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How Bangladesh blocked an Islamist pivot on February 12 and reasserted its Bangali identity and sovereignty

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15.02.2026

It is said – never mess with Bangalis as they resemble the Royal Bengal Tiger and Tigresses. Hopefully by now, conspirators sitting in Washington, London, Beijing and Islamabad have learned the lesson, when people of Bangladesh massively voted in favor of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) by largely rejecting Jamaat-e-Islami, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and a loyal lapdog of the United States, China and Pakistan.

In recent years, parts of South Asia have witnessed renewed mobilization around Islamist narratives. Bangladesh was not immune. Street radicalism, aggressive moral policing, and sporadic mob actions created unease -particularly among women, minorities, and secular youth. Social media amplified fears that the country could drift toward ideological rigidity resembling Taliban-era Afghanistan or clerical Iran. Whether exaggerated or not, perception shaped political behavior. The rejection of Jamaat-e-Islami at the ballot box reflects a broader societal resistance to theological governance models.

Following the meticulously designed regime change plot of 2024, Washington, Beijing and Islamabad succeeded in turning Bangladesh into their subservient country through their mercenaries with Muhammad Yunus as the head of the illegitimate interim regime. Since then, at the overt and covert backing of those nations, Bangladesh witnessing the terrifying rise of religious extremism, terrorism, jihadism and mob-violence, which not only resulted in destruction of country’s economy and education system – it also had turned the youths into mere zombies who got indulged into destructive acts without thinking about the consequences and even their own futures. Due to such rampant anarchy and chaos, Bangladesh’s global image was greatly tarnished where most of the nations began seeing the country with gravest suspicion. Bangladesh earned a similar bad name as Pakistan, which resulted in rejection of visas to its citizens, especially the students and younger generation. Females in the country have been facing numerous forms of intimidation and threats from the religious extremists and jihadists, and there was a growing fear in them of becoming an object of disrespect and isolation as it happens in Pakistan and other Muslim nations.

People may ask – with almost univocal support and patronization of the US and Britain as well as consistent support from China and Pakistan, why Muhammad Yunus opted for holding the election on February 12, when he had sufficient power – both through Islamist mobs and country’s military establishment and why he did not opt for remaining in power indefinitely by proclaiming himself as the Supreme Leader and turn the country into a Caliphate. The answer to this question is simple. For Muhammad Yunus, it became a “mission impossible” to remain in power when Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which has massive size of supporters, and a solid vote bank of 35-40 percent began repeatedly pressing the Yunus regime to hold the elections. Muhammad Yunus and his Islamist-jihadist cabal clearly realized, should they delay holding of the elections for an indefinite period, BNP would go on the street with mass-movement, where it would easily get open or silent support from Awami League and other leftist-secularist forces – and of course the Hindus. And in that case, Yunus would face a pathetic fall and would potentially face trial for committing series of crimes that would result in capital punishment for him and the members of his vicious nexus.

Meanwhile, Yunus also realized – his masters in the US in particular have seriously miscalculated the power of Bangalis which reminded him – despite Washington’s vantage point, its blend of military power, economic leverage, intelligence networks, and ideological messaging has been seen as the ultimate toolkit for shaping world affairs; the history tells a less flattering story. Again and again, American doctrine has not........

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