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Monday, August 23, 2010

[ALOCHONA] Identifying a Muslim



Identifying a Muslim

 

Javed Ahmad

 

Honestly, I feel happy when I hear or see someone accepting Islam. It is not because his or her joining Islam is adding to the number and strength of the Muslim community, but because on the feeling that he or she have reverted to the original faith and religion when he or she was at the time of birth.

 

Narrated Ibn Shihab: The funeral prayer should be offered for every child even if he were the son of a prostitute as he was born with a true faith of Islam (i.e. to worship none but Allah Alone). If his parents are Muslims, particularly the father, even if his mother were a non−Muslim, and if he after the delivery cries (even once) before his death (i.e. born alive) then the funeral prayer must be offered. And if the child does not cry after his delivery (i.e. born dead) then his funeral prayer should not be offered, and he will be considered as a miscarriage. Abu Huraira, narrated that the Prophet said, "Every child is born with a true faith (i.e. to worship none but Allah Alone) but his parents convert him to Judaism or to Christianity or to Magainism, as an animal delivers a perfect baby animal. Do you find it mutilated?" Then Abu Huraira recited the holy verses: 'The pure Allah's Islamic nature (true faith i.e. to worship none but Allah Alone), with which He has created human beings.' " (30.30). (Bukhari 2.440).

 

According to Islam, all humans are born Muslims; it is the environment and the culture of the parents that shapes a human to grow believing something else. Since none of us have any hand or control on our birth and death, we totally rely on Allah’s decision on where and how one would be born and die. Therefore, we are totally dependent on Allah’s will whether one would become a Muslim or die in Islam or not.

 

“It is He Who has created you; and of you are some that are Unbelievers, and

some that are Believers: and God sees well all that ye do.” (Qur’an 64:2).

 

Narrated Muawiya: I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "If Allah wants to do good to a person, He makes him comprehend the religion. I am just a distributor, but the grant is from Allah. (And remember) that this nation (true Muslims) will keep on following Allah's teachings strictly and they will not be harmed by any one going on a different path till Allah's order (Day of Judgment) is established." (Bukhari 1.71).

 

Islam is a gift to an individual from Allah. It can come to a person at any time of his or her life or never come at all! On the other hand, there are many who go out of the fold of Islam as well for whatever reason. So you see, there is no guarantee that one would become a Muslim and remain a Muslims till end.

 

“Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error:

whoever rejects evil and believes in God hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-

hold, that never breaks. And God heareth and knoweth all things.” (Qur’an 2:256).

 

I got motivated to write this paper due to the present world wide hype and rumors on ‘Obama being a Muslim’, ‘Prayer room open to Muslims at the Pentagon’, ‘A masjid to be build at ground zero’, ‘Muslim prayer led by female imam in NY’, etc. So you see, Islam is now in a hot bed, especially in the USA.

 

Rumors of renowned Americans accepting Islam is nothing new. There has been a rumor for many years on Neil Armstrong – the Apollo 11 NASA astronaut being a Muslims after witnessing the crack mark on the Moon that points to the miracle performed by Prophet (S) dividing the moon by the sign of his two fingers. But this rumor turned out to be untrue as the astronaut denied reverting to Islam while the crack line on the moon is still there.

 

Then again we have heard the rumor about Elvis Presley accepting Islam! That too turned out to be untrue and we longer have any recourse to verify it as he is no longer alive. Then the heavy weight boxing champion Casius Clay accepted Islam and became Muhammad Ali, and that is true because he openly and bravely acknowledged it.

 

The British pop singer Cat Steven accepted Islam and became Yusuf Islam that is true; but when Michael Jackson accepted Islam that was kept a secret and still a matter of hush even after his death. His brother Jerome Jackson is however a Muslim.

 

If a person like President Obama of the United States is truly a Muslim then it is a matter of interest to the world. But the question is, is he?

 

In order to become a Muslim and remain a Muslim one need to fulfill some conditions of Islam. First and foremost is declaration of faith, which is “There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” This is one of the five pillars of Islam. The other pillars are: Establishing regular prayers (Salat), compulsory fasting in the Islamic month of Ramadan (Siam), contributing annual alms (Zakat) and pilgrimage to makkah at least once in a lifetime if health and means permits (Hajj). And of course, there are other do’s and don’ts, but to keep our discussion plain and simple we need not go into details of Islamic faith. The test of five pillars of Islam will do.

 

Now to solve the mystery of Obama whether he is a Muslim or not we could verify by asking the followings questions:

 

  1. Does he believe in Allah and His messenger Muhammad?
  2. Does he offer the five daily prayers?
  3. Does he fast in the month of Ramadan?
  4. Does he pay 2.5% alms from his savings of wealth to the poor Muslims annually?
  5. Does he have any intention to perform hajj?

 

Not just Obama, these questions could be posed at anyone who claims or suspected to be a Muslim. A Muslim would say ‘yes’ to all of the questions above. Some however may not have 100% marks on this test, but could still be a Muslim, but at a lower faith level.

 

There are many individuals who think of themselves a Muslim whereas they never fulfill any of the above requirements. All they have is a Muslim sounding name composed with some Arabic words of which the meaning is also unknown to them. No matter what they think, the Qur’an has a term ‘hypocrite’ for them. Therefore, a hypocrite is not a Muslim.

 

“The Hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire: no helper wilt thou find for them;- Except for those who repent, mend (their lives) hold fast to God, and purify their religion as in God's sight: if so they will be (numbered) with the believers. And soon will God grant to the believers a reward of immense value. What can God gain by your punishment, if ye are grateful and ye believe? Nay, it is God that recogniseth (all good), and knoweth all things.” (Qur'an 4:145-147).

 

For a hypocrite to return to Islam he or she must sincerely ‘repent’; which means they have a way out if they want one. In the case of hypocrites, they have the knowledge of Islam only the faith or belief is missing. So, it is relatively easy for them to return just by saying “sorry, I won’t do it again” to Allah.

 

The best way to solve the riddle would be just by simply asking Obama if he is a Muslim or not. As far as I am concerned, Obama is not going to pass the above test to qualify himself as a Muslim. Because there is no news about his observance of any of the five tenets of Islam discussed above. Therefore, the Americans need not worry.

 

His support for establishing a masjid at Ground Zero is basically a distraction and has some hidden political motive just like the Pentagon’s news on allowing the Muslims to offer prayer at their prayer room closed to the area that was hit by a missile on 9-11-2001. What I find alarming though is that what are the ‘Muslim terrorists’ doing in Pentagon! Never mind praying!?

 

Now here comes the most terrible and disgusting part. There are some people who would pass the above exam with colors, but yet they are not Muslims! Yes, you guessed it right if you are thinking they are the ‘hypocrites’. Believe it or not, like it or not, there are some ‘Muslims’ who offers prayers for a ‘show’ not really believing in Islam. They use Islam to draw support and sympathy from the unsuspecting Muslims for their own personal or political gain and advantages.

 

Take the news “Woman leads US Muslims to prayer” for instance. What this group of people is actually doing is creating a ‘sect of Muslims’ as per their own liking and interpretations. This group is nothing but another sect among others with a minority followings. The stand point on sects is clear in Islam –

 

“As for those who divide their religion and break up into sects, thou hast no

part in them in the least: their affair is with God: He will in the end tell them the truth of all that they did.” (Qur’an 6:159).

 

Parallel hadith –

 

"My Ummah will be fragmented into seventy-three (73) sects. All of them will be in Hell Fire except one sect. They (the Companions) said: Allah's Messenger, which is that? Whereupon he said: It is one to which I and my companions belong". (Tirmidhi. 171)

 

Therefore, deviation from the original teachings of Islam Is not permitted. Anyone who does so would be in a risk of being an outcast.

 

This new sect that follows a woman as an imam has no support from any Islamic references. They are just following their own whims and desires. Like any other world religions, a woman cannot take a leading role in religious activities or rituals. There are no female rabbis, there are no female priests, and there should not be a female Imam either. Never in the Islamic history there was a female imam approved by Islam.

 

If anyone wants to create a new religion similar or close to Islam then it is better that they give it a name to avoid confusion with Islam and Muslims. So that we would know clearly who they are and what they do and believe in. For instance, we have Shikism, which is an off shoot of Islam, but not Islam. And then we have Bahai faith that is also an off shoot of Islam, but not Islam, etc. No need to pull the legs of Islam and Muslims, choose a name for your new religion and leave Islam alone.

 

“The people of the Book” (meaning the Jews and Christians) have done the same with their religion and corrupted their books, as a result their religion became invalid-

 

“Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands, and then say: "This is from God," to traffic with it for miserable price!- Woe to them for what their hands do write, and for the gain they make thereby.” (Qur’an 2:79).

 

But this is not possible with the Qur’an as Allah Himself has taken the responsibility of safeguarding the book from any form of corruption simply because Islam is the last and final divine religion for mankind-

 

“We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption).” (Qur’an 15:9).

 

“…This day have I perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion. But if any is forced by hunger, with no inclination to transgression, Allah is indeed Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.” (Qur’an 5:3).

 

Finally, my honest and sincere suggestion- Do not take up war against Allah when He expressed His desire clearly –

 

“Not your desires, nor those of the People of the Book (can prevail): whoever

works evil, will be requited accordingly. Nor will he find, besides God, any protector or helper.” (Qur’an 4:123).

 

Instead, come let us join hands in peace (literal meaning of Islam) and live together as true Muslims in this temporal world that we would leave behind to enter an eternal life hereafter. Welcome to genuine Islam! The religion chosen by God and the religion of all the past Prophets before Muhammad - peace be upon them all.

 

References:

 

Barack Obama believed to be a Muslim by one fifth of Americans: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/19/barack-obama-muslim-american-public

 

Obama seeks 'new beginning' with Muslim world: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jun/04/obama-egypt-muslim

 

Barack Obama in Cairo: the speech no other president could make: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/04/barack-obama-speech-islam-west

 

Poll finds growing number of Americans think Obama is Muslim: file:///G:/downloads/growing-number-of-americans-call-obama-muslim-in-poll..htm

 

THE MYTH AND THE MOSQUE: http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/the-myth-and-the-mosque/

 

Ground Zero Mosque Imam Is Globalist Stooge: http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2010/08/ground-zero-mosque-imam-is-globalist.html

 

CNN: Muslims Pray Daily At Pentagon: http://mediamatters.org/strupp/201008200012

 

Woman leads US Muslims to prayer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4361931.stm

 

Fox News shareholder funded ‘Ground Zero mosque’ imam: report: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0821/fox-shareholder-funded-mosque-imam/

 

The CFR-Globalist-Zionist Hegelian Dialectic New York Mosque Conspiracy: http://kennysideshow.blogspot.com/2010/08/cfrglobalistzionist-hegelian-dialectic.html



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Re: [ALOCHONA] Burqa can't be forced: High Court



But Secularism can be forced? Give me a break!!

Did not hindu hasina learned anything from her Father?


--- On Mon, 8/23/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Burqa can't be forced: High Court
To:
Date: Monday, August 23, 2010, 2:36 AM

 

Burqa can't be forced: High Court

 
The court also ordered relevant officials to explain why forcing girls to wear burqa (veil) and keeping them out of sports and cultural activities were illegal.


Dhaka, Aug 22 (bdnews24.com)—The High Court has ruled that no women can be forced to wear burqa at work and educational institutions. In it's ruling The High Court on Sunday in a suo moto order directed the government to ensure that no women were forced to wear veil or religious dress in the educational institutions and offices.

The court also ordered the government to ensure that the cultural activities and sports in the educational institutions are not restricted.The orders came in the wake of a public interest petition filed by Supreme Court lawyers Mahbub Shafi and A K M Hafizul Alam on Sunday. The bench of justices A H M Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Sheikh Mohammad Zakir Hossain also ruled that they cannot be barred from taking to culture and sports

The court also ordered relevant officials to explain why forcing girls to wear burqa (veil) and keeping them out of sports and cultural activities were illegal.

The A Bengali daily news item said that principal of the college in Natore ( Northern Bangladesh ) has stopped any cultural activities and sports at the college and forced female students to wear Borka or veil in the college.The HC also directed principal of the college Mozammel Haque to appear before the HC bench on August 26 to explain the matter.

It also issued a rule upon the government to explain why imposition of restriction on cultural activities and sports in the educational institutions and offices and forcing the female students to wear veil should not be declared illegal.

Secretaries to the ministries of home, education, social welfare and women affair and principal Mozammel Haque has been made respondent to the rule and orderThe education, home, social welfare, and women and children affairs secretaries and principal of Rani Bhabani Mohila College Mozammel Huq were asked to reply to ruling. Following a brief hearing, the court also asked the principal to appear before it on Aug 26.

The lawyers in their petition on Sunday cited a report carried by a Bengali newspaper the same day headlined, 'Burqa mandatory at Rani Bhabani Mohila College'. The lawyers stated such enforcement was discriminatory.

http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=332264




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[ALOCHONA] Taher's martial law trial challenged



HC asks for 34-year-old records of the tribunal

Col Abu Taher
The High Court yesterday asked the government to produce within three weeks all records on the martial-law trial that saw Colonel Abu Taher condemned to death in 1976.

The order came in response to a writ petition filed by Taher's wife Lutfa Taher and his brother Anwar Hossain.

The HC also directed the government to explain why the Martial Law Regulation No.16 of 1976, under which Taher was tried and executed 34 years back, should not be declared illegal and unconstitutional.

It asked the government to show why the orders of the special martial law tribunal that convicted and sentenced Taher and others will not be adjudged illegal.

Besides, it sought explanations why the then government's executing the orders of the tribunal should not be declared unlawful.

Secretaries of the law, liberation war affairs, defence and home ministries, the inspector general (prisons) and superintendent of Dhaka Central Jail will have to come up with the answers within three weeks.

The home and defence secretaries and the IG (prisons) will have to produce the trial records.

Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain comprise the HC bench.

Fatema Yusuf, wife of Yusuf Ali Khan who was sentenced to life term in the same trial, is a co-petitioner.

The petition says Taher, a sector commander during the Liberation War, and 16 others were tried for sedition inside Dhaka Central Jail on July 17, 1976. Justice Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem was the president and Ziaur Rahman the chief martial law administrator of the country then.

The then government executed Taher on July 21, 1976. It however did not disclose anything about the trial proceedings, charges against the accused and the execution.

"Lutfa Taher was never given any documents on the trial proceedings and the judgment," Shahdeen Malik, counsel for the petitioner, told The Daily Star yesterday.

He said no information is available except a report published in the now defunct national daily Bangladesh Observer. The news report carried names of 32 persons, and said 17 of them including Taher were convicted and the rest acquitted.

The Special Martial Law Tribunal was formed on July 14, 1976, and the case against Taher and others was its first case.

Of its five judges, three were officers of the army, navy and air force and two were from magistrate courts, the lawyer added.

During yesterday's hearing, Shahdeen said the people involved in the trial and subsequent execution had taken an oath of secrecy under the Martial Law Regulation.

He later told The Daily Star that lawyers of the hush-hush trial had also taken the oath and there was no provision for appeal against the sentences.

According to the Martial Law Regulation-16, the punishment for divulging information of the tribunal proceedings and orders was three years' imprisonment.

Shahdeen said the constitution does not allow secret trials and prohibitions on appeals against capital punishment awarded by the Special Martial Law Court.

Any kind of trial has to be held in open court as per the constitution, he said, adding that, this provision of the Martial Law Regulation was illegal and unconstitutional.

The petitioners prayed to the court to direct the authorities concerned to produce the records of the case and trial so that they could know what actually happened.

The Supreme Court recently released the full text of a judgment that declared the Fifth Amendment of the constitution illegal.

The amendment had legitimised the governments and military rule and martial law regulations since the murder of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975, up to April 9, 1979. Khandker Mushtaque Ahmed, Abu Sadaat Mohammad Sayem and Maj Gen Ziaur Rahman led the governments during this period.

Shahdeen said the Supreme Court in judgements had declared the Martial Law Regulations illegal and unconstitutional, except those made in people's interest.

Prof Anwar Hossain, a petitioner and brother of Col Taher, told reporters at the Supreme Court yesterday that it took them 34 years to move with the writ petition since there was no congenial atmosphere before to file such a petition.

He said they have filed the petition now as they became hopeful about getting justice following some recent judgments of the Supreme Court.

He said they wanted to know why his brother was killed and why 16 people were sentenced in a hush-hush trial.

Profile
Taher was born in 1938. He joined the Pakistan army in 1960.

Along with three other Bangalee officers and a sepoy, he had escaped from the then West Pakistan to join the Liberation War in July 1971.

Taher led the fight against the occupation army in sector 11. He was given 'Bir Uttam', the second highest award for valour in the war of independence.

His left leg was blown off from above the knee during the war. After treatment in India, he returned to Bangladesh in April 1972.

He entered politics in October 1972, and was elected vice-president of the central organising committee of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal.

Against the backdrop of a serious crisis in the army after the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Taher organised a people-soldier uprising on November 7, 1975.

On November 24, he and 31 others were tried at a martial law tribunal inside Dhaka Central Jail. Within 72 hours of the court's sentencing him to death, he was hanged on July 21, 1976.

[The Daily Star prepared this brief profile by talking to Taher's brother Prof Anwar Hossain]
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=152018


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[ALOCHONA] BNP pays dearly for not settling Fifth Amendment



BNP pays dearly for not settling Fifth Amendment
 
Narayanganj, Aug 23 (bdnews24.com) – BNP is dearly paying for not settling the Fifth Amendment issue during its previous tenure, BNP standing committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy has said. "The BNP-led government should have settled the verdict them when the government had just 14 months to go," he said.

He was speaking at a meeting in memory of former BNP MP Atahar Hossain Shamsu at Ali Ahmed Chunka Municipality Auditorium in Narayanganj. He demanded trial of all crimes against humanity that have taken place until now since the 1971 Independence War.

The government has recently initiated trial of all crimes against humanity during the 1971 war. Awami League president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina has recently said that BNP had links to the Aug 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in 2004, when the BNP-led government was in power.

Roy said that the government is now trying to accuse the BNP over the Aug 21 grenade attack that took place in 2004, just for political mileage. He claimed that there were gangs from home and abroad linked to the attack. He also spoke over so-called reformists that surfaced from inside the party after a military-installed government took office in Jan 2007.

"I don't see any reformists inside the BNP now. But those who had amassed assets illegally were out to endanger Zia's family."

"BNP faces more harm by its enemies inside than by those outside the organisation," he said and added that when the party was in power, they were the ones who had harmed the party. He also criticised the Awami League for forming government along with former military dictator HM Ershad-led Jatiya Party.


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Re: [ALOCHONA] Danone's Cheap Trick



Does the Goebbelsian Isha think this is a bad thing? Or something that has mutual benefit. Please clarify!!! The heading is quite confusing!!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Isha Khan
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Subject: [ALOCHONA] Danone's Cheap Trick

 

Danone's Cheap Trick



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[ALOCHONA] We need few young boys/girls to participate in couple of group dances (with Bangla songs) for AABEA's October 9 program.



 
We are looking for few young boys & girls to participate in couple of group dances with Bangla songs for AABEA's October 9 program.  If you are interested to involve your children in these group dances, you need to attend in all four (4) rehearsals to be held in the following four days & times: from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm on September 18 (Saturday), September 25 (Saturday), & October 2 (Saturday) and from 8:00 pm to midnight on October 8 (Friday).  The first rehearsal (September 18) will be held at my house.  At my home on September 18, all parents together will decide the location for other three rehearsals.  Please send confirmation to me immediately if you want to give your children to participate in the group dance and if you are willing to attend in rehearsals on the days I mentioned above.  Please look at the announcement in the following (after my signature block) to know more about AABEA's October 9 program.
 
Right now, I am travelling in the overseas for official business.  I am scheduled to return to Washington DC area on September 2.  So, if you call me, you don't get me on the phone till September 2.  But, you can ask me any questions in the email and you can confirm me for the participation of your children also by email.   I will contact you after September 2.  If you still want to talk to me regarding this email, please call me after September 2. 


MAHFUZUR  RAHMAN
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Elkridge,  Maryland 21075

410-796-0577 (home); 301-646-3475 (cellular); 703-875-4054 (work)
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American Association of Bangladeshi Engineers & Architects
(AABEA)
Presents
 
 ~ AABEA's Biennial Convention ~ 
and
~ Annual Family & Friends Gathering ~

 
on
 
Saturday, October 9, 2010 from 10:00 am till midnight
 
This event is NOT limited to engineers and architects only. 
Everyone is requested to attend. 
 
LOCATION:  To be announced later
DETAILS OF EVENT:  To be announced later
ADMISSION PRICE:  To be announced later

 

 
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Science Fair
  • Series of very informative & interesting technical seminars
  • Few local singers will present songs first time on stage in Washington DC area
  • Wonderful group dances by local performers
  • Fashion Show and Music Video prepared by few Bangladeshi students of few universities
  • Comedy drama by Jamaluddin Hussain, Rawshon Ara Hussain, & others.  Script written by Professor Momtajuddin Ahmad
  • Songs by Anila Chowdhury (a famous & renowned singer of modern songs in Bangladesh, currently residing at Virginia)
  • Food stalls, Sharri stalls, Jewelery stalls, etc.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 
 
Please mark your calendar immediately for October 9, 2010 to bring your family, relatives, & friends and stay with us all day & evening to enjoy AABEA's Biennial Convention as well as annual family & friends get together.  Thank you very much for your outstanding help & support and remember, we can achieve great things, if only you are with us.
 
Best Regards,
 
AABEA Central Executive Committee and AABEA Washington DC Executive Board
 
For further information please contact us at "contact@aabeadc.org".
 
or any of the following executive board members:
Faisal Quader, President, AABEA Washington DC Chapter: 301-990-7363; 301-526-7888 (cell)
Nasreen Chowdhury, President-Elect, AABEA Washington DC Chapter: 703-493-9219; 703-944-4604 (cell)
Ajhar Nakib, Secretary, AABEA Washington DC Chapter: 703-760-9616; 703-953-4788 (cell)
Mahfuzur Rahman, Treasurer, AABEA Washington DC Chapter: 410-796-0577; 301-646-3475 (cell); 703-875-4054 (work) 
Shah "Raja" Ahmed, Executive Member, AABEA Washington DC Chapter: 301-873-1440 (cell)
Zia Karim, Executive Member, AABEA Washington DC Chapter: 352-383-1582; 410-807-6160 (cell)
Imran Feroz, Executive Member, AABEA Washington DC Chapter: 443-756-9858
Misu Tasnim, Executive Member, AABEA Washington DC Chapter: 240-462-4000 (cell)
Hares Sayeed, President, AABEA Central Committee: 202-841-6269
Ahmed Ali, Executive Member of AABEA Central Committee and Liaison to Washington DC Chapter: 301-404-5567
 
American Association of Bangladeshi Engineers & Architects (AABEA)


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[ALOCHONA] Case filed against ZIA. Why Col Taher military trial not illegal?



Why Col Taher military trial not illegal: HC (Case filed against ZIA)


The High Court (HC) on Monday asked the government to explain why the Martial Law regulations under which Colonel Taher was sentenced to death should not be declared illegal and unconstitutional.
The rule is returnable within three weeks.
The HC also directed the government to produce the records of the trail of Col Taher and 15 others who were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment in connection with a sedition case.
The court came up with the rule and order following a writ petition filed on August 22.
Taher's wife Lutfa Taher, his brother Anwar Hossain; and Fatema Yousuf, the wife of Yousuf Ali Khan who was sentenced to life term imprisonment in a secret trail on July 17, 1976; jointly filed the writ petition.
The sedition case was filed against Taher and 32 others and they were tried under Martial Law Regulations No-16 of 1976 at a secret trial on July 17, 1976 when Ziaur Rahman was the chief Martial Law Administrator of the country. The martial court convicted 16 people including Taher.
Later, the death sentence of Col Taher was executed on July 21, 1976.


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[ALOCHONA] The Killer was here

Dear Mr. Nurul Kabir,
Sir,

You could only right such an editorial, as very much expected of you. When the whole world accepted their attrrocities and criminalisation of almost everything on this planet (at thier possessions) and rewarded Blair with UN positions what can you expect from so called small human right activists in our native land specially whose mind set is only getting foreign donations and serving their international and local mentors politically and socially. They come out with garland with fragrance and long grin that only befits them. Do they have shame? You can see what is happening to our own human right situation, they are far too occupied to attend the issues.
Thanks for such an Editorial

New Age Editorial (23.08.2010)
Blair's visit and enamoured political
elite: a crying out shame
IT IS, perhaps, the first time since he deceived the British parliament, with a dodgy dossier on the nuclear weapons capability of the Saddam Hussein regime, into authorising him to engage the British armed forces in the illegal United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Tony Blair's arrival in, or departure from, a country was not marked by any anti-war protests or any calls for his trial at the International Court of Justice for crimes committed against humanity. When Blair, currently the envoy of the quartet of the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia, arrived in Dhaka on a two-day 'private visit' along with his wife Cherie on Friday, there was no rally of placard-wielding, effigy-burning, slogan-shouting anti-war protesters. If such a display of public indifference is disappointing, the gloating hospitality extended to the Blairs by the mainstream political elite is shameful.
As reported in the media, the government despatched the foreign secretary to Shahjalal International Airport to receive the former British prime minister and his wife. Later in the evening, the Bangladesh prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, met the couple at her office on Saturday morning; her effusive hospitality was all too apparent from the photograph published on the back page of New Age on Sunday. Blair and Hasina are learnt to have discussed international and domestic issues, including climate change, good governance, local government and parliamentary democracy. In the afternoon, the leader of the opposition in parliament and chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Khaleda Zia, went to the Baridhara residence of the British high commissioner for a 'courtesy call' on Blair. During the half-an-hour meeting, the two former prime ministers 'recalled the warm relations between the two countries' when they were in power in their
respective countries, according to a report published in New Age on Sunday, quoting BNP vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury.
The effusion of goodwill showered upon Blair could very well be the manifestation of the colonial hangover of the political elite of the country but that hardly extenuates its guilt. After all, Blair, along with former US president George W Bush, weaved perhaps one of the most devious deceptions in human history, with their respective governments' tainted and tailored intelligence reports, to launch an illegal invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Every rationale that they had set forth before the invasion proved to be unfounded — the Saddam regime did not have the facility for weapons-grade uranium enrichment, let alone send nuclear weapon-carrying long-range missiles into the heart of the UK. Also empty was the promise that Bush and Blair had made of a better life for the regular Iraqis in post-Saddam era. In the end, the invasion of Iraq was about US hegemony and about the west's control over the oil-rich West Asia. And, ultimately, the people of
Iraq paid the price. More than a million Iraqi civilians have so far died while the country has irrevocably slid into the depth of political uncertainty and sectarian violence. The death count rises every passing hour. The same saga of deception and devastation earlier also led to the complete ruin of Afghanistan.
If any two individuals could and should be held responsible for the diabolical deception and the consequent carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan, it must be Bush and Blair. The latter was here and the political elite extended him gloating hospitality and, in the process, shamed the entire nation. The shame is all the more for the Awami League-led government. It pursues, on the one hand, the noble agenda of prosecuting the perpetrators of crimes against humanity during the war of independence while, on the other, rolled out red carpet, so to speak, to one of two worst war criminals of the time. Such duplicity certainly deserves a lot more than public condemnation.


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Re: [ALOCHONA] HEARTFELT GRATITUDES TO INDIA !!!!!!

Don't want to dampen your warm feeling towards India but you are giving more credit to her than she deserves. India was forced by the US (Please see recently published Nixon papers for details) and other regional powers (And Sheikh Mujibur Rahman) to stay out of Bangladesh. Mujibur Rahman made a lot of mistakes after 71 while trying to rule this new country but his love and dedication to this country should not be questioned. Since 71 India has shown her true hostile face to us and we are waiting for that to change. We want good relations with India. But stealing our water from international rivers and making false charges against our country will not help this cause.

India is still steeped into the crazy dream of "Akhanda Bharat" ( Pre-partitioned India) and like some confused Pakistanis ( Dreaming of joining back under one federation) those are dreams. We shed a lot of blood to gain a FREE country for Bangla speaking people and we cannot step back. Time and again we have proven Bengali Muslims are peace loving people. India has to show us that she wants peace with us.

Shalom.





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Dear All,
 
We are blessed to have a
FRIENDLY NEIGHBOUR like
INDIA , who helped us to
liberate our country from
Pakistani occupation. India
is the only country in the HISTORY who voluntarily
withdrew its forces from
Bangladesh!! Look at other
countries like German,Korea
Japan, Kuwait,Iraq, etc. where
US base is still there!! If India
had bad intention to occupy 
and control Bangladesh, then
their forces whould have been
still in Bangladesh!!! So, lets
cheers for INDIA !!!!
 
Regards,
DR. MANIK
 
 
 




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Subject: [Bangladesh-Zindabad] Re: [notun_bangladesh] Cartoon of the day

 


To add to the list the slogans are appropriate as we are watching the
subservient attitude of the Sarkar who claims to be only and the only sole agent
of Chetona( what chetona N for whose cause; a million Dollar  ????????????
?????) :


" TIPAI MUKH IS BLESSING FOR US AS   FARAKKA WAS"(SOURCES STATEMENTS GIVEN THRU
NEWS MEDIA)
 
" R GRATEFUL FOR URACCEPTING "BERU BARI" PLS DON'T LISTEN TO DETRACTORS ABOUT
"TIN BIGHA / TAL PATTY "
 
" WE DON'T MIND GIVING U TRANSIT FROM ANY POINT THE ETERNAL FREINDS WISHES"

Faruque Alamgir



On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero. com> wrote:

 
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