Cyrus wrote:>>I thought a "shahid" is a martyr who sacrifices himself or killed in a religious war.<<
Just get this, Cyrus, that the word "religion" is foreign to Muslim world. The word "religion" is name for the authority of church and that had been replaced by political authorities in different guise in christian countries. And the concept of "religious war" were waged by the crusaders those who were/are wearing a mask of love and for them (crusaders) war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength.
There are no recorded history any Caliphate had ever waged war on to spread deen[knowledge]. and to spread knowledge[deen] as Koran says, don't compel people to accept deen[knowledge]. Compulsion is not the way of peace[Islam] but it is chaotic what crusaders always did and still does that in the name of "political economic guise" with a political state authority. This distinction must be recognised.
As for who deserves to be named shahid? anyone who were wrongfully killed or murdered for creating chaos or spreading dogmas are deserved to be named shahid. And Shahid Zia is one of them for many people in Bangladesh. Just as Quran says: killing someone is killing all humanity and saving someone life is saving all humanity.
For many people, late president Zia was decent, honest and was working for a "just cause" or to build pragmatic society instead of totalitarian concept that BAKSAList wanted to achieved.
He was the father or architecture of democratic Bangladesh based on inclusion of all the members of the society. And it is imperative to form a country with all its inhabitants to have a peaceful society and otherwise it is chaotic, dogmatic and intentionally mobilising for chaos to perpetuate destability for alien causes.
There are a few parties under the umbrella of BAL are mobilising for chaos in name of democracy for their masters and those should be recognised and should be awarded them with a tag "neo-rajakar". And these neo-rajakars' masters' strategy is to divide and conquer and in effect, destroying a nation's industrial base and just as destroying the moral of a country while we remain infighting to each other.
-- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Cyrus <thoughtocrat@...> wrote:
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> almost 30 years later, I still don't understand why Major Zia was given the posthumous title, "Shahid". I thought a "shahid" is a martyr who sacrifices himself or killed in a religious war. If memory serves me right, he was killed by his own associates. There was no religious war, nor there was any self sacrifice. Just curious!
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