ট্যাগ Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)
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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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Terrific operations of Islamic State (ISIS) in Bangladesh
Until 2015, Bangladesh witnessed militant attacks using improvised devices, grenades and machetes on secularists, Awami League members and the police since 2000. The Middle East-based Islamic State (ISIS), which began operations in 2015, had similar targets. The ISIS was formed by former members of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami (HuJI-B), Hizb ut-Tahrir, Ahle…
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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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Why do Bangladeshi Islamists kill police?
Persistent violence against law enforcement and the judiciary by a specific group of people in Bangladesh is considered a grave crime, as it implies a concerted attack on the state machinery to change the system. The murder of police members and judges began after independence at the hands of the ultra-left National Socialist Party (Jasod)…
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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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