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From: Shakil Abdullah
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 11:59 AM
Subject: 'Jamat not involved with JMB activities' Shah Abdul Hannan tells New
Nation
Interview of Shah Abdul Hannan with The Daily New Nation, Dhaka.
'Jamat not involved with JMB activities'
Shah Abdul Hannan tells New Nation
Shah Abdul Hannan, a retired secretary to the government of Bangladesh has said
Janat-e-Islami is no way involved with the JMB activities. "Their (Jamat's)
entire history is of democratic and peaceful movement. They want to establish
Islamic system through public support and peaceful means," he said in an
exclusive interview with the New Nation on Thursday.
Regarding fining of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) Tk.1 lakh, under the
Money Laundering Act by the central bank, Mr. Hannan who was a former Chairman
of IBBL, said that the nature of offence is very minor.
"If the nature of offense was a big one, then there were provisions for jail
under the law. The punishment would have been 10 years jail of the MD or
officers who would have been involved," he said.
The full text of the interview is as follows:
NN: How do you evaluate the emergence of JMB militants in Bangladesh?
SAH: I know only about the JMB and its emergence, which has appeared in the
newspapers. I do not know much more than that. But I can also say that the
people of Bangladesh did not know about this organization called JMB until
recently, maybe six months or a year.
The government also did not say there was a big network of the JMB in
Bangladesh. We know that there is a terrorist network of Janajuddah and other
Maoist organizations or communist organizations in various parts of the
country. But the people did not know JMB.
However, the later events if August 17 and some events before that prove that
there is a big network of JMB in the country, which clearly shows that there
was failure of intelligence agencies and they did not inform the government. So
the government could not know it properly.
It seems from their statements they have extremist ideas. they do not believe
in democracy. They believe in armed revolution. They are not Islamic scholars.
Their understanding of Islam is poor. I think they will get proper punishment
by the courts. The government has done a good job in this connection.
NN: Do you think that the Jamat-e-Islami is involved with the JMB activities in
any way as some political parties alleged?
SAH: Jamat-e-Islami is not a new party. It was established in 1941. They
participated in all elections before 1970 and after 1971. Their vote was after
Awami League. The second largest vote getter was Jamat-e-Islami in 1970.
Now Jamat-e-Islami has itself stated that they are in no way involved with the
JMB. I believe them. Because their entire history is of democratic and peaceful
movement. They want to establish Islamic system through public support and
peaceful means. The Prophet (SM) also established the first Islamic state
through peaceful means by negotiation, discussion, dialogue, cooperation. So
this is the way of establishing Islam.
NN: Bangladesh Bank has fined IBBL TK1 luck for pipelining JMB's money through
some accounts maintaining with the Bank. Would you please comment on it?
SAH: I've seen today's (Thursday) news. It sways that they fined Tk 1 luck for
money transaction through some accounts. They dint say that IBBL has done money
laundering or IBBL has financed anything wrong, or financed terrorism. And the
subsection under which they were charged was a section where the punishment is
maximum Tk 1 lakh. If the nature of offense was a big one, then there were
provision for jail under the law. Then the punishment would have been 10 years
jail of the Managing Director (MD) or officers who would have been involved.
You see the central bank fines almost everyday some banks and it never comes
in the press. It never comes in the TV channels. But why it has become news in
the TV channel now? There is no doubt, because of success of IBBL this
propaganda is born out of Islam phobia. They are afraid of Islam. So they
oppose Islamic party. They oppose Islamic organizations. They will oppose
Islamic writers, scholars, thinkers and they will oppose Islamic banking. So
motive is very clear.
But I must say, in our conventional practice it is a big offense to create lack
of confidence among the people on a bank, because then not only the owners of
the bank suffer, but also the people will suffer, depositors suffer. So the
rule, tradition, practice is that banks cannot be harmed, for owners have
little money in the bank, the rest is the peoples' money.
Front page, The New Nation, April 7, 2006.
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