We cannot afford to be hoodwinked by Jamaat for crying out loud. What big deal is this? What does this business of Jamaat "recognizing" our glorious Liberation War all about? Why should we care whether they do or not? They have been co-optig the sovereignty of Bangladesh in so many ways, and this gesture is the latest stunt.
Though I am seething in anger, I have not lost my noodles. In fact, I have been thinking very hard lately. I realized that we had fought and succeeded in defeating the Pakistani Military apparatus in 1971. But we neither fought nor defeated the Bangali Islamist Jamaat.
Let me quickly jot down a few points.
First of all, Jammat should not be allowed to contest in any election as a political party. They are NOT a political party. They stand for a political propaganda designed shrewdly to undermine the sovereignty of Bangladesh and to gobble it as a principality of their far-fetched dream of an Empire.
They were asked to scrap "Allahu aquimuddin" from their charter. They may comply under pressure. So what? Should we comfortably believe that they will stop their agenda around the credo of "Allah is the establisher of the Nation of Religion?" Of course not. That credo or pretense allows them to break all law and order of the land deeming them to be merely "man made." Their illegal actions are only answerable to Allah. This bs in the name of Islam has nothing to do with being genuinely religious. It is pure politics.
They are riding on the wave of another notion that has become popular but, beneath the surface, utterly meaningless and misleading. That is the notion of "religious extremism."
Please friends! There is no such thing as "religious extremism." All manner of actions and activities that are labeled as such are political in nature from the beginning of civilization. Therefore, it irks me to no end when Jamaat calls attention to themselves as "moderate" Islamists.
Let me stop here -- though I have much more to say and point out for all to encourage to do their own re-thinking.
Thanks, but no thanks. There is nothing to rejoice about Jamaat, no way, no how. Banish the whole damn propaganda. We have not finished the mukti-juddho until Jamaat is wiped out of this land.
-- Farida Majid
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