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A national Muslim organization whose publicly stated goal is "the betterment of society" is sponsoring a tour by a leader of a fundamentalist Indian Islamist political party that advocates for the creation of Islamic rule over all aspects of society.
Yusuf Islahi, a member of the governing board of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) party of India, is teaching and touring mosques in the eastern United States as part of a tour organized by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA). He is also functioning as an imam at ICNA's central headquarters in Jamaica, New York.
The trip is the latest link in a longstanding relationship between ICNA and Jamaat-e-Islami, a group of South Asian organizations advocating Islamic rule.