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Jamaat, Shibir on rampage
 [Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-Shibir activists continued to unleash terror across the country during the Jamaat-e-Islami... The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... -enforced daylong hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... yesterday, protesting the move to execute convicted war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah. Abdul Hamid, 48, an Awami League activist, died of his injuries early yesterday seven hours after he was kidnapped and beaten up allegedly by Jamaat-Shibir men in Madhabkathi area of Satkhira. Local traders alleged that Jamaat-Shibir men kidnapped Hamid as he had protested the decision of some opposition activists to shut down shops in the area soon after the news regarding Mollah spread. Jamaat-Shibir activists set fire to a cycle of violence and hurled petrol bombs at the branches of Mercantile Bank and Dutch Bangla Bank at Aloka intersection in Rajshahi city last night. They also smashed the windowpanes of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industry office hurling brick chunks around 8:30pm, said Ziaur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Boalia Police Station. Criminals set fire to the village home of Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar around 5:30am. None was injured in the attack. Police picked up Abu Taleb, a local Jamaat activist, in this connection. Shibir activists severed the tendons of the right leg of a Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... activist at Bagha upazila in Rajshahi around 6:30pm. Armed with machetes, about 10 activists of the pro-Jamaat student body Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... ambushed Mizanur Rahman, a second-year student of Shah Doula Degree College, when he was going to his village home in Chhatari. On Tuesday, when the news spread that Jamaat leader Quader Mollah would be executed, Jamaat men went on the rampage across the country. They enforced a hartal that coincided with the opposition's ongoing countrywide blockade. At least 27 coppers were maimed as activists of Jamaat-Shibir clashed with police in Narail, Sylhet and Cox's Bazar districts. Following a new tactic, the activists of the opposition alliance yesterday removed several steel plates of three bailey bridges in Sirajganj and Pirojpur, disrupting vehicular movement. The opposition activists also vandalised three offices of Awami League and its associate organizations in Sonarmore area in Shamnagar upazila of Satkhira around 10:00pm Tuesday. Posted by: Fred 2013-12-12 |
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