Dear Alochok Ezajur ,
Greetings. before I go into your current discussion let me ask you a question in refer to your posting on August 31st of 2007 (#8329 of 8436) with Alochona forum.
Brother, I do not remember I ever posed as a neutral person, so what you discovered from my posting is not clear to me till today! Since I started writing in the net, I openly said I am a member of Bangladesh Awami League. You can search the net with my name and you will find in plentiful posting where I claimed my self as Awami worker, and I am proud of that.
I am not sure whether you will agree or not but I found it is interesting that predominance of Awami supporter are not covert but overt. On the other hand majority of Jamaat, BNP and present army back government are ashamed of their identity therefore do not want to disclose their political distinctiveness! May I hope you will come forward and let the netters know your political affiliation or you may choose to act same as those characters I mentioned above?
Anyway, let me come to your recent posting and present my two cents. I do agree with a hefty area of your thoughts. Yes indeed, it is shameless unquestionable defeat of morality of mainstream politics that triggered the rise of politics of religion based on falls perception not only in
However, that dose not proves by any means that the standing of religion-based politics is right. It remains as one of the most inhuman unworthy system to try that failed miserably many moons ago. With all its shortcoming democracy remains most compassionate and trustworthy political system yet until we find something new and obviously better.
Politics based on theology and theocratic state is nothing new but a very old phenomenon, perhaps the oldest among all other school of politics. World has witnessed the rise and fall of theological political estate from east to west and north to south of our dear globe. Especially theocratic states based on Christianity and Islam become chunk of our medieval history.
Whether it is Christian or Islamic state, all of theology based statehood collapsed not by outsiders but insiders. Who saw it as blockade for human development and against the very essence of why God created his kingdom with different skin colors, difference of opinion, creed, linguistic barrier, physical differences and so many other significant dissimilarity to test how we coincide and coexist with each other and still do justice?
Theological state remains viable as long there was good leaders who evidently created state based on theology but ruled with justice of universality. But as time passed by morality of those leaders collapsed and it not only left a chilling effect on the society but also bankrupt the very base of religion it self. The very mathematics of ruling statehood changed. Theology for mankind replaced by rule of aristocracy of royals in the name of thology. Thus, the end of the morally of bankrupt theological state collapsed and usher the rise of state with collective leadership now what we call democracy.
If you look at the history of our Islamic statehood that started in the hand of the most noblemen, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in
In absence of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) Islamic state or community in agreement failed as able leaders of caliphate died or killed by insiders. After the disappearance of Caliphate a Rashidun.
Hazrat Abū Bakr (RA) nominated Hazrat Umar (RA) as his successor on his deathbed, and there was consensus in the Muslim community to his choice. His successor, Hazrat Uthman, was elected by a council of electors (Majlis), but was soon perceived by some to be ruling as a "king" rather than an elected leader. Hazrat Uthman was killed by members of a disaffected group. Hazrat Alī then took control, and although very popular, he was not universally accepted as caliph by the governors of
MuÄwiyya, a relative of Uthman, and governor (Wali) of
From the time of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) the Umayyad, Abbasid, and finally Ottoman (sultans of
Scattered attempts to revive the Caliphate elsewhere in the Muslim World were made in the years immediately following its abandonment by
Hussein bin Ali, a former Ottoman governor of the Hejaz who aided the British during World War I and revolted against Istanbul, declared himself Caliph two days after Turkey relinquished the title. But his claim was largely ignored, and he was soon ousted and driven out of
The last Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI made a similar attempt to re-establish himself as Caliph in the Hejaz after leaving
However, the King of Morocco adopted the title Ameer al-Mumineen and Mullah Mohammed Omar, former head of the now-defunct Taliban regime of
Brother Ezajur, the only reason why I explained (
Degradation of morality not only happened in democratic politics today but also long before that we witnessed the similar or perhaps more cynical and dangerously sleeping down in politics based in religion.
Now let me come to my point, with above said it is clear that there is no consensus among Muslim since the end of Caliphate of Rashidun to reestablish the statehood in its true essence. What we see in the name of Islamic statehood is nothing but mockery of Islam and rather rule of dynasty instead of rule of collectiveness. A mad man like Mullah Mohammad Omar of
Jamaat-E-Islami and most of Islamic political entity in
Just think who are the people who lead this so-called Islamic party in
It is sad that people with conscious mind are not uniting to start a movement not just to wipeout these religious traders for the sake of
Jamaat-E-Islami is the most undemocratic political organization in
I have intention to write about deception of Jamaat-E-Islamâs constitution from its cover page to its entirety in near future along with need of reform of all other political party including my own ideological platform Bangladesh Awami League.
For the betterment of Bangladesh and Islam, we ought to stand against Jamaat-E-Islami and all other traders of religion and must not be recognized them as a political or religious entity but a clandestine organization to create Fitna among Muslim just as the first Fitna or Islamic Civil War created during Caliphate of Hazrat Ali (RA).
Sincerely
Shamim Chowdhury
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--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Ezajur Rahman" <ezajur.rahman@...> wrote:
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> Dear Alochoks
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> I would just like to make the following comments -
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> 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.
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> It is the failure of morality in centre politics that drives people away
> towards extreme politics.
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> In Bangladesh there has been a total breakdown in morality in centre
> politics. There is no mention of morals, no expectation of morals and no
> claim of moral responsibility. This has pushed many people into the arms
> of radical Islam.
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> Until centre politics can prove that it is worthy of trust there is no
> chance at all of even negotiating with Islamic radicals.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Even today some our most talented people, most educated people are
> attracted to Jamaati Islam.
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> 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 Bangladesh that
> can do a thing about it. The courts may keep the cartoon in the paper -
> but they won't stop Jamaat protesting emphatically!
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> As for the cartoon itself - I wasn't offended. But I would be offended
> if the Danish cartoons were printed in Bangladesh! How does a cartoon
> depicting Prophet Mohammed as a dog sound? Liberal? Modern?
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> 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
> Bangladesh. If true reform happens then centre politics -where you and I
> belong - can take on the radicals.
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> Until then you just got to admire the confidence of Jamaat! The mad
> Mullahs sure don't look worried!
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> Regards
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> Ezajur Rahman
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