Hefazat-e-Islam leaders in Chittagong yesterday alleged that a vested interest in the media had been running a propaganda against the group, the Qawmi madrasa system and the Islamic scholars with an ill-motive to instigate communal unrest.
As a result, an “unlawful” force would get the chance to create trouble, the leaders said at a press conference held at the auditorium of the Chittagong Metropolitan Union of Journalists.
Hefazat Organising Secretary Azizul Haque Islamabadi read out a written statement at the conference on behalf of Secretary General Junaid Babunagari.
The statement said a private television had recently broadcasted a controversial report named “Hefazatnama’’ aiming to confuse people. The statement added that it was part of “information-terrorism” by anti-Islamic quarters from home and abroad.
The statement also said a number of other media houses – both electronic and print – had followed suit by publishing false and fabricated information against Hefazat, Qwami madrasa and Islamic scholars.
The leaders of the Chittagong-based Islamist outfit urged the government to take legal action against those media houses.
Babunagari said Hefazat was a non-political organisation and its movement was not for implementing the agenda of any party; rather it was for implementing of the ideals of Allah and Prophet Muhammad.
He said Hefazat would hold an Islamic conference at Chittagong’s Hathazari – the home of Hefazat on February 14 and a two-day “Shane Risalat Sammelan” (an Islamic conference) on April 3-4.
