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Terror Networks
Muslim Brotherhood, Jamaat-i-Islami and global jihad
2014-07-28
Long, but worth reading the whole thing.
[Bangla Daily Star] Maulana Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979), an Indian-born madrassah-educated journalist, author and political thinker was the founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami
...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 independent branch 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...
 or Party of Islam. It came into being in 1941 in British India. Maududi started the organization with a view to promoting Islamic values and practices in the light of his way of interpreting the Koran and hadis.

He was a maverick. His ideas were quite looney radical and different from the mainstream Sunni ulama or holy mans in the Indian Subcontinent. Interestingly, like most leading Moslem holy mans in British India, he was opposed to the concept of Pakistain, as he did not believe that Mohammed Ali Jinnah, a secular Shiite Moslem, along with his "Anglo-Mohammedan" associates, would establish an "Islamic State." He knew it well that Jinnah and his associates strove for a "Moslem" not "Islamic" Pakistain in Moslem-majority territories to be carved out of British India.
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