A South Asian Threat in America

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A South Asian Threat in America
by Sam Westrop    Morning Consult  March 7, 2019

Few Americans have heard of Jamaat-e-Islami. But in South Asia, it is notorious. In 1971, Jamaati paramilitary groups slaughtered tens of thousands of Bangladeshis during its War of Liberation from Pakistan. Its terrorist ties today extend from Asia to America.

A new resolution introduced in the House by Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) demands an end to U.S. government funding for Jamaat’s U.S. proxies and calls for a criminal investigation into links between a prominent American Jamaati charity and one of Pakistan’s most prominent terrorist movements.

Founded in British India in 1941 by the prominent Islamist theorist Abul Ala Maududi, Jamaat is active across the Indian subcontinent and has been closely involved with terror.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide

http://www.genocidebangladesh.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concert_for_Bangladesh

George Harrison put on the fund raising concert for Bangladesh. This history is probably somewhat obscure to us, Islamic Militias from Pakistan hunted down and killed people. I'll leave the details to others.