Although
they are on opposite sides of the globe, thousands of miles from each
other, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) based out of Queens, New York and Bangladesh Islami Chhatri Sangstha (BICS) based in Dhaka, Bangladesh
sport an identical logo. Why? Maybe it’s because the groups are part of
the same organization, sharing the same hateful ideologies, and
possessing the same extremist underpinnings. The proof comes from the
groups themselves.
In 1941, the Muslim Brotherhood, the fanatic religious/political movement that began in Egypt over a decade earlier, reached the shores of South Asia. Under the name Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), individuals throughout Pakistan and, later, its surrounding areas embraced the organization’s belligerent philosophies.
One of these areas was Bangladesh.
Bangladesh
Islami Chhatri Sangstha or BICS is a JI female student group, which was
established at Dhaka University (DU) in 1978. This location and time
period is curious, as just seven years prior, a series of massacres took
place in Bangladesh, then-East Pakistan, to which DU was a main target and of which JI was a key offender.
Beginning in February, throughout the majority of 1971, upwards
of 3,000,000 Bengalis – mostly unarmed – were systematically
slaughtered at the hands of the Pakistani army in collaboration with
Islamist groups. Marked for death were Hindus and Muslims said to be
tainted by “Un-Islamic influences.” Men were set on fire, women were
raped, and children were stabbed mercilessly with bayonets. The
perpetrators included the military wing of JI, Al-Badr, then-led by Ali
Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid, who is currently the Secretary General of JI
Bangladesh and who was recently summoned to appear before a Dhaka court to face charges of war crimes.
At the end of the war, following Bangladeshi liberation, the diary of another Al-Badr operative,
Ashrafuzzaman Khan, was recovered from his residence. It contained a
list of names and addresses of several prominent Bengalis targeted as
victims in the war, including a number of DU professors. Khan is accused
of leading a death squad and personally shooting and murdering at least
seven of the DU faculty, whose names were found in his book. During the
war, hundreds of DU’s students were slain as well.
While
the members of BICS might not have been responsible for the murders,
the supremacist and exclusionary attitude which gave context to the
atrocities is very much the same within the organization. On the BICS
website, the following statements are read:
· “Its [BICS] aim is to establish in among the female students the superiority of Islam, the ideology suitable for human nature.”
· “Only Islam can develop human beings as wellwishers of humanity and decent in the true sense.”
· “We
also believe that there can be no alternative to Islam… It is also our
bounden duty to save our sisters from the onslaught of jahiliah, blind
imitation of other civilizations…”
Another group, located roughly 8000 miles from BICS, the Islamic Circle of North America or ICNA, exhibits these same bigoted tendencies. The following are statements made on ICNA’s Why Islam (WI) site in 2009:
· “The
article [concerning ‘gay history lessons’] is an eye [sic] opening for
those who keep on sending their children to state schools to be
mis-educated and de-educated by the non-Muslim monolingual teachers.
Bilingual Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with
bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental
periods. There is no place for a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a
Muslim school.”
· “You
guys [Jews] have been cursed, and G-d’s anger is over you… Who will
win? This is really not difficult to figure out… When faced with
persecution by the Nazis, did the Jews rise up to fight their
oppressors? No, they ran away to Palestine from Europe. The moral of this story is that when the going gets tough, the Jews pack their bags and leave.”
· “First
of all, muslims do not believe in the G-d of the corrupted Bible, but
we do believe in Allah… Anyone who says ‘la ilahe ilallah’ (there is not
god but Him)… is guaranteed with eternal life in heaven… Abt penalty,
there is no penalty to be done for our sins. This is [sic] wat u
christians made up!!”
ICNA was created as JI’s American affiliate in 1971, the same year as the Bangladesh
massacres. Indeed, accused Al-Badr death squad leader, Ashrafuzzaman
Khan, whose Al-Hera Islamic Institute is located less than two miles
from ICNA in the Jamaica section of Queens, is a former National Vice President and Secretary General of ICNA.
ICNA’s
current Secretary General, Muhammad Naeem Baig, contends that ICNA is
free from any foreign ties. He stated, in July of 2007 at ICNA’s 32nd
Annual Convention, “Islamic Circle of North America is a U.S. based Islamic organization. We have no relations – no links – to any organization or any country outside the United States.” It was, of course, a lie, as has been proven by this author on a number of occasions.
And a brand new proof has been discovered to end all debate on the matter.
When looking at the websites of ICNA and BICS, a striking similarity is immediately noticed – both organizations use the same exact logo,
a flower head-shaped icon with the word “Allah” inscribed inside of it
in Arabic. The logo has been found on the homepage of ICNA’s National
website since at least 1998, and it is all over the website and
materials of BICS.
In
reality, the Islamic Circle of North America is a South Asian extremist
group operating from American shores. While ICNA and BICS are located
in different parts of the world, they are part of the same sinister
organization, propagating the same hate, striving to wreak the same
havoc and cause the same harm to humanity.
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