Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its ideological allies such as Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI) as well as other pro-Islamist, pro-jihadist, anti-Hindu and anti-India elements are trying to implement their blueprint of turning the country into a Caliphate or sharia state by undemocratically unseating Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her secularist government.
Can democratic world afford weakening of democracy in South Asian countries? This is a billion dollar question, needs to be addressed urgently for the these reasons.
According to the survey, conflicts between Islam and human rights, Islam and science, logical and scriptural contradictions and conception of god in Islam seem to be main reasons of their apostasy.
Although India does not share borders directly with any of the Southeast Asian States except Myanmar, the influence that India has had on these countries through religions remains intact for thousands of years.
The name ‘India’ has to be given up in academic writing. This is an unpleasant academic habit that has gained some unfortunately widespread acceptance indicating that the academic language that we brown folks speak and write is yet to be decolonized.