Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh is a right-wing Deobandi Islamist advocacy group based out of the network of Qawmi madrasas consisting mostly of religious teachers (Ulama) and students in Bangladesh. The group oppose secular governance and progressive gender reforms, relying on mass street mobilization rather than direct electoral politics to shift national policy. In 2013, they submitted a 13-point charter to the government of Bangladesh, which included the demand for the enactment of a blasphemy law, the segregation of genders, and the declaration of Ahmadiyyas as non-Muslims.
