Pakistan was founded in the name of Islam. The Awami League, leveraging the sentiment of Bengali nationalism, secured the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan. Nationalism triumphed, Islam was defeated, but for how long? In 2024, Islam made a resurgence.
1971 – 1974: A new secular democratic country, Bangladesh, was born, and Mujibur Rahman became its first Prime Minister. Mujib banned Jamaat-e-Islami, leading its leader, Ghulam Azam, to flee to Pakistan and then Saudi Arabia, where he began mobilizing resources in the name of Islam. The USSR became Bangladesh’s defense partner.
1975: Assassination of Mujibur Rahman. Democracy did not last long in Bangladesh. Kissinger and ISI took their revenge. Mujib was assassinated by his own army with the help of the CIA. His entire family was killed, except for his two daughters, Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, who both fled to India.
1975: Bangladesh under Dictatorship. Democracy lasted only four years in Bangladesh. Pro-USA Pakistan Army Chief Ziaur Rahman became the new ruler of Bangladesh. He lifted the ban on Jamaat-e-Islami, allowing Ghulam Azam to return to Bangladesh. China began diplomatic relations with Bangladesh.
1976 – 1978: Islamification Begins
1976: Muhammad Yunus, a professor at the University of Chittagong, starts the Grameen Bank, a community development bank.
1977: Jamaat-e-Islami establishes its student wing, Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir.
1978: Bangladesh removes the word “Secularism” from its Constitution.
1978 – 1981: The Death of Ziaur Rahman
1978: Ziaur Rahman forms a new party, the BNP, and declares himself President of Bangladesh.
1979: Elections are held in Bangladesh, and the BNP wins. The party wins again in 1981.
1981: Ziaur Rahman is assassinated, and Sheikh Hasina returns to Bangladesh.
1982: Hussain Muhammad Ershad becomes the ruler of Bangladesh and remains in power until 1990.
1983: Grameen Bank is authorized by national legislation to operate as an independent bank.
1984: Muhammad Yunus receives the Magsaysay Award.
But the most important turn comes in 1988: The Return of Democracy.
1988: Through the 10th amendment, Bangladesh declares itself an Islamic country.
1991: Elections are held, and Khaleda Zia, the widow of Ziaur Rahman, becomes Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
1996: After 21 years, the Awami League returns to power, and Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of Mujibur Rahman, becomes Prime Minister.
Rise of Radical Islam
1998: The terrorist organization Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JuM) is founded by Abdur Rahman.
2001: Khaleda Zia (BNP) returns to power. Over the next four years, numerous terror attacks occur in Bangladesh, resulting in many deaths.
2005: Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JuM) is banned in Bangladesh.
2005: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao makes an official visit to Bangladesh, and both countries declare 2005 as the Bangladesh-China Friendship Year. India’s Home Ministry expresses concern over the activities of terrorist groups operating from the territory of Bangladesh.
2006: Muhammad Yunus receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
2006: Due to continuous terror attacks, a state of emergency is declared.
2007: Yunus announces plans to form a political party but later changes his mind.
2008: After two years, elections are held, and the Awami League returns to power. Sheikh Hasina remains Prime Minister for the next 16 years.
2009: Hasina visits Russia and meets President Putin. She visits again in 2013. Hasina maintains good relations with both India and China.
2010: After 22 years, secularism is reintroduced into Bangladesh. The Supreme Court reinstates secular principles in the Constitution.
2011 : Yunus is removed from Grameen Bank in corruption charges. It makes USA angry 2013 : Jamat e Islami is banned from fighting elections. Jamat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi is hanged to death. Jamat hates Hindus, they start huge Anti Hindu riots in Bangladesh
2013: The Jamaat-e-Islami student organization, Shibir, is ranked the third most active non-state armed group by a U.S. think tank.
2014: The BNP boycotts the elections, allowing Sheikh Hasina to win easily.
2015: A Pakistan-JMB link is exposed, revealing that JMB had been receiving financing from officers at the Pakistani High Commission.
Visa Attaché, Mazhar Khan, is caught red-handed at a meeting with a JMB operative. Since 1975, Pakistan has been funding terrorists and Islamists in Bangladesh, knowing that Islam is the only tool by which it can attempt to regain influence over Bangladesh.
2016: ISIS makes its entry into Bangladesh with the Holey Artisan Bakery attack.
2016: Hasina continues to fight against radical Islamists. Rajakar Al-Badr leader Motiur Rahman Nizami is hanged.
2018: Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman are sentenced to 5 and 10 years in prison, respectively, in a corruption case. Tarique remains in exile, while Khaleda is sent to jail.
2018: Quota protests begin in Bangladesh, recurring in 2022 and again in 2024.
2019: 22 Jamaat leaders run for election on BNP tickets.
2020: Khaleda Zia is released from jail during the COVID-19 pandemic and remains out of prison.
2021: The U.S. Treasury Department imposes sanctions on Bangladesh’s elite paramilitary force, the Rapid Action Battalion.
2021: The U.S. imposes visa sanctions on Bangladesh.
2022-23: Massive student protests occur again. Hasina uses force, and thousands of people are arrested.
2023: Russia claims that the U.S. is planning a regime change operation in Bangladesh.
2024 – The Regime Change
January: The BNP boycotts the elections again, and Hasina wins once more.
January: Muhammad Yunus is sentenced to six months in jail but is granted bail.
May: Hasina reveals that a white man approached her, offering a U.S. airbase in exchange for a safe election win.
June: Hasina appoints a new Army Chief.
July: Hasina visits China and signs numerous Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs).
July: Student protests erupt following a court decision on reservations. U.S.-funded BRAC University and student unions of Jamaat-e-Islami play important roles in the protests. Hasina uses force to crush the protests.
The Bangladesh Army is occupied with flood relief efforts.
August:
Hasina bans Jamaat-e-Islami.
Islam has deeply penetrated the Bangladeshi army. The Army Chief declares that the army will not fire on Muslim protesters, warning that they might rebel and demand Hasina’s departure from the country.
Hasina leaves Bangladesh.
Nahid Islam calls for Yunus to lead, and Yunus becomes the interim Prime Minister.
So after 53 years Bengali nationalism lose again and Islam wins US takes revenge of 1971 and deploy his puppet PM in Bangladesh Global media told only half truth that it was Student vs Dictator But these three threads is the real Truth of Bangladesh of last 120 years
