Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami

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Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is a major right-wing to far-right political party in Bangladesh. It emerged from the East Pakistani wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan (JIP) in 1979. A part of the Islamist movement Jamaat-e-Islami, it is the largest Islamist political party in the country, as well as one of the two contemporary mainstream parties, alongside the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The party's origin lies in the original Jamaat-e-Islami organization founded by Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi in 1941 in British India. Jamaat's predecessor, the JIP, though actively participating in the pro-democracy movements of East Pakistan, opposed the independence of Bangladesh and supported Pakistani Forces in the Liberation War in 1971. It reportedly organized several pro-Pakistan groups, and participated in the genocide and other mass atrocities. After a period of post-independence ban on religion-based parties between 1972 and 1976, local members of the JIP merged with several other parties to...

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