; Whereas respected Bangladeshi jurist and political opposition leader Kamal Hossain has publicly called for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party to sever its ties with Jamaat-e-Islami; Whereas various organizations in the United States that receive Federal funds, such as the Islamic Circle of North America, share leadership and are openly affiliated with Jamaat-e-Islami; Whereas Helping Hand for Relief and Development, a registered charitable organization in the United States, openly partnered in 2017 with Pakistan’s Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation, which the United States Government designated as a terrorist organization in 2016; Whereas repeated attacks on religious minorities, expanding religious extremism, and growing destabilization caused by radical groups, including Jamaat-e-Islami and its affiliates, undermine United States economic and strategic interests in Bangladesh; and Whereas there is a growing trend of Islamic extremism in South Asia tied to pro-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria activity, with several arrests of Islamists linked with the terrorist group made in recent years: Now, therefore, be it