Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Omari, Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, on 30 October expressed deep sorrow at the death sentence awarded to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami chief and country’s popular political leader Maulana Mutiur Rahman Nizami by disputed war crime tribunal set up by the Shaikh Hasina Wajid government. Maulana Omari termed the death sentence as trampling of justice and human rights and mockery of moral and Islamic values.
Maulana Omari said: While the Bangladesh government is being condemned across the world for the death of very elderly leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Prof. Ghulam Azam in the custody of the government a few days back, by awarding death sentence to another leader of Jamaat, Mutiur Rahman Nizami, the government has orchestrated its barbaric revengeful attitude and thus maligned the image of Islam, Muslims and also Bangladesh in the world. It will be in the interest of all if Bangladesh government refrains from it.
The JIH leader wondered as to why the Shaikh Hasina government is ignoring the fact that to run her government in the past, she had allied with the same Jamaat whose leaders she wants to eliminate one by one. She, therefore, must answer the question: If those people were not criminals (indeed they weren’t) when she allied with them in the past, then how have they become criminals now?
Maulana Omari advised Prime Minister Shaikh Hasina Wajid and her government not to leave Deen and justice just to please anti-Islam imperialist forces. They should fear accountability before Allah and release all leaders and members of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami from jails. This will help them restore the reputation of their country also.