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Bangladesh: Muslim mob beats spiritual leader to death over ‘insult’ to Islam

Apr 13, 2026 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

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To this day, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Nigeria all enforce the death penalty for blasphemy. Others, such as Turkey and Syria, jail those who insult Islam and/or Muhammad. There is no freedom of speech or religion in Islam.

Frenzied mobs can also be found in countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh, which execute “blasphemers” in the streets.

Those who killed Jahangir for insulting Islam proved him correct in his unfavorable views about Islam.

Kushtia City, মোঃ সাকিবুল হাসান, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Bangladesh spiritual leader killed by mob over ‘insult to Islam’

WION, April 12, 2026:

Mob violence in Bangladesh leaves self-proclaimed spiritual leader Shamim Reza Jahangir dead after attack in Kushtia. Incident linked to alleged blasphemous remarks highlights rising religious tensions since the ouster of Sheikh Hasina, with police launching an investigation.

A spiritual leader was beaten to death by a mob in Bangladesh on Saturday (Apr 11), officials said. This is the latest violence fuelled by religious tensions in the country. Muslim-majority Bangladesh has seen a sharp rise in religious intolerance and mob violence since the 2024 uprising that toppled the government of former premier Sheikh Hasina. The religious leader has been identified as Shamim Reza Jahangir, believed to be in his 60s, died from his injuries after hundreds of people stormed his residence in Kushtia district. Jahangir thrashed him with sticks, said chief administrative official Touhid bin Hasan, according to AFP. The mob reportedly angered after an old video of the man resurfaced online on Friday. It allegedly showed him claiming that those who wrote the Quran were illiterate and those who read it were worse off.

“Sensing that something might happen, police went to the spot, and the administration tried their best. But an angry mob of more than 200 people attacked his residence,” bin Hasan said. Jahangir was taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead. Police sources told AFP that Jahangir had been briefly arrested in 2021 for making comments that angered villagers….