Khatme Nabuwat Andolon Bangladesh

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Khatme Nabuwat Andolon Bangladesh (KNAB) Islamic extremist organization that has positioned itself as an Anti-Ahmadiyya group in Bangladesh. They have campaigned for to seize Ahmadiyya mosques and have the Government of Bangladesh declare Ahmadiyya non-Muslims. They have attacked the homes and mosques of the Ahmadiyya community in Bangladesh. [1] The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom described them as "a group of anti-Ahmadi Islamic clerics" International Religious Freedom Report in 2005. [2]

History

Khatme Nabuwat Andolon Bangladesh is a splinter group of the International Khatme Nabuwat Movement, Bangladesh (IKNMB). [3] Hifajate Khatme Nabuwat Andolon (HKNA) is a similar anti-Ahmadiyya group in Bangladesh. [4]

In December 2003, KNAB bought out a procession from the North gate of Baitul Mokarram National Mosque to lay siege to a Ahmadiyya Muslim Community mosque in Bakshibazar, Dhaka. [5]

On 19 March 2004, Khatme Nabuwat Andolon Bangladesh threatened that they will drive out all the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community members living in Barguna District. [4]

On 24 June 2006, Bangladesh Police foiled at attempt by Khatme Nabuwat Andolon Bangladesh to lay siege to an Ahmadiyya Muslim Community mosque in Uttara Thana, Dhaka. [6] They tried to take over the mosque forcefully but were prevent by Rapid Action Battalion. [7]

In June 2007, leaders of Khatme Nabuwat Andolon Bangladesh and the International Khatme Nabuwat Movement, Bangladesh were charged with attacking an Ahmadiyya mosque in Jyotindra Nagar, Satkhira District. [1]

In 2008, Chairman of Khatme Nabuwat Andolon Bangladesh, Mufti Nur Hossain Nurani, Bimanbandar Golchattar Murti Protirodh Committee that forced the Caretaker government to remove a statue of a baul singer in front of Zia International Airport. He also called for the resignation of the Special Advisor to the Chief Advisor of the Caretaker government, Mahbub Jamil. [8]

Muballig (religious preacher) of Rajshahi District of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community reported that his community members were being harassed by Khatme Nabuwat Andolon Bangladesh, Ahle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, and Sunni Muslims in December 2015. [9]

On 23 April 2021, Noor Hossain Noorani, President of Khatme Nabuwat Andolon Bangladesh and leader of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, was arrested over violence in Munshiganj District. [10]

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