The radical fundamentalist organization Islamic Youth Movement has threatened to kill Syed Noor-e-Alam, a prominent journalist and cultural figure of the country. In addition to the death threat, the organization announced a bounty of Tk 2 million on his head. The organization made this threat to him at a program organized at a restaurant in the capital today, Tuesday (May 19, 2022).
At this time, speakers from this fundamentalist organization said that the ‘White Paper’ published by the Forum for Secular Bangladesh has lied against the protectors of Islam, the Ulama-e-Karam. They are conspiring against Islam. Syed Noor-e-Alam is one of these conspirators. If he and his associates are not killed, they will continue to seek destruction against Islam by lying.
The speakers said that whoever kills Syed Noor-e-Alam and his associates to prevent their conspiracy will be given a reward of 2 million taka. The organization’s president Maulana Idris, General Secretary Maulana Yakub Ali and other leaders and activists were present at the event.
A commission called ‘People’s Commission’, formed by the initiative of the Forum for Secular Bangladesh ( Bengali Name-Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee) and the Indigenous and Minority Affairs Caucus of the National Parliament, has published a ‘White Paper’ to investigate radical and communal terrorism in Bangladesh. The white paper, titled ‘2000 Days of Radical Communal Terrorism in Bangladesh’, was unveiled by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on March 12. Two months later, on May 12 at 12 noon, this white paper was handed over to the ACC Chairman. According to the comments of those involved in publishing the white paper, information about 116 scholars and 1000 madrasas has been given here. The names of 116 leading scholars of the country have been mentioned and they have been called religious traders and according to their comments, the details of the crimes of religious traders have been highlighted. Chairman of the People’s Commission Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and one of its members and spokesperson of the Forum for Secular Bangladesh, ‘Jagaran’ news editor Syed Noor-e-Alam.
