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
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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
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