RE: [mukto-mona] Re: A case against me

Dear Mr. Kamal Das:

The personal attack based on his birth and origin was uncalled for. One can disagree on many grounds with Mr. Hashmi but to bring up ethnic origin is unacceptable. i think a full fledged apology is necessary. I too consider myself a South Asian (old Indian Subcontinent) of Bangladeshi Muslim origin and the communal politics that culminated in partition of 1947 an utter mistake.

A full unconditional apology to Hashmi is necessary here.

Robin Khundkar

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Taj Hashmi@unspecified-domain
Sent: Dec 9, 2007 2:13 PM
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [mukto-mona] Re: A case against me

WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/45395

I refer to Mr Kamal Das's hitting below the belt type of attack on my stand (rather than support for Mr Hannan). Since I don't know Mr Hannan at all, let alone his past, I am not in a position to judge if he was a "War Criminal". As I indicated in another posting, proving someone as a war criminal is much much much more difficult than implicating someone for theft or murder.

Why don't you guys understand the difference between pointing out a fabrication (that Mr Hannan in that particular TV interview denied that there was ever any freedom struggle in 1971) and that he should be tried for his war crimes. As I don't know anything about his 1971 role, I can't comment on the veracity of this allegation. I simply pointed out from my own viewing of the video clipping of that interview where I saw Mr Hannan portraying the 1971 Liberation War both as a civil war and a freedom movement, nothing more, nothing less.

Can you just try someone only because she / he considers our Liberation War as a Civil War? You may condemn him, ostracise him, black-list him but trying him as a War Criminal? Please don't make legal experts and people with common sense laugh.

Now Mr Das, it appears that you have a Hindu name, should I assume that you are a paid agent of Shiv Sena or bajrang Dal or the fascist RSS? No I don't. So why you people can't come out of your narrow alley of ethno-racist prejudice or the shallow dark well of stagnant water? Come out of the well and see even a pond is larger than a well and rivers and oceans are altogether different things. Do you know Dr Kamal Hussain and Prof Rehman Sobhan (and Sher-e-Bangla Fazlul Huq and H.S. Suhrawardy as well) speak Urdu at home? I am proud of my heritage, ancestors and my identity as a South Asian, not Bangladeshi, Pakistani or Indian in the narrow sense. I don't believe in the Partition of 1947, although it happened before my birth. But everywhere I identify myself as a Bangladeshi and that's why I write for Bangladeshi forums (not Indian or pakistani ones) and newspapers. My Bengali prose and accent is far better than most educated Bangladeshis. You may verify this from people who have known me and read my bengali writings, including my book, Ouponibeshik Bangla (Papyrus, Calcutta 1985), which is extremely critical of Pakistani colonial rule. So, Mr Das, give up racism and communalism and learn some civility, PLEASE.

Warm wishes to all,
Taj Hashmi

__._,_.___

*****************************************
Sign the Petition : Release the Arrested University Teachers Immediately : An Appeal to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh

http://www.mukto-mona.com/human_rights/university_teachers_arrest.htm

*****************************************
Daily Star publishes an interview with Mukto-Mona
http://www.mukto-mona.com/news/daily_star/daily_star_MM.pdf

*****************************************

MM site is blocked in Islamic countries such as UAE. Members of those theocratic states, kindly use any proxy (such as http://proxy.org/) to access mukto-mona.

*****************************************
Mukto-Mona Celebrates 5th Anniversary
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/5_yrs_anniv/index.htm

*****************************************
Mukto-Mona Celebrates Earth Day:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Earth_day2006/index.htm

*****************************************
Kansat Uprising : A Special Page from Mukto-Mona 
http://www.mukto-mona.com/human_rights/kansat2006/members/


*****************************************
MM Project : Grand assembly of local freedom fighters at Raumari
http://www.mukto-mona.com/project/Roumari/freedom_fighters_union300306.htm

*****************************************
German Bangla Radio Interviews Mukto-Mona Members:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Darwin_day/german_radio/


Mukto-Mona Celebrates Darwin Day:

http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Darwin_day/index.htm

*****************************************

Some FAQ's about Mukto-Mona:

http://www.mukto-mona.com/new_site/mukto-mona/faq_mm.htm

****************************************************

VISIT MUKTO-MONA WEB-SITE : http://www.mukto-mona.com/

****************************************************

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
               -Beatrice Hall [pseudonym: S.G. Tallentyre], 190

Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional
Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)
Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured
Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe

__,_._,___