Banglades a Neo-Taliban
State?
The following photos were taken before the election
of October 1, 2001
Left: Antra Anika Rahman, 7, holds her Islamic
academic book at a Madarsa, an Islamic school, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday,
Sept. 30, 2001. Madarsa's primarily teach the 'Koran', the religious book
of Muslims. Muslim parents tend to have their children learn at the religious
school, rather than a conventional school in the predominantly Muslim country.
The Arabic letters are the alphabet. (Courtesy of: AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)
Right: A teacher helps student during an Islamic
academic class in a Madarsa, an Islamic school, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday,
Sept. 30, 2001. Madarsa's primarily teach the 'Koran', the religious book
of Muslims in the predominantly Muslim country. (Courtesy of: AP Photo/Pavel
Rahman)
Left: Muslim children study an Islamic academic
book in a Madarsa, Islamic school, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Sept.
30, 2001. Madarsa's primarily teaches the 'Koran', the religious book of
Muslims. Muslim parents tend to have their children learn in the religious
school rather than conventional school in the predominantly Muslim country.
(Courtesy of: AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)
Right: Students attend Islamic academic
class in a Madarsa, an Islamic school, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Sept.
30, 2001. Madarsa's primarily teach the 'Koran', the religious book of
Muslims. Muslim parents tend to have their children learn in the religious
school rather than in conventional schools in the predominantly Muslim
country. (Coutesy of: AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)
Left: Wahidur Nessa, 65, right, waits in
line to cast her vote in Narayanganj, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Oct.
1, 2001. Bangladeshis voted to elect 300-member parliament, walking to
heavily guarded polling stations down streets closed to most traffic after
a campaign that killed more than 150 people. (Courtesy of: AP Photo/Amit
Bhargava)
Right: A Muslim woman voter casts her
vote as another waits in Golakanda, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday Oct.
1, 2001 for parliamentary elections. (Courtesy of: AP Photo/Amit Bhargava)
Left: A Muslim woman casts her vote in Dhaka,
Bangladesh, Monday, Oct. 1, 2001 for parliamentary elections. (Courtesy
of: AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)
Right: Women voters lineup to vote in
Narayanganj, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Oct. 1, 2001. Voting to elect
300 members to the Bangladesh Parliament is being held Monday. Four percent
of Bangladesh's 130 million are Hindus. Bangladesh is a secular country.
(Courtesy of: AP Photo/Amit Bhargava)
Left: Bangladeshi Islamists burn an effigy
of U.S. President George W. Bush during a demonstration in Dhaka on September
22, 2001. The Bangladesh Islamic Front, a radical Muslim organization,
rallied against the Bangladesh government's decision to permit the United
States to use its airspace, ports and other facilities for a possible air
strike against Afghanistan.
Right: Bangladeshi Muslims hold an anti-American
demonstration and set fire to a U.S. flag in Dhaka, September 19, 2001.
The Bangladesh Islamic Constitution Movement arranged the demonstration
on Wednesday to express solidarity with Afghanistan's ruling Taliban. (Courtesy:
REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman)
Left: Members of a Muslim party, "Khilafat
Majlis" burn a U.S. flag in a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday Sept.
28, 2001. Many residents took to streets after the Friday prayers protesting
possible U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan. The placard displays a photo
of Osama Bin Laden, the main terrorist suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks on the United States. (Courtesy of: AP Photo/Amit Bhargava)
Right: Members of a Muslim party, "Khilafat
Majlis" burn a U.S. flag in protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept.
28, 2001. Many residents took to streets after the Friday prayers protesting
possible U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan in retaliation to the Sept. 11
terror attacks in the United States. (Courtesy of: AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)
Left: Members of Bangladeshi Muslim extremist
group Ahaly Babeya burn an American flag in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday,
Sept. 26, 2001. The protesters condemned possible U.S. attacks on Afghanistan,
calling for support for Osama bin Laden who is the suspected terrorist
mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. Banner in center reads "Down
America". The US. flag was blackened by mistake. (Courtesy of: AP Photo/Pavel
Rahman)
Right: Members of Bangladeshi Muslim
extremist group Ahaly Babeya burn an American flag during their anti-US
rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2001 . The protesters condemned
possible U.S. attacks on Afghanistan, calling for support for Osama bin
Laden, prime suspect in the Sept. 11, attacks in the U.S. The U.S. flag
was painted black by a mistake.(Courtesy of: AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)
Left: Jamyiati Tlaba, a fundamentalist Islamic
group in Bangladesh, protest the U.S. military threat against Afghanistan
and in support of Osama bin Laden in Dhaka, September 28, 2001. Bangladesh
has permitted the U.S. and its allies to use its airport, seaports and
other facilities in its "war against terrorism".
Right: A Burqa clad woman seen amidst
Election Posters in Dhaka
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