This is the latest flip-flop (digbaji) by this shameless extremist party that represents the religious frauds and war criminals. It looks like to get vote and power, they can abandon and adopt anything under pressure. No other party abuses our religion so much, in that respect they are worse than others. They should have replaced their slogan "Allah'r ain o soth loker shason" with "Khaleda'r ain o nosto loker shason" long time ago. That's more appropriate. Additional news: http://prothom-alo.com/print.php?t=h&nid=MTk0OTQ
Cartoon from Daily Sangbad, Oct 22, 2008.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Ezajur Rahman" <ezajur.rahman@...> wrote:
>
> Jamaat recognises Liberation War
>
> Makes major changes in constitution for registration; allows non-Muslims
> to be members but puts onus of protecting independence only on them
>
> Courtesy Daily Star 21/10/09
>
> Shakhawat Liton and Rashidul Hasan
>
>
>
> Finally, anti-liberation Jamaat-e-Islami has recognised the historic
> Liberation War of Bangladesh in its newly revised constitution.
>
> The change of policy was forced upon it by its desperation to keep
> itself legitimised as a parliamentary party registered with the Election
> Commission (EC), in the face of new amendments to the Representation of
> the People Order (RPO).
>
> The amended RPO says the constitution of a political party seeking
> registration cannot contradict the country's constitution.
>
> Jamaat's provisional constitution which was submitted to the EC for
> getting registered as a parliamentary party, also renamed the
> organisation Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, changing its earlier name
> Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh.
>
> Jamaat also dropped a symbol with the words 'Allahu' and 'Aqimuddin' in
> Arabic from the cover of its provisional constitution.
>
> The party adopted its constitution in 1979.
>
> Its also allows non-Muslims to be members of Jamaat, but puts the
> responsibility of protecting the country's independence and sovereignty
> by taking an oath only on them, while the Muslim members are exempted
> from taking that oath.
>
> "I shall actively play a role in defending the independence and
> sovereignty of Bangladesh," reads a section of the oath scheduled for
> non-Muslim members, whose inclusion was prompted by the party's latest
> necessity for removing religious and gender discriminations within the
> organisation.
>
> According to Jamaat's interim constitution which will be ratified by a
> national council within six months of the first sitting of the next
> parliament, as promised by it, both Muslim and non-Muslim members
> however must swear to abide by the rules and decisions of the party,
> giving the highest priority to implementing the decisions.
>
> Among other fundamental beliefs and spirits, Jamaat also accepted the
> spirit of the heroic liberation war of 1971 by inserting a new paragraph
> into the preamble of its new provisional constitution.
>
> The heroic struggle of the people and freedom fighters that liberated
> Bangladesh and put it on the world map as an independent country has
> been mentioned as a part of the fundamental beliefs and spirits of the
> party.
>
> Submitting the application for registration and the provisional
> constitution to the EC for being qualified to contest in the upcoming
> parliamentary election, Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, assistant secretary
> general of Jamaat, said his party has been in politics since May, 1979
> by accepting the creation of Bangladesh through the liberation war.
>
> Jamaat was constitutionally banned for years in the newly independent
> country for its anti-liberation activities and collaboration with the
> invading army in 1971.
>
> Many Jamaat leaders were facing charges of war crimes and some of them
> were on the run.
>
> But the party was allowed to resume its activities in 1979 as the
> constitutional ban on forming religion based political parties was
> repealed after the bloody regime change of August 15, 1975.
>
> Lately, Jamaat's survival was facing difficulties again as the revised
> RPO made political parties' registration with the EC mandatory for
> contesting in the parliamentary election.
>
> The strict new provisions forced the party to change the preamble to its
> constitution accepting the historic liberation war as its original
> constitution contradicted the Constitution of Bangladesh.
>
> Jamaat, traditionally an Islamist fundamentalist party, in its revised
> constitution replaced the phrase describing its goal of 'establishing
> the rule of Allah' with a new phrase of 'establishing a fair and just
> Islamic society'.
>
> The party included a new section in its constitution's preamble that
> says, "Jamaat-e-Islami will work to establish an Islamic social system
> that guarantees justice for all, since Bangladesh emerged as the third
> largest Muslim country through a heroic battle of the people and freedom
> fighters."
>
> According to its interim constitution, Jamaat also co-opted the members
> of its women's majlish-e-sura into the central majlish-e-sura, the
> highest policy making body.
>
> It also added provisions for reserving 33 percent seats for women in all
> its committees with a promise to achieve the target by 2020.
>
> In line with the amended RPO, the new Jamaat constitution also promises
> to nominate parliamentary contenders from a panel created by the
> grassroots level committees and forwarded to the party's parliamentary
> board.
>
> About severing its ties with front organisations, Jamaat Assistant
> Secretary General Muhammad Kamaruzzaman who yesterday went to apply for
> the party's registration, said Jamaat has no front organisation.
>
> Jamaat, a key component of BNP-led four-party alliance which ruled the
> country just before the current caretaker government, had earlier
> refused to get registered with the EC under the current RPO, and
> challenged its legality in the High Court terming some of the amendments
> unconstitutional.
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