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Ah yes blame all concerns about islamism on islamaphobia. Keep putting your head in the sand and before you know it your country will be taken over by these parasites.

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The idea that Islamists will take over Bangladesh isn't Islamophobic. It is unmoored from reality.

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Yeah keep telling yourself. The reason islamism always takes over is because so called moderate Muslims never take the threat seriously. Even in the recent British elections Muslim majority regions voted for independents that were pro Hamas.

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I think it's demonstrably wrong that 'Islamism always takes over'. Indonesia, Malaysia, Tunisia, Maldives, even Pakistan shows that. And to equate anti-war candidates as pro-Hamas is at best silly.

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More people died in 3/4 years of the Syrian civil war than the entire hundred year long Israel Palestine conflict. Far more Arab Muslims are dying today in Sudan than in Palestine. But of course I'm sure these candidates are just "anti war".

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Strawman argument. You can do better.

Syrian war isn’t an issue in a western election because western taxpayers aren’t funding it.

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The West also funded the saudi Yemeni war where again more Muslims died. Where were these protesters and candidates then?

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> It’s clearly in the west’s interest to support Bangladesh’s transition from dictatorship.

Of course I don't believe the conspiracy that the Americans created the revolution. Anyone who knows anything about Bengalis would have realised that dictatorship will be a long term stable equilibrium. We're not a race of bootlickers like the Arabs and Punjabis. Also democracies don't have an interest in creating more democracies. Only the people of Bangladesh have an interest in the formation of our Republic.

I think the interim administration should be allowed to stay for longer until 2028/9 around when the new election was supposed to happen. Also I don't think the interim government should put through constitutional and/or electoral changes without a referendum. I'm completely against proportional representation anyway.

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*sorry. A dictatorship would not be a stable equilibrium.

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That makes the first para sensible. :)

I suspect events will determine the length of the IA.

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Can you elaborate?

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I'll do a post on it at some point, but for now:

- the economy

- viability of a new political party (possibly tested in local government elections)

- Yunus's health

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Can you also do a post on why BNP became left wing in the last "election"? They used to be the pro business party until the 2000s. Is this a downstream impact of hanging out with British Muslims?

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BNP became a left-wing party? They were pretty clear that they would boycott any election under Hasina, and had no policies that would suggest they were left or right in any meaningful sense. Also, in Hasina's Bangladesh, being pro-business meant beign pro-cronies. BNP was a reformist party in office, and it's too early to tell whether this has changed.

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