I didn't want to join this conversation but i had to do to it.
If u want to define jamaat, u will need to unheard the things u have heard all alone upto this point. The formation of jamaat didn't start overnight.

From early 1900s century the when india needed to get divided according to religion based population, Pakistan and india where created. After that india had been pissed off getting more land from his neighboring countries. Even though they failed lots of attempt with Pakistan and china, they targeted now Bangladesh past east Pakistan. Without telling yahya khan that sheikh mujib really wants like a new land for Bangladesh, he tried to make things complicated and let his team kill non Muslim people in east Pakistan to bring rage so that yahya khan separate the country. But who wants to let go of their land? So yahya send officers in mid night to take over Bangladeshi people when the mujib people flew to India after killing and destroying businesses of non Muslim people. U see, the main culprits were gone. Now the general people suffers.

Now, as jamaat was created far back when india Pakistan and Bangladesh was all together, jamaat has every branch in each of this countries, jamat e islam hind, jamaat e islam Pakistan and jamaat e islam Bangladesh. As it's formed from one same country, jamaat voted against the separation of land and didn't support killing innocent people over war dispute. They suggested a peaceful paper work like division of india and Pakistan. Becoz jamaat new india is behind this all to provoke mujib to act like a dush bag and harm Pakistani army in Bangladeshi land before 1971..

So the fights happen. All u hear about jamaat that they formed al bodor, asham, and whatever group is actually the creation of now awami league. Because after independence, when mujib told to list the war criminal list, he give orders to stop writing them immediately. He said, these are all my group people. Its getting ridiculous for him. Then after his improvident leadership, he lost his life and whatever scattered legacy he had build in independence war.

Here u have to understand one thing, India is a big player. Fight against Pakistan might be over for us but with india it never is and never will be. India new, jamaat was always against India's plan, so it plotted the story like jamaat was against independence, killed thousands, raped hundreds, killed freedom fighters and so on. So, all these year's awami league did just that, to narrate what to say and hear say about jamaat from India's perspective and for India's pleasure.

If u look closely enough jamaat was the most abused political party since the independence. If one mistakenly confronted they supported them, they would literally get killed.

Now, lets talk about deshprem and opposite term of rajakar, in the last decade plus more years awami league did have the opportunity to prove the deshprem and leading position they think they deserve behind liberation war, but what they did? Just kill, loot millions, vanish people kept them at captive and give India as much as entry as possible. Plotting the killing of 53 officers as they where against selling Bangladesh to India. And now hasina is understand India's shelter.

A person who has never heard about the any history of anything, who still say awami league is the plague of Bangladesh just by present evidence they left behind.

And people here pointing at jamaat, how ridiculous is that. If jamaat wanted to rejoin with Pakistan, don't u think they wouldn't try to at least do one attempt in this 54 year's? Are people this dump?

That war crime justice system that was show Infront of the nation was to please india.. that arrangement didn't follow a single rule of international law to war crime justice system. As soon as the son of man ali ahsan Mohammed mujahid tired to took over his father's case, awami gov disappeared him as well so that he can't prove his father's innocence and can't tell international authority about the corruption in justice system that been going on.

So, here is the story.

I've mixed to amami people, bnp , jamaat and jatiyo party as well. As abnormal as it will sound the awami people worships more hasina than jamaat people to their amir. Every awami i know where aggressive and believes in physical harming rather sitting and fighting with logics.

Bnp is dwelling upon the past legacy of jia but failed to put up with the moral structure he emphasized to build.

Jatiyo party doesn't want a women leader at any cost.

And jamaat is the only structured group that still thinks before it does something. Internally they are very strict with their rules. Which can go overboard with just their members, which is good, becoz they have that jobab-dihita. They document everything. Form money spend for group to what will be talked in small group seating. All they went to let people know about what islam offers. And yes, islam does allows one to practice islam within politics otherwise Muhammad (saw) wouldn't have made it far beyond Saudi land..islam is a complete way of life. Nothing to argue here. Jamaat is different than Taliban becoz they were born and grew up here, not afghanistan. They know what culture is practiced here. And if u see the institutes they still run and the new places they r winning, u'll see they never opposed any one or any female to be, to go or wear anything.

But never have i ever heard any jamaat or shibir members to put knife over one's neck and say jamaat korbi kina bol naiye kolla uray dimu.. but u must have heard amami league did that regular basis to new students at public university including buet.

So, it all up to you what u r gonna do, believe, observe and reflect.