Biden administration’s blunders may turn Bangladesh into a sanctuary for extremist ideologies

Editor’s Note: You won’t find anything about CFP’s latest columnist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, anywhere on social media. Not a word about him if you try to research him on Google, nor anything about his weekly online newspaper, The Weekly Blitz.

Canada Free Press knew the struggle of Shoaib before the Islamic Bangladesh government imprisoned him after he was wrongly convicted of blasphemy, sedition, and treason. We never heard from him for the seven years he remained in prison, from 2014 until 2021, because he had lost our email address, and we didn’t know whether he was still alive; didn’t know where he was.

We find it outstandingly courageous that he is now leading a one-man battle against the same radical Islamists who both imprisoned him and repeatedly tried to shut down his newspaper, trying to flag the West about the potential Islamist takeover of Bangladesh in the upcoming Jan. 7, 2024 general election.

"Bangladesh, the third-largest Muslim country with 170 million population is at the crossroad, where anti-Semite, anti-West radical Islamist, jihadist and Islamist terrorist groups are openly showing their fangs generating extreme wariness amongst the people in the country and the region as the Islamist takeover of Bangladesh would turn it into a sanctuary for extremist ideologies or even worse--another neo-Taliban state”, "Such fear is gradually getting intensified as in the recent years as, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which is termed as a ‘Tier-III Terrorist Organization’ by a number of US courts and its ideological allies such as Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and pro-Caliphate Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI) are getting the exposed sympathy of the Biden administration”, he writes in today’s CFP cover story.