Expressing concern that Bangladesh might go the Afghanistan way, writer-activist Taslima Nasreen has said Islamic radicals are brainwashing and indoctrinating youths to make them “anti-India, anti-Hindu and pro-Pakistan”.
Nasreen said she and others had initially supported the students’ movement in Bangladesh against an “autocratic government”.
However, the recent actions such as violence against Hindus, targeting of journalists and the release of “terrorists” from jails showed it was not a students’ movement but was “planned and funded by Islamic jihadis”, she said.