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November 20, 2017
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ISNA
President Addresses Jamaat-e-Islami Crowd In India
by John Rossomando • Nov 17, 2017
at 6:13 pm
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The leader of the largest Muslim group in the United States, the Islamic
Society of North America (ISNA), addressed a radical Asian Islamist group
during a trip to India.
ISNA President Azhar Azeez spoke to India's Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH)
during a visit to Hyderabad. ISNA posted an announcement of Azeez's visit on its Facebook
page Friday.
Jamaat-e-Islami is an Asian version of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. Its
leaders advocate laws that criminalize blasphemy against Islam.
Its constitution calls for "the reconstruction of society" and
the formation of an Islamic State. It tells Muslims to avoid going to
"un-Islamic" courts to settle dispute except under "compelling necessity."
Founder Maulana Maududi declared that insufficiently Islamic regimes
should be destroyed and replaced
by an Islamic State and eventually a caliphate. Maududi inspired Iran's Ayatollah
Khomeini and ISIS's self-appointed Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Still, Azeez used a Twitter post to show that he met with Jamaat-e-Islami's
leadership in Delhi. ISNA was founded by Muslim Brotherhood members in the
United States. The group has tried to distance itself from that past and present
itself as the representative of mainstream American Muslims. But its
conferences have featured radical Islamist speakers, and this year, it tossed a gay-friendly group called Muslim for
Progressive Values from its annual gathering.
In Asia, Jamaat-e-Islami's leaders encourage boycotts against the Ahmadiyya Muslim
minority, which led to Ahmadiyyas being evicted from their homes and fired
from their jobs.
Jamaat-e-Islami branches in Kashmir and Bangladesh have been tied to terrorist
activities.
Bangladesh executed top former Jamaat-e-Islami leaders for war crimes
committed during its 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
JIH supported terrorism against American troops and in the Middle East.
It praised "the historic victory against Israeli
aggression in Lebanon by the Hezbollah led Lebanese National
resistance" in a March 2007 statement in conjunction with other Muslim
groups.
Azeez's speech to a Jamaat branch, and his desire to promote it,
reinforces the perception that ISNA's attempts at moderation are
superficial.
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