The Most Famous

EXTREMISTS from Bangladesh

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This page contains a list of the greatest Bangladeshi Extremists. The pantheon dataset contains 283 Extremists, 1 of which were born in Bangladesh. This makes Bangladesh the birth place of the 44th most number of Extremists behind Cuba, and Nigeria.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bangladeshi Extremists of all time. This list of famous Bangladeshi Extremists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Abdul Quader Molla (1948 - 2013)

With an HPI of 53.51, Abdul Quader Molla is the most famous Bangladeshi Extremist.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

Abdul Quader Mollah (Bengali: আব্দুল কাদের মোল্লা; 14 August 1948 – 12 December 2013) was a Bangladeshi Islamist leader, writer, and politician of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, who was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by the International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh (ICT) set up by the government of Bangladesh and hanged. The United Nations raised objections to the trial's fairness, while the general public in Bangladesh widely supported the execution. Quader Mollah was convicted on five of six counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes at his trial on 5 February 2013. A member of the Al-Badr militia during the Bangladesh War of Independence, he was convicted of killing 344 civilians among many other war crimes, and was sentenced to life in prison. This led to the 2013 Shahbag protests which demanded capital punishment for all convicted war criminals and the disbandment of Jamaat-e-Islami. Jamaat-e-Islami started a large counter-protest in the country, demanding the release of its convicted and accused leaders. On 17 September 2013, after an amendment to the ICT law allowing the government, complainant, or informant to appeal an order of acquittal or order of sentencing, the Bangladesh Supreme Court ruled Quader Mollah guilty of murders and other war crimes, and converted his life sentence to a death sentence. He was scheduled to be executed by hanging on 11 December. Due to more legal challenges, the execution was suspended and then upheld; he was executed on 12 December. He was the first person executed for crimes committed during the Bangladesh War of Independence. Quader Mollah had unsuccessfully stood for parliament in 1986 and 1996, contesting the seat Faridpur-4 for Jamaat-e-Islami.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Bangladeshi extremists born between 1948 and 1948. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Bangladeshi extremists include Abdul Quader Molla. As of April 2024, 1 new Bangladeshi extremists have been added to Pantheon including Abdul Quader Molla.

Deceased Bangladeshi Extremists

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