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EXTREMISTS from Bangladesh

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This page contains a list of the greatest Bangladeshi Extremists. The pantheon dataset contains 209 Extremists, 1 of which were born in Bangladesh. This makes Bangladesh the birth place of the 40th most number of Extremists behind Tajikistan and Cuba.

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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 45.42, 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. He 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-Badar militia during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, Mollah 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 that demanded capital punishment for the convicted war criminals and the disbandment of Jamaat-e-Islami. Jamaat-e-Islami started a violent 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 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 to have been executed for crimes committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Quader Mollah had unsuccessfully stood for parliament in 1986 and 1996, contesting the seat Faridpur-4 for Jamaat-e-Islami.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as extremists born between 1948 and 1948. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased extremists include Abdul Quader Molla. As of April 2022, 1 new extremists have been added to Pantheon including Abdul Quader Molla.

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