“Bangladesh Jamaat Wants Jihad against India”, ForPol India, September 29, 2025:
“At a reception in New York, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami deputy amir, Dr Syed Abdullah Mohammed Taher, made a claim that has unsettled many. Standing before supporters, he declared that “at least five million of our young men will wage an independence war against India.”
According to reports in Observer BD, Taher was pressed on fears that Bharatiya forces might intervene in Bangladesh to protect minorities if Jamaat ever came to power. His answer was startling: “I pray they do. If they do, the false stigma imposed on us in 1971 will be exposed, and we will have the chance to prove ourselves as true freedom fighters.”
In another account carried by BDDIGEST, Taher framed the confrontation in even more ideological terms, warning that Jamaat was ready for “Ghazwatul Hind” , a battle to avenge their defeat in 1971, and boasting of mobilising millions of youths……”
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