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The Jamiat Ulema I Islam, Fazlur Rehman Group (JUI F) had no women among its membership of 38,000.

We call that approach Islam Hadari or civilizational Islam , which has been promoted by the Prime Minister of Malaysia since 2004.

More recently, Islam Atito, an engineering student at Cairo s Ain Shams University who supported the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, was found dead in the desert on the outskirts of Cairo. Egypt s interior ministry claimed that Atito had been involved in the assassination of a police officer and was killed in a firefight with security forces during a raid on his hideout.

Putting Qaddafi on trial probably would not have satisfied every Libyan s feeling of injustice, but it might have helped to instill in Libyans greater respect for the rule of law. Perhaps a trial of Qaddafi s son, Saif al Islam, will have this effect.

If any proof of this clash of values were needed, it came in the form of a hugely impressive counter demonstration against the Shahbag movement led by activists of the fundamentalist Islamic movement Hifazat e Islam, which occupied the capital s Motijheel area. Unlike the Shahbag events, the counter demonstration was well planned and organized, and conveyed the stark message that there was an alternative point of view in this overwhelmingly Muslim country.

The debate between religious fundamentalism and secular democracy is not a new one on the subcontinent. But the issue of justice for the crimes of 1971 has brought the divide into sharp relief.

But the issue of justice for the crimes of 1971 has brought the divide into sharp relief. The Shahbag protesters reject Islamic extremists influence in Bangladesh, and even call for organizations like Jamaat e Islami to be banned, while Hifazat e Islam and its supporters want the country s liberal forces repressed, secularist bloggers arrested, and strict Islamism imposed on Bangladeshi society.