• Dr. Md. Nazibur Rahman

Islam relates the human beings to The God through a set of spiritual, political, economic, legal and social doctrines that guide every facet of the individual and social life of believers. And thus the education, values, culture, laws and all other norms of life imbibed with Islam, act as the strong deterrent to crimes. Low crime rate in the countries ruled by the Islamic laws is a glaring example. The present study is aimed at justifying Islam, does it prevents modernization whereas indulges in crime or terrorism in Bangladesh. This study surveyed over 200 respondents through a purposive sampling method and the secondary data collected from different sources as well. It was found during this study that the religious measures had a negative impact on delinquency, that is, the higher the score on the religious measure, the less the delinquency. Religiosity is never contrary to the modernization while the latter is welcomed through the filtering system of the religion. In an Islamic socio-cultural structure only the affirmatives of the modernization i.e. absolute human development could play its role whereas the negatives of it are kept contained. Modernization is a motion where religion is a direction and they aren’t adversary to each other. No doubt that the religious directives being diminished gradually in our societies but the modernization steps in without being sieved of its negatives. That’s why some of the crimes are on the wax in Bangladesh. More so, Bangladesh is a secular country having inherited its major laws of colonial legacy that are predominant in judicial system wherein the religion has a least influencing potential over us. The Quran and Hadith teach tolerance and understanding of other religious beliefs, languages and civilizations whereas the so-called Islamic terrorists hijack this pleasing philosophy and portrays it up as a terroristic ideologue eventually. Those extremists legitimize violent actions and objectives by constantly citing passages from the Quran in their rhetorical statements. They usually resort to a selective reading of the Quran, looking for specific passages to support their worldview and thus they insert the Quranic terminology into a political context. Some of the terrorists are religious fanatics; some are seeking personal vengeance and some sign up for Jihad to be a part of a social group that matters. The results of this study showed that 97% respondents replied that Islam does not support the terrorism. Due to this so-called Islamism the sense of values of the societies upon Islam is diminishing further in absence of an educational environment of comprehensive Islamic knowledge. The government is uniquely succeeding towards curbing down terrorism in Bangladesh mostly through religious awareness. The universal truth that Islam is ever a block to the crimes including terrorism but never a block to the development and modernization is reestablished here through this study.

Islam, Religion, Quran, Hadith, Modernization, Crimes, Values, Terrorism etc.

"Islam, Modernization and Crime: A Test of the Religious Ecology of Bangladesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.622-629, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905N94.pdf

"Islam, Modernization and Crime: A Test of the Religious Ecology of Bangladesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp622-629, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905N94.pdf