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Re: [ALOCHONA] DUET student expelled for objectionable remark on PM in facebook



Not sure if this student should have been removed or not. However this student had to be punished. We are yet to learn how far we are going to go with "Freedom of Speech". Like it or not she is our elected PM and deserves minimal respect from all Bangladeshi. If you do not like her, don't vote for her next time but let her run the country and judge her after that!!

We see another set of crazy actions from our own government against Dr. Yunus and now some are doing to same against a sitting PM. We just don't respect ourselves at all. We are probably our worst enemies.....





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Subject: [ALOCHONA] DUET student expelled for objectionable remark on PM in facebook

To All:  "A student of Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology was today expelled  for one year for making objectionable remark in the website face-book on the  family of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina."  Please go the following weblink for detail news: http://bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2011-04-23&hidType=TOP&hidRecord=0000000000000000353463  Thanks,    ------------------------------------  [Disclaimer: ALOCHONA Management is not liable for information contained in this  message. The author takes full responsibility.] To unsubscribe/subscribe, send request to alochona-owner@egroups.comYahoo!  Groups Links  <*> To visit your group on the web, go to:     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alochona/  <*> Your email settings:     Individual Email | Traditional  <*> To change settings online go to:     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alochona/join     (Yahoo! ID required)  <*> To change settings via email:     alochona-digest@yahoogroups.com      alochona-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com  <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:     alochona-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com  <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:     http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/  


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[ALOCHONA] One death, many questions



One death, many questions


In this recent photo of Felani's family, only the 13-year-old girl is missing. She was shot dead on the Bangladesh-India border on January


A guarded regret from India followed the brutal killing of Bangladeshi girl Felani on January 7 by its border force. A "promise" of no more deaths on the border came from Delhi in March. A meeting of the two border forces also agreed on use of non-lethal weapons. But the Indian force remains trigger-happy and border killings go on.During a visit to Nageshwari in Kurigram, Special Correspondent Morshed Ali Khan looks at life on the border after the killing of Felani.

Six days after 13-year-old Felani was killed with a single shot on the Bangladesh-India border on January 7, her mother Jahanara, living and working in Bongaigaon in Assam, received the news over phone from her husband Nurul Islam.

Felani was killed by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) as the father and daughter tried to sneak into Bangladesh over the barbed-wire fence in the early hours of January 7.

Mother of six children, Jahanara was horrified to hear the news. Only a week ago Felani, her eldest child, had left Bongaigaon with her father for their native village of South Ramkhana in Kurigram across the border.

The heartbreaking news destroyed Jahanara's dream. Felani's marriage was scheduled for the following day of her arrival in the native village with Jahanara's sister's son, who works in a garment factory in Dhaka. Jahanara and Nurul were living in India for over 25 years without any valid documents whatsoever. It was going to be Felani's first visit to her parental land.

"With our savings I made two gold bangles, a pair of gold earrings and a gold nose pin for her marriage. When they [BSF] returned the body of my little girl, I was told the ornaments were not on her," said Jahanara.

"My husband made the second call a few days later and told me to sell everything we possessed and return home," Jahanara said sitting inside her tin-shed rickety house at South Ramkhana where a stack of hay was spread on the floor making room for the family sleeping area. There was no furniture in the room.

On February 14, Jahanara along with her five children arrived on the Chadrirhat border in India, boldly walked into the BSF office and told them firmly she wanted to return home.

"They never uttered a word and asked me to wait till they opened the barbed-wire gate. I soon crossed into my country and rushed towards the grave of my Felani," Jahanara said.

The story of the ill-fated Bangladeshi family goes back 25 years when the India-Bangladesh border hardly bore any visible demarcation line.

For the people living along this 4,023-kilometre-long border of these two countries there was no barrier. Their cattle grazed on each other's fields, their children married to families across the border, they traded and shopped at each other's haats (weekly bazaar) and found employment at each other's fields.

Informal trade between these two neighbouring countries, according to an estimate, ran into billions.

Yet the border between these two countries remains extremely hostile. Ain o Salish Kendra's documentation unit reveals that as per newspaper reports between 2008 and 2010 Indian BSF shot dead 188 Bangladeshis. During the same period 64 Bangladeshis were tortured to death by BSF, 166 were injured while 116 were abducted along the border.

The age-old traditional approach of the people living along the border came to an abrupt end with India building a 4,000-kilometre-long, ten-foot-high barbed-wired and concrete fence at a cost of $1.2 billion to stop what they said mass-scale migration, smuggling and infiltration.

Felani's father Nurul and his brother, both under twelve, walked into India 25 years ago after both their parents died within a month. The bothers started working at farmers' houses looking after cattle before settling down in Bongaigaon owning a roadside tea stall.

Jahanara's story is also similarly striking. Impoverished and helpless, after her father from the same village of South Ramkhana died, her mother walked into India in search of a job. At the age of eight Jahanara was married to Nurul Islam, hardly 13 years of age at that time. The couple had their first child, Felani, five years later.

A day before the fateful January 7, Nurul Islam and Felani arrived at Khitaber Kuthi under Dinhata police station of West Bengal. It was not the first time Nurul returned to his village. Six months ago he had made the same journey to rebuild his house on the occasion of Felani's upcoming wedding.

"Felani was very excited all the way," said Nurul recollecting the day. "She was wearing the gold ornaments and looked so beautiful," He said. "She told me how she looked forward to meeting her grandparents in Bangladesh for the first time."

"As usual, on arrival at Chadrirhat border point I contacted the dalals [brokers] and paid them Tk 3,000 for a passage across the fence," said Nurul.

He recalled the horror that followed. The dalals tried to smuggle the father and daughter throughout the night but border patrol by the BSF was so intense that day that they had to retreat. Just after the muezzin called for the early morning prayers, the dalals carrying three bamboo-made ladders led the two towards the fence.

"Daylight had broken by then and I was very scared. I told them we would prefer to wait till night but they were insistent," Nurul said.

He held Felani tightly as they climbed the rungs of the first ladder. The second ladder was placed horizontally to connect the two fences and the third one was placed on the Bangladesh side for descending.

"I held Felani with my right hand and climbed the first flights," he said. As the two tried to cross the second ladder, Nurul heard a single gunshot.

"The bullet hit Felani from the right side and she immediately fell silent and heavy after a brisk cry. I let her go and I myself fell on the Bangladesh side sustaining injuries all over my body. I looked back to see ten to eleven BSF members twenty feet away," Nurul continued.

He tried to climb back to rescue Felani but the guards shouted and aimed their rifles at him. From 6:10am till 11:30am that day, the body of Felani lay there hanging by the ten-foot-high fence before the BSF took her away.

In front of thousands of villagers and officials of the Border Guard Bangladesh, the BSF handed over her body the next day after a post-mortem. In turn, Bangladesh police conducted another post-mortem at the Kurigram General Hospital.

Felani was buried the following day.

The story of Felani touched the hearts of millions both in Bangladesh and India. For the family of Nurul and Jahanara, the 25-year-long Indian chapter has been closed, probably forever. With Tk 3 lakh that the family received from the Bangladeshi authorities they now dream of a new future by the grave of their beloved daughter, Felani.

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=183929


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Re: [ALOCHONA] Delhi’s ties with neighbours are fraught with conflict



But Bangladesh will not get access through India to reach Bhutan and Nepal through the treaty, as it has been asking for along time.
   The $1billion loan that India has promised Bangladesh to upgrade infrastructure is more to facilitate India's own transportation into Bangladesh. For instance, the Bangladesh railway gauge is different from India's; and Indian bogeys can't move seamlessly into Bangladesh.



A great example of what NOT to do when signing a pact with another country. Let us see how far we are going to go this time around.....



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Subject: [ALOCHONA] Delhi's ties with neighbours are fraught with conflict

 
Delhi's ties with neighbours are fraught with conflict
Pallavi Roy in London
India's relationships with its neighbours are fraught with conflict, save Bhutan and Maldives. Of late, the popular perception is that its relationship with Bangladesh is on an upswing. Last year, India signed the much-awaited agreement for transit of goods through Bangladesh to access its north-eastern states. Indian media reports hailed it as a momentous step in cementing India-Bangladesh relations. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is also set to visit this eastern neighbour sometime this year. But no effort has been made to gauge the mood on the other side of the border.
   Despite an informal gagging of any critical media by the ruling Awami League, some television talk shows and newspapers took the vox populi route to register how unpopular the agreement had been. The opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP), traditionally anti-Indian, lost no time in denouncing the deal. What is significant is that ministers took it seriously and worked hard to fend off the BNP's opposition. Why should India worry about growing opposition to the deal when the Awami League is in a significant majority in Parliament and when most Indians feel the deal is as good for Bangladesh?
   
   Transit deal favours India
   Actually, the transit agreement is stellar for India. It is just what India needs to access its fractious North East, flanked by a belligerent China. The transit would save India crores of rupees in transporting goods that now take the circuitous route through the 'chickens neck' in the Siliguri corridor in West Bengal. For instance, Assam tea is now carried 1,380 km from Guwahati to the Kolkata port to be exported. If exported through Chittagong port in Bangladesh, the journey gets shortened to 530 km. But Bangladesh will not get access through India to reach Bhutan and Nepal through the treaty, as it has been asking for along time.
   The $1billion loan that India has promised Bangladesh to upgrade infrastructure is more to facilitate India's own transportation into Bangladesh. For instance, the Bangladesh railway gauge is different from India's; and Indian bogeys can't move seamlessly into Bangladesh. A large portion of the loan will actually go towards that end and not to upgrade Bangladesh's own rail network; it is a loan tied to Indian equipment and contractors.
   A 3,783-km fence that India is building along its border with Bangladesh, ostensibly to keep out illegal immigrants, is adding to India's unpopularity. To most Bangladeshis, the logic of being fenced in, while India has transit rights, is untenable. This view is gaining enough traction to make the Awami League deeply unpopular. Consequently, it could affect its ability to 'deliver' transit to India. The belligerence of India's Border Security Force (BSF) has also complicated things.
   
   The China card
   China, of course, is the other big worry. India's perceived heavy-handedness could facilitate large Chinese investments in Bangladesh. Sri Lanka has Hambantota port, Pakistan has Gwadar port and the highways linking Sinchiang and the Northern Territories, Nepal has its Chinese government-built highways. Bangladesh is still to see such concerted Chinese activity though the Awaini League government in a rare show of dissent, perhaps to quell its image as being blatantly pro-India, has indicated it wants China to build a deep sea port and a road from Kunming via Myanmar into Bangladesh. And China is by no means uninterested. A smart Bangladesh government could leverage that and bargain with India, something Bangladesh is yet to do.
   Despite everything, goodwill for India still remains high in Bangladesh given the history of its independence. Much is also made of an emotional give-and-take of a shared culture between West Bengal and Bangladesh. But Bangladeshis are fast beginning to realise that engaging with Kolkata is not the same as engaging with New Delhi. New Delhi should be ready with a strategy when this realisation morphs into policy in Bangladesh. India might actually gain from removing the fence because free movement of trade could well compensate for movement of free labour — the ostensible purpose of the fence to stop illegal migration.
   But this is unlikely, given the political pressure to stop not just migration but the changing demographics of West Bengal and Assam with a growing share of Muslims in their populations. But if immigration policy is liberalised and migration legally controlled, Bangladeshi workers would spread across India, and the pressure of their presence in eastern India would ease.
   The author is a London-based research scholar in political economy.
   Courtesy: Weekly Businessworld


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[ALOCHONA] Rising commodity price



Rising commodity price



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[ALOCHONA] Inside AL



Inside AL

http://dailynayadiganta.com/2011/04/30/fullnews.asp?News_ID=275273&sec=6

http://dailynayadiganta.com/2011/04/30/fullnews.asp?News_ID=275223&sec=1

http://dailynayadiganta.com/2011/04/30/fullnews.asp?News_ID=275266&sec=6

http://jugantor.us/enews/issue/2011/05/01/news0070.htm

http://jugantor.us/enews/issue/2011/05/01/news0067.htm


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Re: [ALOCHONA] Dr. Dipu Moni was not denied US Visa




Do you have any specific documents to prove what you are saying? From what western countries are say our loud is very different from what the article below says. The article below by Mr. Ali says that process of removing Dr. Yunus started two years ago. He received "Medal of Freedom award" from the president of the USA in 2009. This libeling article claimed the US government awarded this man and gave "Green signal" to our government to remove him at the same time. This is near impossible theory by those who do not want to honor a Bangladeshi who deserves to be honored.

I have stated many times in this forum that, Dr. Yunus is a human being like you and I. He is not perfect. But the honor he brought for our nation and the help he provided for so many poor people should not be denied.

This is not about politics but it is very much about OUR country. Anybody remember our country anymore?


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From: Dr. M. Mohsin Ali <drmohsinali@yahoo.com>
To: alochona <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, May 1, 2011 2:06 pm
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Dr. Dipu Moni was not denied US Visa

 
 
Dr. Dipu Moni was not denied US Visa - It is a false propaganda by Jamat/BNP razakar journalists/writers. Please check the link below.
 
Infact, the US Govt. was not angry for sacking Dr. Yunus from Grameen Bank. It was done with the GREEN SIGNALS from the US Government. You will see the proof in the next few months.
 
US and other Western Governments and Organizations, especially, Secretary Hillary Clinton, are annoyed with Dr. Yunus's childish behaviors. Like a crying baby, Dr. Yunus, always goes to the BIG POWERS again and again for their favors and tries to use the big powers even for small causes which ultimately benefits him only, not the country, not the people.
 
The world's most powerful woman, US Secretary of State Mrs. Hillary Clinton and others are really tired of nagging of Dr. Yunus for his personal benefits. Due to his personal relationships, Dr. Yunus has been manupulating Hillary and Bill Clinton's powers and images and America's super power and thus he has been able to manipulate other world powers and organizations for his own benefits.
 
Now those dear friends of Dr. Yunus have understood that enough is enough for Dr. Yunus. But they do not want to abruptly dump him. US policy is always two-sword policy (overt and covert). Mrs. Clinton and her associates gave a green signal secretly to the Bangladesh Government and openly warning Bangladesh Government and shedding tears for removing Dr. Yunus from Grameen Bank.
 
It is a plain simple. Bangladesh Government may not have that courage and guts to openly challenge and defy the US warning coming directly from the Secretary Hillary Clinton, US Congressmen and Senators and other world leaders and continue the process of sacking Dr. Yunus from Grameen Bank.
 
This is not happened all on a sudden. The process of removing Dr. Yunus has began about 2 years ago and Bangladesh Government has been in close contact with the US Government over the whole episode of removing Dr. Yunus.
 
If it is really true that the Bangladesh Government has removed Dr. Yunus without any green signals from the USA and defied US real warnings, then I salute the Bangladesh Government without judging whether removal of Dr. Yunus from Grameen Bank was right or wrong or legal or illegal. At least, the Bangladesh Government has shown its courage and guts to stand up against the foreign super powers' aggression being a poor and small country.
 
Thank you.
 
Dr. Mohsin Ali.
 


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[ALOCHONA] Where are those values?

I was talking to a devout Muslim about the current political upheaval
in the Arab word. A very thoughtful person who gave me an answer full
of his own wisdom emanated from his deep dedication to his faith.
These are all western conspiracy against Islam. I was not surprised
because this kind of ignorance is widespread in Islam. When Muslim
rulers behaves as thugs, kills their own people and want perpetuate
their tyranny and despotic rules, Muslims in general never has a clue
what is right and what is wrong. It may sound outrageous but I must
say that Islam as a faith despite is long standing claim of honesty
and compassion utterly failed its followers in the modern times. In
the political terms the mullah's call for Jihad to bring back the
golden days of Khulafa e Rasheedin but in reality they have no clue
how to make a workable brew out the traditional of Islamic principles
and the contemporary times. This immovable ignorance is the only enemy
of Islam which is blocking its followers from going forward.
Any Muslim ruler who visits Mecca and pays lip service to Islam with
mischievous intentions never questioned by any one. Their record is
never scrutinized, their crimes never questioned. Saddam Hussein,
Hosni Mubarak, Zein el Abedin, Muaamer Gaddafi, Bashar al Assad, Ali
Abdallah Saleh or extravagant spineless Arab emirs and kings all
enjoyed safe sailings for a long time. What happened to the so called
Muslim values which they inherited and propagated for the last 1500
years?

Akbar Hussain


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[ALOCHONA] A New Muslim Party in India





A New Muslim Party in India

The new Islamic Party is WPI - 'Welfare Party of India'. This article, though very interesting, is not a report, but rather a summarization of reactions of Indian Muslims. Interestingly, the comments listed have: (I summarize further!)
  1. only one in support, 
  2. one opposed because its not "Islamic" enough, i.e. WPI joining Indian democracy, as opposed to setting up an "Islamic Caliphate" in India, 
  3. several are grossly opposed, not hiding their utter dislike of JEIH 'Jamaat-e Islami Hind', the apparent parent,
  4. majority arguing that it will only bode badly for Indian Muslims, because:
    • "WPI is just like the Hindu counterpart, the BJP. The two would have a symbiotic relationship with each other while posing a grave danger to secular, democratic and progressive forces."
    • "The Jamaat is a mirror image of the Hindutva parties". 
    • "WPI would serve as 'a boon and bonanza for the RSS' (parent of BJP, as Jamaat is of WPI)"
    • The best one: Advice given to Indian Muslims by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad soon after the Partition (of 1947)—to desist from setting up their own political party on the grounds that this would strengthen Hindu reactionary forces. Sadly, he said, the Jamaat leaders had ignored this sage advice, and he accused them of being politically illiterate. Rather that jumping into the political arena, he went on, Jamaat leaders should concentrate on promoting modern education among Muslims, including among themselves, which, he remarked, was woefully lacking.

May 01, 2011
A New Muslim Party in India New Islamist-Backed Muslim political party - Welfare Party of India - stirs Intra-Muslim Debate. Yoginder Sikand writes in NewAgeIslam.com

The floating of a new political party, styling itself the 'Welfare Party of India' (WPI), by India's apex Islamist outfit Jamaat-e Islami Hind late last week has, predictably, set off a vigorous debate in Indian Muslim circles. The men behind the party insist that it is not a Jamaat front, though critics argue otherwise, pointing out that the top-brass of the party are mostly senior Jamaat activists and that everyone knows that the party has been set up under the orders, and with the blessings, of the Jamaat top-brass. The party, for its part, explains its agenda in predictable terms: of promoting 'genuine' democracy, secularism, human rights, social justice and so on. The subtext that underlies its justification for its formation is that the Indian Muslims have been denied justice by existing political parties, and so a new party is necessary to secure justice for them, in addition to other marginalised communities.

No sooner had the WPI been officially launched in New Delhi than Muslim supporters as well as critics began posting their comments on various, mainly Indian Muslim, websites, arguing for and against the party. Some, mostly members or sympathisers of the Jamaat, hailed the new party as a welcome development. One such enthusiast praised the Jamaat as supposedly being a team of dedicated and sincere Muslims, and hoped that the new party would help bring 'morals and ethics' into the Indian political system, where, he said, they were badly missing and sorely needed. He even opined that the WPI and its 'value-based politics' would be 'a role- model for other political parties in India.' Another supporter claimed that by setting up the WPI, the Jamaat was working for the broader 'Islamic cause' because, he claimed, echoing the Jamaat's consistent line, 'Islam is a complete way of life, with solutions to all problems, and it does not recognise any distinction between religion and politics.' The WPI, he hoped, would help the Jamaat in its agenda of 'establishing Islam' or iqamat-e deen, in all spheres of Indian social life—possibly a subtle reference to working for the eventual formation of an Islamic state (on which the Jamaat's understanding of Islam is based) in India. Yet another ardent supporter welcomed the formation of the party by expressing the hope that it would consolidate Muslim votes across India, which would make Muslims a political force to reckon with, as a result of which other parties would no longer be able to ignore them or take them for granted. This, he argued, would be a powerful counter to forces that were bent on further marginalising Muslims.

The floating of the party was met with trenchant criticism by many other Muslims, however, who feared that it boded ill, rather than auguring well, for the Indian Muslims. One such critic, who identified himself as a  'Salafi', thereby indicating his affiliation with Saudi-style Salafi Wahhabism, argued that by forming a party that would operate within the Indian system of democratic politics, the Jamaat had accepted democracy and, therefore, had turned its back on its original agenda of struggling to establish an Islamic Caliphate in India. In doing so, he claimed, it had abandoned the vision of the Jamaat's founder, Syed Abul Ala Maududi, who had been viscerally opposed to democracy as a man-made, and, therefore, 'un-Islamic', system. He warned the Jamaat that if truly wished to establish the Caliphate, which considered an Islamic imperative, 'it could not do so by remaining enslaved to the existing false and polytheistic political system.'

Criticism of the WPI on such supposedly 'Islamic' grounds seemed to be less of a concern for most other Muslim opponents of the party who commented on it on various websites and online discussion groups. Instead, many of them expressed the worry that by entering the field of electoral politics, the Jamaat would give a fillip to anti-Muslim Hindutva forces. If the WPI intended to consolidate Muslim votes, it was bound, they argued, to further widen existing antagonisms between Hindus and Muslims, which would only benefit the BJP and the RSS. An irate Munaf Zeena, an Indian Muslim based in London, remarked that the WPI 'seems destined to create a predictable onslaught on the Muslim community of India', predicting that the party would also fail in its ambition to politically unite the Indian Muslims because most of them were not ideologically linked to the Jamaat. Instead of setting up 'separate' platforms like the WPI, which could only result in 'chaos', he sensibly urged that 'all Indians should work together for the benefit of all.'

Another such commentator argued that the WPI would serve as 'a boon and bonanza for the RSS'. He reminded the Indian Muslims of the advice given to them by Abul Kalam Azad soon after the Partition—to desist from setting up their own political party on the grounds that this would strengthen Hindu reactionary forces. Sadly, he said, the Jamaat leaders had ignored this sage advice, and he accused them of being politically illiterate. Rather that jumping into the political arena, he went on, Jamaat leaders should concentrate on promoting modern education among Muslims, including among themselves, which, he remarked, was woefully lacking.

Yet another critic, a certain Dr. Mookhi Amir Ali, likened the WPI to the BJP and opined that the two would have a symbiotic relationship with each other while posing a grave danger to secular, democratic and progressive forces. He scoffed at the claims of the WPI of being a 'truly' secular, and not an exclusively Muslim party. Simply because one of its several Vice-Presidents was a Catholic priest who recited the Gayatri Mantra at the inauguration of the party, it did not make it secular, he insisted. 'The Welfare Party of India, spawned from the Jamaat-e Islami Hind, reminds one of the BJP, the offspring of the mother RSS. Its Christian Vice-President Father Abraham Joseph brings back memories of the BJP's almost permanent Vice-President, a Muslim Sikandar Bakht. When Ashok Singhal of the VHP hears of the Gayatri Mantra being chanted at the launch of the WPI, he will exclaim, "I am loving it!"' Mookhi caustically remarked.

In a similar vein, in a mail sent to members of the progressive Indian Muslim online discussion group, The Moderate Voice, a critic, calling himself simply 'Ansari', mocked the claims of the WPI of being genuinely committed to secularism, democracy and social justice. '"Welfare Party" by Jamaat-e Islami? Hahaha! Must be a joke,' he scoffed. 'The main aim of the Jamaat is to establish an Islamic state in India on the lines of the Caliphate. […] The Jamaat is a mirror image of the Hindutva parties. Let it first deny [this] claim before trying to fool people in the name of welfare.'

In a similar vein, a certain Dr. Irfan Waheed, writing in www.NewAgeIslam.com, claimed that the WPI might give a boost to unwanted tendencies among Muslims, and that it might incline them even more towards conservatism, and even possibly extremism. 'There is a possibility,' he wrote, 'that the rise of a right-wing Muslim political party like the WPI will give rise to radical Islamic thought and a rigid un-pluralistic outlook among the Muslims who have very successfully integrated themselves into the secular and cultural atmosphere of the country while retaining their religious identity.' Dr. Waheed also noted that the claims of the WPI of being genuinely committed to social justice could easily be questioned by its critics. For instance, he explained, the WPI would be unable to deny that the Jamaat's ideological mentor, Syed Maududi, was on record as having declared that 'he did not bother if the Hindus treat the Muslims of India worse that the mlechhas' because 'he was only bothered about making Pakistan an Islamic state at any cost.' Further, he went on, the Jamaat could not deny that the Pakistani Jamaat-e Islami, then under Maududi, 'not only extended ideological support to the Pakistani military' in the 1971 Bangladesh liberation struggle, 'but actually formed a militia whose members fought the Bengalis, killed and raped both Muslim and Hindu women and declared that no library in Bangladesh would have any book on secular topics either by Hindu writers or Muslim writers.' In other words, what Dr. Waheed seemed to suggest, the devastatingly stained record, as far as secularism, democracy and social justice were concerned, of the Jamaat's own founder Syed Maududi rendered the Jamaat morally totally incapable of defending what it presented as the rationale for the floating of the WPI.

Challenging this view, a few commentators opined that the WPI would actually help promote moderation and act as a dampener to fringe extremist elements among Muslims, rather than promoting radicalism. Thus, a certain Ilyas Ameen pointed out that what he characterised as a radical Islamist outfit, the Popular Front of India, was  spreading 'like cancer' across the country, and noted that this boded ill for Hindu-Muslim relations. He suggested that the Jamaat could act as a counter to the Popular Front, by weaning away Muslims who had been attracted by the Front's rhetoric. Another such critic, who chose to remain anonymous, said that because Muslims lacked an all-India party till now, 'some extreme groups tried to fill the vacuum', but this had 'brought only humiliation' to the Indian Muslims. Hence, he hoped, the Jamaat's political party could help curb such radical tendencies.

Critics voiced their apprehensions about the WPI using other arguments, too. One anonymous commentator scoffed at the claims of the Jamaat of being sincerely committed to Muslim welfare by pointing out that it had done little, if at all, all these years for the social and economic development of the poor among the Muslims, accusing Jamaat leaders of being interested only in feathering their own nests. 'Many of them have sent their children abroad, to the Gulf and even to the USA, where they live comfortably and have become exceedingly rich. That is a true measure of their supposed commitment to the plight of the Indian Muslims!' he remarked.  He further noted, 'The Jamaat and WPI harp on democracy and secularism in India, where we Muslims are a minority, but they, like other Islamists, vehemently denounce secular democracy as anti-Islamic in Muslim-majority countries. Is this not hypocrisy? Why don't they condemn the persecution of non-Muslim minorities in Muslim countries, often in the name of Islam, if they are really sincere about social justice, which is what they claim the WPI will struggle for in India?'

Similarly, a certain Pervez Yusuf mocked the claims of the Jamaat, including the men behind the WPI, of being dedicated to the welfare of the Indian Muslims. 'Their social work is only visible in Abul Fazl Enclave', he sarcastically remarked about the Jamaat, referring to the Muslim locality in New Delhi where the Jamaat has its national headquarters.  Questioning the Jamaat's and WPI's claims of disinterested community activism, he added, 'They collect funds from Middle East,' leaving it to readers to make of this not-so-cryptic statement what they wanted.  Likewise, a certain Wajid caustically remarked that the leaders of the Jamaat were 'intellectually corrupt, ambitious and power hungry' and suggested that the WPI could hardly be expected to live up to its tall claims.

Other critics feared that far from consolidating Muslim votes and thereby empowering the Indian Muslims, as it claimed it would, the WPI would only further fragment the Muslim electorate. One anonymous critic pointed out that numerous Muslim parties in the past had failed,  such as the maverick politician Syed Shahabuddin's Insaf Party, the short-lived Ulema Council of India, the Tamil Nadu Muslim Makkal Katchi, and so on, and raised the possibility that the WPI could go the same way, too. A certain Tahira Hasan suggested that the WPI might follow other such Muslim political parties, which, in her words, 'just do not work for community', but, instead, enter into pacts with 'mainstream' parties in order to promote the interests of their leaders. Such parties, she went on, 'never raise voices against assaults on Muslims', while 'secular' non-Muslims do so, thus suggesting that Muslims must look to the latter rather than the former for hope to secure justice for themselves. Another such commentator, Zaheer Ali, opined that by entering into the political arena, the Jamaat would be forced to make ideological compromises, indicating, for instance, the recent support given to the CPI(M) by the Jamaat in Kerala, although ideologically the Jamaat was vociferously opposed to Communism.

Several of these comments on the WPI, whether for or against, were hosted on Okhlatimes.com, a website run by Asad, a young Muslim man based in Okhla, the same locality in New Delhi where the Jamaat has its national headquarters. In an article on the WPI hosted on the website, a commentator noted that from discussions about the party on Facebook, for instance, 'it could be made out' that the Jamaat 'is fast losing its respectability.' In another article on the WPI on the same website, tellingly titled, 'All is Not Well with the Jamaat-e Islami Hind', Asad himself wrote:

'Over the years, the JEIH [Jamaat] has undergone a sea change. Of late, it has built swanky offices in Abul Fazal Enclave, equipped with all the latest facilities. Also, its senior members don't miss the opportunity to share a podium with powerful politicians. Most of the senior JEIH leaders have adjusted to the changing time well by giving up a frugal lifestyle. Will it also adapt to the Indian politics that is out-and-out corrupt?'

And that is a question that is troubling numerous Muslims concerned about the implications of the WPI for Indian Muslim politics.

A regular columnist for www.NewAgeIslam.com, Yoginder Sikand works with the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion at the National Law School, Bangalore

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[ALOCHONA] Dr. Dipu Moni was not denied US Visa - It is a false prop aganda by Jamat/BNP



I HAVE RESPONDED TO MR. MOHIUDDIN ANWAR LONG TIME AGO WITH PROOF.

--- On Sun, 4/24/11, Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Fw: [KHABOR] Dr. Dipu Moni was not denied US Visa - It is a false prop aganda by Jamat/BNP
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Date: Sunday, April 24, 2011, 1:17 PM

 
I doubt that there will be response from the Sonar Cheley drmohsin abour the following :


Quote:

Dear Dr. Mohsin Ali,

How did you know that Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni was not denied US visa?
Do you have any proof?
BD government never denied this story widely circulated online.
Whom we should believe ?
Most Bangladeshis believd this story.

2011/4/23 Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net> :Unquote
 

As we all know truth is very "Na Pachand" to the courageous "Chetona dharis"  n sole agents of ....................... 
Dear Dr. Mohsin Ali,

How did you know that Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni was not denied US visa?
Do you have any proof?
BD government never denied this story widely circulated online.
Whom we should believe ?
Most Bangladeshis believd this story.

Re: Dr. Yunus sacking.

Most Bangladeshis believe that Hasina government sacked this noble laurate to implement Hasina agenda. This decision was widely criticized by world leaders including U.S. government. Dr. Yunus is the most respectable person in Bangladesh to developed World make no doubt about it. Sheikh Hasina cannot come closer to him at all.
It's a day dream of some Hasina supporteres like Attorney General of Bangladesh for a noble price for peace for Hasina. My personal observation is that Hasina became zealiys after Dr. yunus receved this presigeous prize from Noble committee. If she had the power to snatch this prize from Dr. Yunus, she could have done it by now. At least obedient Justices of Bangladeshi could have dont it.
Dr. Yunus never used his position to misguide U.S. administration.
We should appreciate and congratulate Dr. Yunus for his success to build micro credit system, which was accepted by dozens of nation including the USA.
Charecter assasination by Hasina regime won't do any good to Hasina government I can gurantee it.

Many thanks.

Sincerely,
Mohiuddin Anwar

Please note: forwarded message attached

From: "Dr. M. Mohsin Ali" <drmohsinali@yahoo.com>
To: khabor@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [KHABOR] Dr. Dipu Moni was not denied US Visa - It is a false propaganda by Jamat/BNP
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:00:48 -0700 (PDT)

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From: "Dr. M. Mohsin Ali" <drmohsinali@yahoo.com>
To: khabor@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:00:48 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [KHABOR] Dr. Dipu Moni was not denied US Visa - It is a false propaganda by Jamat/BNP
 
 
 
Dr. Dipu Moni was not denied US Visa - It is a false propaganda by Jamat/BNP razakar journalists/writers. Please check the link below.
 
Infact, the US Govt. was not angry for sacking Dr. Yunus from Grameen Bank. It was done with the GREEN SIGNALS from the US Government. You will see the proof in the next few months.
 
US and other Western Governments and Organizations, especially, Secretary Hillary Clinton, are annoyed with Dr. Yunus's childish behaviors. Like a crying baby, Dr. Yunus, always goes to the BIG POWERS again and again for their favors and tries to use the big powers even for small causes which ultimately benefits him only, not the country, not the people.
 
The world's most powerful woman, US Secretary of State Mrs. Hillary Clinton and others are really tired of nagging of Dr. Yunus for his personal benefits. Due to his personal relationships, Dr. Yunus has been manupulating Hillary and Bill Clinton's powers and images and America's super power and thus he has been able to manipulate other world powers and organizations for his own benefits.
 
Now those dear friends of Dr. Yunus have understood that enough is enough for Dr. Yunus. But they do not want to abruptly dump him. US policy is always two-sword policy (overt and covert). Mrs. Clinton and her associates gave a green signal secretly to the Bangladesh Government and openly warning Bangladesh Government and shedding tears for removing Dr. Yunus from Grameen Bank.
 
It is a plain simple. Bangladesh Government may not have that courage and guts to openly challenge and defy the US warning coming directly from the Secretary Hillary Clinton, US Congressmen and Senators and other world leaders and continue the process of sacking Dr. Yunus from Grameen Bank.
 
This is not happened all on a sudden. The process of removing Dr. Yunus has began about 2 years ago and Bangladesh Government has been in close contact with the US Government over the whole episode of removing Dr. Yunus.
 
If it is really true that the Bangladesh Government has removed Dr. Yunus without any green signals from the USA and defied US real warnings, then I salute the Bangladesh Government without judging whether removal of Dr. Yunus from Grameen Bank was right or wrong or legal or illegal. At least, the Bangladesh Government has shown its courage and guts to stand up against the foreign super powers' aggression being a poor and small country.
 
Thank you.
 
Dr. Mohsin Ali.
 
 

--- On Thu, 3/31/11, AbdurRahim Azad <Arahim.azad@gmail.com> wrote:

From: AbdurRahim Azad <Arahim.azad@gmail.com>
Subject: [KHABOR] Dr. Yunus's Hilary Polli episode !
To: "khabor" <khabor@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 4:14 PM

 


Dr. Yunus's Hilary Polli episode .......:
Links:
 
 
 
ড. ইউনূসের লাভ হলেও 'হিলারিপল্লীর' দুঃখ ঘোচেনি
নয়ন খন্দকার, কালীগঞ্জ (ঝিনাইদহ)

ঝিনাইদহের কালীগঞ্জের হিলারিপল্লী নামে খ্যাত ঋষিপল্লীর বাসিন্দারা ভালো নেই। সাবেক মার্কিন ফার্স্ট লেডি হিলারি ক্লিনটনকে এই পল্লীর বাসিন্দাদের দেখিয়ে লাভবান হয়েছেন ড. ইউনূস ও তার প্রতিষ্ঠান গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক। কিন্তু হিলারিপল্লীর দুঃখ ঘোচেনি। ১৯৯৫ সালের ৩ এপ্রিল গ্রামীণ ব্যাংকের চেয়ারম্যান ড. ইউনূস সাবেক এই ফার্স্ট লেডিকে কালীগঞ্জের বারোবাজারের ঋষিপল্লীতে নিয়ে আসেন। সেখানে ১০০ পরিবারের ৫০০ লোকজন বসবাস করেন। সেদিন এলাকার উন্নয়নসহ ঋষিপল্লীর বাসিন্দাদের ভাগ্যের পরিবর্তনের জন্য অনেক কথা বলেছিলেন ড. মহাম্মদ ইউনূস। কিন্তু গ্রামীণ ব্যাংকের লোন নিয়ে অনেক পরিবার এখন জর্জরিত। এলাকার উন্নয়ন তো দূরের কথা ঋষিপল্লীর বাসিন্দাদের ভাগ্যের কোনো পরিবর্তন ঘটেনি। ঋষিপল্লীতে প্রবেশ করার তেমন কোনো রাস্তা হয়নি। দীর্ঘ প্রায় ১৬ বছরেও বিদ্যুৎ পেঁৗছায়নি এই পল্লীতে।

গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক থেকে লোন নিয়ে সমষ্টিগতভাবে কোনো পরিবর্তন হয়নি। এখানকার অধিবাসীরা আজও জুতা সেলাই, বাঁশ, বেতের কাজ, চামড়া ক্রয়, সেলুনের কাজ করে জীবিকা নির্বাহ করে। বারোবাজারের মশেহাটি, ফুলবাড়ি ও বাদেডিহী ৩ গ্রাম নিয়ে ঋষিপল্লী গঠিত। এ পল্লীর বাসিন্দা নীলকান্ত দাস দুঃখ করে জানান, আমাদের দেখিয়ে অনেক এনজিও কোটি কোটি টাকা উপার্জন করেছে। কিন্তু আমাদের ভাগ্যের পরিবর্তন হয়নি। আরেক বাসিন্দা স্বরজিৎ দাস সাংবাদিকদের সঙ্গে কথা বলতেই চান না। তিনি বলেন, লিখে কি হবে? আমাদের তো কোনো পরিবর্তন নেই। ঝড়ে উড়ে গেছে টিনের চাল। কি আছে আমাদের এখানে। এই ঋষিপল্লীর অধিকাংশ বাসিন্দা গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক থেকে লোন নিয়েছেন। অনেকে চড়া সুদে নেওয়া এই লোন পরিশোধ করতে না পেরে চট্টগ্রামসহ দেশের বিভিন্ন স্থানে পালিয়ে গেছেন। সেখান থেকে আয় রোজগার করে তাদের আবার ঋণের টাকা সুদসহ পরিশোধ করতে হয়েছে। এমনটি করেছেন ঋষিপল্লীর জুতা সেলাইকারী আনন্দ দাস। সে ঋণ পরিশোধ করতে না পেরে টিটাগাং শহরে পালিয়ে গেছে বলে জানান অনেকে।

 
 
 





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