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5 Aug

Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and the failure of democracy

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Dilly Hussain writes that he was not surprised when earlier this week, Bangladesh’s High Court issued a landmark order prohibiting the country’s largest Islamic political party, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) from participating in elections because its constitution was rendered “illegal.” I have always said that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and Bangladesh’s JI have more in common besides […]

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22 May

Interview: Bangladesh’s Islamic uprising

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Following the Shahbag protests which took place in February in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, 60 people have died and the country is witnessing the worst political turmoil since its inception. After the International Crimes Tribunal found two leaders of the country’s largest Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami guilty of war crimes during the Liberation War of 1971, a nation […]

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