Bangladesh's fragile democracy under threat after flawed election, political violence, rising extremism

CHITTAGONG, BANGLADESH - FEBRUARY 13: An aide brings pita bread to Shah Ahmed Shafi, the head of the Hathazari madrassa north of Chittagong -- the center of a new Islamic fundamentalist alliance called Hefazat-e-Islam. A year of political violence in Bangladesh -- one of the world's largest Muslim majority democracy and the top apparel provider to the U.S. -- has slowed the country's growing economy and some say imperiled its fragile democracy. Experts fear that continued instability coupled with rising Islamic extremism in rural areas, could lead to more unrest. (Photo by Annie Gowen/The Washington Post via Getty Images)