ICC Note:

ISIS has claimed responsibility for killing a Christian convert in Bangladesh. According to groups monitoring the terrorist group’s social media and communications, ISIS has called the killing of the Christian convert a “lesson to others”. Concerns of ISIS activity in Bangladesh have been hotly debated as Islamic extremist claiming allegiance to the group have perpetrated attacks targeting religious minorities and foreigners over the past year. Will Bangladesh become a new front for ISIS in South Asia? What does this mean for the country’s small Christian population? 

3/23/2016 Bangladesh (Christian Today) – Islamic State has claimed responsibility for stabbing a Christian to death in Bangladesh.

The group said Hussein Ali was killed as a “lesson to others”, an online group that monitors extremist activity said.

Three attackers approached the 68-year-old on a motorbike while he was taking his regular morning walk in the town of Kurigram and then stabbed him in the neck. He had been aware of the dangers he faced, once telling a member of staff from Redcliffe College in Gloucester: “They don’t know anything, they don’t understand, forgive them.” He prayed that God would “place me under Your control”.

Bangladesh has seen a surge in Islamist violence in which liberal activists, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups have been targeted.

According to the US-based SITE Intelligence Group, Islamic State said on Twitter that a “security detachment” killed the “preacher” to be a “lesson to others”.

Kurigram district police Chief Tobarak Ullah said three men were picked up for questioning after the attack.

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