Dear Moderator, MM: Please consider posting in MM Forum. Thanks. MG (USA).
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Mohammad Gani (USA)
Respected Avijit Roy;
Thank you for your kind attention and comments. I do fully agree with you that it would have been apposite to check back with the moderator (you) before sending my comments to other forums (It wasn't hundred!). Actually, I should not even send this to other forums on the first hand; it has surely been my emotional judgment error and I am truly sorry for this delicate mistake. Please accept my sincere apology.
Having said this, I still believe that grousing to MM entire editorial/moderator board was not any mistake. I have so far received NO "bouncing status" of any of message sent to MM except this time, 2 of the MM moderators copies ( ananta_atheist@yahoo.com and jaffor@netscape.com). However, I resent (forwarded) this to Dr. Jaffor Ullah.
You wrote;
"There are certain ways to communicate people before sending such allegation ('hate-preacher', 'dumping practice' etc.) to others. Writing lengthy nonsensical article based on fertile imagination and flawed intuition and do name-calling from personal bias is not a right decorum or practice, you may agree. It only shows the level of (im)maturity of the poster".
These (fertile imagination/flawed intuition) words aren't any polite either and shall not exculpate MM from its faults by default (of double standard). Visibly you are exasperated and honestly, I find your above comments puerile, brass, misleading and inconsistence with MM's views and policy; as it does not clarify MM's inscrutable position and its contingency plan against (if any) Rights of Free Speech on how MM shall justify setting restrictions, like "when and why". Despite having "some concepts" in MM Home page, I do still see running horses of "fertile imagination" and "flawed intuition" in MM almost everyday (as I have indicated in my earlier note) on several issues, especially racially motivated (on Muslims) and aggressive comments; MM moderators have freely been disseminating those views of expressive harms without any remorse.
I still must recognize that MM has many distinguished talents with academic excellence and professional brilliance those have freely bringing up interesting and advanced Astrophysics, Quantum physics, uncertainty principles, half alive/half dead or sleeping cat with their erudite knowledge and wisdom to our esoteric readers. I have no bone of contentions on these at all. I also believe that Moderator reserves the rights and authority to expurgate messages those could cause expressive harms, of poor quality contents, deliberately subjective instead of objectives, of obscenity etc and could decide based on his/her common sense judgment during (posting) decision making process. Often there could be disagreements too but here in MM, I found a unique and chronic pattern of "discrimination" among posted articles, especially those MM moderator(s) dislike and that seemingly almost always MM delivers frozen feet to.
Mr. Jahed Ahmed has come across one of this recently on "Barrack Obama issue". I have not received any request (his e-mail) from him to resend. I did not wish "risking" on down into somewhat rancorous "feud" among MM's original and founding members that could open another undesired battle front. All I sent an innocuous comment (paragraph), the following one and it never saw the light in MM; it was NOT bounced either!
"Let us keep aside Obama from "ideological" arguments on racism. No one is talking about Hilary or of McCain on their "race" as if "Whitehouse is for the white candidates only"!
Obama is not any Einstein, Aristotle or Shakespeare; he is no Gandhi nor someone like mother Theresa. Also, he is not the President of MIT, Harvard or Stanford. He is only a politician, a Senator and a political leader. We only could compare his ability of leadership, Statesmanship, intelligence and wisdom with those of his opponents like Hilary Clinton and/or McCain. That's all! If we wish, we could go a little further, look through his political insights and philosophy with respect to, at best those of Benjamin Disraeli, President Kennedy or Nelson Mandela and examine into to see if he fits any of their' including those of his all political opponents.
Regardless, whatever we say about him, he has successfully climbed the almost highest step of nation's political ladder and glory, it is a reality. Isn't it?"
But the good news is, MM has been inching out from its elitist firewalls of the past in retaining its "White only", "Man only", Women only" type platforms. My meticulous observation about MM is: initially it has been a "KKK" category club that unwelcomed "colored people" and often looked down upon the "little people of Leona Helmsy" for poor academic strength or those lacking literary word dancing. All these created resentment among few MM moderators those already threw out their last kisses to MM.
Couple of years ago, MM used to offer special status to some contributors those wrote articles against Islam and unfairly picked on billions of innocent Muslims worldwide as terrorist race. These "entertainments" appeared front of the line in MM gallows frequently only later after 9/11 tragedy and then erupted for a while sporadically and irrationally. But most of us knew pretty well that in Indian subcontinent; Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Sikh and all races and their families have been living together with love, respects, prosperity and happiness for thousands of years except until (occasionally) fanatically ambitious politicians (groups) incited one group against other only to achieve their clandestine political mission. Nevertheless, we must condemn terrorism at all times and I surely do; then, now and always.
During that time frame, I sent an essay to MM that received cold feet as usual and list goes on and on! All I said as an opinion; Religion has nothing to do with the terrorism and most often political missions impute these terrorisms. Events in Tibet, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir are purely political and Religion has nothing much to do there. But some people use religions and other convenient/appropriate tools as campaign billboards to effectively win the public minds. IRA was not any "Christian terrorist" group nor Nelson Mandela was a Christian terrorist during apartheid era. Palestinian /Israeli conflicts has nothing to do with Islam, it is purely a regional land dispute. Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were not killed by Muslim terrorist and the killers of these great leaders were only either "militant Hindu" or "Militant Tamil" but not Hindu "terrorist" nor Tamil "terrorists". Golden temple was occupied by Sikh "extremist" and not Sikh "terrorist"………. Now, one could easily see the differentiated dimension and intensity in coining these terminologies.
Finally, declaring "war" against MM would certainly mean inviting polemical attacks, more troubles (for me) and be a losing battle for anyone who disagrees with its moderator. But MM clearly does know exactly what it has in its mind and thus no one can wake MM up because it is not sleeping. Its only policy however is, MM never underestimates the "power of self deception" and strongly believes that it is the true advocate of Free Speech but seek every available tool and opportunity to squelch Speeches MM "dislikes".
Regards.
Mohammad Gani
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