In a hard-hitting exclusive interview, Dr. Michael Rubin—former Pentagon official and senior fellow at both the American Enterprise Institute and the Middle East Forum—delivers a scathing critique of Muhammad Yunus, whose downfall is imminent. Rubin asserts that the people of Bangladesh are no longer blind to Yunus’s misdeeds, and if he fails to grasp this shifting tide, he will find himself spending his final days behind bars. Taking his criticism a step further, Dr. Rubin calls on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to take decisive action, urging sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act against Yunus for his blatant abuses of human rights and violations of international law.

Here is the full excerpt of this explosive interview:

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury: Hello readers! Our guest today is Dr. Michael Rubin. Dr. Rubin is a former Pentagon official and is currently senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute as well as the Middle East forum. Dr. Rubin welcome.

Dr. Michael Rubin: Thank you so much.

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury: In your recent article titled ‘Why is Bangladesh’s Nobel Peace Laureate Imprisoning Journalists’, you have cited references of Nobel laureates such as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi who used Nobel Peace Prize to shield their wrongdoings. In Bangladesh, Yunus, who was seen as a progressive by the West is now proven as one of the top promoters and patrons of radical Islam, jihad and Caliphate madness. At the same time, Yunus faces numerous allegations centering his microfinance ventures, including documented allegations of fooling the world through lies.

Considering these scenarios, and gradual increase in Islamist and jihadist forces in Bangladesh, what fate actually awaits the country?

Dr. Michael Rubin: Look I’m pessimistic right now about Bangladesh unless Bangladeshis are able to take matters into their own hands and stop their own descent into a situation from which it will be near impossible to recover. When it comes to Muhammad Yunus at best, he’s naïve at best he’s providing cover for Jamaat-e-Islami. At worst he’s complicit. Now that complicity could be ideological or it could be ego-driven given his own personal history with the Awami League. When it comes to some of the journalists it also appears to be personal and when he’s imprisoning Farzana Rupa and Shakil Ahmed, it appears that he’s very critical of the fact that they understood how corrupt he actually was at the Grameen Bank. The point of this is that having a Nobel Peace Prize doesn’t immunize oneself from accountability for their own actions. Now when it comes to Jamaat-e-Islam put aside the fact that they are the only party outside the Nazi party in Germany, that was ever tried as a whole for their complicity in genocide. Put aside the fact that they are war criminals. When it comes to Jamaat-e-Islami, what I advise the United States government and I think it’s only a matter of time is that they deserve the designation of foreign terror organization, simply because of their actions objectively rather than any subjective criticism one might have towards Jamaat-e-Islami.

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury: Dr. Rubin! Muhammad Yunus is following the trajectory of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and HTS kingpin Ahmad Al-Sharaa. Bangladeshi civil society and journalists are in peril. Meanwhile, Yunus is spending millions of dollars in running propaganda in his favor in the international media. Recently he has publicly admitted of asking the UN Secretary-General to help him in fighting “disinformation and fake news in the international media” against his regime.

We understand he definitely has asked António Guterres about Indian media. Also, maybe your article in the 1945 and many other critical articles. So, what I mean, United Nations Secretary General now helping caliphate monger Yunus in fighting “disinformation”. How do you see such disturbing scenarios?

Dr. Michael Rubin: First of all Salah Uddin, you started out with two examples Ahmad Al-Sharaa in Syria and also Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Of course, was famous for saying democracy is like a street car, you ride it as far as you need and then you step off. I’ll come back to Recep Erdogan in a second. I want to give another example and that would be of Ayatollah Rohullah Khomeini in the run up to Iran’s Islamic revolution. Now many of your audience realize that before Khomeini returned to Iran, he lived in France for a year and........

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