Dear 'friend', yes m'dear, this
one's for you.
Thank you for attacking me with you words last night dedicated to dictating what I should and should not believe in. In guiding my moral compass. It definitely helped me figure out that indeed we have nothing in common and you don't understand me at all. Which is perfectly alright, really.
Fyi, I am a human being, selfishly looking out for MY RIGHTS, my safety, dreading the decent into oblivion of my country. I am against political parties using us and playing with our lives. I am not pro-woman’s rights, pro-man’s rights, pro-child’s rights. I am pro-human rights. I stand against murder and war and bigotry. I believe in peace, love, co-existence and personal preferences. Get it right. Till you do, please don’t start a conversation with me with comments like ‘you must be very happy that 25 Hefazatis died’. How dreadful are you?
You said; 'ekta shishur galey 'rajakarer phashi chai' lekha and ekta class 6 er madrasar bacchar hatey latthi tuley deya with a 'nastiker phashi chai' bandana’, is the same sort of sin. Let me refresh your memory with some definitions; Rajakar- During the Bangladesh liberation war 1971, Pakistan forms several Paramilitry forces and this is one of the forces. The word Rajakar today carries the meaning ‘traitor’ in common Bangladeshi parlance. I am sure I don't have to remind a devout patriot like you what their crimes against this country were. But in case you have forgotten massacres, killings, rape, arson and systematic elimination of minorities and intellectuals may jog your memory. Here's another one. Nastik- Atheist. Someone who does not believe in God at all, therefore, he or she also does not believe in self as God is nothing but self. In Bangladesh context today, Nastik is someone who has been bad mouthing Islam in public blogs. The fun thing I'd like you to notice here, atheism is a personal preference. JUST like religion is. So just like one can choose to be a Muslim, they can choose to be an Atheist.
Now that the definitions are out there, I wonder if you still find similarities between them. I wonder if you feel that Rajakars and Atheist bloggers indeed deserve the same kind of capital punishments. Also, when that child got those words written on him his parents were with him, I doubt that the parents of the boy from the madrasa intended for him to get in the middle of a mindless violent protest. A religious war as you mentioned.
For the second part of this post, a reference to the 13 point demand. Here are some interesting ones that I think you might want to see; 8. Stop foreign cultural intrusions including free-mixing of men and women and candlelight vigils, and put an end to adultery, injustice, shamelessness, etc in the name of freedom of expression and individual, 9. Stop turning Dhaka — the city of mosques — into a city of idols, and stop setting up of sculptures at intersections, colleges and universities, 10. Scrap anti-Islam women policy and education policy and make Islamic education mandatory from primary to higher secondary levels.
These specific ones really did grind my gear, I hope you understand why. When I mentioned this last night, you replied with ‘there’s no reason to accept all of the 13-point demand’. M’dear, I think you forget that Hefazat-E-Islam isn’t ready to have ‘some’ of their demands met. That’s kind of the problem.
To end; here’s a thought to the Malthusian theory! Let it all burn, let it all burn down and maybe we’ll come out golden from the ashes. And might I mention that I would be grateful if in the future you please refrain from having these conversations with me.
Thank you for attacking me with you words last night dedicated to dictating what I should and should not believe in. In guiding my moral compass. It definitely helped me figure out that indeed we have nothing in common and you don't understand me at all. Which is perfectly alright, really.
Fyi, I am a human being, selfishly looking out for MY RIGHTS, my safety, dreading the decent into oblivion of my country. I am against political parties using us and playing with our lives. I am not pro-woman’s rights, pro-man’s rights, pro-child’s rights. I am pro-human rights. I stand against murder and war and bigotry. I believe in peace, love, co-existence and personal preferences. Get it right. Till you do, please don’t start a conversation with me with comments like ‘you must be very happy that 25 Hefazatis died’. How dreadful are you?
You said; 'ekta shishur galey 'rajakarer phashi chai' lekha and ekta class 6 er madrasar bacchar hatey latthi tuley deya with a 'nastiker phashi chai' bandana’, is the same sort of sin. Let me refresh your memory with some definitions; Rajakar- During the Bangladesh liberation war 1971, Pakistan forms several Paramilitry forces and this is one of the forces. The word Rajakar today carries the meaning ‘traitor’ in common Bangladeshi parlance. I am sure I don't have to remind a devout patriot like you what their crimes against this country were. But in case you have forgotten massacres, killings, rape, arson and systematic elimination of minorities and intellectuals may jog your memory. Here's another one. Nastik- Atheist. Someone who does not believe in God at all, therefore, he or she also does not believe in self as God is nothing but self. In Bangladesh context today, Nastik is someone who has been bad mouthing Islam in public blogs. The fun thing I'd like you to notice here, atheism is a personal preference. JUST like religion is. So just like one can choose to be a Muslim, they can choose to be an Atheist.
Now that the definitions are out there, I wonder if you still find similarities between them. I wonder if you feel that Rajakars and Atheist bloggers indeed deserve the same kind of capital punishments. Also, when that child got those words written on him his parents were with him, I doubt that the parents of the boy from the madrasa intended for him to get in the middle of a mindless violent protest. A religious war as you mentioned.
For the second part of this post, a reference to the 13 point demand. Here are some interesting ones that I think you might want to see; 8. Stop foreign cultural intrusions including free-mixing of men and women and candlelight vigils, and put an end to adultery, injustice, shamelessness, etc in the name of freedom of expression and individual, 9. Stop turning Dhaka — the city of mosques — into a city of idols, and stop setting up of sculptures at intersections, colleges and universities, 10. Scrap anti-Islam women policy and education policy and make Islamic education mandatory from primary to higher secondary levels.
These specific ones really did grind my gear, I hope you understand why. When I mentioned this last night, you replied with ‘there’s no reason to accept all of the 13-point demand’. M’dear, I think you forget that Hefazat-E-Islam isn’t ready to have ‘some’ of their demands met. That’s kind of the problem.
To end; here’s a thought to the Malthusian theory! Let it all burn, let it all burn down and maybe we’ll come out golden from the ashes. And might I mention that I would be grateful if in the future you please refrain from having these conversations with me.
