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Our speech not against Bangabandhu: Mamunul Haque

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Published: 16:47, 29 November 2020  
Our speech not against Bangabandhu: Mamunul Haque

“Out statement or speech is not against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, but against the sculpture,” said Hefazat-e-Islam joint secretary Maulana Mamunul Haque.

He came up with the statement in a press briefing at the capital’s Bijoynagar on Sunday (November 29).

Mamunul Haque said, “For last several days, Islam-loving people have been agitated over the issue of constructing a sculpture of Bangabandhu at Dhaka’s Dholaipar. From the Islamic point of view, the construction of sculpture of human or any animal is a non-Islamic culture and the scholars are protesting against the practice. In that context, I have also spoken out against the construction of sculpture. But a vested quarter is trying to brand this as antipathy against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. My statement in this regard is unequivocal- I fully respect the great leader and architect of Bangladesh’s independence Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and pray for the forgiveness of his departed soul. Our statement is against the sculpture, not any way against Bangabandhu.”

He further said, “We have just put forward the Islamic idea that sculpting is not acceptable in Islam.”
 

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