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5 unusual facts about Jamaat-e-Islami


2014 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence

At around 6 pm, around 250 workers of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, armed with sharp weapons and sticks attacked the Hindu inhabited Malopara village, where they vandalized 130 houses and set another 10 on fire.

On 7 January at night, activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Jamaat-e-Islami destroyed two houses and five shops belonging to the Hindus in Kuptola Union of Gaibandha Sadar Upazila in Gaibandha District.

Jamaat-e-Islami

Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir, the independent wing of Jamaat-e-Islami in Kashmir

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, the Islamist organization in Bangladesh, separated from Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan after Bangladesh was formed

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, the Islamist organization that emerged from Jamaat-e-Islami in India after the Partition of 1947


Abdul Subhan Qureshi

Police sources told The Hindu that he participated in the October,1999 SIMI conference where Sheikh Yasin, the head of the Hamas and the Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad, were among those who delivered speeches through a telephone network.

Afshar Operation

Although some abuses have been attributed to Jamiat-i Islami (Islamic State forces), the vast majority of testimony regarding the Afshar operation suggests that the abuses were largely carried out by the Ittihad forces of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.

Arastu Yar Jung

As a member of the Bohra Muslim jamaat, Arastu Yar Jung was an active contributor to the local community through the Dawoodi Bohra organization.

Athar Jamad Masjid

The Jamaat comprises the descendants of the 52 families from Tirunelveli that moved to Coimbatore in 1850.

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami

Jamaat leaders became ministers in the two BNP-led regimes of prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia.

Collaborators Act 1972

The members of Pakistan Muslim League, Jamaat-e-Islami, Nizam-e-Islam joined the Peace Committee, which was actually formed to support the atrocities.

Fazl-e-Omar Hospital

The centre is to be named after the fourth Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Jamaat, Mirza Tahir Ahmad, who died in April 2003 and whose desire it was to have such a centre in Rabwah.

Ghulam Muhammad Malik

Rumours spread that Malik was an associate of Sufi Iqbal of the Tablighi Jamaat, who was known to inspire Jihadi zeal, despite the non-political stand of Tablighi Jamaat.

Hafiz Saeed

Hafiz Akif Saeed, leader of the Pakistan-based Islamic movement Tanzeem-e-Islami

Hezbi Islami

On 16 May 2013 Hezbi Islami claimed responsibility for another attack in Kabul in the form of an explosive-loaded Toyota Corolla that was rammed into a pair of American military vehicles in which 16 people were killed.

Islamic revival

Abul Ala Maududi was the later leader of this movement who established Jamaat-e-Islami in South Asia.

Jahanara Imam

Ghulam Azam, the exiled chief of the Jammat-e-Islami, was allowed to come back to Bangladesh in July 1978.

Jalaluddin Umri

Umri has been associated actively with many social, religious and political organisations in India in pursuit of the policies of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.

(Urdu: السيّد جلال الدین عمری Arabic: سيّد جلال الدین العمری(Born in 1935) is the present Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and serving the second term.

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind

Jalaluddin Umri, the current Amir (Leader) heads a central decision making body, called the Majlis-e-Shoora (Central Advisory Council).

Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh

Reports have claimed that, funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia.

Kahatowita

This change was emerged in society on account of propagation of Islami movement such as Thableek jamat, Tawheed Jmamath, Jamathe Islami and DA.

Kashmir Khan

In 2002 the Hezb-e Islami is reported to have split, with the hard-line Islamists, including Kashmir Khan, remaining with the party's leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

The Asia Times reported, on February 8, 2006, that Khan was alive, and still serving as a commander for the Hezb-e Islami.

Khalid Saifullah Rahmani

Moulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani (born November 1956 at Jala, Darbhanga, Bihar) is the General Secretary of Islami Fiqh Academy, India and founder member of All India Muslim Personal Law Board.

Madani Channel

Madani Channel (Urdu: مدنى چينل) is a television channel free of advertising and television commercials started by Dawat-e-Islami, which broadcasts Islamic television programs around the clock.

Madrassas in Pakistan

There are five major governing bodies of Pakistani madrassas and their corresponding schools of thought are: Tanzim-ul-Madaras (Barelwi), Wafaq-ul-Madaras (Deobandi), Wafaq-ul-Madaras (Shia), Wafaq-ul-Madaras (Ahle Hadith) and Rabita-ul-Madaris (Jamaat-e-Islami).

Markazi Masjid

Tablighi Jamaat and the Dewsbury Markaz has been accused of promoting extremist Islamism and having links with Islamic terrorism in Britain; Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, two of the 7 July 2005 London bombers, are reported to have attended prayers at the mosque.

Muhammad Ilyas Qadri

In 2011 a man believed to be a member of Dawat-e-Islami assassinated Pakistani politician Salmaan Taseer due to the latter's opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy law.

Muhammad Kamaruzzaman

In four successive elections between 1991 and 2008 Kamaruzzaman unsuccessfully contested the seat Sherpur-1 for Jamaat-e-Islami, losing the last three times to the Awami League candidate Md.

Mullah Ezat

During the Civil War in Afghanistan, Mullah Ezat (Mullah Izzat, Ezatullah) was a commander from Paghman, Afghanistan, for the forces of Ittihad-i Islami and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf and Jamiat-e Islami.

Pathady

There are two Muslim Jamaat in Pathady; 1.Yeroor Muslim Jamaat - The first Jamaat in this village, and 2.Pathady Muslim Jamaat.

Sadat Husaini

Syed Sadatullah Husaini (born 1973)(سید سعادت حسینی) is the former National President of Students Islamic Organisation of India and Member of Central Advisory Council of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.

Sunni Dawat-e-Islami

Founded in 1991 in India, it is ideologically alligned with the Barelvi movement within Sunni Islam.

The Children's Encyclopædia

In May 1973 riots occurred in Jammu and Kashmir, India, in an area where Jamaat-e-Islami was gaining influence, sparked by the discovery that an illustration contained in The Book of Knowledge, which had been stored in a local library for decades, portrayed the Archangel Gabriel dictating portions of the Quran to the Moslem Prophet Muhammad.

Wasat

Muslim Centre Party, known in Arabic as Hizb al-Wasat al-Islami, a political party in Jordan

Yusuf Islahi

He is a member of topmost decision-making and leadership organ of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, the Markazi Majlis e Shura (Central Advisory Council).

He became a member of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind at the age of 25 years and has been entrusted with various key posts.


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