Muslim cleric requires destruction of idols, 5 12 months outdated video goes viral

Amidst the continued violence in opposition to the minority Hindu neighborhood in Bangladesh by radical Islamists, an undated video of a Muslim cleric calling for the destruction of idols has gone viral on social media.
The contentious video was shared on Twitter by a consumer named NilSunil (@trunills) on Saturday (October 22). The cleric, allegedly from Bangladesh, was heard as saying, “We are Muslims, we took birth to destroy idols and not build them. Cowards, I will not hang pictures or idols with these hands of mine. You must remember that I come from a community where the ideology of destroying idols runs in our blood. It is mixed in our skin.”
During a religi0us sermon, this Bangladeshi imam stated, “We are born to interrupt id0ls and it’s our religi0us custom, we should always proceed it. The apply of desecr@tion and vand@lism of id0ls are in our blood and part of our religi0n. pic.twitter.com/gr6QnfTCgU— নীলসুনীল (@trunills) October 23, 2021
The video contained the watermark of an Islamist Youtube channel named ‘Tawhid Media’, which boasts of 1.54 lakh subscribers. From its Facebook web page talked about within the YouTube channel, it may be concluded it’s based mostly in Bangladesh.
OpIndia discovered a number of movies of the cleric, who is named ‘Abdur Razzak Bin Yousuf’. On looking additional with key phrases resembling ‘idols/murti (মুর্তি)’, we stumbled upon a video that was uploaded on June 6, 2016. The stated video, which is about 7 minutes lengthy, contained the snippet of the above clip on the very begin. Therefore, it may be confirmed that the video is a minimum of 5 years outdated.

(Video Courtesy: Youtube/ All Quaraner Path)However, the content material of the video is disturbing and provides us a glimpse of the vitriolic mindset of the novel Islamists who not too long ago desecrated Hindu temples, killed ‘idol worshippers’ and vandalised their houses.
According to data obtainable on-line, Abdur Razzak Bin Yousuf was born in northern Bangladesh, and he had obtained increased training in Islamic research in India. He accomplished the Daura Hadith twice, first from Khanpur in Malda district of West Bengal and for the second time from Darul Uloom Munathbhanjan in Uttar Pradesh. At had labored as a headmaster in a Madrasa, and had appeared on Zakir Hussain’s Peace TV Bangla channel a number of occasions.
The Maulana identified for his anti-Hindu retains visiting India to offer speeches. He had visited West Bengal in 2018 to handle conferences at numerous locations in Malda, Murshidabad, Howrah and many others within the state.
Temples attacked, Hindu homes destroyed by radical Islamists in Bangladesh
The current assaults (October 13- current) occurred over the alleged incident of ‘sacrilege’ at a Puja Pandal. However,police discovered that the person who triggered communal violence in opposition to Hindus by putting Quran on the Durga Puja venue was Iqbal Hossain, a Muslim.The Hindu neighborhood had insisted vehemently that no one amongst them had positioned the Quran on the Puja Pandal and the incident has been a deliberate plan to assault the Hindu neighborhood.
For over 5 days, homes and temples of the Hindu neighborhood in Bangladesh have been underneath the assault of radical Islamists. It began on October 12 when a number of incidents of idol vandalism befell forward of Puja. On Sunday, Islamic extremists vandalized the Durga idol of Sri Shamshaneshwar Shiva Vigraha Mandir within the Firingibazar space in Chittagong, Bangladesh. On October 14, it was reported that a number of different Puja pandals have been vandalized.
Videos of damaged idols, demolished pandals and Moorti of Maa Durga being thrown in a pond emerged on social media platforms together with different movies of assaults on Hindus. On October 16, the ISKCON temple was attacked by a 400-500 sturdy Muslim mob. On October 17 and October 18, the assaults continued, and homes of Hindus have been vandalized. Many have been reported injured, and a few reported lifeless after the assaults. Again, a 200-year-old Jagannath temple in Noakhali was focused the Hindu temple by Islamists earlier than providing Jumma Namaz on Friday (October 22).