[ARABNEWS] Former head of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party Ghulam Azam, who last year was sentenced to 90 years in prison for criminal masterminding atrocities during the country's 1971 war, died on Thursday night.Azam, 91, the wartime head of the Jamaat-e-Islami
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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...
party who later turned into its spiritual leader and a key player in the country's politics, died of a heart attack while in jug at a hospital in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.
"He died of cardiac arrest at 10.10 p.m. today," a director of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hospital Abdul Majid Bhuiyan told news hounds.