ট্যাগ Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)
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Analyzing extremist group JMB’s ideology and intentions
The ideological roots of the Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (Assembly of Mujahideen) are deeply embedded in Salafi-Jihadist thought, influenced by global movements like the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda, as well as local Islamist groups like Jamaat-e-Islami and the Ahle Hadith movement. Long article: History of Jamaat-linked JMB’s bloody jihad Its ideology rejects secularism, pluralism, and Western…
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Awami League’s soft Islamization became a boomerang
Islamization of Bangladesh took place several times—from 1975-96, 2001-06, 2007-08, and 2024-25—every time at the hands of the military or army-backed governments—extensively—with the media and civil society leaders going with the tide. The previous Awami League, the lone secularist force, also allowed a soft Islamization, apparently under pressure from the military intelligence and the Jamaat-backed…
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Yunus administration pondering clean chit to al-Qaeda terrorist Syed Zia
The interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof Muhammad Yunus released Jasimuddin Rahmani, the spiritual leader of al-Qaeda affiliate Ansar al-Islam, dozens of jihadists and notorious terrorists after coming to power. Many other extremists also managed to flee the prisons as their groups launched fatal attacks in July-August. Since then, Rahmani and other…
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Jamaat-backed AQIS jihadists out to eliminate Awami League, hit India
Armed militant attacks and calls for jihad have been seen regularly in Bangladesh since 1999, but there was a sudden slowdown in 2005—only after numerous fatalities—with the arrest of a top leader of the Bangladesh branch of Pakistan-based Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HuJI-B), Mufti Abdul Hannan. The following year, after months of denial of their existence,…
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History of Jamaat-linked JMB’s bloody jihad
From 2001 to 2006, at least 54 extremist organizations and foreign militant-fundamentalist organizations under the cover of Islamic NGOs and with the support of the BNP-Jamaat government created a nationwide terrorist network. At that time, under the orders of MPs and ministers and with the cooperation of the police and RAB, they carried out all…
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How dangerous are the Afghan returnee militants of Huji-B?
Bangladesh has been talking about Islamist militancy and extremism, or an armed struggle to establish a Shariah-based state, since early 1999. Members of the Bangladesh branch of the Pakistani militant outfit Harkatul Jihad al-Islami or HuJI attacked poet Shamsur Rahman with the intention of killing him on January 18 of that year. After that, in…