Bangladesh

IS-Video calls for Jihad in Bangladesh

A new Propaganda Video of the IS is regarded by experts as further evidence of the presence and Seriousness of the terrorist militia in Bangladesh. A strategy of the state in the face of this danger is missing.

It shows three IS-trailer, whose origin is from Bangladesh according to the experts websites, “SITE Intelligence Group” (see article image) and “terrorism Monitor Group” undoubtedly. The Video, according to the evaluation in Raqqa, the “capital” of the IS recorded, Arabic and Bengali subtitles. One of the occurring men explained: “What you have experienced in Bangladesh … it was only a small part of what will repeat itself until you’ve lost and the Sharia law in the whole world.”

According to Tasneem Khalil, a living in Sweden for journalists from Bangladesh, this Video, many of the alarming elements, as he explained to the DW: “the goal of the Videos is to Bangladeshis for the Jihad, under the leadership of the IS in your own country on your toes. Thus, it differs from previous Calls for of the IS in which it went to the Jihad in Syria.” Khalil sees the Video as an “open Declaration of war against the state of Bangladesh”, the will referred to IS as UN-Islamic and enemy (‘Taghut’). Arifur Rahman, a well-known Video-Blogger from Bangladesh, agrees with the assessment of his Swedish colleagues, calls for the implementation of raids on “homes of sympathizers and Hide from terrorists in Bangladesh.”

In many cases, the perpetrators of the Café-attack from the educated and wealthy layers of Bangladesh have been pointed out, is at the origin. This is no coincidence, says Siegfried O. Wolf, South Asia Democratic Forum in Brussels: “The Islamists have invested a lot in their strategies for recruitment. You can now reach not only the poor students in religious schools, but also those who can afford to study at private universities.”

Bangladesh has in the face of the threat posed by the IS still no strategy

Fundamentalist teachers and preachers

The Blogger Arifur Rahman explained that the society of his home country was steeped in a degree of religious fervor that normal young people would be suffocated and activities taking place there. Easier would be prepared to host young students into the clutches of fundamentalist teachers to “unregulated private schools”. Added to this would be highly respected so-called Islamic preachers who have a huge stock of sermons, and which might at any time be used as a tool to brain wash the Internet.

South Asia expert Wolf considers that it is urgently necessary that Bangladesh developed a “coherent and holistic Anti-terror strategy to meet both local as international terrorism.” The leg keep the cooperation with foreign countries, but not only in the area of security, but also on the topic of how human and civil rights are protected in the course of Anti – terrorist campaigns.

Tasneem Khalil refers to the DW on the “strange Situation is that on the one hand, a terrorist group such as the IS spread open for his attack plans in his Internet publications, such as in the now Video appeared, and that at the same time, the government does not want to have that threat come true.” The Journalist calls on the government of his home country to be “robust measures” to protect religious minorities and foreigners, because these are the primary target of the terrorists.