Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DU CUSU) Vice-President Sadik Kayem has accused a group he calls "cultural fascists" of running a hateful smear campaign against student leaders AB Zubair and Sarbamitro Chakma. According to his verified Facebook post on the night of Wednesday, November 5, Kayem said the group opposed DU CUSU's operations while increasingly adopting extremist and violent positions. He alleges the group uses culture and art as tools to spread terror and to dehumanize individuals—portraying them as monsters—in response to recent university actions to clear illegal shops and to crack down on drug trafficking. Kayem warned that this dehumanization echoes past political-era tactics and described it as an attempt to make certain people "killable" by vilifying them publicly. He vowed that the student union will continue to fight against what he called "cultural terrorism" and the misuse of artistic expression to justify intimidation. Kayem further cautioned that if these cultural actors pursue a mission to render opponents homicidal rather than contest politics democratically, they will face consequences similar to historical political backlashes. He stressed that the new Bangladesh has no place for cultural terrorism and urged resistance to any attempts to shelter or legitimize such violent rhetoric. Unequivocally.
একদল ‘কালচারাল ফ্যাসিস্ট’ চক্র ক্যাম্পাসে অবৈধ দোকান ও মাদকবিরোধী অভিযান পরিচালনা করা এ বি জুবায়ের ও সর্বমিত্র চাকমার বিরুদ্ধে ঘৃণার প্রচারণা চালাচ্ছে বলে অভিযোগ করেছেন ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় কেন্দ্রীয় ছাত্র সংসদের (ডাকসু) সহ-সভাপতি (ভিপি) সাদিক কায়েম।
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