OP-ED: Hefazat, hate, and history’s detritus

Secularism cannot be deepened if communal elements are permitted free rein
There is hardly any reason to sit back in contentment now that the Hefazat-e-Islam has made it known that it has re-invented itself as an apolitical organization. Indeed, it was a shrewd move, one that should not escape notice, on the part of its leadership to avoid the wrath of the state in light of the nefarious moves it has lately made in a propagation of its ideology of hate. 

Men like Junayed Babunagari and Mamunul Haq are people who need to be on careful, constant watch under the scanner. Remember Moulana Moududi, who was condemned to death in 1953 in Lahore but limped back to wreak havoc again, through his Jamaat goons in Bangladesh in 1971?