the world however ISIS’s Islamic state is point of disunity and discord. This is not the example of a true....    Full story...

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ISIS or Islamic state - who are they?

International

I have been reading, researching and listening to many sources in order to better understand who are these self proclaimed Islamic State members? Who is behind it all? Who is finding them? Who is al-Baghdadi, the new Khalifa in town? No body really knows who these people are! That is not the....    Full story...

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ISIS OF IRAQ DOES NOT BELONG TO ISLAM: AJMAL MASROOR WITH SKY TV

Burning Issue

Ajmal Masroor in his interview with sky TV news condemned the violence in Iraq in the name of Islam by ISIS group. He called them terrorist and urge to call them by that name. He expressed view that British Foreign policy also responsible for this crisis as they keep their eye blind on Syria....    Full story...

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When life gives you lemons...

Controversy

Pretty much anyone would agree that foreclosure isn't exactly a good thing. That doesn't mean that nothing good comes from it however. According to research conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the foreclosure crisis may have unintentionally served to help many Americans....    Full story...

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The Death of Democracy in Bangladesh

Politics

Today the opposition parties in Bangladesh have called for a national march for democracy. The vast majority of the opposition parties are boycotting the upcoming election. The Prime Minister has declared the election for the 5th of January 2014 and the opposition parties have called it....    Full story...

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Existential Crisis of Bangladesh-Last part:Lessons From Arthashastra And Thy Tasks

Burning Issue

Earlier post: Existential Crisis of Bangladesh-Part 6 In this last instalment of my current essay series I shall set out the lessons that we, the Bangladeshi patriots, can draw from our reading of Kautilya’s Arthashastra that I have presented in Part 6. This I shall do in the time....    Full story...

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Read Thy Arthashastra On The Mirror:Existential Crisis of Bangladesh(Part 6)

Burning Issue

Earlier part: (Part 5):Consider Thy Enemy’s Latest Ploy Image: Influence of Maurya Dynasty After Part 5’s de-tour, in this instalment I shall return back to the main concern of my essay and, as promised, help identify what we as a nation must do for defeating New....    Full story...

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