Ahmede Hussain
This week, a couple of hundred students in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka brought out a procession under the banner of ‘Conscious Teachers and Students’, holding what looked like the flag of the terrorist outfit ISIS—the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. And this wasn’t the only such march in the city.
The 6 October procession came from students of St Joseph Higher Secondary School and College, one of seven colleges in Dhaka with an A+ ranking and run by Catholic missionaries. They marched to the national parliament and demanded the establishment of a caliphate in the country.
A few days before this, students of Notre Dame College, another A+ institution run by Catholic missionaries, had carried out a similar procession— this time to protest against an alleged derogatory comment made by a Hindu priest about Islam. They too demanded the establishment of a caliphate. And in yet another procession, students from Wills Little Flower School, an institution that follows the University of London curriculum, also waved the black ISIS banner and echoed the caliphate call.
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