Shun path of West?
That's right, too many of us are not wearing Beards. Too many of us are wearing Pants and getting English Style Haircuts. Look at necks of most of us ...! Neck is fully exposed, no hair. Who says this is not path of the West?
Almost everybody is using Tooth Brush instead of 'Miswaak' also. Not many cover their heads. Too many of us know English instead of Arabic. We believe in Western style Democracy, Freedom of Speech, Civil Rights, Human Rights instead of believing in Caliphate System. We are not collecting Protection Money or 'JiZiyah' Tax of Qoraan from our Non Moslims either. All this is also Path of the West.
We have to go back to 7th Century or at least Horse, Bull Cart and Kerosene Lamp Days so our Mollaas can become our absolute Rulers and Islam's 2nd age of Glory can start. ... Allaho Akbar ...!
Shun the West ...!
Be Proud Bangla and become Slaves of your Mollaas ...!
Islam JinDaabaaD ...!
Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:
Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:
'Shun path of West, be proud Bangladeshis'- The Hilarious Conferenence of The NRBs At Dhaka Sheraton Hotel
Thursday January 03 2008 20:18:11 PM BDT
By S. Ahmad, Bangladesh
How much useful the recent all well (?) meant NRBs pompous meeting at posh Sheraton hotel in Dhaka could be for Bangladesh that I do not know but I can easily see the hollowness of utterances by many distinguished "Lecturers" of this gathering. 'Shun path of West, be proud Bangladeshis' cried someone. But how and for what we need to do that nobody advised and for that matter none ever mentioned what there is in Bangladesh that one could be proud of. Bangladesh is a poor country ruled by thieves and humbugs from its very inception and the same scenario is continuing even today. Her past was dark, a subservient and poor converted Muslims people in a primitive society dominated by a degenerated and equally false but proud Hindus since the 19th century. Before that we were just untouchable converted Muslims to the Turkish, Afghan or Iranian rulers whose religion happened to be Islam.
Do we need to feel ashamed to admit that? No, I do not. I keep my head high as long as my forefathers or I have done no harm to anybody or caused distress to any individual or a group in any way. Why we need to be proud or be ashamed of being Bangladeshis? Why can't we be just simple Bangladeshi looking after our own good? And for that matter why should we shun the path of West? Should not we learn honesty, science and technology, art and literature and all that is good in the West or for that matter anywhere on earth? I admit that everything that is West is not good, some of the Western things we may reject out rightly and without any hesitation but there are many things in the West we need to learn and adopt and without which we can not even survive.
Those NRBs attending the gathering are also Western products and without Western education and training, and most importantly Western culture, they are nothing and they have nothing to offer to Bangladesh. Look at their dress, people seating on the dais, what sort of dress they were putting on? Dr. Kamal Hossain, can you live without a suit even in high summer in Bangladesh?
I do not echo Nirad Chowdhury when he said, "all that was good and living within us was made, shaped and quickened by the same British rule" but the fact is, for sure, not just the saying of a fool and the same way we can say like him that all that can uplift us is available in the West and our contact with the West is for our own survival only. West does not need us for anything. I do not say "Shut-up you hypocrites, don't talk nonsense" to those self-appointed distinguished "Lecturers" but I would not be surprised if some one says so. Is this gathering for any good to Bangladesh or just an exhibition of self importance of some individuals? To whom they talk seating in a posh hotel room in a Western environment and condemning the same West they represent? There should be a limit of idiotic pronunciations.
"Expatriate Bangladeshis called for an end to the existing political culture and attitude, and restoration of the traditional values of serving the community". What is new in their call? We hear such call every day and how to end the existing political culture and corruption nobody could tell us as yet. And what are our traditional values in Bangladesh? When and who ever served anybody in Bangladesh except himself or herself? We need not minimize or dishonour a very few in our society who were and are still honest but their numbers are very few and that makes there talks just nonsense chitchat. What Bangladesh needs is an honest government, rule of law and no self-appointed, self-serving foreign or local advisers.
"Shunning the materialistic path of the West, the people of Bangladesh need to nurture and uphold their own values" they said on the second day of the three-day conference of NRBs.
Western path is not only the materialistic path as these people say forgetting that they run away from Bangladesh to get those materialistic things they shamelessly dare to condemn now. How many of you would like to give up your foreign passports and get back to Bangladesh to become imam of a mosque, a corrupt bureaucrat or a thief politician, sirs?
"A good leadership is essentially dynamic and it allows individuals' potentials to find room for utilisation" said Dr. Kamal Hossain whose business is to seat in every dais on every occasion and offer his wise counsel. Advice is free, Dr. Hossain knows it well but he lives as an absentee landowner and would never admit that absentee land owners are the number one enemies of Bangladesh. Should he not give-up all her lands and encourage other to do so as an honest adviser to the nation?
"People yarn for contributing to their country, not passive and second class subjects, people need to be truly empowered citizens" , Dr. Hossain and the eminent jurist (?) continued, "people should have the right to choose their leadership which will listen to them, involve them in decision-making and empower them properly". "Yes, yes Sir, did he ever pass this advice to Mujib when you were his first lieutenant and a trusted adviser? Why you talk all these high sounding things now, Mr. eminent jurist? What was your role in BAKSAL formation? What good you have done to Bangladesh until today?
The most amusing thing was said by Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury when he said that "non-resident Bangladeshis are often privileged to have the highest level of education and exposure to cultures where education is an end in itself, not a means to a job". What does it mean, Mr. Adviser? You may not understand but the reality is far from the truth especially for the NBRs. Of course, that we can not say about NRBs who have no education from their adopted country and are engaged in business like restaurants or working at petrol stations. "NRBs and their children can volunteer to help train our teachers, especially to teach English", the adviser suggested. But is it a feasible suggestion? And how and why shall NRBs children do that job? Are they qualified English teachers? Is teaching such a simple job, dear Sir? Or, will the NRBs IT experts will come to Bangladesh and work on Bangladesh salary? Is there anybody to do that?
Bangladesh's Foreign Secretary Touhid Hossain said the second generation NRBs should come back and actively get engaged in business, development and politics.
That is a good suggestion but what response he got? How many he found to give up their foreign passports to "get engaged in business, development and politics" in Bangladesh?
The simple fact is the future of Bangladesh's remains in the hands of the Bangladeshi people who live and ready to die in Bangladesh. Hardly any good can come from those who run away from the country. They would be the larks of the summer if Bangladesh ever gets any summer and all those talks are nothing but nonsense chitchats. It is a pity that people put so much weight on these sorts of useless conferences.
I said before, the future of Bangladesh lies in the hands of the Bangladeshi people and not on those who found their paradises in foreign countries. Those NRBs with foreign passports I strongly suggest that they stay where they are and if they can do small things for us please do it quietly. If your patriotism is still bubbling, through away your foreign passports, come home and live with us and do anything good that you can with us and together. No more conference please and no more advice!
S. Ahmad, Chittagong, Bangladesh
E mail : sahmadctg@yahoo.com
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