Jamat Islami Bangladesh Subject to Brutishness

By: Munir Ahmed Khalili

What is now Bangladesh, in united Pakistan it was actually eastern wing of the country.  World powers collaborated with India who was intriguing since the day Pakistan was created to make this largest Muslim country a failed state. If Pakistan was not ready to accept Indian dominance, there was an evil plan to either efface it from the world map or at least cut it down such a little in size that it could not challenge India, as a big country always trying to establish its hegemony over the small neighbor states. This odious plan was later applied on two more large Muslim countries, Indonesia and Sudan, also to make them shorter in size.

In 1971, India put its armed forces at war against Pakistan. Traitors, under the leadership of Sheikh Mujiburehman, who was later declared founding father of Bangladesh, had already raised local rebellious elements against Pakistan military forces. Mukti Bahni, a murderous militant group, supported and armed by the Indians, was pitted against the East Pakistanis (Bengalis) who were loyal to Pakistan.

Jamat Islami was the largest political power in field at that time, struggling to save Pakistan as an ideological Muslim state. International secret plans attained the goal of harming Pakistan and the Eastern Wing of the country got separated as Bangladesh. When this country was recognized as a sovereign and free country, Jamat Islami and many other political parties accepted it as a fact and decided to serve Bangladesh as their homeland. Jamat Islami was a coalition partner in previous government of former Prime Minister Khaledah Zia and the men picked from Jamat Islami earned credit of the most efficient, pain taking and honest ministers of Khalida Zia's cabinet.  

 

Hasina Wajid, the present PM, is the daughter of Sheikh Mujiburehman. In the last election contested in united Pakistan gaining the second position in almost all the constituencies in East Pakistan Jamat Islami was the major challenger for Awami League of Sheikh Mujiburehman, so naturally Hasina Wajid is grouchy and is heavily contemptuous of Jamat Islami. She, in spite of politically being the most corrupt and unpopular now, wants to put her fascist tendency in practice particularly against Jamat Islami to obliterate entire first row leadership of this party.

Judiciary in Bangladesh proves to be a blunt tool of Hasina Wajid to get whole of the top Jamat Islami leadership slayed through the courts. Professor Ghulam Azam, an internationally recognized prominent Muslim figure, in spite of his old age, was imprisoned and waiting for any atrocious verdict of conscienceless  judges of the special court. He is suffering from many diseases. His health condition is gradually deteriorating in due to excessive jail severities.  Very recently death sentence was given to Maulana Abu Al-Kalam Azad a leader of JI in his absence. Now, Delawar Hussain Saeedi, a renowned religious scholar and deputy head of Jamat Islami has been chosen for death penalty. Hundreds of Jamat Islami activists are already in jails suffering harsh treatment there. Will the banner holders of human rights and democratic norms let all these judicial killings happen?