The Islamic State (IS) has referred to the BNP-Jamaat alliance as a “coalition of murtaddin” – Arabic for “apostates.”
The terrorist group made the comment at an article titled “The Revival of Jihad in Bengal,” which was dedicated to their activities in Bangladesh or "Bengal" as it refers to the country.
“The former government, which consisted mainly of a coalition of murtaddin from both the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh (essentially the Indian subcontinent version of the so-called Muslim Brotherhood), foolishly thought that the call of tawhid, jihad, and khilafah would be crushed by the martyrdom of a few righteous scholars,” referring to the execution of JMB commander Shaikh Abdur Rahman, read a paragraph of the article.
It also called Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, who is also a convicted war criminal, "the murtad head of the party."
“The tawaghit, the palace scholars, and those with diseased hearts forgot the promise of Allah, who said: 'They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light even if the kuffār despise such.' They had forgotten that the tree of this Ummah is not watered except by the blood of its martyrs,” the article continued.
In the latest edition of its online propaganda magazine “Dabiq,” the extremist group's strategic expansion to countries like Bangladesh is also discussed at length.
It also claimed that while IS was busy preparing for further attacks, the secular Awami League government continued to “twist the facts” on the ground and play a blame game.
The article claimed that Bangladesh had been drowned in “shirk and bidah” – Arabic for polytheism and religious innovation – for hundreds of years due to the “effects of both European colonisation and Hindu cultural invasion.”
It concluded by saying that the soldiers of the so-called caliphate would continue to rise and expand in “Bengal” and would continue to carry out acts of terrorism.
