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Religion in Bangladesh (2022 Census) [1] Islam (91.04%) Hinduism (7.95%) Buddhism (0.61%) Christianity (0.30%) other religions (0.12%) The United Nations categorizes Bangladesh as a moderate democratic Muslim country. [2][3] Sunni Islam is the largest religion in the country and in all of its districts, except Rangamati. [4][5] The Constitution ...
Following the resignation of Sheikh Hasina on August 5, 2024, attacks began on the homes, businesses, and places of worship of the Hindu community in Bangladesh. [1] The Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council reported that from August 4 to August 20, a total of 2,010 incidents (including 69 temples) of attacks on Hindus took place across the country within this 16-day period.
The Government of Bangladesh and others is a case of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. [1] [2] This writ was petitioned 3 years after [3] Government of Bangladesh issued a circular regarding quotas for children and grandchildren of the veterans of the liberation war of 1971 amid of 2018 Bangladesh quota reform movement ...
The preamble of the Bangladeshi constitution declares secularity as a basic constitutional principle. The second paragraph reads "Pledging that the high ideals of nationalism, socialism, democracy and secularism, which inspired our heroic people to dedicate themselves to, and our brave martyrs to sacrifice their lives in, the national liberation struggle, shall be the fundamental principles of ...
Islam in Bangladesh. 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 ] Muslims of Bangladesh are predominant native Bengali Muslims.
According to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Hindus are among those persecuted in Bangladesh, with hundreds of cases of "killings, attempted killings, death threats, assaults, rapes, kidnappings, and attacks on homes, businesses, and places of worship" on religious minorities in 2017. [59]
Attacks by Islamist extremists in Bangladesh took place during a period of turbulence in Bangladesh between 2013 and 2016 when a number of secularist and atheist writers, bloggers, and publishers in Bangladesh; foreigners; homosexuals; and religious minorities such as Hindus, Buddhists, Christians and Ahmadis who were seen as having offended Islam and Muhammad were attacked in retaliation ...
The 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement was a series of anti-government [ d ] and pro- democracy [ e ] protests in Bangladesh, spearheaded primarily by university students. Initially focused on restructuring quota-based systems for government job recruitment, the movement expanded against what many perceive as an authoritarian government when ...