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Dear Mr.Asghar,
Salman Rushdie wrote The Satanic Verses to make some fun. I
don't believe that he is a socially conscious writer with a neck for any
serious social work to salvage the Muslims from this morass. But Taslima had a
great opportunity in this respect. She has social consciousness and could work
diligently among the masses to create some awareness. But her personal aggrandizement
made her oblivious to her real mission. She showed short sightedness and found
refuse in vulgarity. She wanted something overnight without realizing the
actual hurdles on the way to reform a system which has been hijacked by the
most reactionary Islamic clerics. There is no magic in this struggle. It's hard
and needs passionate work. Her failure to realize that made a refugee in a
foreign land. Anyone wants to plunge him/her into the struggle to dismantle
this citadel of Islamic ignorance and dogmas must work from the grass root
level. Nothing can be done or will be effective if we do not sit with those
masses that are the bases of the vicious and reactionary mullahs. Taslima had
that golden opportunity but she has miserably missed it.
I met a guy in my work place who struggled to find some time
and a place to worship during the working hours. Sensing trouble I warned him
that this may jeopardize his employment. He bluntly told me that Allah is the
sustainer so he does not care. He was a good person with a family of six to
take care. I met his wife, a head to toe covered woman and tried to explain
some hard facts and figures of a real life. Next day he came to me with tearful eyes and
said last night when I thought of the hungry faces of my kids I discovered a
new logic. I must be practical.
This is field work and it pays. Our approach should be
pragmatic, scientific, logical and above all passionate. Killing a mullah,
tearing down a mosque, burning the Koran or making fun of Muhammad is not going
to do the job. A very few of us know what they really mean but not a billion
Muslims. The real work must be from within not from outside.
Akbar Hussain
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