Named after the Arakanese pirates who pillaged medieval Bengal in alliance with the Portuguese, Mog Bazar is a congested, low-income area in Dhaka. In these modest surroundings is located the office of one of Bangladesh’s most powerful political formations: the Jamaat-e-Islami.
The far-right Islamist party is arguably the foremost beneficiary of the July uprising that unseated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2024. From never having won even 10% of the seats in Bangladesh’s Parliament, today almost everyone agrees that the party will finish in the top two in the first post-Hasina elections to be held on February 12.
In Mog Bazar, Scroll spoke to one of its most influential leaders, Assistant Secretary General and publicity head Ahsanul Mahboob Zubair, querying him on allegations that the Islamist party would roll back women’s right as well as its role in the 1971 War of Liberation, where it has been accused of war crimes in collaboration with the Pakistan Army.
Edited excerpts of the interview translated from the Bengali:
Allegations have been raised against Jamaat that it is anti‑woman.
That is baseless.
This is wrong information: that Jamaat‑e‑Islami does not like women or is an enemy of women – this is totally baseless and there is no evidence in support of it.
Jamaat‑e‑Islami is an Islamic ideological party,...
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