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| Two killed as Bangladesh Islamists protest execution of JI leader |
| 2015-04-14 |
| [DAWN] Two student activists have been rubbed out in Bangladesh, police said Monday, as 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... party tried to enforce a nationwide strike to protest the execution of a big shot. There were also reports of protesters Molotov cocktailing vehicles around the country as tensions ran high following the execution late Saturday of Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, a leader of the Jamaat. Police said the body of a 22-year-old student supporter of the party had been found in the western city of Rajshahi on Monday. He had been shot at least five times. Another student activist died in a hospital on Monday morning after he was shot during festivities between police and protesters in the northwestern district of Sirajganj on Sunday night, the district's deputy police chief Faruq Ahmed told AFP. Ahmed said the festivities broke out after police tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! four student supporters of the Jamaat. Kamaruzzaman was convicted of overseeing a massacre during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistain. |
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