{"id":5320,"date":"2025-12-20T04:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2025-12-20T04:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:23:48","slug":"rahmani-at-shahbagh-a-disgraceful-display-of-extremist-mobilisation-for-osman-hadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=5320","title":{"rendered":"Rahmani At Shahbagh: A disgraceful display of extremist mobilisation for Osman Hadi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As Bangladesh grapples with the fallout from the death of radical Islamist mob leader and an MP candidate from the Dhaka-8 seat, Sharif Osman Hadi, the nation has plunged deeper into turmoil. What began as mourning for the Inqilab Moncho spokesperson\u2014shot on December 12 and succumbing to injuries in Singapore\u2014has morphed into a wave of orchestrated violence, exposing the Yunus interim government’s perilous alliance with extremists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protests that erupted overnight on Thursday continued into Friday, with mobs targeting media outlets, the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum, cultural institutions, and Indian diplomatic installations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This disgraceful escalation, marked by arson, vandalism, and anti-India hysteria, underscores a calculated push toward theocracy, as jihadist elements like Al-Qaeda-linked cleric Mufti Jasimuddin Rahmani and Maulana Ataur Rahman Bikrampuri seize the moment to advance their agenda. With elections slated for February 12, 2026, the international community watches in alarm as Yunus’s regime sacrifices stability to repay debts to the extremists who aided the August 2024 ouster of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rahmani, other jihadist patrons want all \u2018Islamic scholars\u2019 freed from jail<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yunus\u2019 jihadist mobs rampage newspaper offices, Dhanmondi-32<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students burn effigies of Pinaki, Elias for anti-liberation propaganda<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hadi’s death, amid allegations that his shooters fled to India, has been weaponised by radicals to stoke anti-India sentiments and justify mob rule. Witnesses and media reports confirm that hundreds took to Dhaka’s streets immediately after the news broke, rallying at Shahbagh\u2014the epicentre of the 2013 pro-secular protests but now hijacked by Islamists.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Several hundred people took part in the Jumma prayers on Friday<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Shahbagh rally on December 19 epitomised the regime’s moral bankruptcy. It happened after the overnight mob attacks that terrified the nation. Rahmani’s patron Mahmudur Rahman, the editor of daily Amar Desh, and associates Harun Izhar, Elias Hossain, Pinaki Bhattacharya, and razakar Ghulam Azam’s son Brig. Gen. Abdullahil Amaan Azmi instigated the attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands gathered for an “anti-hegemony” protest, ostensibly mourning Hadi but devolving into a venomous anti-India tirade laced with religious extremism. Organised by groups like DUCSU, Islami Chhatra Shibir (Jamaat-e-Islami’s student arm), and Islami Chhatra Andolan, the event saw protesters rename the intersection “Shahid Osman Hadi Chattar” and pledge unrelenting “struggle” until justice for Hadi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grameen\u2019s Al-Qaeda ties and Yunus\u2019 embrace of extremism and mobocracy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Mufti Imran is revealing the danger of extremism on social media<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CTTC being gutted as Yunus regime brands militants as Islamic scholars<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rally’s true horror lay in its leadership: Mufti Jasimuddin Rahmani, the Al-Qaeda ideologue released by Yunus in August 2024, led Jumma prayers. This terrorist, inspired by Anwar al-Awlaki and convicted for inciting blogger murders by his gang of jihadist killers (AQIS affiliate), had previously rallied with Jamaat-Shibir at Shahbagh on May 9, 2025, demanding an Awami League ban\u2014which Yunus swiftly enacted.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rahmani at Shahbagh on May 9, 2025, to demand a ban on the Awami League<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

On Friday, his presence was a grotesque insult to jihadism’s victims, yet he was allowed to preach unchecked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flanking him was his follower, Maulana Ataur Rahman Bikrampuri, infamous for smear campaigns branding ISKCON as a “militant” Indian intelligence front, inciting anti-Hindu violence. Dozens of Jamaat-e-Islami and Shibir cadres joined, chanting “Naraye Takbir, Allahu Akbar,” “No more resistance\u2014now revenge,” and “Agents of India, beware.” Speakers like Shibir’s Sadik Kayem, SM Farhad, and retired Lt. Col. Hasinur Rahman\u2014a suspected ISI agent\u2014vowed to eradicate “India-backed media” and politics, echoing National Citizen Party (NCP) figures Nahid Islam, Hasnat Abdullah, Sarjis Alam, and ex-adviser Mahfuj Alam. These NCP leaders have threatened to support separatists in India’s Northeast to force Hasina’s extradition, aligning with Yunus’s warnings since last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview With HT: Yunus is sponsoring extremists, says Sheikh Hasina<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LeT\u2019s Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer visits Dhaka, border districts, raising terror alert<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This unholy alliance is deliberate: Yunus owes his power to radicals who fueled the 2024 riots and now patrol as Touhidi Janata vigilantes\u2014linked to Hefazat-e-Islam and banned militants. Releasing Rahmani, unbanning Jamaat, and tolerating Bikrampuri’s hate speech betrays Bangladesh’s secular roots, forged in the 1971 Liberation War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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