I admit right up front that this article is way over my head. I know India is plagued by Islamists and is experiencing horrific terrorist attacks— that’s about all I know. Readers with some knowledge of the region may get more from it than I do.
I’m posting it here to continue to build our archive on Rohingyas who have a very organized campaign to seek resettlement in the west, specifically Europe, Canada and the US.
Author Maloy Krishna Dhar in “The Fulcrum of Eastern Evil….” contending that the source of Indian terrorism is in Bangladesh, says the following:
While the Jamait-e-Islami was revived by Zia-ur-Rahman, its student wing and former Ansar and Badr loyalists rallied around Islamic Chhatra Shibir (student group) with deep connectivity with Islamic Students Organisation of Pakistan and the International Islamic Students Federation. However, proliferation in Islamist jihadi Tanzeems was intensified after the CIA [Ed: I don’t get his CIA role], ISI, DGFI jointly recruited over 30,000 Bengali and about 5000 Rohingya (Arakanese Muslims) for the Afghan jihad, They were flown or shipped to Pakistan and were trained in ISI managed camps in Peshawar, Quetta, Chaman and later in certain mujahideen run training facilities inside Afghanistan. It may be noted that most of these Bengali recruits were attached to the Hizb-e-Islami group of Gulbuddin Hikmetyar, an ISI stooge, close to General Zia-ul-Haq.
About 8000 remnants of the highly trained Bengali jihadis returned to Bangladesh around 1989-90 along with unaccounted number of Arab Al Qaeda fighters. Bangladesh government headed by Begum Zia denied existence of Al Qaeda members in Bangladesh, but maintained mysterious silence about the Afghan veterans. On return from Pakistan, some even from Bosnia, Kosovo and far off Chechnya, these jihadis fanned out to interior districts and gradually started establishing shop in the form of masjids and madrasas.
There are about 32 listed Islamist terrorist groups in Bangladesh.
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The main Bangladesh based Tanzeems are: Jamait-e-Islami (JeI), Islami Chhatra Shibir, Islami Oikyo Jote (IOJ), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), The Jihad Movement of Bangladesh, Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO), Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) Jagrato Muslim Janata (JMJ), Hijbut Tehrir, Allhar Dal (Party of Allah), Jamait ul Mujahideen Balgladesh (Bangla Bhai),
Shahadat-i-Alam-al-Hiqma, Tablighi Jammat Bangladesh, Ahl-e-Hadis Movement (Hadith) Bangladesh and Sadhin Bangla Islamic Front etc.