This piece is written by Prof. Bijon B. Sarma of Khulna University. Bangladesh. The professor has given us personal permission to republish this article. Here he takes a critical look at the so-called research paper of Dr. Banu
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Dhaka , Bangladesh, July 29 — Mohandas K. Gandhi claimed that politics without principles was one of the roots of violence. The present political regime in Bangladesh has fully characterized their dictatorship as such, by enforcing politics without principles and leading the nation toward violence.
Bangladesh has experienced mass violence across the country. Recently, when innocent [...]

Radha Rani Halder, a newly married Hindu woman of the Shariatpur District under Dhaka Division in central Bangladesh, was raped and killed by a group of Muslim miscreants on June 27, 2009.
Ms. Halder worked for the local NGO, the Shariatpur Development Society (SDS).
Mr. Dipankar Bairagee, husband of the slain woman, said that, at about 11 [...]

On July 25th local Muslims attacked on a four Hindu minority houses and ransacked the local temple at Narsangdi in Bangladesh.
On Saturday late night at Charsindhu village of Polash union a group of armed Muslims attacked on a local Hindhu temple and near by four Hindu houses said a victim Onjoli Bormon
Minority Hindu victim victim [...]

On July 18 Uttama Chaitanya Dasa, the temple president of ISKCON Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, was attending a two-day seminar hosted by ISKCON’s Congregational Development Ministry. He had complained of some heart pain earlier that day but otherwise seemed fine. As devotees playing futsal (indoor soccer) after the seminar to relax, however, he collapsed. He [...]

Police has arrested three members of elite force RAB, including an assistant director Shoeb Ahmed and two army soldiers Shahidul Islam and Shagar Chandra earlier on July 24th.
The said members of RAB forcefully took Tajul Islam Hiran in a place in the capital and snatched Tk 10.86 lakh from his possession showing [...]

Perpetrators gouged out eyes of Abdus Samad, an opposition political leader accused of Awami League leader Suruj killing case in Lalmonirhat a district in Northern Bangladesh on July 20th. Abdus Samad was in bail and the case is under trail.
A group of masked people forcefully took samad to Aditmari Degree College compound on a microbus [...]

The bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Morelia in Mexico have called for an end to the violence that has plagued the region. They have also implored Mexicans in the area to participate in the Triduum of Prayer for peace July 23 to 25.
“As disciples of Jesus Christ and as pastors of the People of [...]

Local police vandalize the minority houses of Bonikpara at Rangunia in Chittagong on July 18th   . Police broke the gate enter the houses of minority families at around 3:30 in the early morning, said Asa Lota Ghosh
On Saturday police only broke into the houses of minorities and vandalize the houses and roughly beaten the woman [...]

A poor girl becomes pregnant by an Imam of a local mosque in Faridpur. The poor girl is now on her seven months pregnancy with high physical and mental risk of immature pregnancy.
Omar Faruk is an Imam and teacher of a “Maktab” (Islamic School) of remote village Padmar Char at the North Channel Union in [...]