Bangladesh chief Tarique Rahman compares Hindu scriptures to porn textual content

Tarique Rahman, co-convener of the Bangladesh Gono Odhikar Parishad and a key adviser to Nurul Haque Nur, launched an assault on Hindu minorities by claiming that the scriptures of the Hindu religion are pornographic and don’t present any ethical instructing. The Bangladesh opposition social gathering’s marketing campaign to topple the Bangladeshi authorities has been led by Nurul Haque Nur. General elections are to be held in Bangladesh in 2024.

In Facebook reside, Tarique Rehman spewed venom towards Hindus. He stated, “Scriptures of the Hindu religion do not offer any moral teaching — all the religious scriptures are porn scripts.” It is notable that his political social gathering Bangladesh Nationalist Party is backed by the Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami.

The video has gone viral on social media and can be being broadly shared by many individuals. The speech acquired loads of condemnation on social media, with many customers drawing parallels between it and the same enchantment by Jamaat officers to wipe out Hindus of their try and cease the creation of this nation from Pakistan in 1971.

Rahman is a detailed ally of opposition chief Nurul Haque Nur, who plans to problem Bangladesh’s present Sheikh Hasina-led administration within the 2024 basic election. To acquire energy with out holding elections, Nur publicly emphasised backdoor political operations. Reportedly streaming Facebook Live from Saudi Arabia, Nur additionally attacked the free press harshly, calling journalists slaves. He suggested journalists to not query his mission in the identical video.

He added, “Yes, I have indulged in a conspiracy with foreign intelligence agencies, including Mossad. In my bid to unseat the government, I held a meeting with Mendi N Safadi, a Mossad agent, to hatch a conspiracy to unseat this government.” In response to Sheikh Hasina’s pro-secular perspective, his group has launched a torrent of defamatory assaults towards Hindus and India.

In Bangladesh, assaults towards Hindus are nothing new. According to the latest statistics, the nation noticed the homicide of round 154 members of non secular minorities in 2022, majorly together with Hindus. According to the Bangladesh National Hindu Grand Alliance, 39 ladies from minority ethnicities had been raped (27 of them had been gang-raped). 14 of the victims died after being raped, and 195991 households expertise insecurity.

The Bangladesh National Hindu Grand Alliance stated in a written assertion that 424 people of the nation’s minority had their lives tried through the course of the earlier 12 months. There are 62 individuals lacking. 360 people had been damage or wounded, whereas 849 folks bought dying threats. There had been 953 deliberate assaults, 127 individuals had been kidnapped, and 27 tried abductions. In Bangladesh, the place there are 170 million folks, Hindus make up 8.5% of the inhabitants whereas Muslims make up 90%.