Author: Abu Obaidha Arin

In February 2025, a mob descended on Dhanmondi 32 in Dhaka, the historic home of Bangladesh’s founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. They came with hammers, crowbars and an excavator. By nightfall, they had torched the building and raised Hamas flags over the wreckage. For most Americans, that scene registered as distant unrest. It should register as a warning. Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority nation of 170 million people positioned between India and Southeast Asia, is deep inside an Islamist resurgence with real consequences for the United States. The organisational network behind it already operates on American soil, in its cities and under…