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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...
was found dead early today.
Fayez Ahmed's family claimed a group of Rapid Action Battalion
(Rab) members forced into their house and shot him dead.Ahmed's body was left at Laxmipur Hospital around 2:00am, a correspondent reported quoting hospital sources.
When contacted, Mohammad Lokman Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, did not make any comment on the issue.
According to Marzia Begum, the widow of the Jamaat leader, a group of people, identifying themselves as Rab personnel, forced into their South Temuhoni house in Laxmipur Sadar.
They took Ahmed to the rooftop forcefully and shot him in the head, she said.
Later, they tossed him from the rooftop, Begum added.
Describing the incident, hospital sources said some unknown people went to the hospital in a car, left the body at the emergency unit and drove away immediately.
Autopsy was done in presence of police around 10:00am today, according to sources.
As soon as the death news spread, the activists of Jamaat and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir
... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
, brought out several processions in Mandari, Zoksin, Battoli, Hazaripara and Chandraganj Bazar areas of the upazila protesting the "killing".
The party men also put barricades on Laxmipur-Choumuhani road felling over one hundred roadside trees of those areas.
A tense situation has been prevailing in the town following death of the Jamaat leader.