Religious Harmony and State Security: Bangladesh Perspective

Having a well-embodied sustainable state which has impenetrable security is considered the emblem of advanced civilization. Apart from all the indisputable elements of a sustainable state, security plays the role of the founding stone. This study aims to pursue the contribution of historical religious harmony in Bangladesh, practiced by the mass people, in strengthening the state security. Data was collected through particular scientific research methodologies of the descriptive method to analyze the possible answers of arising queries, historical method to explore historical background of the subject and the comparative method to detect the perfect stakeholders for establishing religious harmony in Bangladesh to strengthen the state security. The study explored that Bangladesh, since its creation, has assumed different characteristics from any other countries all over the world & religious harmony played a pivotal role in creating Bangladesh as an independent and sustainable state on the global map. It identified that despite not being the ruling party, religious parties have been contributing more to securing religious harmony than the conventional parties. The study tracked out a plethora of confidential conspiracies driven by different wings to annihilate the historical heritage to prove Bangladesh as a fragile state. This research concluded that utilizing the heritage of religious harmony will pave the eternal way to keep this state as an unassailable secured country.