Jamaat in league with int'l extremists
Jamaat in league with int'l extremists
Claims Syed Ashraf
The Jamaat-e-Islami is in league with different international extremist groups that have waged a war against humanity across the globe, Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said yesterday.
“This war won't take much time to come to our country,” he said at a programme at Jatiya Press Club where he unveiled a DVD titled “Blood-stained Bangladesh: a saga of BNP-Jamaat terrorism”, brought out by the ruling Awami League.
“Here they [extremists] are known as Jamaat while elsewhere they are known as al-Qaeda, Taliban and IS.
“They are the enemy of humanity. None is safe anywhere today. So we will have to resist them wherever there is a chance to do so,” Ashraf said.
Whether people want it or not, the war against humanity would spread to Bangladesh, and there is no alternative to defeating extremists, he said.
The AL leader denounced the violence that he said was carried out by BNP-Jamaat men across the country during the rule of the previous Awami League-led government between 2009 and 2013 and prior to the January 5 general election.
People had witnessed such mayhem by the Jamaat in 1971, he added.
“The violence committed by the Jamaat [in recent times] is a copy of what they had done in 1971 [during the Liberation War].”
No one -- be it journalists, editors or lawyers -- is impartial in the fight against terrorism, Ashraf said.
“During the Liberation War, people either supported it or opposed it. Those who claim to be neutral are actually trying to camouflage their position.”
Ashraf urged AL men to motivate and mobilise people in the fight against terrorism by showing them the documentary on BNP-Jamaat violence.
The DVD is said to have documentation of the violence spread across the country ahead of the last election and during the tenure of the last AL-led government, including attacks on Hindu minorities.
Journalist Monjurul Ahsan Bulbul, lawyers Tureen Afroz and SM Rezaul Karim, women leader Rokeya Kabir and AL leader Asim Kumar Ukil also spoke at the programme chaired by Hasan Mahmud, publicity secretary of the Awami League.