Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday called upon the Ulema and Sufis to build a public opinion about those who kill and torture people side by side preaching the essence of Islam.
“The people are the source of all power. So I urge the Ulema and Sufis to create a public opinion so that the misdeeds of those who kill and torture people being human beings are stopped side by side with preaching the essence of Islam,” she said.The Prime Minister made the call while addressing the inaugural ceremony of the International Sufi Conference 2015 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital.
Bangladesh Tariqat Federation (BTF) arranged the day-long conference, the first of its kind in Bangladesh, with the slogan—“Sufi idealism is only way to global peace”.
With BTF President Alhaj Syed Nazibul Bashar Maizbhandari, MP, in the chair, the inaugural function of the conference was addressed by BTF Secretary General Lion MA Awal, MP, BTF International Affairs Secretary Syed Tayabul Bashar Maizbhandari, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in Bangladesh Shaer Mohammad, representative of Minhazul Quran International, UK, Afzal Hossain Sayedi, representative of Dargah-e Nizamuddin Foundation, Delhi, Syed Nazim Ali Nizami and Secretary General of Khaza Moinuddin Chisti Foundation of Ajmer, India, Khaza Whaid Hossain Chisti. Convener of the conference Dr Syed Rezaul Haque Chandpuri delivered the welcome address.
Islamic scholars from home and abroad including India, Germany, England, Russia and Bangladesh have joined the conference.
Terming Islam as the religion of peace and humanity, the Prime Minister said it is a matter of misfortune that a rampage is on in Bangladesh now where human beings kill human beings.
She said the innocent people irrespective of women and children are burnt to death through petrol bombs in the name of so-called movement, and a panic is being created through it.
“I don’t know whether those who are unleashing such types of atrocities on the common people believe in Islam, or have been derailed from it,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said BNP-Jamaat does politics in the name of Islam. “But I feel extreme pain when I see that holy mosques were not spared from their destructive acts.”
“There is no heinous act than torching mosque and it is BNP-Jamaat nexus which dishonoured the holy Quran by torching the holy book. They burnt hundreds of copies of Quran, and there is no history in Islam that such a huge number of the holy books were torched,” she said.
The Prime Minister said when Bangladesh was advancing towards development and prosperity, when the people were living in peace and comfort and their confidence was restored, all of a sudden the BNP-Jamaat engaged in killing-spree without any reason.
In this connection, Sheikh Hasina said she was always vocal and protested such brutality not only in Bangladesh but also outside the country.
“During my address to the UN General Assembly, I raised the Israeli aggression and atrocities on the innocent Palestinians including women and children,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said those who are unleashing terrorists and militant acts are terrorists and militants. “They have no religion and border, they are a little number….image of Islam is being tarnished due to their misdeeds,” she said. – BSS
