After Hindus, Bangladeshi Radicals Targeting Sufis: Shrines, Urs And Music Under Attack | Exclusive
For decades, Bangladesh’s Islam carried a distinctly local flavour – shaped as much by Sufi saints, mazars and folk songs as by scripture and sermons
For decades, Bangladesh’s Islam carried a distinctly local flavour – shaped as much by Sufi saints, mazars and folk songs as by scripture and sermons.
But that tradition is increasingly coming under pressure. After years of attacks on religious minorities, radical groups in Bangladesh now appear to be turning their attention towards sects and practices within Islam that they consider too liberal or un-Islamic.
Sufi shrines, Urs festivals, devotional music and even folk traditions are emerging as new flashpoints in a country long seen as home to one of South Asia’s more syncretic versions of Islam.
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