The Jamaat-e-Islami caused murder and mayhem when it went after the Ahmadiyya community in Lahore in 1953. Hundreds of Ahmadiyyas died in the violence; their homes were destroyed because the Jamaat said they were heretics, were no part of the Islamic faith.
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By Syed Badrul Ahsan | July 17, 2013
THE wheels of justice do not always turn. But when they turn, they do so with the clear message that the perpetrators of ancient crimes always get their comeuppance at a point in historical time. The judgement delivered in the matter of the crimes committed by Ghulam Azam during Bangladesh’s War of Liberation reinforces the old argument that sooner or later those who commit misdeeds must pay for their acts. Now a frail ninety-one year-old man, Azam is proof that criminality is never forgotten, some sins are never expiated. He joins the ranks of men who have killed or helped to kill and were therefore condemned by law and censured by history.
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