Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami, with Support from Pakistan's ISI, Engaged in Genocide and Terrorist Activities

Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami, with Support from Pakistan's ISI, Engaged in Genocide and Terrorist Activities – American Fellow Michael Rubin

 American Fellow Michael Rubin has claimed that Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh, with active support from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is involved in genocide and spreading terrorism within the country. He stated that the protesters in Bangladesh overthrew  August 5, 2024:  Sheikh Hasina, the long-standing Prime Minister and daughter of Bangladesh's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Sheikh Hasina fled the country to save her life (though she never officially resigned), and the protesters appointed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus as the interim administrator of Bangladesh.

While the protesters used their tactics for foreign and political interests, the core issue lies with Jamaat-e-Islami, a radical Islamist group deeply involved in terrorism. Founded in 1941 and influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood, Jamaat-e-Islami rejects Western and liberal democracies and follows an ultra-conservative Islamic worldview. Just as the Muslim Brotherhood created terrorist groups such as Hamas, Gama'a al-Islamiyya (which assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat), and al-Qaeda, Jamaat-e-Islami has established terrorist groups in South Asia, including Jaish-e-Mohammed, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.

Jamaat-e-Islami was deeply involved in the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, where nearly 3 million people were killed, which is why many Bangladeshis consider Jamaat-e-Islami members to be war criminals. After the ousting of Sheikh Hasina, Dr. Yunus has turned to war, sending over a thousand journalists to prison, spreading Jamaat-e-Islami terrorism throughout Bangladesh, and releasing local al-Qaeda cells from prisons. Attacks on minorities have escalated, women are living in fear, and terrorists continue to carry out killings.

Currently, Dr. Yunus and Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami are scheming to ban the Awami League. Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and an expert on Iran, Turkey, and the broader Middle East, states that Jamaat-e-Islami is not a political party but rather a terrorist group working against fundamental democratic values. He emphasizes that it is crucial to declare Jamaat-e-Islami a terrorist organization and urges President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to keep a close eye on this issue.