I will tolerate excruciating pain of having my teeth pulled without anesthesia, but I have no tolerance for stupidity. Suddenly, as if this is the crazy season, there has been an influx of idiots, radicals, and people with no knowledge or regard for our history, who have suddenly desended upon our national psyche like locusts. Mr. Khan's posting, notwithstanding the stupidest header I have had the displeasure of reading this week, just made me realize that the crazy season is on, and once again, stupidity has taken over sensibility.
First of all, the phrase "Islamic Shariah" is redundant, since Islam is the only religion that claims to have a "Shariah" (rather, the so-called Islamic scholars translate the Islamic Shariah). Secondly, as usual, a bunch of lunatics have taken it upon themselves to declare what is halal and haram and doing god's work. No one is capable of doing god's work. Even Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) declined to interpret god's intentions, and these religious nut-jobs believe that they know what is haram and halal. But that's not the point of this posting....
"The basic activities and life style of BNP & AL is almost similar"? Have you been asleep or brain-dead for the last 40 years? Both parties take interest, bribe, wine, women, etc., and Jamaat takes life in the name of religion, and is full of self-loathing, sociopathic, blood-thirsty, psychotic, war criminal, bastards! I would rather take interest, bribe, wine and women before taking someones life and turning into a Jamaat Zombie! I am sure the all forgiving, omnipotent, all-knowing, all-mighty would understand my choice. Now that I have put it out of the way...let's talk about more serious issues...
You quote the "Fundamental Principles" of our constitution, which in 1972 included four basic principles, secularism, nationalism, democracy, and socialism. Zia amended the constitution and changed secularism into "absolute trust and faith in almighty Allah", in order to form an alliance with the Jamaat and its minions. It was Zia who "Islamized" and perverted a neutral document such as our constitution, and since then, none of the elected officials from JP, BNP, and AL had the guts to challenge the stupidity that was etched into our most sacred national document. It was Zia and Ershad, who with the blessing from their Saudi fathers, declared Bangladesh to be an "Islamic State", joined the OIC, and received millions in Saudi petro dollars in aid, most of which ended up in the pockets of JP and BNP politicians. Some current AL politicians also took part in it, and now they are all "reformists" .
So, as our constitution stands right now, a Bangladeshi, who doesn't pray to Allah would be in violation of our constitution. A Bangladeshi Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, Atheist, or any non-Muslim who doesn't pray to Allah would be defiant of the "fundamental principles". So, what's wrong with bringing the constitution back to its original state, where secularism is guaranteed, and not everyone has to declare absolute faith in Allah? What gives anyone the right to Islamize a nation?
You know what is haram? Disenfranchising millions of people, denying basic human rights, nationalizing your own faith to establish superiority, creating social and religious class system, and most importantly, politicizing the sacred ways of Islam for your own perverted propaganda. If that's not Haram, I don't know what is.
Whether you vote for AL or BNP or a blindfolded monkey is your business. Stop with the haram nonsense, and let people exercise their rights. But first of all, do yourself a favor and take off that "Human Rights" and "Peace Worker" labels. Lately, way too many people with that kind of meaningless label have been spreading their puritanical nonsense. They neither respect human rights, nor do they spread the word of peace. No matter how much you sugarcoat fascism and fascist ideas, they are still perverse and have no place in our comatose democracy!
Cheers,
Cyrus Zulkarnaian Kazi
A very ordinary and proud Bangladeshi!
From: Chowdhury Hossain Khan <chowdhuryhkhan@ yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 3:19:11 AM
Subject: [ALOCHONA] According to the Islamic Shariah, Vote to AL is Haram!!!
| Dear friends,
We all know that the basic activities and life style of BNP & AL is almost similar. As for example both the parties take interest, bribe, wine, women etc without any hesitation.
The only deference lies in the fundamental principles of BNP & AL. BNP wants to keep the fundamental principles of Bangladesh like the same as in our constitution which is included by our great leader Shahid President Ziaur Rahman. On the other hand, AL wants to change these principles like the same as 1972 which is included by our great leader Bangobandhu Sheikh Muzibar Rahman. AL believes in secularism which means that religion and state principles must be separated.
AL wants to remove the clause 1(A) by secularism. In this context is it not haram to vote AL as long as they don't accept the principles as like as our constitution? Mentionable that AL already has accepted "Bismillah" and "Allah is Almighty" as their slogan. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF Bangladesh 8. Fundamental principles.- (1) The principles of absolute trust and faith in the Almighty Allah, nationalism, democracy and socialism meaning economic and social justice, together with the principles derived from them as set out in this Part, shall constitute the fundamental principles of state policy. (1A) Absolute trust and faith in the Almighty Allah shall be the basis of all actions. (2) The principles set out in this Part shall be fundamental to the governance of Bangladesh, shall be applied by the State in the making of laws, shall be a guide to the interpretation of the Constitution and of the other laws of Bangladesh, and shall form the basis of the work of the State and of its citizens, but shall not be judicially enforceable.
Fundamental principles of Bangladesh Awami League
The fundamental principles of the Bangladesh Awami Leagues shall be Bengali Nationalism, Democracy, Secularism or in other words ensuring freedom of all religions as well as non-communal politics and Socialism, that is to say-the establishment of an exploitation- free society and social Justice. Thanks,
Chowdhury Hossain Khan Thinker, HR & Peace Workers |