In the sweltering heat of October 2025, a viral video from Panchagarh district sent shockwaves across Bangladesh and beyond. Mufti Mohammad Mohibullah Miyaji, the Khatib of Tongi BTCL Colony Jame Mosque in Gazipur, was “rescued” after a dramatic 24-hour disappearance, his feet chained to a banana tree in a remote village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His son Mohammad Ullah, in a frenzy of rage captured on social media, had thundered threats<\/a> against India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON): “We will enter India and slaughter every one of them\u2014from Modi to the ISKCON dogs! I will slaughter 100 ISKCON followers. They tortured my father.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Protests erupted at Jahangirnagar University, with students demanding a nationwide ban on ISKCON, accusing the Hindu-majority group of orchestrating the “abduction” to terrorise Muslims. Gazipur Metropolitan Police, however, swiftly debunked the narrative: no evidence linked ISKCON or any external group; the “kidnapping” was a self-inflicted hoax, staged to incite anti-Hindu violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This wasn’t an isolated outburst. Filmmaker and pro-liberation activist Shahadat Russell, in a blistering vlog uploaded on October 25, 2025, dissected the incident as part of a pernicious playbook: “staged abductions” weaponised to demonise governments or vulnerable communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Minority groups concerned over violence, propaganda by radical Islamists<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jihadists wage war against ISKCON after police clear two Hindus of rape charges<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n