Bangladesh’s influential Islamists promise sharia as they ready for polls

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DHAKA: Bangladesh’s Islamist government is ready to gain political benefits after years of crushing for years, which was abolished in a massive uprising last year, giving rise to hardly loyal to the expected elections.

“We have a lot of confidence in entering Parliament in the next election,” said Mohammad Mammoon -ul -Haq, a joint secretary of Hafiz Islam, a influential coalition of Islamic schools.

The alliance will hold a mass rally in the capital Dhaka on Saturday, which is expected to be one of his biggest public shows for years because religiously fuel activity is gaining popularity.

Hawk, 52, said the group would emphasize the implementation of Sharia, or Islamic law, and believes that the group’s tens of thousands of seminar networks – claiming to have close to 500,000 members – means that if the vote is “free and fair”, they will perform well.

Hefazat Islam is a coalition of various parties and Muslim organizations, including the Khilafat-Majlis Party of Hockey. A very influential pressure group, since it was founded 15 years ago, has been contested by political parties.

No date has been fixed for the elections, but caretaker leader Mohammad Younus, who is the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who heads the interim government, has promised that elections will be held in June 2026.

The South Asian nation last held about 170 170 million people in January 2024, when Sheikh Hasina won the fourth term as prime minister in the absence of real opposition parties.

His opponents boycotted the vote after the crackdown. Hussein, who was accused of widespread human rights abuses, took a strong stand against the Islamist movements during his sovereign 15 -year rule.

Thousands were detained, including Hawk, who was arrested in 2021 and spent three years in jail. He faced close to a dozen after trying to protest against the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the key ally of Hussein, the Hindu nationalist leader of neighboring India.

Hussein fled to New Delhi in August when the mob attacked his palace. She lives in a self -imposed exile in India, which, by the Bangladeshis, has agreed to decide that she is allegedly facing a trial for “mass murder”.

Islamist groups have gained power with Hussein and have tried to impose their vision on a massive population. It has given rise to the problems of small groups, including Muslim Sufi worshipers and Hindu minorities, who are less than the tenth of the population together.

In particular, women have expressed concern. Islamists have called for elimination of activities, including music to theater festivals, women’s football matches and kite flying celebrations, “anti -Islam”.

The mob has broken the Sufi shrines. Last month, supporters of the Hawks Khalifat-Miglass Group attacked a public library and prepared hundreds of books before returning them.

Gold Rabbani, the leader of the Youth Wing in Khalifat-Majlis, said he had targeted books, including “promoting atheism”, including Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and national poet Kaji Nazarul Islam.

On Saturday, the rally of hefazat Islam operates after two days of marches by other major parties, who also want their support. These include the powerful Nationalist Party (BNP) of Bangladesh, which is expected to be the largest political force, and the National Citizens Party (NCP), which has been formed by students, who led the rebellion against Hussein.

This includes the largest only Islamist political party, Jamaat -e -Islami. Hawk said the group has opposed its recommendations for eliminating public women’s commissions and discrimination, including equal rights for men and women.

Hawk said, “The Commission is dishonest of Islamic family traditions.”

The Muslim -majority Bangladesh is a constitution based on four pillars of nationalism, socialism, democracy and secularism. However, Hawk said his supporters want Islamic law. “We will enforce the Shariah,” Hawk insisted that everyone would be treated fairly.