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The Constitution of Bangladesh declares Islam as the state religion. Bangladesh is the fourth-largest Muslim-populated country. Muslims are the predominant community of the country and they form the majority of the population in all eight divisions of Bangladesh.
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 ...
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 ]
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.
Although Hindu society used to be [7] formally stratified into caste categories, caste did not figure prominently in the Bangladeshi Hindu community. About 75 percent of the Hindus in Bangladesh belonged to the lower castes, notably namasudras (lesser cultivators), and the remainder belonged primarily to outcaste or untouchable groups.
Hindu community demonstrating in Rangpur Hindu community demonstrating at Shahbagh, Dhaka The looting and fear of looting of Hindu houses has caused Hindus to attempt to flee. On 7 August, around 700-800 Hindus in Thakurgaon district attempted to leave Bangladesh for India but were stopped by India's Border Security Force (BSF) and returned ...
Rock Falls is separated from its twin city, Sterling, to the North by the Rock River. According to the 2010 census, Rock Falls has a total area of 3.795 square miles (9.83 km 2), of which 3.66 square miles (9.48 km 2) (or 96.44%) is land and 0.135 square miles (0.35 km 2) (or 3.56%) is water. [2]
Sheikhs of Tungipara, currently the most powerful political family in Bangladesh. Khan Sahib Sheikh Mosharraf Hossain, member of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly; Sheikh Kabir Hossain, businessman and president of Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh; Sheikh Shahidul Islam, politician; Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founder of Bangladesh