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by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury • October 31, 2025 at 5:00 am
* The rise of Islamist extremism in South Asia is entering a new and troubling phase.
* Their real goal, however, is far darker than banning a Hindu organization: it is to purge majority-Muslim Bangladesh of its remaining Hindu population and to reshape the country into a theocratic state.
* In a disturbing development, the government's response to a court petition demanding a ban on ISKCON described the movement as a "religious fundamentalist organization". This rhetoric, once confined to the fringe, now finds a place in official discourse - a dangerous sign of how far Islamist influence has penetrated the state.
* [I]n the eyes of Islamist ideologues, peaceful outreach represents a challenge -- the assertion of a pluralistic worldview that contradicts their absolutist doctrine.
* What makes this current wave of anti-Hindu agitation particularly alarming is its transnational dimension. Intelligence officials in Dhaka have identified growing coordination between Bangladeshi and Pakistani Salafist groups, some with direct ideological or logistical ties to organizations once linked to Al Qaeda and ISIS.
* The persecution of ISKCON is not merely an attack on a Hindu organization -- it is part of a larger strategy to dismantle Bangladesh's secularism and to replace tolerance with totalitarian theology.
* If left unchecked, this campaign could transform Bangladesh into yet another bastion of jihadist ideology in South Asia.

In Bangladesh, the latest target of jihadist wrath is the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a global Hindu organization. Pictured: Members of the Islamist Hefazat-e-Islam movement hold a rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh on November 29, 2024, to demand a ban on ISKCON. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images)

The rise of Islamist extremism in South Asia is entering a new and troubling phase. What began as a political movement cloaked in piety has increasingly transformed into a campaign of cultural and religious erasure. In Bangladesh, the latest target of jihadist wrath is the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a global Hindu organization. Islamists now brand it an "extremist Hindutva group", call for banning it, commit arson against its temples, and violence against its followers. Their real goal, however, is far darker than banning a Hindu organization: it is to purge majority-Muslim Bangladesh of its remaining Hindu population and to reshape the country into a theocratic state.

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by Lawrence Kadish • October 31, 2025 at 4:00 am
Legal scholars may continue to debate, ponder, and opine on the use of the U.S. Navy to detect and destroy drug smugglers in international waters, but one thing can be guaranteed. There are now many drug-smuggling murderers sitting beside their idle boats asking themselves, "Are we feeling lucky today?" Pictured: The USS Gravely enters Port of Spain, in Trinidad and Tobago, on October 26, 2025, visiting for joint exercises near the coast of Venezuela. (Photo by Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images)

Legal pundits are continuing to debate whether U.S. military strikes on sea-going drug smugglers are within international law.

Allow me to pose a different question: If those trying to bring death-dealing fentanyl to our communities were walking our streets and distributing their lethal doses to the unsuspecting, would you not call them hired killers? Would you not, in a trial, seek the death penalty for the carnage, mayhem, grief and misery they have caused?

When, from abroad, Al-Qaeda and Islamic State were murdering Americans, there was no hesitation in eliminating them. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, as well as his henchman, Ayman al-Zawahiri, were discharged without incident, and US forces unquestioningly removed countless Islamic State operatives from the battlefield (here, here, here and here).

Then why would you not use deadly force to confront similarly lethal forces before they completed their deadly mission inside our nation's borders?

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