Posted on 12/09/2005 8:26:46 AM PST by areafiftyone
DHAKA (Reuters) - A banned Islamist militant group blamed for a series of bombings in Bangladesh has threatened to kill women, including non-Muslims, if they do not wear the veil, a statement said.
The statement by the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen came hours after Thursday's suicide bomb attack in a northern town that killed at least eight people, the latest of a series of blasts blamed on militant groups in their campaign for an Islamic state.
"Women will be killed if they are found to move around without wearing burqa (veil) from the first day of Jilhaj," the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen said in the statement sent to a Dhaka newspaper office.
Jilhaj refers to the Arabic month beginning early January.
"Women, including non-Muslims, are hereby advised not to go out of home without burqa. Seclusion has been made compulsory for you," said the statement in Bangla language, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters on Friday.
The group, which wants the introduction of sharia laws in mainly-Muslim Bangladesh, also ordered women students at Dhaka University not to step out after sunset, prompting police to increase security around the campus.
Earlier, a police officer said 30 suspected members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen and another outlawed group, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh, were arrested for involvement in a wave of bomb attacks that have rattled the impoverished nation this year.
A dozen bombs were seized in raids across the country, the official said, as police hunted for the leaders of the two outlawed groups.
Two bombs exploded on a crowded street in the northern town of Netrokona on Thursday, killing eight people and wounding 50, many on their way to work.
A suicide bomber was believed to be among the dead, while another was found wounded with an unexploded bomb strapped to his body.
"These bombers are enemies of Islam and must be stopped," said an official at the Ministry of Religious Affairs, adding the government had asked clerics to spread the message from the nation's 250,000 mosques.
Thursday's deaths took the number of people killed by suspected suicide bombers to 28 in three weeks, including judges, lawyers and policemen. At least 150 people have been wounded.
Bangladesh is the world's third-most-populous Muslim country after Indonesia and Pakistan.
State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfuzzaman Babar said last month that Islamists had formed a 2,000-strong suicide squad to press home their demands.
(Additional reporting by Nizam Ahmed)
These guys need to get jobs as school principals in Kansas City.
If women ever got into power in islamic countries, half the men would be castrated.
I think my tagline says it all...
How many Muslims are islamist?
It's all Bush's fault!
I read Tony Blakely's article yesterday regarding Islamification of Europe. I don't buy it, not at all. Not when the IsloNazis want to kill women for not wearing a veil and cutting the heads off of infidels.
Lazamatazists Demand ALL Women Wear Veil.... and NOTHING ELSE.
I love the music on the Bangladeshi's Army website. Catchy little tune those guys have over there!!
http://www.bangladesharmy.info/index.htm
EXACTLY what I was thinking!
LOL
These islamic fanatics really need to get a life totally their own and not others.
Islamists Demand < London > < Paris > < Detroit > Women Wear Veil
They already are.
Scum.
You don't buy it, huh? What do you think western women will choose to do when the secular government is either too weak or too PC (or both) to protect them? In 20 years, Muslims will be 1/3 or more of the EU populace. I'll bet EU women they'll be all wearing the burka then--out of fear. Coming soon to a city near you.
How about my tagline?
IIRC, about 10%, which would be about 120 million of the total 1.2 billion.
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