Incidents of violence against minority Hindus are continuously coming to light in Bangladesh. Last week on Friday (19 December 2025), a Hindu youth, Dipu Chandra Das, was beaten to death and burnt alive by a fundamentalist mob on charges of alleged blasphemy in Mymensingh district of Bangladesh.
After this, in Rajbari district too, a fundamentalist mob brutally murdered 29-year-old Amrit Mandal alias Samrat. Amidst these incidents, a controversial statement of Maulana Sajid Rashidi, President of All India Imam Association, has come to light in India. He said that it is not right to call the violence against Hindus in Bangladesh as genocide.
‘What happened in Gaza, wouldn’t it be called genocide?’
Maulana Sajid Rashidi said that the killings taking place in Bangladesh are wrong and there is no doubt about it. He said that Islam does not allow killing anyone, but those who are calling these incidents as genocide, they should be asked where is the genocide? He further said that what happened in Gaza, are you ready to call it genocide? In Palestine, 40 thousand children were murdered and about 1 lakh 50 thousand people lost their lives, but still there is an avoidance of calling it genocide.
#WATCH Delhi: On the Bangladesh unrest, All India Imam Association President Maulana Sajid Rashidi says, “The killings that are happening are wrong. There is no doubt about that. Islam does not advocate killing anyone. But those who are calling this genocide, where is the… pic.twitter.com/YRlK7LqWFU
— ANI (@ANI) December 25, 2025
‘Why is the killing of 52 people in India not genocide?’
While talking to news agency ANI, Maulana Sajid Rashidi said that whatever is happening in Bangladesh, the Yunus government is responsible for it, which is a weak government. He alleged that it is being called genocide because the people who died there are Hindus. He further said that according to NCRB data, 52 people were lynched in India by a mob chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’, but it is not called genocide. He raised the question why there is hesitation in considering the killing of more than 50 people as genocide? Is this not double mentality?
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