Protests have erupted with videos circulating online showing protesters burning images of a controversial blogger, Nagia Jahan Oni, who is accused by religious groups of spreading misinformation about Islam and Islamic scholars. Members of Jamaat-e-Islami and other organisations have joined the protests, demanding the blogger be sentenced to death.
Nagia Jahan Oni lists Sylhet as her hometown on her website, www.dailyvision.net, with her address and photos displayed on the site. However, we are unable to verify the accuracy of these claims.
Protesters allege that the blogger’s website contains personal accounts of childhood abuse by a Quran teacher, along with articles accusing religious institutions in Bangladesh of either being actively engaged in or enabling child rape. She cites the main reason for child rape in Bangladesh as false hadith. One claim, in particular, has provoked intense fury among religious institutions that if the Prophet of Islam were alive today, his marriage to Hazrat Aisha would be classified as paedophilia under modern laws and would result in his imprisonment.
These claims have led the religious and other groups to denounce the blogger’s writings as blasphemous, urging severe action.
