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Thousands of Muslim Men Rally in Bangladesh to Protest Offering Equal Rights to Women

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In my opinion, extremists of any view will not be coming with us. It isn’t necessarily the view, but it’s certainly the extremism.

Thousands of Muslim Men Rally in Bangladesh to Protest Offering Equal Rights to Women

Margaret Flavin, Gateway Pundit, May. 4, 2025

(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/thousands-muslim-men-rally-bangladesh-protest-offering-equal/)

On Saturday, thousands of supporters of the Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam took to the streets in Bangladesh to protest against proposed recommendations for ensuring equal rights, including ones related to property, for women in the country, including Muslim women.

AP reports:

Leaders of the Hefazat-e-Islam group said the proposed legal reforms are contradictory to the Sharia law. More than 20,000 followers of the group rallied near the Dhaka University, some carrying banners and placards reading “Say no to Western laws on our women, rise up Bangladesh.”

The group threatened to organize rallies on May 23 across the country if the government didn’t meet their demands.

Mamunul Haque, a leader of the group, demanded that the interim government’s reforms commission be abolished and its members punished for the proposed changes. He said they hurt “the sentiments of the majority of the people of this country” by labeling the religious laws of inheritance as the main cause of inequality between men and women.

Jihad Watch reports that Muhammad Mamunul Haque, joint secretary of Hefazat-e-Islam, told AFP in a recent interview that group will continue to push to implement sharia, or Islamic law, and believes the group’s network of tens of thousands of seminaries — claiming to have some 500,000 members — means they will do well if the vote “is free and fair”.

“We will implement sharia,” Haque said, emphasizing that “Everything will be guided by the Koran… under an Islamic welfare state, all, regardless of their faith, will be treated justly.”

He also underscored that the punishment for “blasphemy against Islam” would be capital punishment.

“We demand death sentences for speaking against Allah, tarnishing the image of the Prophet, and offending Muslims,” Haque said.

“There is no room for negotiation in this regard.”

In August 2024, The Gateway Pundit reported on the chaos in Bangladesh when Muslim mobs attacked Hindu temples and massacred Hindus accused of being “Indian spies.“

Violent insurrectionists stormed the capital on Aug. 5 and forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee the country.