Islami Oikya Jote

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Islami Oikya Jote ( IOJ , Bengali ইসলামী ঐক্য জোট , "Islamic United Front" ) is an Islamist party in Bangladesh .

Party history

Islami Oikya Jote was founded in 1990 by the merger of seven Bangladeshi Islamic parties. The composition of IOJ changed somewhat in the following years due to the resignation of individual groups. Dissident factions split off several times over the years.

In the parliamentary elections in 1991 and June 1996 , Islami Oikya Jote won 0.79% and 1.09% of the vote, respectively, and one of the 300 constituencies. Islami Oikya Jote was in January 1999 one of the four founding parties of the BNP party alliance under Khaleda Zia (alongside BNP, Jatiya Party and Jamaat-e-Islami ). Later this party alliance expanded to 20 parties. The 2001 general election was won by the BNP-led party alliance and IOJ won 2 out of 300 constituencies. Subsequently, IOJ was personally involved in the BNP-led coalition government under Khaleda Zia. In the 2008 general election , IOJ did not win a constituency and in 2014 it did not vote.

On January 7, 2016, IOJ announced its withdrawal from the BNP-led party alliance. You want to operate an independent policy in the future.

Since the death of the former party leader Fazlul Haque Amini in December 2012, Abdul Latif Nezami has been party chairman ( Ameer , Emir ) of the IOJ.

Program

Programmatically, Islami Oikya Jote strives for the rapid transition to an Islamic state. Compared to Jamaat-e-Islami , the IOJ focuses more on rural areas. The party tries to gain influence through Madrasa . In the past, she has been involved in rioting against the Ahmadiyyas , who are viewed as "infidels". Compared to Jamaat, IOJ has a less professional and media-effective appearance. Critics of the party accused it of relatively openly supporting Islamic fundamentalism, the Taliban and al-Qaeda . When the Bangladeshi government announced a reform of family law in 2004, according to which women should also be able to file for divorce (previously this was only possible for husbands under Sharia law ), IOJ spoke out against it. This is against the principles of Islam.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ali Riaz, C. Christine Fair: Political Islam and Governance in Bangladesh. Routledge, 2011, Oxon / New York. ISBN 0-203-84530-7 . P. 103
  2. ^ Election Reports. Election Commission of Bangladesh, archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; accessed on March 19, 2016 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Islami Oikya Jote leaves BNP-led 20-Party alliance. bdnews24.com, January 7, 2016, accessed March 19, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Alex Perry: Deadly Cargo - Bangladesh has become a safe haven for al Qaeda. Time Asia, October 21, 2002, accessed March 19, 2016 .
  5. ↑ BANGLADESH TODAY Asia Report N ° 121. (PDF) (No longer available online.) International Crisis Group, October 23, 2006, archived from the original on May 20, 2016 ; accessed on March 19, 2016 (English).
  6. ↑ Bangladesh divorce reform planned. BBC News, September 23, 2004, accessed March 19, 2016 .