{"id":7160,"date":"2026-01-29T13:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7160"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:43:25","slug":"women-can-never-lead-jamaat-e-islami-says-party-chief-shafiqur-rahman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7160","title":{"rendered":"Women Can Never Lead Jamaat-e-Islami, Says Party Chief Shafiqur Rahman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami\u2019s ameer <strong>Dr. Shafiqur Rahman<\/strong> has said a woman can <em>never<\/em> head the Islamist party, telling Al Jazeera that the top post is permanently closed to female leaders because of what he described as divinely ordained gender roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview conducted by journalist <strong>Srinivasan Jain<\/strong>, Rahman also confirmed Jamaat has <strong>no women candidates<\/strong> in the upcoming 13th parliamentary election. He framed the absence as reflective of Bangladesh\u2019s \u201cpolitical culture,\u201d adding the party is \u201cpreparing for the future\u201d and insisting this \u201cdoes not mean we disrespect women.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pressed on whether a woman could ever become Jamaat\u2019s chief, Rahman responded in the negative. He argued men and women were created \u201cdifferently,\u201d saying men cannot breastfeed or undertake maternal caregiving and that these biologically distinct roles reflect \u201cAllah\u2019s decree,\u201d which the party cannot change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked how this position squares with Bangladesh\u2019s three-decade experience of female prime ministers, Rahman said Jamaat \u201cdoes not disrespect\u201d women leaders but maintained that certain \u201cspecific responsibilities\u201d\u2014especially after motherhood\u2014pose limitations he believes men do not face. \u201cAllah has apportioned responsibilities with full knowledge,\u201d he said, reiterating that Jamaat\u2019s leadership is reserved for men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami\u2019s ameer Dr. Shafiqur Rahman has said a woman can never head the Islamist party, telling Al Jazeera that the top post is permanently closed to female leaders because of what he described as divinely ordained gender roles. In an interview conducted by journalist Srinivasan Jain, Rahman also confirmed Jamaat has no women candidates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7168,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions\/7168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}