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Inside the new fifth column-Meet the CAIR-Linked Group That Aims To Place Muslim Americans in Federal Jobs
2025-03-26
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] Muslim Americans in Public Service's ties to terrorist supporters could raise concerns about its efforts to place employees inside government

Muslim Americans in Public Service is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that coordinates with federal agencies to help Muslims obtain and advance careers in government. To do so, it partners with Islamic organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations,
…one of many branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in America…
that have either condoned terror attacks or have been linked to terrorist organizations.

In addition to CAIR, the nonprofit known as MAPS touts the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations as one of its partners and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Helping Hand for Relief and Development as two of its sponsors. MAPS has worked with CAIR to host events that bring together MAPS members "across all levels and branches of government." And while it does not disclose its donors, it says it receives "sizable in-kind donations" from its partners, as well as funding from "federal agencies," nonprofits, and state commissions.
Perhaps it’s time to cut them off from federal agencies — turn DOGE loose on them to figure out donation flows, and maybe member connections if they have a little spare time and bandwidth in the midst of all else that they’ve got going.
MAPS’s affiliation with those groups—all of which have praised or been linked to terrorist organizations—could raise concerns about its efforts to place employees inside the federal bureaucracy. While it's unlikely MAPS will have success placing political appointees in the Trump administration, which has opposed affinity groups that support DEI initiatives in federal agencies and is staunchly at odds with MAPS's criticism of Israel, the group's top members include some career officials entrenched in the federal government.

MAPS thrived during the Biden administration and now boasts thousands of members, including intelligence community officials who hold high-level security clearances, according to Maaty, the group’s chairman.
Formed in 2021, MAPS is led by a board of current and former career federal employees, according to the group’s website and their LinkedIn profiles. Ahmad Maaty, the founding chairman of MAPS, is a senior economist at the Department of Justice. Other board members include Veterans Affairs official Hasan Shanawani, Office of Management and Budget examiner Farrah Pappa, United Nations mission adviser Mariya Ilyas, and White House policy analyst Ameer Abdulrahman, a former official for Democratic Senate candidate Morgan Harper.

While MAPS largely focuses on job-related issues that impact its members, it has weighed in on some political issues. The group criticized the Biden administration over its support for Israel in the war against Hamas, saying that it "disagrees with many of the policy positions taken by the current Administration." It also condemned the 2023 censure of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) over her statements calling for the eradication of Israel and denounced the removal of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over anti-Semitic remarks.

Since then, MAPS has hosted panels and networking events thanks to support from its terror-tied partners.

Earlier this month, for example, MAPS hosted an event that ICNA and Helping Hand cosponsored. One of its featured speakers, Nicole Fauster-Bradford, is the community advocacy director at CAIR. She spoke alongside Sarah Khasawinah, a senior policy adviser in the Senate.

Former ICNA president Mohsin Ansari has spread anti-Semitic tropes about the "liberal anti Muslim media headed by Jews," according to reports. He has also praised Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, a Bangladeshi cleric convicted of war crimes against Hindus, as a "very, very, very special person." Congress has investigated both ICNA and Helping Hand over their alleged links to 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...
, a Pakistani terrorist group.

CAIR, for its part, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal Hamas financing case in 2008. The Biden White House distanced itself from the group after its executive director stated he was "happy" about the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023.

In addition to the March event, MAPS held an annual networking event in January that ICNA and Helping Hand cosponsored. It featured Ansari as a speaker.

In a statement sent to the Washington Free Beacon, MAPS said it "engages independent organizations with various audiences," like CAIR, ICNA, and Helping Hand, "to increase its civic engagement and reach those with a desire to serve the public." It did not answer questions on CAIR's Oct. 7 rhetoric and the groups' ties to terror organizations.

MAPS thrived during the Biden administration and now boasts thousands of members, including intelligence community officials who hold high-level security clearances, according to Maaty, the group’s chairman.
Oh? Tracing connections could prove profitable, should the Trump administration be interested in reducing the concentration of probable jihadis in America…
In 2023, then-transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg recorded a video message praising MAPS, saying that "so many core Islamic values reflect American values." In April 2024, the group hosted an event at the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Agriculture where then-secretary Tom Vilsack spoke in praise of the group. ICNA and Islamic Relief USA, a subsidiary of Islamic Relief Worldwide, which Israeli authorities sanctioned for allegedly funneling money to Hamas. The State Department condemned Islamic Relief Worldwide in 2020 over its leaders’ "vile anti-Semitic vitriol."
Related:
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Council on American-Islamic Relations: 2025-03-11 Protesters call for campus takeovers as Columbia activist threatened with deportation
Council on American-Islamic Relations: 2025-03-01 Controversial Muslim charity (CAIR) accused of links to Hamas settles lawsuit rather than disclosing sources of funding
Related:
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U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations: 2014-04-07 Mooslim Broederbond launches own political party.
Related:
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Islamic Circle of North America: 2023-06-29 Rahul Hobnobbing With People Funded By George Soros: Smriti Irani
Islamic Circle of North America: 2023-01-22 Aruna Miller takes oath on Bhagwad Gita and radicals in US are unhappy
Related:
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Bangladesh
State seeks death for war criminal Sayedee
2016-01-13
[Dhaka Tribune] The state has filed a review petition with the Supreme Court against its judgement that reduced the death penalty of notorious war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
 to imprisonment until death.

The attorney general's office submitted the petition yesterday to the Supreme Court registrar's office seeking Sayeedi's capital punishment handed down by the International Crimes Tribunal in 2013.

This is the first case of war crimes trial in which the state has sought review to maintain the tribunal's verdict.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam at his office told news hounds that they had cited five reasons in support of Sayeedi's death sentence. They sought death penalty for Sayeedi for killing Ibrahim Kutti and Bisa Bali.

He said the apex court would fix a date for conducting hearing on the review petition.

Mahbubey said that the highest sentence could not be maintained due to failure of the investigation agency and the prosecution of the tribunal.

Sayeedi, known as "Deilya Razakar" in 1971, was given the death penalty on February 28, 2013 after the war crimes tribunal found him guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

He was sentenced to death for killing Ibrahim Kutti and one Bisa Bali in Pirojpur. The tribunal did not deliver sentence on the six other proven charges.

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...
 leader appealed against the tribunal verdict seeking acquittal while the state pleaded for sentence on the six other proven charges.

On September 17, 2014, the Appellate Division's five-member bench headed by the then Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain delivered its short verdict based on majority judgement.

The full verdict was published on December 31 last year. According to the rules, a review petition has to be filed within 15 days after the full verdict is published.

The case against Sayeedi was the first of its kind under the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973. The case faced great difficulties from its inception, having also been subjected to the greatest extent of conspiracies from quarters striving to derail the justice process, tribunal observers said.

This included, among others, the abduction of a key prosecution witness, defence obtaining the register of prosecution witnesses in the safe house, hacking of personal computers of ICT judges and illegal interception of their personal communications -- all during the trial of Sayeedi.

According to the state, the tribunal prosecutors had failed to provide the necessary documentary evidence in Sayeedi's case during the appeal hearing.

Asked whether there was any precedence in any court across the globe of increasing sentence on a review petition, Mahbubey yesterday said: "I did not scrutinise all the review petitions. But there can be new developments during trials. It depends on the court."
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Bangladesh
Full verdict in Sayedee's review case released
2016-01-01
[Dhaka Tribune] The Supreme Court yesterday released the full judgement of the appeals case of condemned war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
, delivered nearly 16 months ago.

The release of the full verdict paves way for the state to file a review plea seeking death penalty for the war criminal.

Sayeedi, known as "Deilya Razakar" in 1971, was given death penalty on two counts of crimes against humanity by the International Crimes Tribunal in 2013. After 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...
 leader appealed to the apex court seeking acquittal, the Appellate Division delivered the verdict on September 17 last year commuting his death sentence to imprisonment until death.

It was a majority judgement by the five-member bench. Justice Abdul Wahhab Miah acquitted Sayeedi of all the charges but Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury supported the death penalty. On the other hand, then Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain, (current Chief Justice) Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and Justice Hasan Foez Siddique backed the reduced sentence.

Of the 20 charges brought against him, Sayeedi was given death penalty for the murders of Ibrahim Kutti and Bisabali, and for setting fire to Hindu households in Pirojpur during the war. The Supreme Court reduced Sayeedi's death sentence in Ibrahim Kutti's murder to imprisonment for 12 years and awarded him imprisonment until death on three other charges -- for murder, rape and forceful conversion of Hindus.

Six other charges were also proved beyond doubt but no sentencing followed as he had already been given the death penalty.
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Bangladesh
Govt to challenge Sayedee's sentence
2015-08-24
[Dhaka Tribune] Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday said that the government would move a review petition with the Appellate Division seeking death sentence for convicted war criminal and 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...
 leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
.

"The state will file a review petition against the sentence [of Sayeedi] after getting the full judgement," Mahbubey told news hounds at his office. He hoped that the court would overturn the previous verdict and hand down capital punishment.

The International Crimes Tribunal 1 had sentenced Sayeedi to death on February 28, 2013 for his complicity in crimes against
humanity against the Hindus and freedom fighters in Pirojpur during the 1971 Liberation War.

But in the appeal case verdict, the top court on September 17 commuted his punishment to imprisonment until death. The court is yet to release its full verdict.

After the appeal case judgement, Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
, several ministers and war trial campaigners had expressed frustration over the sentence.

On the other hand, the Jamaat members conducted massive attacks on the law enforcers, ruling party supporters and Hindus in many districts across the country in 2013 in protest against the tribunal verdict killing dozens of people and destroying state properties.

Mahbubey, the top law officer of the country, also said that the full verdict in Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid's case would be published soon. The apex court gave its judgement upholding the tribunal's death sentence on June 16.

Upon getting the full text of the judgement, the government will start process for executing the death row convict.

The war criminal, who had acted as the chief of al-Badr force, can seek a review of the sentence once the full judgement is released. He can also seek presidential mercy admitting his crimes.

The full verdict in the case of convicted war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury is also pending with the top court.

So far, the government has executed the death sentences of top war criminals and Jamaat leaders Abdul Quader Molla and Mohammad Kamaruzzaman.
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Bangladesh
Bangladeshi Jamaat leaders facing death for alleged war crimes
2015-04-15
[AA.TR] Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, a leading Bangladeshi politician, became the country's second person hanged for war crimes on Saturday.

His execution was preceded by that of fellow 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...
 leader Abdul Quader Mollah in December 2013 and could soon be followed by more from the same party, all accused of committing war crimes during Bangladesh's war of independence from Pakistain in 1971.

Bangladesh's Attorney General Mahbubey Alam was quoted by the local daily Dhaka Tribune on Sunday as saying that several of the appeals for those sentenced to death could be dealt with before the end of 2015.

There are currently five Jamaat-e-Islami leaders in jug going through the appeals process to have their death sentences overturned. Two of the most big shots, former party chief Ghulam Azam and AKM Yusuf, both died in jug in 2014.

Also sentenced to death but unlikely to face the penalty after being tried in absentia are Mueen Udden, who is in London, and Ashrafuzzaman Khan, in the U.S., who were both linked to the party's student wing in 1971.

There are several others found guilty by the war crimes tribunal who no longer have links with Jamaat-e-Islami.

According to Imran Siddiqui, a lawyer who represented several of the Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, the next case will target Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mujahid, the party's Secretary General.

"Unless the court decides to deal with the cases expeditiously, Mujahid's case will maybe be done before the end of the year," said Siddiqui, adding that the party chief >Motiur Rahman Nizami
...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them...
's appeal was unlikely to come up until the middle of 2016.

"These appeals take some time because the documents are (voluminous) in nature and there are lots of witnesses," said Siddiqui.

Jamaat-e-Islami have insisted that the war crimes tribunals have been politically motivated and deny that the party was involved in assisting the Mighty Pak Army during the nine-month war which, according to official figures, saw 3 million people killed.

Apart from Mujahid and Nizami, those facing the death penalty include the party's Assistant Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam and central executive committee members Mir Quasem Ali and Abdus Subhan.

Having only received their sentences in recent months, their appeals may face a long wait as the court will first deal with Mujahid, Nizami and Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.

  • Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mujahid, Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami

    Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mujahid, the party's Secretary General, will be the next leader to go through the appeals process in order to contest his death sentence.

    The son of a politician, Mujahid, like many of the accused, was a senior figure in Jamaat-e-Islami's student wing in 1971. He is also one of the few, alongside Nizami, who has served in government.

    From 2001 to 2006, Mujahid was the social welfare minister in a coalition government with Jamaat-e-Islami's allies the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

    Mujahid was sentenced to death in 2013, accused of being Nizami's second-in-command in the Al-Badr militia, which allegedly worked closely with the Mighty Pak Army. He was also accused of being involved in the killing of academics.

    Siddiqui said Mujahid's defense will center on countering specific incidents he was accused of being involved in.

    "It will argue on the veracity of the witnesses and question the evidence used against him," said Siddiqui, adding that while Mujahid admits that he supported union with Pakistain, he denies any involvement in violence.

    "He says he was never involved in war crimes in 1971," said Siddiqui. "His role was only political."

  • Motiur Rahman Nizami, Jamaat-e-Islami chief

    Of the Jamaat-e-Islami leaders currently facing death, Motiur Rahman Nizami, the party's chief, is the most prominent.

    Nizami was the leader of the party's then-student wing, Islami Chatra Sangha, at the time of the war in 1971. He later became a full Jamaat-e-Islami member, rising through the party's ranks to become Secretary General and then Ameer, the top leadership position, by 2000.

    He was briefly a member of parliament between 1991 and 1994 and then, between 2001 and 2006, served as the Minister of Agriculture and then the Minister for Industry.

    The war crimes tribunal accused Nizami of being the chief of the Al-Badr militia, which allegedly closely collaborated with the Mighty Pak Army during the 1971 war.

    In October 2014, Nizami was found guilty and sentenced to death for eight charges of crimes against humanity, including committing and ordering murders and abductions.

    He denied however that he had been a member of the Al-Badr forces or had any involvement with the Mighty Pak Army, claiming the charges against him had been fabricated.

  • Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
    ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
    , leading figure in Jamaat-e-Islami

    The red-bearded Sayeedi is one of Jamaat-e-Islami's most well-known orators. He initially worked as a religious teacher after the war but later became more involved in politics. In 1996 and 2001, he was succesfully elected as a Jamaat-e-Islami member of Parliament.

    Sayeedi was one of the first the court ordered to be hanged but he had his death sentence commuted in September 2014 to life imprisonment, to the distress of the Attorney General Mahbubey Alam.

    Alam was quoted in the Dhaka Tribune as saying ""I feel sad for [Delwar Hossain] Sayeedi's verdict. We hoped that he would be sentenced to death."

    Sayeedi successfully argued that the case against him had been flawed and contained conflicting witness testimonies.

    Unlike the others tried for the war crimes tribunal, Sayeedi had no reported connection to politics at the time of the war. According to information presented in court, he was a shopkeeper.

    The court claimed that given his low economic status, he was enticed to join the militias formed under the Mighty Pak Army and was involved in attacks targeting Hindu communities.
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    Bangladesh
    Police: Shibir again plans mayhem in the country
    2015-02-22
    [Dhaka Tribune] Leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir
    ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
     have been regrouping to conduct massive destruction across the country, Chittagong police claimed yesterday following the arrest of a central leader of the student wing 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 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...
     along with two other local leaders.

    To topple the government, Shibir has planned to carry out subversive activities like 2013, when Jamaat-Shibir men conducted attacks on police, pro-government activists and ordinary people killing dozens centring the delivery of war crimes case verdict against Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
    ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
    , police say.

    The Shibir high-command has allegedly instructed its leaders to visit different district and other units with a view to bridging the gap with root-level activists and fortify the ongoing anti-government movement.

    "Shibir's Central Executive Committee Member Enamul Kabir came to Chittagong on February 12 with a written message from its President Abdul Jabbar for handing it over to city (north) unit President Nurul Amin," Kotwali circle Assistant Commissioner Shah Muhammad Abdur Rouf told news hounds yesterday.

    Acting on a tip-off, police conducted a drive in Bogar Beel area under Bakalia cop shoppe around 10pm on Friday and nabbed Enamul and city unit leaders Mushfique Abrar and Golam Mostafa while holding a secret meeting in the dead of night, he said.

    The letter says coordination among the leaders and activists during the movement is so poor that the government cannot be removed with this strength.

    Therefore, Chittagong's root-level leaders and activists have been instructed to stay united under the leadership of former Jamaat politician Shahjahan Chowdhury.

    The Shibir high-command has also instructed the Chittagong unit leaders to join hands with the 20-party alliance organizations especially Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal
    ...student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)...
    , the BNP's student wing.

    Enamul during preliminary interrogation said they planned to carry out massive sabotage acts which had been seen soon after Sayeedi's verdict.
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    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh top court commutes JI leader's death sentence
    2014-09-18
    [Pak Daily Times] Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted to life imprisonment a death sentence for a top Moslem leader convicted of war crimes during the country's war of liberation in 1971.

    The decision against Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
    ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
    , a leader of the main Moslem party, the Jamaat-e-Islami
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    Bangladesh
    After verdict, insecurity grips witnesses
    2014-09-18
    [Dhaka Tribune] Panic has gripped the families of prosecution witnesses Manik Poshari and others in the case against convicted war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
    ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
     as they fear further persecution by the Jamaat leader's supporters as the final verdict in the appeals case delivered yesterday.

    Dissatisfied with the verdict of "imprisonment until death," they think the lenient judgement did not ensure justice for the victims of atrocities committed by Sayeedi and his men in Pirojpur during the 1971 Liberation War.
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    Bangladesh
    Jamaat demands Sayedee's release
    2014-09-17
    [Dhaka Tribune] Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
    ... a Pakistani catspaw remaining active in Bangla politix, loosely affiliated with the Pak religious party of the same name and closely affiliated with most of the terror organizations in Bangla. A member of the BNP's four party governing coalition....
     has demanded release of its Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
    ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
     ahead of the Supreme Court verdict on appeal against Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi's death sentence scheduled to be delivered on Wednesday.

    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...
     acting Ameer Maqbul Ahmed made the demand in a blurb on Tuesday.

    According to the blurb, Jamaat-e-Islami termed the long term imprisonment and verdict to its Nayeb-e-Ameer and world renowned religious scholar Allama Delwar Hossain Sayeedi as tyrannical government's wish.

    "The government has filed false and fabricated case against Sayeedi in line with the false allegation of committing crimes against humanity to attain their ill political interest," reads the release.

    "During this trial procedure, the prosecution has taken various types of falsehood. We truly believe that the tribunal did not make justice to Allama Delwar Hossain Sayeedi offering him death penalty," it added.

    Jamat urged to all Moslems of Bangladesh and world to pray for Sayeedi.

    The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is set to deliver its judgement on appeal against Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi's death sentence in war crimes case on Wednesday, according to the Supreme Court website.

    The five-member bench led by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain will give the order, says the cause list of court 3.

    The rest four justices are Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah, Justice Hasan Foez Siddique and Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury.

    The tribunal handed down the death penalty to Sayeedi on February 28 last year.

    He appealed against the sentence seeking acquittal on March 28.

    The government also lodged an appeal to specify the sentence in all the six charges that were proved at the tribunal.
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    Bangladesh
    No Jamaat hartal today
    2014-09-17
    [Dhaka Tribune] In a clear deviation from its previous stance, 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...
     yesterday did not announce a countrywide shutdown in response to the apex court's setting today for delivering the verdict in the appeals case of Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
    ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
    Before the last verdicts were delivered by the tribunal and the Appellate Division against the Jamaat leaders, the party -- a key ally of the BNP-led alliance -- called hartal
    ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
     on the verdict dates and went on a rampage.

    Asked why they did not announce a hartal this time, the party's Working Committee member Sayed Abdullah Mohammad Taher said they would decide on agitation programmes after the verdict was announced.

    "If the verdict is given following due legal procedure then we will welcome it. But if not, tough actions will be taken in protest against the verdict," he told the Dhaka Tribune.

    Meanwhile,
    ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels...
     Jamaat acting ameer Maqbul Ahmed in a statement demanded immediate release of Sayeedi.
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    Bangladesh
    154 Jamaat, Shibir men face trial
    2014-08-27
    [Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against 154 leaders and activists 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 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...
     and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir
    ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
     in a case filed in connection with torching, vandalising vehicles and attacking police personnel in the capital last year.

    Metropolitan Magistrate Tareq Mainul Islam Bhuiyan of Speedy Trial Court-6 also fixed October 12 to start the trial in the case.

    However,
    a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
     62 of the accused including, Shibir president Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
    ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
     and Jamaat Assistant General Secretary Dr Shafiqul Islam Masud, pleaded innocence.

    Currently, Delwar and Masud are in police custody while the 60 others are on bail.

    The court also cancelled bails to the other 76 accused and issued arrest warrants against them as they failed to appear before it yesterday.

    Of the 154 accused, the rest have been absconding since the case was filed with Motijheel Police Station on February 13, 2013.

    On that day, the activists of Jamaat and Shibir carried out mayhem in different parts of the capital after they had been barred from holding rallies.

    At one point, they attacked several coppers in Agargaon, Paltan, Dainik Bangla intersection, Baitul Mukarram, Fakirapool and Motijheel areas.

    They had brought out those rallies, without taking permission from police, to demand the release of Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, facing charges of crimes against humanity.

    They also demanded International Crimes Tribunal, which is trying the case against Sayeedi, be dissolved.
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    Bangladesh
    24 Shibir men held in Chittagong
    2014-05-09
    [Dhaka Tribune] In a special drive early yesterday, police in Chittagong tossed in the calaboose
    Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
     24 Jamaat-e-Islam and Islami Chhatra Shibir
    ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
     activists suspected of subversive activities in different parts of the district.

    The suspects, who were picked up from Satkania, Lohagara and Banshkhali upazilas, were allegedly involved in violence during the last general elections and were planning to create disturbances ahead of the forth coming verdict in the war crimes case against Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
    ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
    , a police official said.

    Additional Superintendent of Police NazmulHasan of Chittagong (north zone) told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday that acting on a tip-off,they arrested 20 members of the Islamic party and its student wing from Sadhonpur, Puichhari, Shekherkhil and other Jamaat-Shibir dominated areas of Banshkhali.

    Moreover, three desperados from Jamaat-Shibir were held from Lohagara, while one was nabbed from Satkania, he said.

    All the suspects were produced before a court yesterday.

    Most of those detained were accused in several cases filed with different cop shoppes in connection with the violence during the January elections, Nazmul said.

    The police official added that special drives would continue in the three upazilas to pre-empt any sabotage.
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