[Iran Press TV] Bangladeshi police have rubbed out two members of the country's 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 in shootouts amid growing concern of extrajudicial killings by security forces across the Asian country.
Azbahar Ali Sheikh, a police brass hat, confirmed that a Jamaat leader from the western district of Jhenaidah and a leader of its student wing were killed during a raid early Tuesday.
"They fired from pistols and threw three (Molotov) cocktails at coppers when they challenged them at 3:45 am. We fired back and two people were hit. Later we learnt their identities," media outlets quoted Ali Sheikh as saying.
A senior Jamaat official has vehemently denied that the two party figures were killed in shootouts, saying both had been picked up by plainclothesmen early last month.
"It is cooked up (by police)," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity, adding that another Jamaat member had also been killed in "fake shootouts."
Nur Khan Liton, a top human rights
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activist, called for a judicial probe into the latest killings, saying, "We've serious questions about these deaths. We think these are extrajudicial killings."
He added that local newspapers had earlier reported the two figures missing.
Bangladesh security forces have launched a major crackdown on suspected Death Eaters since a raid on a café in the capital Dhaka in early July, where more than 20 people, mainly foreign hostages, were killed.
In the wake of the massacre, the ISIS Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorist group grabbed credit for the assault but authorities in Dhaka strongly dismissed the claim, arguing that ISIS had no presence in the Moslem-majority country. However,
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according to security forces, the scale and sophistication of the attack suggested that transnational criminal networks had been involved.
Bangladesh has also been reeling from a wave of recent attacks by bully boys, with targets including foreigners, members of religious minorities, rights activists and bloggers.