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] noted the usage of the term as early as 1946 in ].<ref name="nkb259">{{cite book |last=Bose |first=Nirmal Kumar |author-link=Nirmal Kumar Bose |title=My Daya With Gandhi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mSZCoC8U24cC |access-date=14 September 2013 |year=1999 |publisher=Orient Blackswan |isbn=978-81-250-1726-4 |page=259}}</ref> During the ], the Pakistani officers addressed ] as malaun before executing him.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gunijan.org.bd/GjProfDetails_action.php?GjProfId=179 |script-title=bn:গোবিন্দচন্দ্র দেব |trans-title=Gobinda Chandra Deb |last=Sajeeb |first=Mohammad Qutub Uddin |website=] |language=bn |access-date=31 May 2012}}</ref> According to eyewitness, ] had addressed a gathering of ] at Rampal in Khulna district on 19 April. At the gathering he addressed the Hindus as malauns and the Hindu women as spoils of war and exhorted the audience to kill them and loot their women.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/12/01/yusuf-ordered-killing-of-hindus-witness |title=Yusuf ordered killing of Hindus: witness |date=1 December 2013 |work=bdnews24.com |access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref> ], while serving as the President, had referred to the Hindus as malaun at a rally in ]. He apologized for his remark after protests from the Hindus.<ref name="bdpress.net10012015">{{cite news |url=http://bdpress.net/home/index.php?page=description&news=1420903836 |script-title=bn:সিলেটে হিন্দু মহাজোটের মানববন্ধন |date=10 January 2015 |work=bdpress.net |language=bn |access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref> |
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] noted the usage of the term as early as 1946 in ].<ref name="nkb259">{{cite book |last=Bose |first=Nirmal Kumar |author-link=Nirmal Kumar Bose |title=My Daya With Gandhi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mSZCoC8U24cC |access-date=14 September 2013 |year=1999 |publisher=Orient Blackswan |isbn=978-81-250-1726-4 |page=259}}</ref> During the ], the Pakistani officers addressed ] as malaun before executing him.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gunijan.org.bd/GjProfDetails_action.php?GjProfId=179 |script-title=bn:গোবিন্দচন্দ্র দেব |trans-title=Gobinda Chandra Deb |last=Sajeeb |first=Mohammad Qutub Uddin |website=] |language=bn |access-date=31 May 2012}}</ref> According to eyewitness, ] had addressed a gathering of ] at Rampal in Khulna district on 19 April. At the gathering he addressed the Hindus as malauns and the Hindu women as spoils of war and exhorted the audience to kill them and loot their women.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/12/01/yusuf-ordered-killing-of-hindus-witness |title=Yusuf ordered killing of Hindus: witness |date=1 December 2013 |work=bdnews24.com |access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref> ], while serving as the President, had referred to the Hindus as malaun at a rally in ]. He apologized for his remark after protests from the Hindus.<ref name="bdpress.net10012015">{{cite news |
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|url=http://bdpress.net/home/index.php?page=description&news=1420903836 |script-title=bn:সিলেটে হিন্দু মহাজোটের মানববন্ধন |date=10 January 2015 |work=bdpress.net |language=bn |access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref> |
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In December 2013, Ganajagaran Mancha presented a deputation to the ] complaining about police torture. The deputation alleged that on 19 December 2013 the police abused a Hindu woman activist as malaun because she had put sindur.<ref name="kk22122013">{{cite news |url=http://www.kalerkantho.com/online/national/2013/12/22/33498 |script-title=bn:'মনে হয়েছিল এরা যেনো পাকিস্তান থেকে আমদানীকৃত পাকিস্তানী পুলিশ' |last=Farooq |first=Omar |date=22 December 2013 |work=Kaler Kantho |language=bn |access-date=8 February 2015 |location=Dhaka}}</ref> In December 2014, Nasiruddin Pintu, a convicted BNP politician, abused a Bengali Hindu police officer by calling him a malaun when he attempted to stop his lawyers and supporters from meeting Pintu illegally. Pintu threatened the officer with loss of job and called him son of a pig.<ref name="bdnews18122014">{{cite news |url=http://bdnews24.com/politics/2014/12/18/bnps-pintu-hurls-ethnic-slur-malaun-at-a-policeman |title=BNP’s Pintu hurls ethnic slur ‘Malaun’ at a policeman |date=18 December 2014 |work=bdnews24.com |access-date=4 February 2015}}</ref> In January 2015, ] workers Shahnawaz and Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury abused fellow Awami League worker Sushanta Dasgupta at a party function in London.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sylhetview24.com/news/details/Abroad_Life/20862 |script-title=bn:‘মালাউন’ গালি আনোয়ারুজ্জামানের, বিজয় অনুষ্ঠানে হাতাহাতি |date=7 January 2015 |work=sylhetview24.com |language=bn |access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref> |
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In the Internet, a ] run handle named Basher Kella has given the call for killing all the malauns and turning Bangladesh into a country where only the Muslims will live.<ref name="atimes28032013">{{cite news |url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/SOU-01-280313.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328224416/http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/SOU-01-280313.html |url-status=unfit |archive-date=28 March 2013 |title=Anti-Hindu attacks rock Bangladesh |last=Roy |first=Swadesh |date=28 March 2013 |work=Asia Times |access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bangladeshlivenews.com/bnews/5/turningbangladeshbanglastan |title=Turning Bangladesh in to Banglastan |work=bangladeshlivenews.com |access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="tds07032013">{{cite news |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/banglastan/ |title=Banglastan! |date=7 March 2013 |work=The Daily Star |access-date=7 February 2015 |location=Dhaka}}</ref> |
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== See also == |
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== See also == |
The Arabic word "ملعون" (mal'un), literally meaning 'cursed' is derived from the root "لعنة" (la'nat) meaning "curse". In Islamic parlance, it means 'deprived of Allah's mercy'. The word has been loaned into languages of non-Arabic Islamic countries like Malay and Indonesian. The dictionary published by the Bangla Academy gives the meaning of the Bengali word "মালাউন" as someone cursed or deprived of Allah's mercy or forcefully evicted or a Kafir. It mentions that the word is used as a slur by the Muslims against the non-Muslims. In Bangladesh, the word is more specifically used to refer to the Hindu religious minority. In colloquial usage, the word is sometimes shortened to Malu.
