This article on PickledPolitics discusses the Bangladeshi election results. Sid sees them as positive - that they demonstrate that the electorate favours secularism over religious domination. He says the Bangladeshi National Party wrapped themselves in the banner of Islam in the campaign. Their defeat shows that voters preferred the secular, centre-left, outlook of the Awami League to voting purely based on religious identity or religious prejudice. The Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami were also allied to the National Party. They are the lineal descendents of those who fought against an independent Bangladesh in 1970-1.
The election results do thus demonstrate that progressive and secular voices are supported by many voters in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. The myth of Islamists and of "clash-of-civilizations" theorists that all Muslim voters think and vote on the basis of religious identity can thus be disproved.
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