[Dhaka Tribune] The government would take initiatives to ban 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...
by June this year for the latter's involvement in crimes against humanity and massacre during the country's independence war, said Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq yesterday.
"There is no plan to ban religion-based political parties, but we have certainly a plan to impose ban on Jamaat's politics on the grounds that it committed crimes against humanity," he said.
"No matter what the final verdict comes, the Jamaat-e-Islami will be banned because of its war crimes. We hope to declare that by this June," Mozammel said in reply to a series of queries from journalists at a programme in the Dhaka University's central playground.