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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\u201cWe believe that when women are pushed out of the home in the name of modernity, they are exposed to exploitation, moral decay, and insecurity. It’s nothing but another form of prostitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSocial media vulgarity, workplace harassment, and commodification of women are not signs of progress-they are symptoms of moral collapse. We refuse to compromise with immorality, no matter how fashionable it becomes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The post had three hashtags: #Jamaat2026, #BDElection2026, and #BuildingBangladeshTogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the post created a stir on social media, the handle published a notice, claiming that the account was hacked and a post was published attributing the Jamaat chief. \u201cOur opponents may try every tactic, but we will remain focused on a positive, principled campaign for the people and the future of Bangladesh,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Netizens, mainly the Awami League supporters, secularists, and women’s rights activists, vehemently protested the Jamaat chief\u2019s statement on women. They termed it a hypocrisy since the party went to power as an alliance partner of the BNP, headed by Khaleda Zia, in 2001. The alliance remained intact until 2019-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ahead of the next elections, the Jamaat formed an 11-party electoral alliance with hardline Islamist parties and some so-called centrist parties, including the National Citizen Party (NCP), a brainchild of Prof. Muhammad Yunus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is not the first time that the Jamaat top brass termed the women prostitutes or tried to degrade them as second-class citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What we know about Shehreen Amin Bhuiyan Monami so far<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the August 2024 changeover, the Jamaat chief has made several comments on women during election campaigns that drew criticism. He said that if voted to power, the Jamaat will fix a five-hour workday for women in offices. He also said that women would be given rewards if they stayed home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amid this controversy, a video shows a woman running towards Dr. Shafiqur and hugging him in front of several other women and a dozen men during an election campaign. The woman held him tight, and the Jamaat chief did not seem nervous or angry. Instead, he was seen rubbing her back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Shafiqur is also widely criticised for kissing the lips and cheeks of children, as seen in multiple viral videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, a senior Jamaat leader from Barguna, Md. Shamim Ahsan, said that Dhaka University had been a brothel and drug den before Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat, secured victory in the DUCSU elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jamaat leader relieved for branding DUCSU as drug den, brothel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Shibir\u2019s Moral Policing At DU: Sarba Mitra Chakma punishes teenagers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jamaat\u2019s hollow distancing from Shibir threats against media, cultural institutions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The remarks, dripping with patriarchal contempt and moral policing, sparked nationwide outrage, forcing the party to distance itself in a desperate bid to salvage its tattered image. He was relieved from all posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The vile statement, equating female students and campus life with immorality, quickly went viral on social media, triggering widespread condemnation from students, alumni, women\u2019s rights groups, and civil society. It laid bare the Islamist alliance\u2019s longstanding obsession with controlling women\u2019s bodies, freedoms, and spaces\u2014hallmarks of their extremist ideology that views educated women and co-educational environments as threats to their puritanical vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Jamaat chief also protested <\/a>the recommendations by the Women\u2019s Affairs Reform Commission, accusing it of misleading society in the name of representing women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n From a conference of radical Islamist parties in April, he demanded the scrapping of the commission, saying that the commission and its report stand against the “nation’s values, beliefs, and the laws of Allah,” as the recommendations included a fair share of property and recognition of marital rape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interview With Al Jazeera<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In an interview <\/a>with Qatar-based propaganda channel Al Jazeera, Dr. Shafiqur recently said that women cannot be the chief of the party due to God-given differences between men and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whom should the US choose in Bangladesh: Jamaat, BNP, or Awami League?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jamaat\u2019s Shadow Empire: Diplomatic charms abroad, authoritarian grip at home<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n