ট্যাগ Jamaat-e-Islami
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Pro-Pakistani Yunus’ hatred against Awami League and Hindus is not new
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has said that the attacks on minorities, particularly Hindus, following the August 5 changeover were politically, not religiously, motivated. During a meeting with US Senator Gary Peters on March 18, he claimed that the interim government had taken swift action against the perpetrators. Yunus’ statement implies that “revenge attacks”…
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Jihad in Bangladesh: AQIS vs ISIS
The strategies and focus of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Bangladesh reflect their broader organizational goals, operational approaches, and ideological underpinnings, tailored to the local context. While both groups aim to establish Islamic governance and wage jihad, their methods, priorities, and engagement with Bangladesh…
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Who are the top leaders of jihad in Bangladesh?
Al-Qaeda recruiter Asif Adnan is the son of a retired High Court judge. He was arrested in 2014. Later, AF Hasan Ariff, Yunus’ adviser, stood for him and managed his bail. Now Asif Adnan has become a spiritual leader of the Caliphate and is preaching against secularism and democracy, and calling for jihad in India,…
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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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Bangladesh’s power dynamics: Yunus and Hasina’s similar tactics
The most notable distinction lies in their external support: Yunus is propped up by Islamists, Pakistan, the West, and the United Nations, while Hasina drew strength from secularists, India, and Russia
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Yunus finally forms his political party with Islamist elements
Nearly 78 years after chanting the slogan “Pakistan Zindabad” with much enthusiasm, the son of Dula Mia Saudagar, a Chittagong-based goldsmith and member of the Pakistan Muslim League National Guard, 85-year-old Muhammad Yunus successfully finalized his own political organization, the Jatiya Nagorik Party or the National Citizens’ Party (NCP), on February 27, a day before…
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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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Abuse of power and resignation of Nahid Islam, the chief of Yunus’ King’s party
Former adviser Nahid Islam held a press conference, flanked by the Chief Adviser’s press secretary and deputy press secretary, after resigning from his post! How? The Interim Government’s Press Information Department (PID) released this photo! After tendering his resignation to the chief adviser, Nahid came out of the Jamuna State Guest House in a car.…
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The unfinished trial of Rangpur al-Badr commander ATM Azhar
I’m astonished at what the deposed Awami League government had in mind as it left the last legal battle of convicted war criminal ATM Azharul Islam pending for five years and let Jamaat-e-Islami claim the trial farcical now! The Supreme Court’s Appellate Division rejected his appeals against the death penalty pronounced by the International Crimes…
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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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Yes, it was a US-backed army coup on August 5 to recreate 1/11 after 17 years
From 2005 till January 1, 2007, the same civil society leaders linked to the US embassy were highlighting the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) as a corrupt political entity that patronizes pro-Pakistani jihadist elements, even though the Jamaat-e-Islami and Hefazat Islam’s mother organization Islami Oikyo Jote–a pro-Taliban Qawmi madrasa platform–were also part of that coalition government.…
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As rivalry grows, role of Yunus, US embassy, expat journos, Chhatra Shibir in July-August anarchy is exposed
On February 17, SM Shahed Emon, a student coordinator of the July Uprising, posted a detailed post on Facebook about the role of Jamaat-e-Islami’s student organization Islami Chhatra Shibir and Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, who later became the Chief Adviser to the interim government formed after the fall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.…
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No freedom of press in Bangladesh: Media mum on OHCHR report’s discrepancies
Five days have passed since the OHCHR released the full report on the July-August riots in Bangladesh, yet no media outlet dared publishing any analytical news on it even though the discrepancies are clear. It clearly shows the state of press freedom under the US- and jihadist-backed interim government led by Nobel Prize winner Prof…
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জুলাই অভ্যুত্থানে শিবিরের ভূমিকা নিয়ে ছাত্র সমন্বয়ক ও শিবির নেতাদের বক্তব্য
নতুন দলের দখল নিয়ে ঝগড়ায় নিজেরাই সব ফাঁস করে দিচ্ছে (১) নতুন দলের দখল নিয়ে ঝগড়ায় নিজেরাই সব ফাঁস করে দিচ্ছে (২) নতুন দলের দখল নিয়ে ঝগড়ায় নিজেরাই সব ফাঁস করে দিচ্ছে (৩) নতুন দলের দখল নিয়ে ঝগড়ায় নিজেরাই সব ফাঁস করে দিচ্ছে (৪) আজ ১৭ই ফেব্রুয়ারি জুলাই অভ্যুত্থানের এক ছাত্র সমন্বয়ক এস এম শাহেদ…
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Yunus-Jamaat’s Jatiya Nagorik Committee warns of civil war unless Awami League is banned
Nasiruddin Patwary, the convener of the government-sponsored Jatiya Nagorik Committee and former leader of Jamaat’s B-team AB Party, on February 14 warned that a civil war could break out if the Yunus administration didn’t ban the Awami League before holding elections. His renewed call for AL’s ban echoes the demand of its student wing, the…
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মাসব্যাপী কর্মসূচি দিলো আওয়ামী লীগ: ঠেকাতে প্রস্তুত সরকারের ছাত্র-যুব সংগঠন, কি করবে বিএনপি-জামাত?
আওয়ামী লীগ আগামী নির্বাচনে অংশ নিতে পারবে কিনা, দলের প্রধান নেতাদের বিচার নির্বাচনের আগে শেষ হবে কিনা, দলের সভাপতি শেখ হাসিনাকে ভারত থেকে ফিরিয়ে আনা যাবে কিনা, ছাত্রলীগের মতো আওয়ামী লীগকে নিষিদ্ধ করা হবে কিনা ইত্যাদি বিষয় নিয়ে আলোচনা সমালোচনার মাঝে মঙ্গলবার হঠাৎ রাজনৈতিক কর্মসূচি দিলো দলটি। ১লা ফেব্রুয়ারি শুরু হবে ৯ দিনের এই কর্মসূচি।…
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Why is ‘Joy Bangla’ slogan so powerful?
“Joy Bangla” meant hail Bangla or long live Bangla, referring to the land where the Bengali-speaking people lived in undivided India. The slogan, first used by our great national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam with the spirit of Bengali nationhood in 1942, became the strongest words against domination and discrimination of the West Pakistani military rulers.…
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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…
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2023: Will the BNP be victorious between Eids?
The ruling Awami League has been in power since 2009. Its archrival BNP has often declared dates during intense public protests, notably before the general elections of 2014 and 2018, but has been unable to overthrow the ruling party. They abstained from the 2014 elections but decided to participate in the following one as a…
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US embassy in Dhaka’s Chhatra Shibir agenda
The influence of the leaders of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student body of Jamaat-e-Islami, at Rajshahi University was so big in 2008 that a US embassy team considered them important points of contact. Published on the Dhaka Tribune Sunday! The team that visited the university on a government vulnerability assessment trip in mid-February that year…
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Jamaat’s Islami Bank was fined thrice for money-laundering
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited was fined Tk20 lakh in December 2014 for not keeping client affidavits and also for not informing authorities of suspicious transactions in time. US ambassador to Dhaka Patricia A Butenis on April 6, 2006 wrote to Washington and other related destinations about Islami Bank’s being fined for violation of anti-money laundering law in…
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কিরে, তোরা মাফ চাইবি না? তাইলে রেডি থাক!
স্বাধীনতার ৪২বছরে বাংলাদেশ; কিন্তু এখনও পাকিস্তানী হানাদার বাহিনীর কর্তাব্যক্তি ও বাংলাদেশে তাদের দোসরেরা বহাল তবিয়তে বিচারের বাইরে আছে বা চলমান বিচার বানচাল করার চেষ্টা করছে। পাকিস্তান এখনও আনুষ্ঠানিকভাবে ক্ষমা চায়নি, দুই-একবার সো-কলড “দুঃখ প্রকাশ” করেছে শুধু। আর কিছুদিন আগে পররাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী হিনা রাব্বানী তো বলে গেলেন “ওসব ভুলে যান”। গনহত্যা-ধর্ষন-লুট-অগ্নিসংযোগের কথা ভুলে যাবো? দুই কোটির বেশী…
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Attacks continue on state, against Shahbagh & war crimes trials
BNP’s friend and top war criminal-led Jamaat-e-Islami with its striking force Chhatra Shibir have been in engaged a non-stop clash with the law enforcers to stop the war crimes trials and bring out their leaders including Sayedee out of jail. To compel the govt to do so, they’re showing their muscle with the notorious supporters who…
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Jamaat’s admitting genocide in Bangladesh, and correction!
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has removed the December 16, 2012 statement it posted on its English website where it admitted: “The Jamaat-e-Islami and some Islamist political parties actively collaborated with the Pakistani forces, raising paramilitary and auxiliary forces such as Razakar, Al-Badr, Al-Shams which took part in genocide.” Ragib Hassan‘s tweet revealed this matter. His twitter account…
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