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“Secularism” or “no-secularism”? A complex case of Bangladesh
Cogent Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-05-27 , DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2021.1928979
Abdul Wohab 1
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Abstract

The incidents (in 2017) of changing the secular content of textbooks and removing a sculpture from the Supreme Court premises in Bangladesh raise a question among people who are sympathetic to secularism that Bangladesh is moving towards a theological state like Pakistan or becoming an Islamic country. They also refer to the remark that the current Prime Minister (Sheikh Hasina) made in 2014 that Bangladesh’s state administration would run under the rule of the Medina Charter (an Islamic constitution based on the Holy Quran and Sunnah, which aims to establish peace and unity by creating universal rules), as an indication of the religious characteristic that would remain at the centre of the state political activities in Bangladesh. By examining the historical and social context of Bangladesh since 1971 and reviewing the relevant contents of four newspapers—the Daily Inqilab (Bengali), the Prothom Alo (Bengali), the Daily Naya Diganta (Bengali) and the Daily Star (English)—from 2014 to 2017, this article rejects the claim made by the people who are sympathetic to secularism. This article, however, argues that Islam was traditionally/historically integrated in Bangladeshi society and culture as a unique (syncretistic) tradition in which political parties were forced to apply religious symbols and language in the political environments to stay in the government’s power. The article concludes by raising a question with the current integration of secular political party and Islamist force (Hefazat-e-Islam), being although there is a functional relationship remaining between secularism and Islam at the state level, is Bangladesh stepping into a “no secularism” era?



中文翻译:

是“世俗主义”还是“非世俗主义”?孟加拉国的一个复杂案例

摘要

改变教科书的世俗内容并从孟加拉国最高法院处所移走雕塑的事件(2017年)引发了一个对世俗主义表示同情的人的疑问,即孟加拉国正朝着像巴基斯坦这样的神学国家或成为伊斯兰国家迈进。他们还提到了现任总理谢赫·哈西娜(Sheikh Hasina)在2014年发表的讲话,即孟加拉国政府将在《麦地那宪章》(旨在建立和平与统一的伊斯兰宪法)的统治下运行通过制定普遍规则),以表明仍将是孟加拉国国家政治活动中心的宗教特征。通过研究孟加拉国自1971年以来的历史和社会背景,并回顾了以下四家报纸的相关内容:《每日印加拉布》(孟加拉),《 Prothom Alo》(孟加拉),《每日纳雅迪加塔》(孟加拉)和《每日星报》(英文)。 2014年至2017年,本文拒绝了同情世俗主义的人们的主张。但是,本文认为,伊斯兰是孟加拉国社会/文化的传统/历史融合体,是独特的(合规)传统,在这种传统中,政党被迫在政治环境中运用宗教符号和语言来保持政府的权力。本文最后提出了一个关于世俗政党与伊斯兰力量(Hefazat-e-Islam)融合的问题,

更新日期:2021-05-27
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