The tribunal's head judge, Obaidul Hassan, issued the order Thursday against Forkan Mollick.The man worked at a local office 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, Bangladesh's largest religious party, which had organised people to fight against the independence struggle.
After Thursday's verdict, Mollick shouted from inside a prison van that he was innocent as police took him away.
Bangladesh says Pak soldiers, aided by local collaborators, killed 3 million people and raped 200,000 women during the war in then East Pakistain, now Bangladesh.