Bangladesh has seen a wave of violent religious extremism in the recent times. Bloggers. secular minded people, human rights and LGBT activists were targeted with impunity. Some of the culprits have identifies their tied with extremist group ISIS. This trend has already been seen by Pakistan where people opposed to religious fanaticism were targeted.
Other Islamic countries have seen an upward spiral in violence in the name of religion. Recently Elif Shafak, a Turkish writer expressed that its hard to live as gay, Jew, Armenian or Kurd in turkey and belonging to them will make one eligible for persecution through different means. In Pakistan identifying yourself as Ahmedi, Hazara, christian, Hindu and Sikh may complicate matters for you and a life threatening situation can develop. Recently and Ahmedi was murdered in Glasgow which is a western city. He was accused of insulting Islam supposedly. Attitudes like these have been developed due to saudi exported extremist propaganda which is a strict interpretation of Islam. This mindset has damaged South Asian Sufi origins and mystic preaching of peace, hence giving way in favor of war and destruction and terming others as non-believer while considering oneself epitome of piety. It is highly hypocritical when Muslims complain that they aren't allowed to build a mosque in west while the ban on building synagogues, churches and temples in Saudi Arabia is silently ignored. Muslims go to foreign countries but never socialize fully with the environment and like to spend lives in seclusion. They don't immerse themselves in others culture while they want others to adopt to Muslim's culture which seems highly unlikely. Unless Muslims shun this hypocritical attitude we may see many Donald trumps speaking up for millions against Muslim and in favor of banning Muslims.
Source: http://www.dawn.com/news/1258146
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