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Islamist group's death threat to 10 politicians, journos, intellectuals

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Ten politicians, intellectuals and journalists received death threats yesterday from an Islamist militant group named Mujahideen al-Islam which accuses them of being the enemies of Islam and an Islamic state of Pakistan.
Mujahideen Zone-B Director Maulana Patowary issued the threat in a circular distributed among the organisation members.
The 10 threatened are Awami League presidium members Abdur Razzaq and Tufael Ahmed, Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon, Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) General Secretary Mujahidul Islam Selim, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) President Hasanul Haq Inu, freedom fighter Abir Ahad, writer and journalist Shahriar Kabir, Prof Muntasir Mamun and Prof Abul Barakat of Dhaka University (DU), and MC Mahbub.
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Similar death notices had been sent to 22 journalists two days ago and three DU teachers two weeks back.
In the circular, Patowary said Islamist organisations including Hizbut Tahrir, Harkatul Jihad and al-Qaeda have the photos and addresses of the 10 and announced to hoist the flags of Islam and Pakistan soaked in their blood.
The maulana also termed the 10 dangerous enemies of Islam and constituting a strong barrier to reinstitute Pakistan. "These sinners are the most prominent ones among those the Quran ordains to kill."
Talking to The Daily Star last night, only Mujahidul Islam Selim said to have received a letter containing the threat addressed to him at the CPB office, while the rest of the 10 said they had heard about it.
"By denying their existence, the coalition government has instilled such audacity in the Islamist militant groups that they don't hesitate to issue death threats to university teachers, journalists and writers," Shahriar Kabir remarked last night.
"After this threat, if any one is hurt, the government will have to bear the responsibility," he added.
Agreeing with Kabir's view that the government's inactivity has prompted the Islamist zealots to tread more extreme grounds, Selim said "The letter also proves that the scheme and the threat to revert to Pakistan are not imaginary ones but real."
"I am not surprised that people who had failed to kill us in 1971 have returned to butcher us again," said Inu. "But the government, it seems, is not particularly concerned about these fanatics like Bangla Bhai who want to do away with the country's intelligentsia. Rather, the government actually is patronising them," he alleged.