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| Four Jamaat leaders arrested in Barisal, Ctg |
| 2014-08-18 |
[Dhaka Tribune] Police locked awayYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! four leaders of 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 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... yesterday from different areas of Barisal and Chittagong. In Barisal, law enforcers arrested Abul Hossain alias Babul Master, Sadar municipality unit general secretary of Jamaat, Sadar union unit President Sharif Uddin and Nazirpur union unit President Abdul Malek, from a house in Hosnabad village of Muladi upazila around 11am while they were holding a secret meeting in the dead of night. Confirming the arrest, Muladi cop shoppe OC Md Alauddin said a case was launched against the arrested and a local court had sent them to jail when they were produced before it. In Chittagong, police arrested the party's local leader Mahmudul Haque, 35, in a drive in the hilly area of Satkania upazila. Satkania cop shoppe OC Khaled Hossain said the arrest was made, due to a tip-off, around 2am. The OC continued that Khaled, an Imam of a local mosque, was wanted in seven cases filed for committing subversive activities there during the countrywide violence centring the January 5 elections, for which he had also instigated the local youth. |
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