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Radicalization Imran Hasnat kinds of unbridled violence through the creation of intense fear among the common people with a view to These days parties like Hefazot E Islam, has emerged and gained significant attention of both the political parties and the mass people. Their agenda and demand has shaken the Bangladeshi intelligentsia with fear of fundamentalist uprising. underlying the establishment of such a judicial and social system. The image of Bangladesh as a ‗moderate Muslim country‘ was stained at the turn of the 20th century. The country known for its 6 Religious radicalization has emerged as one of the most dangerous threats to civilization and peace all over the world in recent time. Radicalization is the attempt to ―restore‖ a society‘s cultural purity by reconnecting it in practices and in rites with an idealized Golden Age distant in space and time. This so called restoration often comes at the expense of the society‘s actual historical and cultural legacies. The term ―Radicalization‖ refers to the use of the unusual brand of ideology on the basis of religious faith and political system for the overthrow and control over some territory, its population, their resources and the formation of special kinds of judiciary system by using force. This social cancer includes the phenomena of various Page LOCAL LOBBY BANGLADESH