{"id":4982,"date":"2025-11-29T01:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2025-11-29T01:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:04:24","slug":"islamist-mobocracy-july-moncho-jihadists-attack-baul-protest-at-shahbagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=4982","title":{"rendered":"Islamist Mobocracy: July Moncho jihadists attack Baul protest at Shahbagh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In yet another chilling display of the extremist stranglehold over Bangladesh under Muhammad Yunus\u2019s illegal regime, a gang of radical activists from the pro-jihadist \u201cJuly Moncho\u201d on Friday afternoon stormed a peaceful cultural protest titled \u201cGaner Artonad\u201d (The Cry of Songs) at Shahbagh, right in front of Dhaka University\u2019s Faculty of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event had been organised to demand the immediate release of imprisoned Baul folk singer Abul Sarkar and to condemn the nationwide wave of Islamist attacks on Baul artists in Manikganj, Thakurgaon, and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u09b6\u09be\u09b9\u09ac\u09be\u0997\u09c7 \u2018\u0997\u09be\u09a8\u09c7\u09b0 \u0986\u09b0\u09cd\u09a4\u09a8\u09be\u09a6\u2019 \u0985\u09a8\u09c1\u09b7\u09cd\u09a0\u09be\u09a8\u09c7 \u09b8\u0982\u0998\u09b0\u09cd\u09b7; \u09ac\u09be\u0989\u09b2\u09a6\u09c7\u09b0 \u0993\u09aa\u09b0 \u09b9\u09be\u09ae\u09b2\u09be\u09b0 \u09aa\u09cd\u09b0\u09a4\u09bf\u09ac\u09be\u09a6 | Shahbag Protest | Jamuna TV\" width=\"1110\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Wst-TNbQkU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eyewitnesses and organisers accused July Moncho militants\u2014many of whom are openly linked to the same \u201cConcert for Dhaka\u201d platform that has been openly backed by Yunus-loyalist student groups like the Islami Chhatra Shibir\u2014of launching a pre-planned assault around 4:30pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attackers smashed banners, tore down backdrops, shoved participants, and issued death threats. One female participant, Mishkat Tanisha, reported that a July Moncho thug raised his shoe at her and threatened to beat her\u2014a classic tactic of religious extremists to terrorise women in public spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marzia Prova, one of the organisers of \u201cGaner Artonad,\u201d told reporters: \u201cThey came screaming into the microphone that the name of Baul Abul Sarkar must be erased from our backdrop. They vandalised everything, tried to stop the programme forcibly, and attacked our friends. These are not students\u2014these are trained cultural fascists and jihadist goons enjoying full impunity under Yunus\u2019s regime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=4966\">Rights body GCDG rings alarm bell as extremism resurges under Yunus regime<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=4941\">Yunus-backed jihad against Baul and Sufism followers must end<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=4881\">IMB Masna-Sulasa: Qasemee\u2019s marketplace for women using religion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another organiser, Md Shahriar Alam, added: \u201cWe made it clear: we will not accept this cultural fascism. They demanded we remove Abul Sarkar\u2019s name as if singing Baul songs is now a crime against Islam in Yunus\u2019s Bangladesh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The July Moncho members defended their violence with the usual extremist rhetoric. One of their leaders, Masum Billah, brazenly declared: \u201cWe were holding our own programme next to them and politely asked them not to take the side with those who insult religious sentiments. But they didn\u2019t listen. These girls are not girls\u2014they are terrorists. They pushed forward using women as shields and attacked us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the same July Moncho that, just hours earlier, had organised a rally in front of the National Museum demanding \u201cthe highest punishment for anyone hurting religious sentiments\u201d\u2014code language for death threats against secular artists, writers, and minorities\u2014and calling for a \u201cJuly Assembly to resist cultural conspiracies against national harmony.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;\u0986\u09ae\u09be\u09b0 \u09b8\u09cb\u09a8\u09be\u09b0 \u09ac\u09be\u0982\u09b2\u09be\u09af\u09bc \u09ae\u09cc\u09b2 \u09ac\u09be\u09a6\u09c7\u09b0 \u09a0\u09be\u0981\u0987 \u09a8\u09be\u0987&quot; \u09ac\u09be\u0989\u09b2\u09a6\u09c7\u09b0 \u09b8\u09cd\u09b2\u09cb\u0997\u09be\u09a8\u09c7 \u0989\u09a4\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b2 \u09b6\u09be\u09b9\u09ac\u09be\u0997\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rlGK9ayqnxo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the presence of police, no meaningful intervention was made to stop the attackers, confirming once again that under Yunus\u2019 15-month misrule, radical mobs enjoy total impunity. At the same time, peaceful cultural voices are silenced through violence and arrests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Undeterred, the organisers of \u201cSampriti Yatra\u201d (Harmony March)\u2014the platform behind \u201cGaner \u201dArtonad\u201d\u2014successfully concluded the evening with a defiant torchlight procession from the Faculty of Fine Arts to Raju Sculpture at 7pm, raising flaming torches and slogans demanding justice for Baul artists and the immediate release of Abul Sarkar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brazen daylight attack in the heart of the capital is only the latest symptom of the raging mobocracy and cultural cleansing that has gripped Bangladesh since Yunus\u2019 unconstitutional takeover:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Baul singers are being assaulted and jailed for \u201churting religious feelings.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Sufi shrines are being demolished by extremist mobs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Female students and artists are threatened with shoes and acid attacks for defying moral policing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Radical platforms like July Moncho, Touhidi Janata and Hefazat-backed groups operate as unofficial enforcers of a creeping Talibanisation agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this is happening while the Yunus regime remains criminally silent or actively shields the perpetrators\u2014proving beyond doubt that its much-hyped \u201creform\u201d narrative is nothing but a smokescreen to appease Jamaat-e-Islami, Hizb ut-Tahrir, and transnational jihadist networks while crushing Bangladesh\u2019s secular, syncretic cultural heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifteen months of Yunus\u2019 misrule have turned Shahbagh\u2014once the symbol of the 2013 anti-war-criminal protests\u2014into a battlefield where Islamist mobs now dictate who can sing, who can speak, and who can live freely. Until this illegal, extremist-appeasing regime is dismantled, the cry of songs will continue to be drowned out by the roar of jihadist boots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another chilling display of the extremist stranglehold over Bangladesh under Muhammad Yunus\u2019s illegal regime, a gang of radical activists from the pro-jihadist \u201cJuly Moncho\u201d on Friday afternoon stormed&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,646,20,42],"tags":[1247,77,1224,46,76,1256,50,71,54,495,1255,65,56,85,63,64],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-culture","category-news","category-politics","tag-abul-sarkar","tag-awami-league","tag-baul","tag-bnp","tag-extremism","tag-ganer-artonad","tag-interim-government","tag-islami-chhatra-shibir","tag-jamaat-e-islami","tag-jihad","tag-july-moncho","tag-mobocracy","tag-muhammad-yunus","tag-national-citizen-party-ncp","tag-sheikh-hasina","tag-yunus-gang"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4986,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions\/4986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}