Comments on: Battling Islamists in Bangladesh

By: Munia

Munia — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:57:37 +0000

Its easy to talk so many things, its great to think such a way for the welfare of Bangladesh but its really hard to do something from so far, living in USA!! People go there to make their own life and talk about the prosperity of Bangladesh…really very amaging!! Please come here and utilize your merit, efforts etc to do something….

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Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:12:17 +0000

[...] eines Textes von dem im Exil lebenden Dichter Daud Haider ausgesprochen. The Third World View und E-Bangladesh bieten mehr zu diesem Thema. Die Bangladeschi Blogger fordern einen internationalen Kampf um Arifur [...]

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Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:37:15 +0000

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By: Muhamad

Muhamad — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:10:19 +0000

An admirable article Mash bhai. I read the Koran, begrudgingly, at the age of 8/9, and I’m yet to derive any import out of it. The Koranic injunction to “read” isn’t applicable to everything, e.g., pre-Islamic erotic literature of Arabia. Let’s not forget what was done to a mere poetess.

By: Mash

Mash — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:49 +0000

I noticed that a couple of right wing American blogs have linked to E-Bangladesh and the cartoon controversy. Just to give you a feel for the the kind of bigotry and hate we are dealing with on both sides, read this comment on this right wing blog.

These mullahs in Bangladesh do a true disservice not only by their outrageous actions but also by their overdeveloped sense of outrage at anything and everything. They are outraged at everything — by doing so they take away the middle where legitimate dialogue can take place. What you are left with is genuine debate stifled and bigotry and hate coming from the two extremes. The wingnuts on the American right propagate the same kind of bigotry that we see from the Islamists — the two extremes are quite similar.

Now, for those people in Bangladesh who were “outraged” by the cartoon about the cat, please read the comment I linked to above and tell me if you understand the difference between hate speech that insults the Prophet and a cartoon. (I’ll give you a hint, the cartoon was not insulting the Prophet).

By: Sid

Sid — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:34:11 +0000

The New Age editorial is a spurious, willfully obtuse piece of propagandising. Who do they think they’re fooling? New Age is openly aligning themselves with the perpetrators of the fallacious assertion that the cartoon is anti-Prophet (SAW). Anyone with a brain and a cursory exposure to Bangla culture knows that that’s a lie and therefore a piece of propaganda. New Age is aligning itself with the Khilafists and they have the temerity to call others “pseudo-liberals”. This is yellow journalism at it’s worst.

By: Jagoruk Manush

Jagoruk Manush — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:28:33 +0000

A rise of a Mule from the ashes of a Phoenix Matiur Rahman of Prathom Alo and Matiur Rahman of Ekata. Time has changed. So has this world. Some changes have linkage with past. Others are so rapid, so much contradictory, that past can not hold the present. And, present can not recognize the past. The latter is Mr. Matiur Rahman, the editor of Prathom Alo and a stranger to his own past. His change is no less dramatic and devastating than the change that tore Soviet Union into pieces. The reasons of such incredible change of Matiur and of Soviet are the same,

By: Akash

Akash — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:18:17 +0000

A very thoughtful and incisive piece. For those who are still in the magic thrall of the CT/whatever government, the current event in Bangladesh should be a wake-up call. Analysts in Dhaka and foreign media have spoken before of the danger of the political void filled up Islamists types. And the CTG — army backed, supported, led — is facilitating that, either in a planned manner, which would be quite a dangerous reality indeed (Note: Jamaat not touched in any way), or as a consequence of their brash and arrogant game of dismantling the structure of the main political parties. The result of either is the same anyway. As far as I see, the country is in a mess and is heading towards more because of the militarized environment where laws are being made whimsically, brandished arbitrarily, and deployed mercilessly. No matter how it sweetly it may have started, the CTG simply has derailed the country.

The photograph of the meeting of the three is most telling. Please notice the facial expression and body language of the

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By: Imran

Imran — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:03:02 +0000

Mash, an excellent piece. You have jotted down what most of the alarmists of current Bangladesh feels. Things are moving the wrong way. The positive aspect of all this, I believe, is that the worse it gets and the faster it gets worse, the better it will be for the downfall of this authoritarian rule under the guise of a hermit.

Look at Debapriya? He joins hands with these military rulers after talking big all these years on behalf of our so-called civil society. What a shame!

Deshi bloggers. We love you. Its Mash, Rezwan and the other Bangladeshi bloggers who should uphold the beacon of the freedom to speak the truth until this beacon can be handed over to the bearers of another democratic Bangladesh. Until that day of glory for freedom lovers, write the truth and expose the evil.

We demand, “FREE Arif now!”