JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI HAS NO RIGHTFUL PLACE IN BANGLADESH—THEY REMAIN, IN ALLEGIANCE AND SPIRIT, IRREVOCABLY PAKISTANI

Instrumentalizing faith! Jamaat-e-Islami’s strategic betrayal during Bangladesh’s liberation war in 1971 to establish Bangladesh!!

Bangladesh’s birth was forged in blood, tears, and unyielding resolve. Yet, some have never repented. Among the most grievous villains of that epoch were the JamaateIslami and its lethal armed wing, AlBadr—men who cloaked themselves in piety but wielded terror with calculated cruelty. Their barbarity, in many instances, surpassed even that of the Pakistani military. They hunted, raped, murdered, looted, and displaced with impunity—all to preserve a Pakistan they truly belonged to, and to annihilate the dream of an independent Bangladesh.

A Reign of Terror

The scale of atrocities during the Liberation War is staggering. Estimates range—on the high end, three million lives lost, countless more brutalized, 300,000–400,000 women and girls subjected to systematic genocidal rape, ten million fleeing as refugees to India, and some thirty million internally displaced.Wikipedia+3Wikipedia+3Wikipedia+3The Daily StarReddit These are not statistics; these are wounds in the collective soul of a nation.

AlBadr, founded under the tutelage of JamaateIslami’s student wing (Islami Chhatra Sangha), collaborated avidly with the Pakistani army. “AlBadr was an armed paramilitary force… created to facilitate massmurder and various war crimes in support of the occupying Pakistani army in Bangladesh in 1971.”The Asian AgeWikipedia The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) confirmed that Jamaat was “chiefly” responsible for forming AlBadr, Razakar, AlShams, and Peace Committees—groups that terrorized intellectuals, Hindus, and freedomloyal citizens.The Daily StarDhaka Mirror

Let us not soften the truth with euphemism: these were cold-blooded death squads. On 14 December 1971—just two days before independence—they kidnapped and murdered professors, doctors, litterateurs, and journalists in one of the darkest nights of our history.Wikipedia In Bagbati alone, AlBadr and allied forces massacred over 200 unarmed Bengali Hindus and disposed of them in wells.Wikipedia

Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, later secretary-general of JamaateIslami, was the secondincommand of these executioners. He was convicted and hanged for orchestrating the murder of our best minds.India TodayThe Asian AgeYouTubebdnews24.comBDDiGEST His impunity ended, but the horror remains: baptizing massacre in the name of religion, say, “cleansing the nation,” as they did in editorials.ResearchGateWikipedia

The Moral Betrayal

They did not simply fight; they looted. They seized property, wealth, lives—and betrayed the very people they claimed to represent. They used the pulpit to rationalize murder. This was not liberation; it was annihilation. And even after independence on 16 December 1971, they never accepted Bangladesh. Their allegiances were elsewhere. They belonged to Pakistan—a rogue presence beyond our borders. Their crimes cannot be forgotten nor forgiven.

Justice at Last?

In recent years, justice has found its footing. The International Crimes Tribunal, founded in 2010 by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has upheld the convictions and executions of multiple Jamaat leaders, including Motiur Rahman Nizami and Mojaheed.TIMEIndia TodayThe Asian Age The tribunal solemnly assessed: Jamaat was complicit in founding the machinery of genocide.Dhaka Mirror

Yet morphing political tides raise ominous specters. Today, under an unlawful interim government, JamaateIslami has been allowed to rally—even at Suhrawardy Udyan, the site of national liberation’s final breath.AP News Moves to re-register the party and rehabilitate its image are underway, prompting concerns that our past is being sanitized.The Economic Times

A Nation Sacred, Not for Sale

Bangladesh is ours—wrought by the blood of martyrs, the bravery of freedom fighters, and the tears of the betrayed. It is not theirs. Those who betrayed humanity in 1971 have no moral claim here. Their “jumping” religious invocations, masquerading as sermons to seize power, are unforgiveable.

Some call for mercy. I say justice. They must be held to account—not only in courts but in the everlasting ledger of moral condemnation. If they cannot reconcile with the truth, let them leave—for our soil demands loyalty, not treachery.

Conclusion: A Nation Remembers

“The arc of the moral universe is long—but it bends toward justice.” Let us hope that arc continues to bend.

The world must never forget that in 1971, religion was perverted into a weapon, love into loathing, and serving a nation into slaughtering its soul. Let memorials, history books, and our national conscience bear witness. Let them answer in trembling that we will never allow the darkness they loved to eclipse our dawn.

They do not belong here. Either they truthfully repentstopping their politics in Bangladesh or depart. Bangladesh—our Bangladesh—has no throne for their lies.

By: Anwar A. Khan

By Anwar A. Khan,  was a freedom fighter in 1971 to establish Bangladesh and is an independent political analyst based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, who writes on politics, political and human-centred figures, current and international affairs.

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