Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami, long accused of radical politics and violent extremism, is quietly attempting an image makeover and foreign players may be playing a role in the exercise.

Highly placed sources told News18 that Jamaat, barred from elections by Bangladesh’s Supreme Court in 2013 and officially outlawed by then prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s government in 2024, is preparing to replace its controversial electoral symbol. For decades, the party’s logo carried the Arabic term “Aakimuddin", which meant “establish Islam", along with the calligraphic inscription of Allah. The imagery was unmistakably Islamist and reinforced its ideological goal of enforcing Sharia.

While Jamaat tried to change its logo earlier, its hard-line alignment meant formal letterheads continued to stick to t

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