Staff Reporter:
Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman has stated that the credit for ousting the autocratic Awami League government does not belong to any political party, but rather to the students and the people.
He remarked that the nation was freed from fascism on 5 August through the bloodshed and sacrifices of the youth and the general public.
“We seek to earn the genuine love of the people through our work. We do not want divisions between the minority and the majority. We envision a society where temples, like mosques, do not require security. If anyone attempts to disrupt our harmony, we must unite to resist them,” he said.
Dr Shafiqur Rahman made these remarks as the chief guest at a party activists’ conference organised by the Islamic party’s Sylhet city unit at the Kushiyara International Convention Hall in South Surma, Sylhet on Friday.
The event was presided over by Muhammad Fakhrul Islam, a member of Jamaat’s Central Executive Committee and the ameer of Sylhet Metropolitan Jamaat, and conducted by Secretary Muhammad Shahjahan Ali. Several thousand activists from the city attended the conference.
In his address, Dr Shafiqur Rahman added that during the regime of the “fallen fascists,” Jamaat-e-Islami suffered the most oppression. “Our top leaders were executed on charges of crimes against humanity, and they were martyred. Today, history has marked them (Awami League leaders) as the real perpetrators of crimes against humanity,” he concluded.
