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[mukto-mona] Muslim Dis-Honor Killings in Texas

Sir, you scare me not a bit by telling me, you have relatives in Texas since I post no lies on Internet, have never lied in my life and never post anything without being sure about it on Internet Forums but since you probably do all the time, you had to question my reliability. What I posted, I had saw in TV Network News in USA. Here are 3 post for you and you can confirm from your relatives in Texas if they ever read any newspapers or watch TV.

The picture of the Culprit plus his daughters and other references or links to this news item are being provided here to make you happy and prove, I'm not lying and you are just a jerk, not believing in words of his own Moslim Brother since you yourself could be a liar.

1. fubarmedia.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/ 
2. www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=muslim
3. www.nowpublic.com/culture/texas-teens-murdered-muslim-fahter-0
4. www.altmuslim.com/a/a/m/2542
5. 1828.mshaffer.com
6. nationalwriterssyndicate.com/index.php?searchword=killed
7. queermuslimrevolution.blogspot.com
8. lowdown.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/01/05/another-honor-killing
9. ca.news.yahoo.com/s/.../071211/world/international_crime_hijab_dc_1
10. www.topix.net/forum/city/flower-mound-tx/T1OISPANM04N0PQGF
11. conservablogs.com/velvethammer/2008/.../muslim-honor-killing-in-texas
12. www.leftyblogs.com/texas/combined.html
13. www.israelforum.com/blog_article.php?aid=1201129
14. theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/.../0013129
15. bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2008/01/more-islamic-ho.html
 
I had just quoted one incident. Do you want me to quote other incidents with pictures of the Moslim Culprits and their Victims from all over the world with references and links, sir?
 
Who the hell are you trying fool by defaming me without a shred of evidence to prove your allegation against me?
Please tell me, what else I have posted that was a lie or fabrication so, I can blow you away again and again with my refernces and Internet Links noway I could have created myself ...!
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Muslim Dis-Honor Killings in Texas [update 4]

January 4th, 2008 · 18 Comments

Honor killing? (We so have to come up with a more appropriate term)
I am waiting with baited breath for C.A.I.R.'s whitewashing of this latest incident. If you recall there was a similar case in Canada last month. Labeled as? Domestic violence. Domestic violence in the name of Islam is more like it. There is a difference. I have done a search of CAIR's website for the names of the father and the two daughters, coming up empty.
Yaser Abdel Said, the 50-year-old Lewisville father, remained at large, police said. He is accused of fatally shooting his 17- and 18-year-old daughters, police said.
Investigators did not describe the domestic issues or say who was involved.
Police said they suspect that Said may have shot his daughters — Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18 — and left them for dead in his taxi.
A 911 cellphone call, believed to have been made by one of the teens about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, alerted police to the shootings, but the caller couldn't say where she was. Officers were dispatched to O'Connor Road and Riverside Drive but couldn't find anyone.
An hour later, a witness reported seeing a suspicious vehicle in the 200 block of Las Colinas Boulevard in the parking lot of the Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas.
"Someone walked by the vehicle and saw them inside," said David Tull, an Irving police spokesman.
Officers found the two sisters dead in that vehicle, owned by Jet Taxi. Company
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A MySpace profile picture registered to a Sarah Said of Lewisville depicts two young girls goofing around in funny hats.
Sarah Female
17 years old
LEWISVILLE, Texas
United States
Last Login: 1/1/2008
Police described Yaser Said as about 6-2, 180 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
He was last seen wearing a black turtleneck shirt and sweater, a brown coat and tan pants. (50 years old)
He may be armed, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Irving police at 972-721-2518.
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So beautiful. So young. So bright. So full of life…
Online video here, and a photo of the girls:
Police provided no clues about the motive for the killings. "There are several things we're looking into," said Irving police Officer David Tull, noting that the suspect faces capital murder charges.
Officer Tull said there have been some "domestic issues" with the family, but he did not elaborate.
Police did say they are looking into the possibility that the father was upset with his daughters' dating activities.
"It's something well worth looking into," Officer Tull told WFAA-TV (Channel 8).
Officer Tull said at a news conference that the mother of the victims is cooperating with police and that she and her 19-year-old son are in a safe place. He believes the couple is married, but he didn't know whether they had been living together.
Mr. Said, who is from Egypt, has lived in the Dallas area since at least the mid-1980s, records indicate.
"The victims' mother provided information that pointed to the victims' father as the suspect," the police report stated.
Friends describe Amina and Sarah as quiet but well-liked students at Lewisville High School. They played tennis and soccer and were in many Advanced Placement classes.
'Sudden Jihad Syndrome' @ Fishwrap Washington Times
Sisters, Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, were each shot to death. Friends of the girls say their father was Egyptian and critical of popular American lifestyles. "I'm definitely 100% sure that it was her dad that killed her," said Kathleen Wong, a friend of the dead teenagers.
Wong says the girl's father was verbally abusive and that Sarah, especially, lived in fear. "She's always told me that she was always so scared of her dad," says Wong. "Even at school if a teacher joked around like, 'I'm gonna tell your parents about this', she would like totally flip out and start crying like, 'please don't tell'." (Emphasis added)
Much more to be found at Fishwrap. Article continually being updated.
Liz Marines, secretary of the Lewisville High School Student Council, had classes with both of the sisters and also remembers their scholastic abilities.
"Amina was very nice with everybody. She helped me in [Advanced Placement English] class," she said. Sarah was a sophomore when she took an Algebra II class with Liz, who was a junior at the time.
She said the sisters, who wore typical American clothes, didn't talk much about their family. "I didn't know they were Muslims until she told me they were Egyptian and Muslim," Liz said.
Emphasis mine
Update:
The girls were well-liked and made good grades at Lewisville High School. Their father was strict and rarely let them spend time with friends. When Sarah, 17, recently met a boy at her job, she told a friend that her father would kill her if he found out.
Friends are now rethinking the way they understood that turn of phrase.
Chilling words after the fact.
Texas dad suspected of honor killings Fox News video link - Honor Killings?
Family members tell our Dallas Fox affiliate father was upset about the girls western clothing and behavior. Saying it brought him shame. If that was indeed the motive then these two teenage girls are just the latest victims of the so called radical islam honor killings.
Americas Most Wanted has posted the case No Islam connection mentioned.
Update 3:
LEWISVILLE – The brother of two teenage girls who police believe were killed by their father this week pleaded Thursday night for his dad to surrender to authorities.
"I never thought this would happen," said Islam Said, 19. "Tell him to turn himself in."
Mr. Said also disputed widespread rumors and media reports that his Muslim father's religion may have been part of the motive.
"It's not religion," he said, declining to speak in detail about a possible motive. "It's something else. Religion has nothing to do with it."
Zohair Zaidi, a close friend of Sarah's, said she told him her father had recently threatened to harm Amina when he discovered she had a boyfriend.
"She said that one day when she came home – the day he found out about Amina's boyfriend – he told Sarah, 'I'm going to put a bullet through Amina's head, and you better get used to her because she's not going to be around much longer.' "
PhotobucketFrom Amina's MySpace page. H/T Hot Air
Lovely Mother Said (Patricia) was a Muslim child bride.
Patricia and Yaser Said were wed in February 1987 when she was 15 and he was 30, Tarrant County marriage records show. The two have had addresses in Euless, Bedford, Grand Prairie and Arlington, public records indicate.
Ok maybe not really young, but…he was 30!!!
and she was 15!!!

H/T JamieWearingFool Via Larwyn
Update 4:
Connie Moggio, the girls' aunt, said there had been turbulence in the Said household for a while.
She said her sister married Yaser Abdel Said at the age of 15 and was pregnant shortly after, adding she had tried to leave her husband many times over the years, most recently, on Christmas Eve.
"A few days before she called me at my job and told me she was leaving because he had threatened the girls because they were dating," Moggio told MyFOXDFW.com.
"Dad, just turn yourself in and if you do, I'll get you a lawyer to help you out." The girls' brother, Islam Said, made that emotion plea.
"Maybe they won't put you on death row, but you can sit in prison and think about what you've done.
Officials understand Yasser Abdel Said could be anywhere in the world, but police are concentrating on local contacts.
Schepps Dairy is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to his arrest and indictment.
Debbie
I am an aunt to these two beautiful girls! I am from the mother's side. YES! This was an honor killing! You nailed it sweety! My sister tried to get those baby's away years ago and you know…she was never allowed to see them again…well, they were brought to the hospital…only after she was comatose! My sister was punished for trying to tell the world what was going on! She died four years ago! But, these girls had no honor in life and no honor in death! Amina and Sarah both, told their mom if their dad killed them…they DID NOT WANT A MUSLIM funeral! Well, they had one anyway! Yeah, there was a "baptist" funeral before the muslim funeral….PLEASE, get out the word it was a farce! They were placed in a mUslim funeral home. The son, Islam…he walked out and went to get the Iman to stop it! My nephew got up and took him outside! The funeral proceeded but, many spoke and all but one…was a MUSLIM!
The Muslims who ran the funeral home…they had us all in a room a little larger than my walk-in-closet! The friends from school…..they could not fit in that room so, they lined them up, against the wall, and in front of the freezers for dead bodies! When it came time for the first song…we sat, sat, and finally, my husband told them he had a system just like theirs and would run it himself…OH…they miraculously got the music going! Then, they set it up so that they same song would play, instead of the other two. My hubby caught this and demanded it be paused, so that the other songs would play!!
As soon as the funeral was over, there was trouble, outside with the brother of Amina and Sarah, ISLAM, is his name! He got into it with one of his aunts and was telling her…get the f —, out of here and then started running through the parking lot yelling….this f-ing funeral is over ….LEAVE!
Yes, this was an honor killing and I believe with all my heart that ISLAM, the brother, is just as guilty as his dad. Why? Because Amina would not go back home! He went over, where she was staying and was crying. "Please come home Amina and talk things out with Dad! He will not hurt you, I give you my word! I promise, you will be safe!" She trusted those words and went with him. Not an hour later….Sarah made that infamous call! She died immediately after she called as he took his time killing her. In fact, all we have been told is, "she had multiple gunshots"…..I still have no clue how many bullets he fired at her. I do know she fought for her life as there is a bruise on her forehead which shows that she did not go out without a fight…one this precious and beautiful girl lost…to a man she knew as daddy!
Please feel free to contact me as I want their story told. They could not tell it but, Aunt Gail is making sure they are honored….even if it is by mere strangers!
Sincerely,
Gail
Now for a couple of comments left on my cross posted article (on my other blog) by folks who state they either knew or are related to Sara and Amina Said.
maestro - I had the pleasure of educating one of the sisters in my class, along with her classmates. She had told me one time that her father expected her and her sister to marry a Muslim who resided in Egypt. She had the idea that right after graduation, he would take her there immediately to find a husband. Being only a 10th grader at the time, I didn't really think she was too serious because she always had such a happy demeanor along with a warm smile. Both her and her sister were two very intelligent girls who really could have had a bright future. I hope they nail the bastard.
CAN'T SAY!! - i know how the story went i am one of there family members but yall post stuff up like they wanted you to be sad they wanted yall to be happy!!! i read on a thing that they posted up the day before they died "you live your life good because you never know when you die" another way to say it is they know that they were going to die but they didnt know it was that close i am very sorry to say this but they wanted you yall to be happy and right know i think yall need yo say a pray for there dad to be caught i know i will!!
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Texas Teens Murdered by Muslim Father

by ojt | January 3, 2008 at 09:58 pm | 308 views | 2 comments
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This week while everyone was busy watching the news in Iowa a disturbing story was barely given the attention that it deserves. Two young girls, SarahYasir and Amina Yasir were found shot in a taxi in Texas. The taxi is owned by their father, who is currently on the loose and authorities are looking for him. The father has allegedly killed his daughters because they were acting like American teenagers and he was angered by this. Friends of the young girls claim they were scared of their father. Just last month a similar incident happened in Canada when 14 year old Aqsa Parvez was murdered by her father for disagreements over the failure of the young girl to wear a head scarf. In that incident representatives of Islam claimed it was not a Muslim incident but a teenage incident. http://islamichorrors.blogspot.com
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Honor killings in Dallas? Muslim father sought in murders of young daughters

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 3, 2008 11:27 AM
In the wake of the honor killing of Aqsa Parvez, the murders in Dallas of teenagers Amina and Sarah Said have the blogosphere buzzing. Their Egyptian Muslim fugitive father is wanted for capital murder. Bryan's been tracking here and here. Atlas Shrugs has extensive coverage. Caleb Easterwood points out a chilling detail:
The girls were well-liked and made good grades at Lewisville High School. Their father was strict and rarely let them spend time with friends. When Sarah, 17, recently met a boy at her job, she told a friend that her father would kill her if he found out.
Friends are now rethinking the way they understood that turn of phrase.
The national media, consumed with campaign coverage, hasn't said much about the case (the Washington Times is an exception)–though, as Phyllis Chesler points out, "the hardcopy edition of the New York Times carried a story about a presumably non-Muslim honor killing in Chicago, in which a father, Subhash Chander, killed his pregnant daughter, son-in-law and 3 year-old grandson "because he disapproved of his daughter's marriage" to a lower-caste man."
Debbie Schlussel shares an exchange with a local reporter.
Related video: Robert Spencer asks, "Why is the left silent about "honor killings?"


Delwar Mazumder <delwar98@hotmail.com> wrote:
Mr. Turkman,
 
I hate to read your false and fabricated writings. Most of the time you bring false information. Either you have very limited knowledge about Islam, and it seems it not, then I have no dough that you are a secrete agent whose main agenda is brushing Islam and Muslim. Where did you get that Muslims are killing their daughter for not wearing hijab. In which area of Texas, a Muslim killed his daughter? Can you give me the information. I have some relatives living in Texas, I can easily get the information.
 
Delwar




 

From: turkman@sbcglobal.net
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:25:46 -0800
Subject: [Sonar Bangladesh] "No to Hijab": My Response

Mr. Abdat is treating an Edict or FaTwa here as a Public Statement, when its not. Sounds like he hasn't read, who can issue an Edict and what it means. He wants us to ask for its justification, when we know, in Shriyah anybody asking for justification of an Edict means, he is challenging an Edict and all such people have to get beheaded according to Shriyah. Does this man know, what Shriyah means? 
 
He claims, killing daughters for not wearing Hijaab is incorrect by Sunni point of view though similar Edicts had been issued by a Sunni Aalim of Saudi Arabia and a Pakistani Sunni Aalim also. He tells that Aalim is a human and prone to mistake. Ask all those Philosophers, Reformers, Scientists, Inventors and their students in their graves, who were beheaded throughout our history and nobody had raised this question even they had caused beheadings by issuing Edicts like 'Earth is not round', when Scientists had insisted it was.
 
Here we are talking about cause and effect by telling him that hundreds of females are being killed in the world for not wearing Hjiaab every year because of what our Mollaas have taught us about Islam and he is telling us they are not killing because we are Moslims. Are we killing our daughters because we are Jews, sir?
 
2 days ago in Texas, USA an Egyptian Moslim Immigrant shot his two daughters dead. Just this week, 3 Moslim Girls died in North America for not wearing Hijaab. May God help this man's brain ...!

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[mukto-mona] Audio Story at National Public Radio(NPR)- At Home, at War: Tahmima Anam's 'Golden Age'

 

At Home, at War: Tahmima Anam's 'Golden Age'

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Tahmima Anam (tall crop)
Zahedul I. Khan

Born in Bangladesh, Tahmima Anam grew up mostly in the West. But she wove family stories of her native land and its independence war into the fabric of her novel A Golden Age.

 
 
 
“I thought I would write a sort of epic ... battle scenes and political rallies and all the sorts of big moments .... When I sat down to write, I ended up really thinking about what it was like for ordinary people to survive that war.”
Tahmima Anam
 
 

Morning Edition, January 11, 2008 · The child of a diplomat, Tahmima Anam grew up far away from her native Bangladesh. But all her life, she heard about that country's war for independence — which took place before she was born — from her Bengali parents and their friends. And when she decided to write a novel about Bangladesh, Anam says, she couldn't imagine writing about anything else except the war.

Anam's first novel, A Golden Age, revolves around a family headed by a widow named Rehana — a character inspired by Anam's grandmother and the small but remarkable role she played in that war.

Initially, though, Anam had a different kind of book in mind.

When the Everyday Is Epic

"I thought I would write a sort of epic," she says — "a very muscular narrative that had battle scenes and political rallies and all the sorts of big moments that you see in war novels. But actually, when I sat down to write, I ended up really thinking about what it was like for ordinary people to survive that war."

To research the story, Anam interviewed people who had lived through the war. In 1971, long-simmering hostilities between East and West Pakistan began boiling over. Separated from West Pakistan by language, culture and the expanse of India, East Pakistan chafed under the dominance of the West. When East Pakistan's Awami party won an overwhelming victory in national elections, leaders in the West refused to allow a new parliament to convene. East Pakistani nationalists took to the streets to protest.

Anam's mother, Shaheen, was 19 years old at the time.

"We had no inkling that we were going to war," Shaheen Anam says. "But we thought if we demonstrate, if we protest, if we have rallies ... we are going to be able to convince them. So every day we were out in the street, we were talking, we were singing, we were having meetings, and it was very, very exciting."

Then, on the 25th day of March, the Pakistani army moved in and began indiscriminately killing protestors.

Shahidullah Khan, a young man at the time, was stunned and angered by the massacre.

'We Have to Liberate This Country'

"I saw dead bodies and blood all over Dhaka," says Khan, a friend of the Anam family. "And we decided, four friends to go out — four friends together. We went out, and there was only one motto at that time: We have to liberate this country."

One of those four friends was Tahmima Anam's uncle, Shaheen's older brother. He asked his mother if the resistance fighters could stay at her house, and if they could hide weapons in her garden.

And so Tahmima Anam's grandmother provided food and shelter for the young fighters. While the young men went off on missions, Shaheen Anam stayed home. The atmosphere in the house, she says, was more exhilarating than terrifying. But one morning, the Pakistani army came, looking for her brother.

It was those events, and the stories her relatives told, that inspired Tahmima Anam to write her book. Anam says that in the character of Rehana, she found a way to show what happens when war intrudes unexpectedly on the normal rhythms of life.

"I suppose the idea I had was that people brought their histories, their personal histories, their struggles, their familial struggles into that war," she says.

(In the book, Rehana's reasons for giving over her house are more complex than mere commitment to a cause: Early in the book, we learn that she once lost custody of her children. After their return, her devotion to them was boundless, but that devotion is tested when, in the midst of war, Rehana falls in love.)

"So it's not just that their political ideals motivate their participation in the war," Anam says. "They have all kinds of personal histories, especially Rehana, when she becomes a nationalist. All of these things kind of play into her actions, and ultimately affect very deeply the decision that she takes at the end of the war, and at the end of the book."

Anam says she worried about getting the story of the Bangladesh war right, both for those who lived through it and for those of her own generation who may not know much about it.

And she says she hopes the book will be a way for other people to learn about Bangladesh. This native daughter, who writes in English because she is not comfortable writing in the language of her own country, is nonetheless determined to tell its story. A Golden Age is the first book in a trilogy Anam plans to write about her homeland.

Excerpt: 'A Golden Age'

 
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Chapter One

March 1971

Every year, Rehana held a party at Road 5 to mark the day she had returned to Dhaka with the children. She saved her meat rations and made biryani. She rented chairs and called the jilapi-wallah to fry the hot, looping sweets in the garden. There was a red-and-yellow tent in case of rain, lemonade in case of heat, cucumber salad, spicy yoghurt. The guests were always the same: her neighbour Mrs Chowdhury and her daughter Silvi; her tenants, the Senguptas, and their son, Mithun; and Mrs Rahman and Mrs Akram, better known as the gin-rummy ladies.

So, on the first morning of March, as on the first morning of every March for a decade, Rehana rose before dawn and slipped into the garden. She shivered a little and rubbed her elbows as she made her way across the lawn. Winter still lingered on the leaves and in the wisps of fog that rolled over the delta and hung low over the bungalow.

She dipped her fingers into the rosebush, heavy with dew, and plucked a flower. She held it in her hand as she wandered through the rest of the garden, ducking between the wall-hugging jasmine and the hibiscus, crossing the tiny vegetable patch that was giving them the last of the season's cauliflower, zigzagging past the mango tree, the lemon tree, the shouting-green banana tree.

She looked up at the building that would slowly, over the course of the day, cast a long shadow over her little bungalow. Shona. She could still hear Mrs Chowdhury telling her to build the new house at the back of her property. 'Such a big plot,' she'd said, peering out of the window; 'you can't even see the boundary it's so far away. You don't need all that space.'

'Should I sell it?'

Mrs Chowdhury snapped her tongue. 'Na, don't sell it.'

'Then what?'

'Build another house.'

'What would I do with another house?'

'Rent, my dear. Rent it out.'

Now there were two gates, two driveways, two houses. The new driveway was a narrow passage that opened into the back of Rehana's plot. On the plot stood the house she had built to save her children. It towered above the bungalow, its two whitewashed storeys overlooking the smaller house. Like the bungalow, it had been built with its back to the sun. The house was nearly ten years old now, and a little faded. Ten monsoons had softened its edges and drawn meandering, old-age seams into the walls. But every day, as Rehana woke for the dawn Azaan, or when she went to put the washing in the garden, or when, after bathing, she fanned out her long hair on the back of a veranda chair, Rehana looked at the house with pride and a little ache. It was there to remind her of what she had lost, and what she had won. And how much the victory had cost. That is why she had named it Shona, gold. It wasn't just because of what it had taken to build the house, but for all the precious things she wanted never to lose again.

Rehana turned back to the bungalow and entered the drawing room. She ran her palm across the flat fur of the velvet sofa, the dimpled wood of the dining table. The scratched, loved, faded whitewash of the veranda wall.

She unfurled her prayer mat, pointed it westwards and sank to her knees.

This was the start of the ritual: wake before sunrise, feel her way around the house; pray; wake the children.

They were not children any more. She had to keep reminding herself of this fact. At nineteen and seventeen, they were almost grown up. She clung greedily to the almost, but she knew it would not last long, this hovering, flirting with adulthood. Already they were beings apart, fast on their way to shedding the fierce, hungry mother-need.

Rehana lifted the mosquito net and nudged Maya's shoulder. 'Wake up, jaan,' she said. 'It's our anniversary!'

She went to Sohail's room and knocked, but he was already awake. 'For you,' she said, holding out the rose.

While the children took turns in the bath, Rehana ironed their new clothes. This year she had chosen an egg-blue sari for herself and a blue georgette with yellow polka dots for Maya. For Sohail there was a brown kurta-pyjama. She had embroidered the purple flowers on the collar herself.

'Ammoo,' Maya said, 'I have to go to campus after the party—I can't wear this.'

'I'm sure your activist friends won't mind if you don't wear white for one day.'

'You wouldn't understand,' she retorted, tucking the sari under her elbow anyway.

After they had all bathed and put on their new clothes, the children took turns touching Rehana's feet. 'God bless you,' she said, hugging them tightly, their strong, tanned arms around her neck almost beyond her imagination.

They were both taller than her. Maya had passed Rehana by a few inches, and Sohail was a full head and shoulders above them both; Rehana was often reminded of the moment she'd met Iqbal, hunched over the wedding dais, how he had towered over her like a thunder cloud. But in fact Sohail had grown to resemble Rehana. He was pale and had her small nose and her slightly crooked teeth; his hair was fashioned into a wave at the top of his head, the crest threatening to tip over his eyelids. Sometimes, like today, he wore kurta-pyjamas, but usually he was seen in more fashionable attire: tight, long-collared shirts and even tighter trousers that hung over his shoes and drew tracks in the dust.

It was Maya who looked more like her father. She had his chestnut skin and deep-set eyes that made her look serious even when she was trying to say something funny or make a joke—which rarely happened—but Rehana had often seen her friends pause and look at each other, wondering whether to laugh.

The foregoing is excerpted from A Golden Age, by Tahmima Anam. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced without written permission from HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022.

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[vinnomot] Re: [khabor.com] Re: Some previous comments (about 8 month ago) about recently sacked adviser of pre

 

Hi liar Delwar Mazumder & other liar Jamat - RAZAKAR - Shibir - Paki - Muslim league supporter ,

 

 

Do not produce lies & spread lies.

 

Read & see the statistics of last few, comparatively, free & fair general elections of Bangladesh (mainly 1991, 1996).

 

You wrote and intent of your posting was like that, " majority of the people in the country" are "razakar, albadar, alsams "

 

It is a complete lie and reality is different

 

But those Jamat - RAZAKAR - Shibir - Paki - Muslim league supporters (overt & covert) always "assume" & "think" that they are maximum in number, as the see those in different blogs, in comparison to other.

 

But actual statistics are:

 

Year

1991

1996

2001 (Highly rigged & controversial )

 

Vote got

NDF

Vote got

NDF

Vote got

Symbol: Party:

 

 

 

 

 

Boat : Awami League

33.73%

5

37.46%

2

40.13%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance Scale : Jamat

12.04%

104

8.59%

225

4.28%

*NDF : Number of seats, where deposit were forfeited (JAMANOT BAJEAFTO)

Ref: Election commission of Bangladesh

But, one thing is that Jamat-RAZAKAR-Paki-Muslim league supporters have very "BIG" mouth and they can write; tell lie (& mix of lie & truth) without any hesitation & without any truth.

 You also wrote, " Now this up to you that you will live into this razakar country or not."

Jamaat - Shibir - Razakar - Al-Badar - Muslim League - Paki supporter and their cronies, keep in mind that, Bangladesh is our country and we got our Bangladesh (in sacrifice of lives of 30 lakh Bangalee &) by defeating you all (Jamaat - Shibir - Razakar - Al-Badar - Muslim League - Paki activists in battle & political fields) and 93 lakh Paki Army surrendered (it is a world record) and thousands of Jamaat - Shibir - Razakar - Al-Badar - Muslim League - Paki activist were either killed or captured by Bangalee & MUKTI BAHINEE.

So, all Paki-Razakar-Jamat-Muslim League supports go back to your SADHER  'F(p)akistan'

Jamaat - Shibir - Razakar - Al-Badar - Paki - Muslim League will continue to be hated, criticized, damned as it was done in past and will be treated same at now and also be treated same in future, for hundreds and hundreds of years to come!

Bangalee & Bangladesh will fight the same fight they fought in 1971 to get rid of these Jamat-BNP-Razakar-Muslim League-Paki supporter and their cronies.

Finally I am telling to all Jamaat - Shibir - Razakar - Al-Badar - Paki - Muslim League activists & supporters - not to assume any bogus data or manufacture & spread lies.  

 

But I know it is the usual habit of most of the Paki-Razakar-Jamat supports & their cronies.

 

KOILA  HAZAR  BAR  SABAN   DIE   DHUILEO -  SADA  HOBE   NA

 

Similarly, you Paki-Razakar-Jamat supporters & their cronies can not write any posting without lies!

 

 

 

 

Shafiqur Rahman Bhuiyan (ANU) 



 
On 1/12/08, Delwar Mazumder <delwar98@hotmail.com > wrote:

I have been observing you guys mail since a long time, whenever someone write something against Awame League,
you guys cannot tolerate and start shouting by saying he is razakar, albadar, alsams. If you think those opposing Awame league,
they are razakar, albadar, and alsams, then I will say they are the majority of the people in the country, because in the election
your party go about 40% vote and this 40% are not your workers. About 20% will be general people who just supported your
candidate locally. Now this up to you that you will live into this razakar country or not. Who are you, what you did, and what are
you doing now, people are very aware about you guys. They are not stupid any more.
 
You cannot accept any criticism like your Netri. When someone say something against your Netri, you start brushing that person,
but when someone criticize Islam and Muslim, you become very happy. Who are you? You people names indicate that you are Muslim,
but your activities shows the different thing. What's your real identity? what's your real agenda? Can you make it clear
to the people if you have that boldness.




 

To: islam71nurul@aol.com; MuktoChinta@yahoogroups.com; vinnomot@yahoogroups.com; khabor@yahoogroups.com; sa7rong@yahoogroups.com; mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
From: veirsmill@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:57:23 -0800
Subject: [ khabor.com] Re: Some previous comments (about 8 month ago) about recently sacked adviser of present Caretaker Government, characterless, corrupt Jamatee Barrister Moinul Hussain by one Mohiuddin Anwar alias Mr. Golam Arshad (BARNO CHORA)

Netzeroo Mohiuddin is not just an opportunist but surely a diehard fundamentalist, anti humanist, intransigent, narrow-minded,jamaati collaborator and paki lover.
Thanks
Shamim Chowdhury


islam71nurul@aol.com wrote:

One Mohiuddin Anwar alias Mr. Golam Arshad made following excellent (?)
comments about 8 month ago in these blogs about recently sacked adviser
of present Caretaker Government of Bangladesh, characterless, corrupt
Jamatee Barrister Moinul Hussain:

(1)

â€Å“You guys are criticizing Barrister Moinul. Do you know his quality ?

He is one of the rarest politician in Bangladesh who refused to accept
one party rule Bakshal in front of the Bakshal creator/father of the
nation. Even Ziaur Rahman became member of Bakshal, but Barrister
Moinul and Bongobir Osmani refused to accept undemocratic rule in the
name of Shoshiter Biplob.

You cannot find a single politician in Bangladesh who has the political
courage of Barrister Moinul, who cannot be purchased at any price.â€

(2)

â€Å“We Bangladeshis are lucky that his son Barrister Moinul Hossain is
with us and serving the nation when it was necessary

Long Live Barrister Moinul Hossain( who opposed Bakshalism in our
society and now serving the interest of Democracy under the CTG.).â€


Dear readers,

It is proved again that he (Mohiuddin Anwar alias Mr. Golam Arshad) is
a notorious opportunist & â€Å“BORNACHORAâ€


Nuru




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