Dear Alochoks
I would just like to make the following comments –
It may be argued that governments should not be the custodians of morality. This is the case in the West. On the other hand, governments have many moral obligations and are required to pass, and enforce, laws that should not be immoral. Morality may ultimately be a personal matter, or a matter for organised religion. But morality is certainly, at whatever level, within the remit of governance.
It is the failure of morality in centre politics that drives people away towards extreme politics.
In
Until centre politics can prove that it is worthy of trust there is no chance at all of even negotiating with Islamic radicals.
All our brightest minds combined with all our liberal geniuses combined with all the logical minds in the world will not defeat radical Islam if they cannot prove that morality is at the heart of centre politics. In Bangladesh Khaleda and Hasina have destroyed morality in centre politics and thus radical Islam has grown stronger and stronger during their democratic governments.
It is hilarious to see that so many people across the board condemn Jamaati Islam as traitors and criminals – and Jamaati Islam just gets stronger day by day. In 1971 one would have been lynched for even suggesting that one day the men of Jamaati Islam could become ministers. And yet Mujib, Zia, Ershad, Khaleda and Hasina all compromised with Jamaat. Why?
It is because the political parties could never compete with Jamaat when it came to perceived morality. This is because morality was never an issue for political parties. Each of our leaders encouraged corruption – and therefore encouraged moral decay.
Even today some our most talented people, most educated people are attracted to Jamaati Islam.
If the cartoon is immoral then it sure isn’t going to be Awami League or BNP that are going to make a stand against it! Jamaat came out in force against the cartoons and there is nothing and nobody in
As for the cartoon itself – I wasn’t offended. But I would be offended if the Danish cartoons were printed in
Looks like we’re half way to getting rid of Hasina and Khaleda. If and when that happens there can be true reform of centre politics in
Until then you just got to admire the confidence of Jamaat! The mad Mullahs sure don’t look worried!
Regards
Ezajur Rahman
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