On March 7, the streets of Dhaka crawled with thousands of people chanting, “Khilafat, khilafat."

The mob gathered near the Baitul Mukarram Mosque after Friday prayers, ignoring police barricades. Officers struggled to control it and resorted to firing tear gas and sound grenades to disperse the sea of people, who threw stones at the police.

These were members and supporters of the banned extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir who hid in plain sight for years…the clerk at the government office, the professor or student at the university, the local mechanic, the milkman, the priest.

Now that Bangladesh’s elected government has been dethroned by a mob, hundreds of its police personnel hacked and lynched on the streets, dozens of hardcore Islamist terrorists and criminals released from jail, and Hizbut or Jamaat-trained students planted in the caretaker government headed by a largely powerless Muhammad Yunus, the hitherto invisible Tahrir cadre and backers have started crawling out of the woodwork.

They demand........

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