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wrote:
Dear Belal Beg:
First Happy New Year to you and to the rest of the readers.
I would like state to you that the premise of my research is that
fascism is against any democratic development. It doesn't allow
opposition to its ideas and it uses violence in politics.Please check
the Italian and the Spanish variety.Surprisingly Mujib had somuch
similarities with those. It works on the concept of ownership/
father and its followers as the children concept. My research was
specifically about Mujib's use of violence in politics which we have
seen led to further bloodbath to his own death and the unrest/ anger
still continues. If circumstances made him a statesman he would be a
Nelson Mendala or Gandhi who would have preched reconcilliation and
nonviolence in Bangladesh politics. But Mujib's upbringing made him a
musleman and the killer of Bangladesh's infant democracy. .In dealing
with this topic I have used examples, references, and the necessary
online liks, reading questions for further research. But unlike a
regular book here
I have used a nontraditional approach: a book of pictures/ I
have used illustrations.But this is not altogether uncommon in the
West.
As you have noticed I was clearly against Mujib's brand of South
Asian Fascism which I can predict it will continue to hunt Bangladesh
for years to come. He was truly a very powerful fascist. We should all
be against irrationalism, an academic responsibility Drs or Mr/s alike.
So in no way attacking fascism is unethical. On record I was a
once a devotee of Mujib, later on of Moni Sing Communist Party
supporter. I went to India on foot for 17 days for trainning crossing
the Chittagong Hill Tracts to Mizooram. Several times I was about to be
killed by the razakars. If they had good aim, at this moment I wouldn't
be writing this reply to you. So I don't fit in your categorization and
intolerance. However, I must say that I am sorry to cause annoyance to
your devotion to the leader. This is exacly what I had expected from
some readers because I hurt in the sickness called hero-worshiping
disease. Hero-worshipping is an irrational thing. But with a Ph.D.
and as a believer of rationality and with some love for the country I
left permanently unlike many fibble-minded followers of Bangabandu I was
not vassilating. If you don't know yet please let me inform you that
hero-worshipping is a disease in the followers of fascist leaders.
After this explanation, if you have a little more patience please
check my revised version of the book. But I thank you very much for
your response.
Kind Regards
Abid Bahar
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Sent: Thu, December 31, 2009 4:50:20 PM
Subject: RE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BANGABANDU AND BANGLADESH
Dr. Abid,
I had started to read your interestingly presented book on Bangabandhu.
You know, these days reading materials pour in like torrential rains.
Obviously you don't read them all. You pick and choose. A Dr. before
your name enticed me to read your book. I, as an ordinary man, naturally
expected scholarly work from a scholar. But you shocked me in the very
first page when you referred to a film to describe Sheikh Mujib's tricky
ways to avert crisis. I was impelled to stop there as I figured out you
will write everything yellow because you are Jaundiced. The theame you
are out to elucidate, was possibly best published in a major UK Daily
after Mujib's return to Bangladesh. The caption of the story was '
Sheikh Mujib, a Statesman or a village headman'.
From your organization of the book, interpretation of photographs and
facts, one can very easily find out it is a Bihari or Punjabi or Moududi
interpretation of the history of Bangladesh. These people could never
fathom out why the Bengalis were so crazy about their language, culture,
equal human rights and democratic rule. Entire history of the growth of
modern Bengali nationalism centers round those fundamental themes of
civilized life. As a freeman, you have the right to call an one eye
blinded boy lotus-eyed or spade a spade or a piece of rope a snake but
that does not affect the world. However by trying to daemonise Sheikh
Mujib whom BBC's survey found out to be the greatest Bengali in history,
you have resduced yourself to the pitiable level of one Rintu who wrote
a book named 'Amaaar fanshi chai' to black paint Sheikh Hasina. This
does not go with the responsibility and ethical norms of PhD. Again,
your evalution of Mujib has not added any thing
new. You will come across a Naigra of such tirades against Mujib in the
Pakistani media over the last four decades. But nothing could touch the
height of Mujib. Inspite of his short comings Sheikh Mujib is the Statue
of Liberty for the Bengali Nation. It is a pity you can't see it.
Thank you for your time.
Belal Beg
> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:39:30 -0800
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