The hard part is what comes after Hasina. If you take the example of other Muslim countries (that our citizens seem so fond of) it's either a military dictatorship and/or an islamist government. I'm not optimistic. Whatever heterogeneity existed in Islam has been slowly but surely eroding for decades. Nowadays we don't even have conservatives, we just get Arab cosplayers.
I don't expect either in the near term. I don't see an Islamist government in Bangladesh in the next decade (who knows what might happen after that). Global political Islam is way past its heyday and Bangladeshi Islamists are factionalised and were never a serious governing prospect. Generals may feel ambitious in future if the interim administration fails to deliver.
The hard part is what comes after Hasina. If you take the example of other Muslim countries (that our citizens seem so fond of) it's either a military dictatorship and/or an islamist government. I'm not optimistic. Whatever heterogeneity existed in Islam has been slowly but surely eroding for decades. Nowadays we don't even have conservatives, we just get Arab cosplayers.
I don't expect either in the near term. I don't see an Islamist government in Bangladesh in the next decade (who knows what might happen after that). Global political Islam is way past its heyday and Bangladeshi Islamists are factionalised and were never a serious governing prospect. Generals may feel ambitious in future if the interim administration fails to deliver.