Ash’s Reasoned View

As an atheist Bangladeshi, I find the growing influence of Jamaat-e-Islami among the younger generation deeply disturbing. This concern does not come from hatred of religious people. It comes from an understanding that religion becomes dangerous when it is transformed from a private belief into a political authority. Jamaat does not merely represent individual faith. It represents an ideological project in which religion seeks power over the state, law, education, culture and