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Thirty hour-long strike in Bangladesh
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A group of loyalist of Bangladesh government swings a stick towards a member of Islami Andolan during the 3o hour strike in Bangladesh.© Monirul Alam
A group of loyalist of Bangladesh government swings a stick towards a member of Islami Andolan Bangladesh, a radical Islamist group, during a daylong strike in Kachpur near Dhaka.Twelve mostly Islamist political parties have called a 30-hour countrywide general strike from July 10 to protest the 15th constitution amendment bill which was passed into law. The bill scrapped the caretaker government system but retained Islam as state religion, alongside some other basic changes, police said.
Members of a Muslim group lynched by extremists as police look on
On Sunday, members of the Ahmadiyya community- an Islamic movement considered a sect by Islam traditionalists- became victims of an extremely violent lynching, in front of the police. Our Observer received footage of this barbaric act from the hands of one of the survivors of the massacre. Read more...
Death penalty for blasphemy divides Pakistan
Russian outcry over Muslim animal sacrifice
On November 16, millions of Muslims all over Russia celebrated the religious holiday of Qurban Bayram (the Turkik name of Eid al-Adha), which closes with the ritual sacrifice of a sheep. The killings, sometimes carried out in public spaces shock and anger some non-Muslim Russians. Read more...
'Little Barry' back in childhood home, but this time he's president
Barack Obama said it was “wonderful” but “a little disorientating” to be back in Indonesia, a country he spent four years in as a schoolboy, for his first official visit as US president. One of his old schoolmates remembers the boy Indonesians know as ‘little Barry’. Read more…
