Bangladesh declares Jamaat-i-Islami illegal

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Re: Bangladesh declares Jamaat-i-Islami illegal

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That’s not the legal reason cited. The article states the reason as being that as a political party with a religious focus, Jamaat-i-Islam has no place in a consitutionally secular country.

Which is the height of foolishness. If Islamists are prevented from working to change the country by participation in free democracy, what option does that leave them with in order to try to change the country? There is only one, and that is a dark path which needs only one word to explain: Algeria.

So what stopped the courts from banning them during the past 40 years? And why is that only Jamaat e Islami has been banned and not other religious parties?