Islamist barbarism in Yunus ruled Bangladesh takes new turn , ‘Baul’ artists targeted alongside Hindus and Ahmadiyas

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, November 25, 2025

The familiar Islamist barbarism in Bangladesh that gained a momentum following the forcible seizure of power by the illegitimate Yunus regime on the back of a countrywide mob uprising in August last year has now started targeting the ‘Baul’ (devotional and renunciate folk singers) artists , having already battered into silence the minority Hindus and Ahmadiyas. The Islamists who always live by lawlessness and are flourishing on the bounties of the interim regime propped by them are now weaponising the medieval blasphemy law in vogue in the country.

Already two prominent ‘Baul’ artists Abdul Karim and Abul Sarkar Bayati have been put behind bars , after being falsely accused of blasphemy. Sources from across the border said that on November 21 veteran ‘Baul’ artist Abul Sarkar Bayanti had been arrested on the basis of cooked up allegations made by a fanatic Muslim group operating under the banner of ‘Tawhidi Janata’ and ‘Alema Ulema’. He was sent to jail custody by the judicial magistrate in Manik Ganj distict headquarter near Dhaka. This was followed by a protest by moderate Muslims and fans of Abul Sarkar and Abdul Karim but the frenzied barbarians of the ‘Tawhidi Janata’ and ‘Alema Ulema’ launched an organised assault on the protesters for alleged insult to Islam and for hurting religious ‘harmony’ in Bangladesh’.

The minuscule minority Hindus have been leading a sub-human existence in the hellscape of Bangladesh in constant fear and threat of attack ever since the August uprising last year . But now the Ahmadiyas , a sub-sect within Islam, who number a little more than just one Lakh in Bangladesh are also being selectively targeted by the predominant ‘Sunni’ Muslim barbarians. Interestingly , these attacks and divisive activities of the ‘Sunni’ Islamists have now started evoking reactions from the student community.

Sources said that this morning a large group of students in the Jahangir Nagar university in Mymensing district took out protest rallies against the depredations of the Islamists and their divisive approach to politics. The students who took part in the rallies strongly condemned the activities of the Islamists and their selective targeting of ‘Bauls’, minority Hindus and Ahmadiyas as ‘barbaric and uncivilised’ and vowed to put a stop to this by launching a protest movement of students across Bangladesh.

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