Asif Mohiuddin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Asif Mohiuddin
Occupation	Activist
Date Of Birth	Feb 24, 1984(1984-02-24)
Age	40
Country	Bangladesh
Birth City	Dhaka
Horoscope	Aquarius

Asif Mohiuddin Biography

Asif Mohiuddin is one of the most popular and richest Activist who was born on February 24, 1984 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Asif Mohiuddin (born 24 February 1984) is an Bangladeshi atheist and secularist activist as well as feminist, religious critic, and feminist. He was awarded the Bobs-Best of Internet Award for Activism in the form of Deutsche Welle, who stated that “Asif’s blog is among the most visited websites across Bangladesh and is well- known for its clear critique against Islamic religious fundamentalism that is a part of Bangladesh’s “anti-people political system”. On January 15, 2013, he escaped an attempt to assassinate him by Islamic extremists. In the following months, Mohiuddin was twice imprisoned in authorities of the Bangladesh Government for posting “offensive comments about Islam and Mohammad”. In response to the pressure of international media, Mohiuddin was released, and he escaped from his home country to Germany in 2014. He was released in 2015. In the year 2015, he was awarded the Anna Politkovskaya Award for Journalism.

Worldwide protests and demonstrations were held between April 25 between 2 and May to pressure government officials in the Bangladeshi government to release bloggers who were detained. Many humanist groups (including CFU, CFI-Canada, the British Humanist Association, American Atheists, Secular Coalition for America and the Freethinkers of the The University of Missouri’s campus) were present in cities in across the US, Canada, the UK as well as Bangladesh. A number of writers, activists and famous intellectuals across the world , including Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasrin, Hemant Mehta, Maryam Namazie PZ Myers, Avijit Roy, Anu Muhammad, Ajoy Roy, Qayyum Chowdhury, Ramendu Majumdar, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal publicly declared their support for bloggers being detained. Three bloggers who were arrested eventually got released on bail, but the court denied bail to Asif Mohiuddin, and he was sent to jail on June 2nd, 2013. After three months, he was freed, however he remains in prison and is facing charges. Now , he lives with his family in Berlin, Germany.

Mohiuddin wrote articles criticising male chauvinism, domestic violence and the death penalty for apostasy in Islam, leading to fundamentalists calling for his death. In 2013 Mohiuddin was attacked and stabbed outside his house by four youths, inspired by Al-Qaeda leader Anwar Al-Awlaki. A month later, Bangladeshi bloggers and online activists started the 2013 Shahbag protests, leading to Islamist groups, including Hefazat-e-Islam, assembling over a million people in counter-demonstrations that called for blasphemy laws in the country, and attacks on secularists in Bangladesh. Rewards were offered for anyone who would behead secularist bloggers. The secular Bangladeshi government imprisoned bloggers, including Mohiuddin, and blocked many websites.

Mohiuddin was born and raised a Muslim family in Dhaka as the son of a middle- ranking civil servant. Studying religion at the mosque after school, he said “I learned many ridiculous things – that I would get virgins in heaven, or that I would suffer the ultimate punishment in hell for eternity.” To the grief of his parents, he increasingly questioned the religious doctrines he had been taught. Because of the critical questions and his irreverent answers towards the teachers, he was often hashly beaten up by them. At the age of 13, he declared himself an atheist.

The attempted assassination of Mohiuddin during January of 2013 that was widely reported in the United States and around the world and was, in a sense, it was the first public announcement of a sequence of murders of secularists, bloggers and opponents of Islamism in Bangladesh that continues until today, with 48 deaths (July 2016) to date. Mohiuddin is also credited with the fact that he’s survived to the reason his story has received a amount of attention from the world. Particularly the English-language section that is Deutsche Welle reported many times about Mohiuddin.

Asif Mohiuddin Net Worth

Asif Mohiuddin is one of the richest Activist from Bangladesh. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Asif Mohiuddin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Mohiuddin started to read about science and at 16 (2000) began to question assertions that were allegedly unscientific made by Islamists through writing opinions published in Dhaka newspapers. It all started when he was reading some articles in a magazine of science written in Bengali which tried to reconcile the wonders mentioned by the Quran with modern science and in a way present the facts in a scientific way. Mohiuddin contributed a piece to this, claiming it was impossible to prove scientifically for the Prophet Muhammad was able to ascend to heaven riding the back of a horse. The article, along with other humorous articles from Bengali publications from Dhaka led to his fame as a freethinker and opponent of religion. This also brought him into contact with fellow like-minded online activists.

The school’s beatings continued until he entered college. In college, he began to get involved in politics, fighting the police’s brutality in support of women’s rights and more democratic institutions. In 2006, he began blogging. In 2008, he graduated with an academic degree in computing. Mohiuddin was the organizer of the first gathering with Bangladeshi nonbelievers, freethinkers Agnostics, and other nonbelievers in Dhaka in 2010. The event attracted 34 persons.

In March 2013 Mohiuddin’s blog on the public blogging site somewhereinblog.net, was shut down by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, a move protested by the 2013 Bengali blog blackout. In April, Mohiuddin was arrested for “blasphemous” posts, along with three other bloggers. The crackdown on independent blogs, and the closure of the newspaper Amar Desh, was strongly criticised by Human Rights Watch and IHEU. Shortly after the bloggers were arrested, Mukto-Mona, an independent site of freethinkers and atheists of mainly Bengali and South Asian descent, issued a statement titled, ‘Bangladesh government squishing freedom of speech by arresting and harassing young bloggers inside the country’. Amnesty International also issued a statement titled, ‘Bangladesh: writers at risk of torture’. The Center for Inquiry (CFI), requested the US Secretary of State John Kerry “pressure the government of Bangladesh to reverse its policy of arresting atheist bloggers who were critical to religion.” They sent a letter to Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Suzan Johnson Cook “to do all they can to raise public awareness of this situation.” Other influential organisations such as the Free Society Institute of South Africa, Reporters Without Borders, Committee to Protect Journalists, Global Voice Advocacy, and several other bodies also called for the immediate release of the Bangladeshi bloggers and appealed to several foreign authorities to press Bangladesh on the issue.

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Asif Ranked on the list of most popular Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Bangladesh. Asif Mohiuddin celebrates birthday on February 24 of every year.