Hanif: IS not an Islamic organisation

Some vested interested groups, including BNP-Jamaat, is trying to destabilise the courty with their subversive activities, he said while addressing a workshop on terrorism and Islam held at Jessore Zila School yesterday morning.

Islam does not support militancy and terrorism. But international conspirators are killing people in the name of Islam which is tarnishing the image of the religion.

The the Islamic State has destroyed civilisation in Iraq. They are now killing as well as torturing people in Syria in the name of establishing Islamic State,” he said.

Terming the IS as agent of Israel, he said the terrorist group had killed thousands of people in Muslim countries, but they yet to make any attack in Israel.

The senior leader of the ruling party Awami League said Rita Katz who operated IS's site is from a Jew's family.

To make the country unstable, the conspirators first killed secular people of the country. Later, they targeted people from minority groups. At last, the killed people in Gulshan and Dhaka.

The secret killing has started across the country after BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury met a member of Mosad, the national intelligence agency of Israel,” he added.

He also claimed that people who had been arrested in connection with killings in Pabna, Jhenaidah, Gulshan and Solakia were the Jamaat-Shibir activists.

Kazi Nabil Ahmed, lawmaker of Jessore constituency 3, who also present at the programme, said the country was heading towards development, but homegrown as well as foreign terrorist groups were trying to destalise the country.

Presided over by Deputy Commissioner of Jessore Dr Humayun Kabir, the programme was attended by Lawmaker Advocate Monirul Islam, Superintendent of Police Anisur Rahman and Deputy Director of Islamic Foundation Masiruddin Molla.