Jamaat-e-Islami a Terrorist organization

JI is a fascist party which has conspired with the Pak army again and again in killing those who chose to oppose dictators and their hired allies (JI).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_atrocities#Killing_of_intellectuals
Killing of intellectuals

During the war, the Pakistan Army and its local collaborators carried out a systematic execution of the leading Bengali intellectuals. A number of university professors from Dhaka University were killed during the first few days of the war. However, the most extreme cases of targeted killing of intellectuals took place during the last few days of the war. Allegedly, the leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and its paramilitary arm, the Al-Badr](Editing Al-Badr - Wikipedia) and Al-Shams](Editing Al-Shams - Wikipedia) forces created a list of doctors, teachers, poets, and scholars]](Bangladesh genocide - Wikipedia). Some sources also allege the role of the CIA in devising the plan. On December 14, 1971,** only two days before surrendering to the Indian military and the Mukhti Bahini forces, the Pakistani army – with the assistance of local islamist leaders and groups that chose to ally themselves with the Pakistani military, most notably the Al Badr and Al Shams – systematicly executed well over 200 of East Pakistan’s intellectuals and scholars. Professors, journalists, doctors, artists, engineers, writers were rounded up in Dhaka, blindfolded, taken to Rajarbag in the middle section of the city, and executed en masse**. In memory of this event, December 14 is mourned in Bangladesh as Buddhijibi Hotta Dibosh (“Day of Martyred Intellectuals”). Also, the Government of Bangladesh has constructed a memorial in Mirpur

Terrorist links
In a 1993 US Congressional Report, it is stated that Hizbul Mujahideen has been supported by, and closely affiliated with Jamaat-i-Islami, “from which they receive funding, weapons and training assistance beyond the ISI’s contribution. Following the organizational principles recommended by Tehran and Khartoum, the movement has transformed into the Kashmiri Jamaat-i-Islami, under Abdul-Majid Dar, with a quasi-legal character emphasizing educational and social activism, with the Hizbul Mujahideen as the clandestine terrorist arm.” Regarding the training of Kashmiri Islamist terrorists, the report states that, "Islamist indoctrination and other assistance is provided the Jamaat-i-Islami of Pakistan.

Hizbul Mujahideen (HM)

Mothertongue Name:
Hizbul Mujahideen
Aliases: HM of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Hizb ul-Mujahidin

Base of Operation: Kashmir; Pakistan
Founding Philosophy: Hizb ul-Mujahideen is the largest Kashmiri militant group, and officially supports the liberation of Kashmir and its accession to Pakistan, although some cadres are pro-independence.** The group is the militant wing of Pakistan’s largest Islamic political party, the Jamaat-i-Islami. It primarily targets Indian security forces and politicians in Kashmir and has conducted operations jointly with other Kashmiri militants. It reportedly operated in Afghanistan through the mid-1990s and trained alongside the Afghan Hizb-I-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) in Afghanistan until the Taliban takeover. The group is made up primarily of ethnic Kashmiris but with some foreign sources. While Indian intelligence reports that it is responsible for only about 10 to 20 percent of all terrorist strikes, Pakistani reports estimate that it controls about 60 percent of terrorists operating in Kashmir. **
The group was originally called Al Badr but was quickly renamed Hizb-ul Mujahideen. The Jamaat-e-Islami is reported to have set up this terrorist front at the prodding of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), as an Islamic counter to the Jammu Kashmire Liberation Front (JKLF), a secular terrorist group with an indigenous cadre base. Since 1997, this group has been operating in tandem with the Lashkar-e-Toiba. It seems that HM provides the local knowledge and support to organizations like Harkat-ul Ansar and the Lashkar-e-Toiba, whose cadre are largely foreign. HM has also been the target of counter-insurgent groups whose members are primarily former terrorists of groups that were decimated by the Hizb-ul Mujahideen during the early nineties, in its endeavor to dominate the insurgency in Kashmir.

And to support these allegations:

**A break with the past **

PRAVEEN SWAMI

WARRING Jamaat-e-Islami factions in Kashmir appear headed for a fateful showdown, one which could transform the State’s politics. On November 14, Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Mohammad Bhat proclaimed his party’s decision to sunder all links with terrorist groups, specifically with the Hizbul Mujahideen. This dramatic announcement has enraged Bhat’s major rival in the Jamaat-e-Islami hierarchy, All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani. The APHC chief, who also heads the political wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami, claimed that the Jamaat-e-Islami chief did not have the support of his party’s cadres and reiterated his “full support for the armed struggle”.

http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1525/15250380.htm

List of Jamaat collusion with the army in its horrendous record of conspiring against its own people is endless, Jamaat to this day continues to be pampered by agencies (ISI) to subvert political activities, harrass opponents and carry out their dirty work.

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So you think they are so awful because they

a) Allegedly took part in the execution of traitor scumbags. Emphasis on Allegedly, because if they actually did any of this, why did Bangladesh allow the Jamaat-i-Islam to continue operating, as the same organization with the same name and same leadership, shortly after indepedence? Nothing was ever proven - there were just allegations by bengali traitors to Pakistan (who therefore cannot be trusted), against the Jamaat-i-Islam.

b) Tried to fight against India's occupation of Kashmir by undermining the agents of Indian rule?

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What a load of rubbish. JI is heavily funded by Saudi Arabia. Hindustan would had complained.

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If I’m not wrong I think Hindustan always complaint about terrorists :confused: waise nothing new, almost every single Pakistani extremist group has been declared as terrorist.

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Old habits die hard, JI is deeply involved with terrorist organizations and has the blessings of agencies cause they share long history of violence, oppression and political victimization both abroad and at home.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0306/p01s04-wosc.htm

Al Qaeda-Pakistani ties deepen

Khalid Sheik Mohammed was nabbed at the home of a parliamentary official.
By Gretchen Peters | Special to The Christian Science Monitor

RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - This week’s arrest of Al Qaeda’s third-in-command was at once a tremendous coup for Pakistan’s oft-maligned government and also a stunning embarrassment.

Officials here are quick to brag that local security forces nabbed Khalid Sheik Mohammed, along with another senior Al Qaeda leader, on their own. What they aren’t crowing about is that Mr. Mohammed’s arrest exposes a link between Al Qaeda and Pakistan’s largest Islamic political party, Jamaat-e Islami.

The emerging connection highlights the political risks the Pakistani government faces as it hunts Al Qaeda leaders. It also implies a greater order of difficulty in rooting them out if thousands of Jamaat party members are willing to harbor terrorists in their homes.

Ahmed Abdul Qadoos, a Jamaat party member, was arrested alongside the two Al Qaeda terrorists. They had been holed up in the home of his mother, Farzana Qadoos, who is an elected district counselor for the conservative Islamic party.

Her residence, where the three men were arrested, is just five minutes from Army headquarters in this twin city to the nation’s capital, and tucked in a guarded community that’s home to top military officials. Officials say Mohammed had been coming and going from the home, apparently with little notice.

The party has also been implicated in other recent terror arrests. A Jamaat member was in the Karachi apartment where police found Al Qaeda leader Ramzi Binalshibh, and a doctor arrested in Lahore several months back for Al Qaeda ties was also linked to the party.

That’s an uncomfortable fact for Pakistan, since Jamaat is a leading member in a coalition of hard-line Islamic parties that won control of two of Pakistan’s four provinces in November elections and commands a sizable block in the National Assembly.

Senior Jamaat officials have variously insisted that Ahmed Qadoos was wrongly arrested or not a party member, and even claimed that the arrest actually took place at another location. They say their party is being targeted for political reasons.

“We have never supported violence or terror,” says Jamaat leader Qazi Hussein Ahmed. “It is not in the good of the country.”

Some government officials, too, have played down the link in Saturday’s arrest, saying that Mrs. Qadoos and her husband may not have been aware that their houseguest was the chief architect of the Sept. 11 attacks, or even that there were guests staying at their home at all.

Gen. Rashid Quereshi, the spokesman for President Pervez Musharraf, says the couple was not in residence at the time, but adds that all the family members are all being interrogated by security forces here to determine their level of involvement.

But senior officials here are starting to admit that they are finding growing links between the Jamaat and Al Qaeda terrorists on the run. “All of the activists and terrorists who have been apprehended in recent months have had links to the Jamaat-e-Islami, whether we have arrested them in Lahore or here or Karachi…” says Pakistan’s Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisel Saleh Hayat. “They have been harboring them.”

Pakistan’s religious parties themselves are a reflection of official ties to terrorism here - which Mr. Musharraf insists have been severed since Sept. 11, 2001. Past administrations here nurtured and funded extremists groups both to wreak havoc in Kashmir, the neighboring state which both India and Pakistan claim, and also during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, when the CIA and Britain’s MI6 funded the mujahideen to fight a holy war against the communist invaders.

Some of that extremism took root here. Though the fundamentalist parties in the past had more success organizing street protests than getting into Parliament, a five-party coalition of Islamic parties, known as the United Front, made stunning gains in last October’s election, and now commands the third-largest block in the National Assembly.

Jamaat is the largest and most popular party in the group. It had focused most of its attention on Kashmir, not Afghanistan or the Taliban. But yesterday, a spokesman for the party told Reuters that Al Qaeda’s third-in-command was “a hero to Islam.”

“The Jamaat has never condemned 9/11, and denies that Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization. This is a group that believes 9/11 was carried out by Jews in America,” says Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani author on terror issues. “The really scary thing is that this is also the most moderate Islamic party in Pakistan.”

Members of the coalition have sparked fears they are trying to “Talibanize” Pakistan’s frontier states. Among other things, they have moved to ban movie houses, which they deem un-Islamic, and have sent police to raid wedding parties where music was playing.

Some have even more direct links to terror. Many Front leaders run religious schools that sent young Pakistanis to fight alongside the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The man who owns the Islamic school where so-called “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh studied, for example, is now a United Front senator.

As members of Parliament, these fundamentalist leaders enjoy immunity, though experts say they would have little access to sensitive information about the hunt for terrorists here or the political power to change Mr. Musharraf’s policy to support the US war on terror.

But government officials still say they are concerned about the pattern of members of these groups harboring terrorist fugitives. “We certainly are,” says Interior Minister Hayat. “Any Pakistani should be.”

He and other analysts add, however, that they do not believe there is an official policy to support Al Qaeda fugitives by the Jamaat or other United Front members.

“Still, it poses a very serious question,” says Ismael Khan, a senior columnist with the News newspaper in the Northwest Frontier Province. “The party leadership needs to answer why this is a recurring theme.”

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JI are not terrorists, the 'jihadis' they support are

Either way, this thread is just another attempt to distract from the discussion about MQM terrorism,kollings and crime. Nobody is fooled

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Thank you for summing it up succinctly...

Jamat-e-Islami is a terrorist orgn. If you are an anti-muslim bigoted hindu from across the border...

The frist post in this thread is utter rubbish...wouldn't even dignify it with a response...

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So its ok to get your dirty job done by others and not be called a terrorist?

Dont u ever wonder how Pak establishment has conditioned Pak morality standards? If Mqm thugs commit a crime they are terrorists, but if religious parties (JI, JUI, SSP etc) indulge in violent acts they are brushed aside? Thats called manufactured thought controls, breakout of this slavery, be honest and call a criminal a criminal.

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The point raised by fartguru is crucial. Many people in Pakistan are just like sheep, they follow whatever the government tells them is the truth and these same people then chastise others for following not just western governments but independent newspapers as well.

MQM become terrorists because the ISPR said so in a press release. What about the army officers, jawans, and Jammat-i-Islami with Al Badar who massacred thousands of people in East Pakistan? Why were they never court martialed, sent to jail, executed, or even exiled like so many MQM members? They were the ones who lost half of Jinnah's Pakistan but no one even mentions their crimes anymore.

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Fartguru.. lets get down to your agenda.. please tell us about yourself first.. introduce yourself by your nationality, religion if you have one, political affiliations. i smell a hell lot of prejudice and bias in your thread. I am quite convinced you have an underlying agenda.. so before anyone respond to your allegations and targeted and selected references against jamaat e islami, we should know where you are coming from.

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Farguru has lost his tone bcoz of what was posted of his beloved Altaf Hussain in this forum.

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JI MURDABAD! OYE OYE OYE!

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Attacking MQM while ignoring the countless massacres committed by the pak army and its jihadi cronies is the reason for fartguru's thread.

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agenda? who am I? my religion? if I have one? political affiliations? prejuidice? so many questions, all because I posted something about the sacred cow called JI? Now who is being prejuidicial? Wy dont u take your arrogant, pompus attitude to where it belongs. If u have anything meaningful to post then I will be available for comments but I do not like judgemental pricks who cannot argue with reason.

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Kehkeshan,

"Attacking MQM while ignoring the countless massacres committed by the pak army and its jihadi cronies is the reason for fartguru's thread"

MQM was created by army (Zia-ul-Haq) in the eighties to crush PPP and JI in cities of Sindh provinces. When you condemn the founders do you know that indirectly you are condemning MQM!!! Isn't it true?

Muhajirs have always supported Army rule since partition and part and parcel of successive army governments. How can you take full advantage of power on one hand and condemn the same people who have given you all the benefits over and above majority population of Sindh. You people are not happy in India, not happy in Pakistan for that matter all over the world forming this ugly MQM everywhere. What's wrong with you Muhajirs?

FARID

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MQM was not created by the army. This is just another white lie of your PPP government. Did you know that when you support the PPP, you support the army which has colluded with PPP so many times before? The army and ISI did try to divide and destroy MQM but in the end they could not finish MQM. Why did you PPP support the murder of innocent Bengalis and Balochis led by Bhutto? And why did your PPP support the murder of innocent Mohajirs? You Sindhis have a lot of soul searching to do before you ask others about their problems. Start from within and ask yourselves why you Sindhis are still not sure what direction to go.

It was Sindhis led by GM Syed who were not happy in India and are not happy in Pakistan today? What is wrong with you Sindhis? Why could you not live in peace with Sindhi Hindus and had to join Muslim League?

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Kehkashan,

“MQM was not created by the army. This is just another white lie of your PPP government. Did you know that when you support the PPP, you support the army which has colluded with PPP so many times before? The army and ISI did try to divide and destroy MQM but in the end they could not finish MQM. Why did you PPP support the murder of innocent Bengalis and Balochis led by Bhutto? And why did your PPP support the murder of innocent Mohajirs? You Sindhis have a lot of soul searching to do before you ask others about their problems. Start from within and ask yourselves why you Sindhis are still not sure what direction to go.

It was Sindhis led by GM Syed who were not happy in India and are not happy in Pakistan today? What is wrong with you Sindhis? Why could you not live in peace with Sindhi Hindus and had to join Muslim League?"

What a load of crap! MQM was created during Zia-ul-Haq rule. Again whom are you fooling? You know that without the approval/arshewar of estabilishment, you can not even breath! GM Syed is since dead. His followers are now very much limited. Sindh is the only Province in which Hindus live in peace. As regard Sindhis joining ML, there are millions of Sindhis still supporiting ML of Pagara or ML of Nawaz Sharif. There is nothing wrong with either Sindhis, Punjabis, Pathans, or Baluchis, it is you who have lots of problems with Pakistan, even grabbing others share, you are un-rest , un-happy and unsatisfied. Perhaps you will remain in this dynamic situation rest of your lives till you change your mind set.

FARID

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Prick, arrogant?? i think you got issues brother.. i had asked you politely to reveal your agenda and your background so we know whats behind your rampage about JI. You are distorting facts to meet your own twisted needs and please use some civilised language i didn't call you names. Its a discussion and its only worth discussion if we know who you are. so do you have anyhting solid to say besides name calling?

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I can't disagree with Farid. We all know MQM was created during Zia Ul Haq's rule and it was supposed to diminish the role of PPP first. Most Pakistanis of indian origin in Karachi and Hayderabad were supportes of JI and the ethnic divide patronised and encouraged by MQM/Military led to ultimate but unintentional weakening of JI's position.

Putting each other down based on ethnic background is plain stupid. we have a stronger bond , we are all muslims and lets live like decent human beings. why are we at each others throats? Can't we just learn from our mistakes and not repeat them?

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Brother DK,
Sometimes ppl do not resort to name calling but can reveal their intentions through suggestive statements as in your post. This is a thread on JI links to violence, it has nothing to do with me or anyother person on this board, yet you chose to make it personal by questioning my religious beliefs, agenda, political affiliations whatever. So lets not beat around the bushes here, this thread is about JI history of terrorism, as stated in my previous post if u have any constructive criticism I will be available for discussion, other than that its hogwash.

Once again, this is about Jamaat-e-Ismlami terrorism nothing to do with any individual or other political party (Mqm etc), so stick to the subject.