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In their coverage, The
the Assistant Secretary
Islamist leader despite
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Guardian, Voice of
Islami, a religion-based
apparently tried to
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political
party
in
present the execution as
Post, The Times of
Bangladesh, that does not
a political decision.
India and Dawn
qualify him to be an
BBC ran a report
described Mollah as
"Islamist leader" in a
―Bangladesh Islamist
an “opposition leader”
country in which the vast
Abdul Kader Mullah
and highlighted
majority
of
the
buried after execution‖
violence by Jamaat-epopulation follows Islam
and
analysis
Islami men following
and the preaching of
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the execution.
lslamic scholars, without
of Abdul Kader Mullah
following the political ideology
risks derailing elections‖.
propagated by the Jamaat-e-Islami.
International news agency AFP
In their coverage, The Telegraph,
began their report by saying that the
The Guardian, Voice of America,
death verdict of ―the senior Islamist
Washington Post, The Times of India
leader‖
sparked
violence
in
and Dawn described Mollah as an
Bangladesh. It contained news of
―opposition leader‖ and highlighted
Ganajagaran Mancha celebrating the
violence by Jamaat-e-Islami men
ruling at the 21st paragraph, near the
following the execution.
story's end. AFP concluded that the
ruling might incite violence and push
Al Jazeera ran a report titled
Bangladesh towards further political
―Bangladesh
hangs
opposition
tension and reminded readers that the
leader‖. Its online version said the
ICT tribunal ―was not endorsed by
judges‘ ancestral homes had been
the United Nations.‖ The report
attacked in the wake of
the execution. The
report
termed
the
violence unleashed by
Jamaat-Shibir men a
―micro-level civil war‖
in Bangladesh.