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The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council have also renewed its call several times for the 8th amendment Islam as state religion of republic to be scrapped from the constitution. [ 66 ] Recently on 4 July 2021, there was a huge debate going on parliament that keeping secularism in the country's constitution is against Islam and Quran .
Islam is the largest and the state religion of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to the 2022 census, Bangladesh had a population of about 150 million Muslims , or 91.04% [ 3 ] of its total population of 165 million. [ 4 ]
BJHM (Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mahajote) claimed in its report that in 2017, at least 107 people of the Hindu community were killed and 31 fell victims to enforced disappearance 782 Hindus were either forced to leave the country or threatened to leave, and besides this, 23 were forced to get converted into other religions and at least 25 Hindu ...
Bangladesh is one of the few Muslim-majority nations where "proselytizing" i.e. conversions from one religion to another are generally accepted and is legalized by law under article 41 of the constitution, subject to law, public order, and morality. [5] Bangladesh was founded as a secular state, but Islam was made the state religion in the 1980s.
Hindus make up about 8% of Muslim-majority Bangladesh's 170 million people and have traditionally largel ... The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council said that 45 out of 64 districts ...
The arrest of a Hindu monk in Bangladesh has triggered a fresh war of words with neighbour India over the condition of minorities in the country. ... Hindus are the largest minority in Muslim ...
While Muslim landlords and Hindu occupants did exist, eastern Bengal witnessed an amalgamation of religion with class, with Hindu landlords presiding over mainly Muslim peasants. Hindu landlords were also prominent in western Bengal, but most peasants there were Hindus. This factor would become politically important by the end of the colonial rule.
Members of the country's Hindu minority feel the most vulnerable because they have traditionally backed the Awami League — seen as a secular party in the Muslim-majority nation — and because ...