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Ashrafuzzaman Khan, a former top official of the Islamic Circle of North America in Queens, New York, personally slaughtered seven university professors as the chief executioner of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Al Badr death squads during the 1971 Bangladesh massacre. Despite being convicted in absentia of war crimes, he helped build one of America’s largest Muslim organizations and continues to live freely in the United States.
The United States federal government must immediately open denaturalization proceedings against Ashrafuzzaman Khan and send this convicted war criminal to Bangladesh to face his death sentence without further delay. Contact your elected officials today and demand they pressure the DOJ to act. Share this article far and wide until Ashrafuzzaman Khan is on a plane to Dhaka!
Ashrafuzzaman Khan, as “chief executioner”, personally slaughtered seven university professors for the violent Islamic Jamaat-e-Islami’s Al Badr death squads during the 1971 Bangladesh intellectual massacre.
The Al Badr militia, backed by Pakistan and Jamaat-e-Islami, slaughtered hundreds of professors, doctors, and journalists in the final days of the war to cripple the new nation.
Despite his execution in Bangladesh for war crimes, Motiur Rahman Nizami’s (founder and commander of Al Badr) sons continue the family’s influence – one son Nazibur Rahman Momen as a Jamaat-e-Islami parliamentarian in Bangladesh who worked for many years as a barrister and former lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, and the other son Mohammad Nakibur Rahman as a University of North Carolina professor, spokesperson for Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and Treasurer of the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned US Council of Muslim Organizations in America (USCMO).
Convicted in absentia and sentenced to death by Bangladesh’s war crimes tribunal in 2013, Ashrafuzzaman Khan fled to the US and rose to become Vice President and a key builder of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), one of America’s largest Muslim organizations.
ICNA defended Khan as a “model citizen,” then quietly scrubbed his name from its site after the conviction became public.
Abul Ala Maududi, the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami whose works are promoted by ICNA, declared in his 1939 speech “Jihad in Islam” that Islam must destroy all non-Islamic governments. Abul Ala Maududi’s own family embedded itself in American institutions: Maududi’s son Dr. Syed Ahmad Farooq helped found the Islamic Circle of North America, one granddaughter Sophia Farooq serves as a Republican official in Georgia, and another granddaughter Saira Farooq works as a statistician at the Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Khan’s associate, another convicted Al Badr killer Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, fled to London, where he became a senior figure in the Muslim community. He received 225,000 pounds from the UK government after suing for libel over his documented crimes.
Despite DOJ probes into his past, US authorities have done nothing to rid America of convicted war criminal Ashrafuzzaman Khan. No deportation, no denaturalization. Khan remains free.
There’s an Islamic leader living openly in Queens, New York, who played a central role in building one of the most prominent Muslim organizations in the United States from its earliest days. He held top leadership positions across national Islamic groups, mentored generations in his community, and even pushed local authorities to change parking rules so Muslims could pray without tickets during Eid celebrations.
He also personally executed seven university professors at gunpoint.
And he is still living freely in America.
This is the story of Ashrafuzzaman Khan and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) – the account of a convicted mass murderer living openly as an Islamic leader in Queens, as the federal government opts to ignore his heinous war crimes to this day.
Following his involvement in the organized targeting and murder of intellectuals during the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, Ashrafuzzaman Khan emigrated to the United States, where he subsequently became a Vice President of ICNA.
Ironically, Khan addressed an “anti-war” protest on April 9, 2011 sponsored by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), which is dominated by the “hardcore Marxist” Workers World Party. The coalition was endorsed by a mixture of Islamic and far-left organizations, yet another example of the Red/Green Axis, a convergence of Marxism and Islam.
At the time of this writing, this rare video of Khan is still available on the ICNA YouTube page. The description explicitly notes that the video was “provided by UNACpeace.org”.
Consider the irony of a convicted war criminal addressing an antiwar protest. This is not at all unusual, however. For the far left and for Islam, “peace” has never meant peace. It means submission.
The Intellectual Massacre That Crippled a Nation
In 1971, as Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) fought for independence from Pakistan, 23-year-old Ashrafuzzaman Khan served as a commander in the notorious Al Badr militia. Formed by the Islamic political party Jamaat-e-Islami with direct support from the Pakistani army, Al Badr’s mission was to crush the independence movement by any means necessary. Founded by Abul Ala Maududi, Jamaat-e-Islami advocates for an Islamic state governed by sharia.
The structural “mastermind” behind the terror campaign was Major General Rao Farman Ali, the military adviser to the governor, whose handwritten notebook directly coordinated the systematic elimination of the Bengali intelligentsia.
As Pakistani forces faced defeat in December 1971, Al Badr launched a calculated extermination campaign. Between December 10 and 14 – just days before Bangladesh’s victory – they compiled a hit list of the country’s brightest minds: university professors, doctors, journalists, and writers. Armed squads stormed homes at night, dragged victims away at gunpoint, murdered them using bayonets and shooting them at close range (see page 219-220), and dumped their bodies in mass graves and swamps outside Dhaka. The goal was clear: decapitate the intellectual class so the new nation could never rebuild.
Prosecutors later identified Khan as the “chief executioner” of this operation. See page 4 of the Bangladesh indictment, courtesy of the IPT:
Download: prosecutors-refer-to-ashrafuzzaman-khan-as-chief-executioner
Eyewitness testimony was damning: a driver recounted transporting victims to execution sites where Khan personally shot seven university professors. A survivor described seeing Khan issuing orders during the abductions and killings. Investigators even recovered a diary from a safe house linked to Khan containing the names and addresses of the targeted professors – scheduled for death within days.
Bangladesh declared independence on December 16, 1971. Following the war, Ashrafuzzaman Khan fled to Pakistan, where he worked for the state radio service, before eventually relocating to the United States. His associate, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, settled in London. Both individuals – Ashrafuzzaman Khan and Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin – were later tried and convicted in absentia by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal for their roles in the 1971 atrocities.
To date, neither has been returned to Bangladesh to face justice.
UK Taxpayers Fork Out £225,000 to Convicted War Criminal Who Butchered Bengali Intellectuals
Ashrafuzzaman Khan’s associate, convicted war criminal Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, also slaughtered Bengali intellectuals in 1971 as a leader of the Al Badr death squads. Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal-2 convicted him in 2013 on multiple charges of crimes against humanity for his role in abducting, torturing, and murdering 18 prominent professors, journalists, and doctors in the final days of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence.
He was sentenced to death by hanging.
He fled to Britain shortly after the war, secured British citizenship in 1984, and has lived openly in London ever since as a senior figure in the Muslim community. He has been a “campaigner against Salman Rushdie“, served as Director of Muslim Spiritual Care Provision in the National Health Service, chairman of Muslim Aid, vice-chairman of the East London Mosque, and helped establish the Muslim Council of Great Britain.
In 2019, the UK Home Office published an official report that
correctly identified Mueen-Uddin as one of those responsible for the
1971 war crimes. He sued the British government for libel. The UK
Supreme Court ruled in his favor in 2024, and on 25 November 2025 the Home Secretary and Home Office stood in open court, issued a groveling apology, and paid him £225,000 in damages plus his legal costs for repeating the documented facts of his conviction.
This verdict, and the very fact that Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin lives free in England, is a slap in the face to the families of the victims of the massacres in Bangladesh.
ICNA Fights Back; Says Khan is a ‘Model Citizen’
Founded in 1968, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) is a U.S.-based organization ideologically influenced by Jamaat-e-Islami. Then-president of ICNA Naeem Baig defended Ashrafuzzaman Khan, declaring that he is a “model citizen”. “His service to the Muslim community and his relationship with people of all faiths and backgrounds is very well known in the community,” Baig said. “He’s a man who dedicated his life to the community. That’s what we know of Imam Khan,” he continued.
Still, the pressure to distance themselves from Khan must have been too great, as ICNA scrubbed him from their website.
As an aside, Naeem Baig was leading the organization when ICNA became a founding member of the US Council of Muslim Organizations, a coalition of Islamic groups “comprised almost solely of elements of the US Muslim Brotherhood”.
It is no surprise, then, that ICNA maintains deep, longstanding ties to the global Muslim Brotherhood network. It is explicitly listed as one of the Brotherhood’s “organizations and the organizations of our friends” in the 1991 “Explanatory Memorandum” – the internal Brotherhood document that outlined a “civilizational jihad” to undermine Western society from within (see page 15):
Download: Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America
ICNA’s Deep Connection to Jamaat-e-Islami Founder and Jihadi Thought Leader Abul A’la Maududi
ICNA’s “reading list emphasizes works by the late Jamaat-e-Islami founder Sayyid Abul ‘Ala Maududi.” While Maududi is not a household name in the West, he “created the ideological template for the modern Islamic state”. Maududi heavily influenced “Milestones” author Sayyid Qutb, who believed that any social or political order not based strictly on Sharia is illegitimate.
Maududi also produced one of the most influential and widely respected English translations of the Quran, accompanied by his own extensive tafsirs (detailed commentaries and legal interpretations of the verses). The work, titled Towards Understanding the Quran, is regarded by many as a definitive modern reference. The translation and commentary make clear that Maududi viewed the Quran as a comprehensive blueprint for Islamic revival and global dominance-an explicit manual for what can be described as Islamic manifest destiny.
A Chicago Tribune article from 2004 described Sayyid Qutb’s “In the Shade of the Koran” and “Milestones” as books that “urge jihad, martyrdom and the creation of Islamic states.”
In 1939, Maududi delivered a revealing speech titled “Jihad in Islam” at Lahore’s Town Hall, where he openly called for the destruction of all non-Islamic governments worldwide and the establishment of global Islamic rule through jihad. Speaking amid rising international tensions on the eve of World War II, Maududi made clear that Islam is a revolutionary ideology that cannot coexist with other systems. He declared that jihad’s objective is to eliminate un-Islamic rule everywhere and impose Sharia universally, rejecting any permanent peace with non-Muslim sovereignty.
Deeply reminiscent of philosophy prescribed by the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Project”, Maududi’s speech laid out the ideological blueprint for civilization jihad:
“Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam, regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it… It must be evident to you from this discussion that the objective of Islamic ‘jihād’ is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish in its stead an Islamic system of state rule. Islam does not intend to confine this revolution to a single State or a few countries; the aim of Islam is to bring about a universal revolution.”
Read the entire speech here:
Download: Maududi’s ‘Jihad in Islam’
Maududi has preached that Islam was not like other religions because it offers a “system encompassing all fields of living” including politics, economics, and legislation.
He wrote:
“[Muslims] must strive to change the wrong basis of government, and seize all powers to the rule and make laws from those who do not fear Allah.”
ICNA honors Sayyid Abul ‘Ala Maududi to this day.
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