Until now, appearing to rub along with Hefazat-e-Islam has lent Bangladesh's prime minister some credibility among the very religious
Hefazat-e-Islam, which means “Protectors of Islam”, formed in 2010 after Islamic teachers from the city of Chattogram united against plans to make inheritance laws more favourable to women. Before then the job of promoting Islam in politics had largely fallen to religious parties such as Jamaat-e-Islami and its mainstream ally, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. This changed after Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Bangladesh’s prime minister, took power for a second time in 2009.
The episode helped forge an unofficial alliance between Sheikh Hasina’s government and Hefazat. Appearing to rub along with the group has lent the prime minister some credibility among the very religious . Ali Riaz of Illinois State University says that indulging Hefazat has allowed the League to signal that “we’re against Jamaat, but not against Islam”.
The unlikely partnership has brought about a swift Islamisation of Bangladeshi society, says Mr Riaz. More children are schooled in madrassas. Religious leaders are growing less tolerant of interpretations of Islam that differ from their own. Not long ago few people discussed which school of Islamic jurisprudence they belonged to, let alone which sub-movement, says Mr Riaz. That has changed.
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