Bangladesh is considering its decision to formally keep Islam as the country's official religion or to revert back to its pre-1988 secular status.
The country's highest court will hear petition again filed by a team led by Shahriar Kabir, who had objected to the decision in 1988, when Bangladesh's military ruler Hussain Mohammad Ershad named Islam as the state religion.
The petition was dropped 28 years ago, as Kabir's group felt that "that the bench would not be favorable to us."
Bangladesh is a moderate Islamic country with about 90.2 percent Muslims, 8.2 percent Hindus, and Christians and other minorities comprising the rest 2 percent.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear the petition amid reports of rising extremist violence against the minorities in the country.
Earlier this week, ISIS killed a 68-year-old Christian man Hussein Ali, as a "lesson to others."
When Ali was siting on his motorbike after his usual morning walk in Kurigram town, they stabbed him in his neck.
He knew that his life was in danger, and had once told a Redcliffe College staff in Gloucester: "They don't know anything, they don't understand, forgive them." Afterwards, he had prayed to God: "Place me under Your control."
According to terrorism watchgroup SITE, the Islamic State posted on Twitter that their "security detachment" murdered the "preacher," so that this is a "lesson to others."
Tobarak Ullah, Kurigram district police, said that three suspects have been detained for interrogation.
Kurigram district police chief Tobarak Ullah said three men were picked up for questioning after the attack.
Recently, ISIS has also claimed responsibility for murder of two foreigners, and attacks on members of minority Muslim Shiite sects. However, police says that Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, a home-grown group is responsible for the attacks.
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has tried to decrease Islam's hold over constitution and government, by amending the constitution to not allot "political status in favor of any religion," but the de facto state of affairs has more or less remained the same since the minor reforms.
The country has beefed up security in attempts to clampdown on the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen terrorists. At least five militants were killed in shootouts since November.
