Jamaat-e-Islami has hitched up with the BNP again and has endorsed the much bandied program of strikes and protests against the sitting government.
Jamaat has agreed to join the June 9th sit-in and has promised full-throated support of the planned late June “peoples” strike. Though the ostensible reason that a Jamaat spokesperson offered was “to end the people’s suffering, Jamaat could well use some good public relations to goose up its popularity. A new recruitment drive anchored on anti-government actions wouldn’t hurt either.
Jamaat’s reasons to join the BNP are politically sound. The public, moral underpinnings of those reasons are far more suspect.