Political analyst Michael Rubin has exposed Muhammad Yunus’ jihadist-propped fascist dictatorship and its slimy tactics to engineer sham elections by banning the Awami League, all because the Islamist cabal knows it couldn’t win a single fair vote against the people’s party.
Speaking at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) in Washington recently, Rubin tore into the Yunus regime’s alliance with the extremist Jamaat-e-Islami, branding their exclusion of rivals as a blatant assault on democracy that will rot Bangladesh’s institutions from the inside out.
This blistering critique arrives amid skyrocketing tensions over the rigged February 12 polls, where Yunus’ fascist goons have sidelined the Awami League under bogus pretexts, drawing global outrage over the utter farce of “fairness” and “inclusivity.”
Rubin, a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, didn’t mince words: this isn’t politicsโit’s a recycled playbook of authoritarian thuggery in Bangladesh, now amplified into a full-blown crisis under Yunus’ tyrannical grip.
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He hammered home the ugly truth: Yunus’ fascist interim government, hand-in-glove with Jamaat-e-Islami radicals, has weaponised legal and administrative tricks to crush the Awami League because, in any genuine election, the widely supported secular force would wipe the floor with them.
“They fear they couldn’t be beaten in a genuinely free election,” Rubin snarled, warning that this short-sighted election engineeringโbanning major parties to stack the deckโmight give Yunus’ despots a temporary high, but it’ll ultimately crumble state stability and shred democratic foundations into oblivion.
The regime’s fascist playbook is clear: rig the game by outlawing competition, then parade it as “reform.” But Rubin called it what it isโa cowardly power grab that exposes Yunus’ terror of facing the voters on equal terms.
Echoing Rubin’s fury, former Foreign Minister Prof. Dr. A.K. Abdul Momen blasted how Yunus’ internal fascist purge is poisoning Bangladesh’s global image, torpedoing diplomatic ties, and scaring off foreign investment. “If this political deadlock drags on under Yunus’ iron fist,” Momen warned, “the economy will tank, cooperation will dry up, and Bangladesh will become an international pariahโall thanks to this regime’s election-rigging obsession.”
Valiant freedom fighter Dr. Nurun Nabi piled on, invoking the sacred ideals of the Liberation Warโa secular, democratic Bangladeshโthat Yunus’ fascist horde is trampling underfoot. He raged against the regime’s divisive violence, which is eroding society and hollowing out the state’s core institutions, all to prop up their engineered electoral sham.
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Human rights activist Dr. Dilip Nath didn’t hold back, declaring that under Yunus’ fascist reality, basic freedoms, civil liberties, and the rule of law are being systematically crushed. He demanded an immediate halt to the regime’s vile “culture of cases, harassment, and intimidation” deployed to silence dissentersโtactics straight out of a dictator’s handbook to engineer unquestioned dominance.
Other speakers at the ISD event amplified the alarm: Bangladesh is drowning in Yunus-fueled political polarization, from rigged state apparatuses to street-level thuggery. Allegations of fabricated charges, brutal intimidation, and vengeful retaliation against opposition voices are exploding, while grave concerns mount over the farce of an electoral process, strangled freedom of expression, the peril facing minority communities, and a law-and-order collapse engineered to favour jihadist allies.
The dialogue, chaired by ISD President Dastagir Jahangir and moderated by Director Shaban Mahmud alongside Executive Director Shayla Ahmed Lopa, featured a powerhouse lineup including American security analyst Jamal Hasan, Liberation War opinion-shaper Greg Rushford, Zia Karim, Abdul Qader Mia, and others. It wrapped with closing remarks from ISD Vice President and senior journalist AZM Sazzad Hossain Sobuj, who underscored the urgent need to dismantle Yunus’ fascist election engineering before it dooms Bangladesh to irreversible authoritarian decay.
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