{"id":6819,"date":"2016-06-16T09:24:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T09:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=6816&amp;preview_id=6816"},"modified":"2016-06-16T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T09:24:20","slug":"priest-at-dhakas-ramakrishna-mission-gets-death-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=6819","title":{"rendered":"Priest at Dhaka\u2019s Ramakrishna Mission gets death threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The threat came in the form of a letter on Wednesday evening following murders across the country in recent suspected militant attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Hindu priest said he was ordered by the sender of the letter not to preach his religion. Otherwise he would be hacked to death with machetes.<\/p>\n<p>He filed a General Diary (GD) at Wari Police Station around 9pm after receiving in the letter, Sub-Inspector Monir Ahmed told bdnews24.com.<\/p>\n<p>He said one \u2018AB Siddique\u2019 apparently sent the letter. Gazipur, Kishoreganj and Dhaka\u2019s Dhanmondi were written on the envelope as his address.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Islamic State of Bangladesh, Chandna intersection, Eidgah Market, Gazipur Municipality\u2019 was the wording of the letter-head, typed using a computer.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed said, \u201cThe priest was told in the letter, \u2018Bangladesh is an Islamic state, you can\u2019t preach your religion here. If you continuing preaching, you\u2019ll be hacked to death with machetes between the 20th and 30th\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter didn\u2019t mention any month.<\/p>\n<p>He said security was beefed up at Ramakrishna Mission after the GD. Top police officials also visit the temple.<\/p>\n<p>Though international militant outfits Islamic State and al Qaeda claimed responsibilities of murders of several Hindu priests in different areas in the country, the government says these groups are not active in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/bdnews24.com\/bangladesh\/2016\/06\/16\/priest-at-dhakas-ramakrishna-mission-gets-death-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Priest at Dhaka\u2019s Ramakrishna Mission gets death threat \u2013 bdnews24.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat came in the form of a letter on Wednesday evening following murders across the country in recent suspected militant attacks. The Hindu priest said he was ordered by the sender of the letter not to preach his religion. Otherwise he would be hacked to death with machetes. He filed a General Diary (GD) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[153,1152,66,1610,1285],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}