[vinnomot] Re: [khabor.com] Assault on Mahbub-Nipa Strongly Condemned and Immediate Probe of the Incidence Demanded

I condemn this kind of incident if it's true.  This kind of incidents will make Bangladeshi-American, non- Bangladeshi residents to think twice to go back home to do business or serving the country.  CTG should investigate thoroughly and take action immediately if found guilty.

 

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M. M. Chowdhury (Mithu), Chemical Engineer, USA
President & Founder, Amreteck LLC, USA
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mislam@aol.com wrote:

Overseas Bangladeshis Strongly Condemn and Immediately Demand Probe into Mahbub-Nipa’s Physical Abuse and Death Threat

As Bangladeshis residing aboard, we strongly condemn and immediately demand that the authorities concerned should immediately probe into an egregious and uncouth incidence where Dr. Mahbub-ul-Islam, an economics professor of St. Francis University, Loreto, Pennsylvania was physically injured and his wife Nipa verbally abused. Dr. Islam has received a death threat too. The details of the incidence and events leading up to it have already been published in the October 26, 2007, issue of the Din Kal. 

Dr. Islam is a very polite, soft-spoken, gentle, honest, taciturn, innocuous and simple person. After completing his Ph.D. in Economics from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, he joined as a faculty member at St. Francis University. He received tenure in 1994 there. (A tenured professor is guaranteed a lifetime teaching job!).  It was always his dream to leave his permanent and comfortable job and to return to Bangladesh to serve his native country. He sent his wife and their two children to Bangladesh in 1996. For ten long and dreary years -from July 1996 through August 2006 - he visited to see his family for less than two months during his summer and winter break. He led an extremely simple life here, saved every dollar to buy property in Bangladesh out of his honest income.  He was supposed to return to St. Francis University to resume teaching last month, but didn’t. 

The news of the couple’s physical abuse and death threat is sending shock waves throughout the Bangladeshi communities abroad.  How can the current caretaker government expect to attract people, experts and money from abroad to develop Bangladesh in light of this dreadful incidence? One of the three pillars of capitalism/market system is that its citizens should have the right to own private property. On the other hand, it is the dire responsibility of the government in a market/capitalist economy to ensure that the private property (and lives) of its citizens is well protected.

Dr. Islam was indeed truthful! He severed all the amenities and comforts that the United States could offer him, and returned to Bangladesh only to serve his motherland. This couple may be now wondering whether their patriotic responsibility at the cost of huge personal sacrifice was worth it!  Isn’t this incidence setting a bad precedent for other overseas Bangladeshis who want to follow in the couple’s footsteps?

 

We demand that the caretaker government should immediately probe into this deplorable  and despicable incidence to ensure that the justice is well served! This government should unequivocally prove that “might is right” is wrong as it seeks to establish impartiality in its governance, and to show to all Bangladeshis living at home and abroad that no one including Adviser Giti Ara Shafia, her spouse and her relatives is above the law of the land.

(Writer’s acknowledgment: I have known Mahbub very closely since 1976. We first met at Jahangirnagar University during our undergraduate program in economics. We were roommates in Boston when we were working on our doctoral program. We have maintained regular contacts by phone or visits even to this day). 

Dr. Faizul Islam

Southeastern University

Washington DC

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