A madrassa teacher and a local mosque imam were “tied to trees and beaten up” for trying to prevent a child marriage in the Noakhali District of Hatia Upazila in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
As the title below indicates, they were “tortured for a good deed,” and that good deed was trying to protect a young girl from abuse. Child marriage is sanctioned in Islam. Noteworthy about the beating of the two men is that it illustrates the risk taken by Muslims who attempt to break away from normative Islam.
Three decades ago, Bangladesh was regarded as a largely secular nation. Now, the article “Is Bangladesh going the way of Pakistan?” details how it has become an Islamized nation rife with jihad violence and widespread intolerance against disbelievers, as well as an increasing prevalence abusive Islamic practices.
Less than two months ago, news emerged that the Pakistani spy agency, Inter Service Intelligence, was manipulating Bangladesh’s elections in order to help the jihadist Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat e Islami Bangladesh (JIB) form the next government.
“Tortured for a good deed,” Daily Star, February 3, 2019:
A madrasa teacher and an imam of a mosque have been beaten up allegedly for preventing a child marriage at Hatia upazila in Noakhali.
The two victims are Maulana Tariqul, teacher of Darul Arqam Ebtedayee Madrasa, and Minhajul, imam of a local mosque in the upazila’s Purbo Rasulpur area.
Tariqul said he heard the family members of one of his 13-year-old students arranged a programme at their home to marry off their daughter.
Afterwards, he called the national help line (999) and sought help to stop the marriage. Following the instructions of the national help line, he contacted the local Upazila Nirbahi Officer Mohammad Nur-e-Alam and stopped the marriage with his help.
A few hours later, some people attacked him when he was going to a market along with Minhajul and some other locals.
At one point, the criminals abducted the duo and took them to the student’s home. They tied them to trees and beat them up, he alleged.
The criminals also snatched their mobile phones, cash and some documents.
Locals later rescued the victims.
After the incident, Tariqul filed a complaint with Hatia Police Station yesterday accusing four people…