Islamic militants
When the law-enforcers arrested Dr.Asadullah Al Galib and his associates, the image of Bangladesh had already suffered a big blow for the existence of Islamic militant groups on Bangladeshi soil. Recent bomb-attacks in many of the cultural programmes and threats to bomb NGOs helping women to be self-assertive have left nothing for us to deny that Islamic militant organisations do exist in Bangladesh.
Islamic militant organisations are undoubtedly an emergence of a new evil power. In the recent years, some mullahs have spawned a plethora of new Islamic militant organisations. With formation of Islamic militant organisations thus going on, the day is not far when Bangladesh will be called a terrorist-infested country like Afghanistan.
So the government must be strict not to free any Islamic militants without due punishment in order to prevent our country from becoming a safe haven for such elements.
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