The issue is not what Mr Forhadi is trying to spread in a Bangladeshi forum, the future implications are disasterous. They are injurious to this diversified culture of Australia. Bangladesh the way it is, these people suit there the best. They can’t be allowed to leave Bangladesh and come here to destroy a society with such twisted thoughts.
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From: “‘Mohammad Azizul Islam’ m1islam@iinet.net.au [perthbashi]”
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Storm in a Tea cup?
We have a long historical legacy of this false controversy. Clearly, Mr Forhadi is against Bengali Nationalism. We heard that kind of things a lot during Pakistan regime. Bengali Muslims are by and large descendants of Hindu converts after Muslim conquest of Bengal in 1204 AD. Pakistani rulers tried to ‘correct’ us that was not the case, our ancestors converted largely from Buddhism; you may ask, who the Buddhists were converted from? Bengali Nationalism is in our genes; religion cannot alter it; no one can wash it off. After 1857 ‘Sepoy Mutiny’, the Crown sent William William Hunter to investigate why Her Majesty’s Muslim subjects were hostile to them. He swept a century’s ‘protected scourging of the peasantry’ under the carpet and blamed the Muslims for being a mongrel race, no more than circumcised Hindus. Wahhabi Movement tried to remove the stigma by pushing for fundamentalism, and you know what the Wahhabi brand of Islam is doing around the globe today. One of my sisters was a student at Dhaka Cantonment Adamji College in 1972. One day she came home very upset that at a debating forum, a boy raised a brawl asking what was more important: Nationalism or Religion? That brawl expanded with the ascendency of Jaamat politics and went very violent with killing of secular thinkers in Bangladesh you all know.
Here, such incidents will not be repeated. The letter asked the Khatibs to upstage their role in delivering sermons; the rest of us can leave it there for the Khatibs who will either ignore it or learn from the declining attendances at their congregations. Take up the Voltaire doctrine: you may not like what he said, but defend his right to say it – his right to free speech. I believe the Khatibs would prefer to ignore for the very wisdom of it: items 6 & 7 are secular matters, not essential to take up in the sphere of religion; his list of ‘shirik’ would beg you to ask: does he know the meaning of the word? However, the Moderator may take note if Yahoo Guidelines have been breached as that might put Perthbashi into trouble.
Aziz Islam
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