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Sunday, March 9, 2008

[mukto-mona] Fighting against terrorism for democracy

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Hope you are doing well and thanks for publishing my previous write-ups
 
This is an article about "Fighting against terrorism for democracy". I will be highly honoured if you publish this article. I apprecite your time to read this article.
 
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Ripan Kumar Biswas
New York, U.S.A
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Fighting against terrorism for democracy
 
Ripan Kumar Biswas
 
"Whoever kills an innocent soul, it is as if he killed the whole of mankind, And whoever saves one, it is as if he saved the whole of mankind [The Quran, 5:32]." So, why the new brand of terrorism, based on a narrow interpretation of the great religion of Islam?
 
What is happening in some countries from the shedding of the innocent blood and the bombing of buildings and ships and the destruction of public and private installations is a criminal act against humanity. Those who carry out such acts have the deviant beliefs and misleading ideologies and are responsible for the crime. Terrorist's act may be intended to achieve political or religious goals. But obviously it's a criminal act and should be dealt as such.
 
While the US designated Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami-Bangladesh (HUJI-B) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist including 36 others under Executive Order (E.O-13224) on March 6, 2008, Bangladesh government firmly assured that the intelligence agencies and lawmen are keeping watch on them so that the extremist organization cannot resume its operation as government banned all of its operation since October 17, 2005.
 
Passing that order, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice further mentioned that US applaud Bangladesh's efforts to fight terrorism and are committed to further strengthening this partnership as US redouble its efforts to counter HUJI-B and other terrorist organizations around the globe.
 
Terrorism will be a way of life and the choice commodity of export. The resultant impact will bring down the system of economic and social inter-dependence the world has created in the last 50 years. Successes of the terrorists only create templates that can then be replicated in other situations thereby breaking down international law and order. Terrorist's act may be intended to achieve political or religious goals. But obviously it's a criminal act and should be dealt as such.
 
HUJI's objective is to establish Islamic rule by waging jihad. It is the largest international terrorist organization, which is created by Islamic militants group in Pakistan. There is little information about its exact origins and date of founding. However, it had a significant involvement in fighting the Soviets alongside the Afghan mujahideen, which indicates that, perhaps, it was founded sometime in the 1980s. In 1985, the outfit split into two groups, with the splinter group calling itself Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM). Both groups continued to thrive even after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989. HUJI was designated a "Foreign Terrorist Organization" by the U.S. State Department in "Other Terrorist Groups" category on April 29, 2004.
 
In 1992, the Bangladesh unit of HuJI – HuJI-B – was established with direct support from al Qaeda. The unit was involved in recruiting Bangladeshi Rohingya (Myanmarese) Muslims and students from madrassas, with several others of which it has very close links. By 2005, the outfit had spread its tentacles to almost 24 countries, including the Philippines, Malaysia, Fiji, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Chechnya, United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, and parts of Africa. In February, 1998, Harakatul leader signed the fatwa sponsored by Osama bin Laden that declared American civilians to be legitimate targets for attack.
 
In every annual reports titled "Patterns of Global Terrorism" of the US State Department have repeatedly referred to the activities of the HUJI from Bangladeshi territory. Since September 11, 2001, there have been persistent reports from secret as well as open (the United States' Time magazine and the Far Eastern Economic Review, for example) sources that at least 200, if not more, survivors of al-Qaeda and other components of the Islamic militants groups, many of them originating from Southeast Asia, have shifted to Bangladesh and have been given sanctuaries there by the HUJI-B and other jihadi terrorist organizations.
 
The goal of HUJI-B, like other terrorist groups in Bangladesh, is to establish Islamic rule in Bangladesh, primarily through targeted violence. To achieve that, it has estimated cadre strength of more than several thousand members who are dedicated to kill anyone and destroy government, public or private properties. HUJI-B was accused of stabbing a senior Bangladeshi journalist in November 2000 for making a documentary on the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh.
 
Mufti Abdul Hannan, who claimed himself to be the amir (chief) of HUJI-B and carried sabotage across the country resulting in deterioration in law and order, was found involved in the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on Awami League rally. He was arrested on October 1, 2005 while another kingpin Mufti Abdur Rouf was arrested on August 2, 2006 including other 64 militants of HUJI-B in where 41 of them had been sentenced to life imprisonment. But still they are regrouping themselves and having financial supports from different terrorist groups and individuals throughout the world amidst government's strong vigilance.
 
In recent years, there seems to be a big surge in terrorists' activities in Bangladesh. Tension between secularism based on Bengali language and culture and terrorism rooted in the primacy of religion, has resulted in a steady drift towards Islamic hegemony. An important element of the terrorist mindset is the rejection of democracy. Terrorism is incompatible with democracy while Bangladesh is about to set a cherished vibrant democracy as democracy is based on the belief that people with radically different beliefs and cultures can live together in peace if they respect each other's right to disagree.
 
But all the terrorists in Bangladesh have one aim in common –– to replace the country's secular laws with sharia laws, which should be interdicted.
 
 
March 10, 2008, New York
Ripan Kumar Biswas is a freelance writer based in New York

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