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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

[ALOCHONA] Amnesty: No arms for Bangladesh



No arms for Bangladesh



Amnesty Int'l urges arms supplying countries over extra-judicial killing

Amnesty International has called upon all countries to stop supplying arms to Bangladesh citing that they will be used by Rapid Action Battalion and other law enforcement agencies to commit extrajudicial killings.

An AI report yesterday said since inception in 2004, Rab has been implicated in the unlawful killing of at least 700 people including about 200 after the Awami League-led government assumed power. It said the party had pledged before elections that it would bring the extrajudicial executions to an end.

The UK-based human rights watchdog in the report released last night, titled "Crimes Unseen: Extrajudicial executions in Bangladesh", made the recommendation to the international community as the government reportedly refuses to stop extrajudicial killings. It claimed the government consistently denies stopping this despite repeated appeals from national and international rights bodies including AI.

"In Amnesty International's view, any country that knowingly sends arms or other supplies to equip a force which systematically violates human rights may itself bear some responsibility for those violations," read the last lines of the report.

AI mentioned 11 countries that continue to supply Bangladesh a wide range of police and military equipment including pistols, machine guns, toxic agents (like teargas), grenade launchers and helicopters. The countries include Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Turkey and the USA.

As an example of foreign assistance to Rab, the report mentioned the Wikileaks leak of US diplomatic cables that divulged training of Rab by UK police.

On different occasions, the AI urged the government to stop extrajudicial killings while the New York-based Human Rights Watch in May asked the government to have Rab reformed in six months or disband it altogether.

The report said all hopes of extrajudicial executions coming to an end vanished in late 2009 when the government, including its home minister, denied that there were extrajudicial killings going on in the country.

"This denial has shielded Rab from justice, and released the prime minister from her pledge. It amounts to a renewed lease of impunity for Rab," said the report.

Impunity for Rab seems to have created an environment in which other security agencies, such as the police, found the scope to follow Rab's footsteps knowing that accountability can be avoided, observed the report. It said since early 2010 police killed 30 people, portraying them as "shootouts", "gunfights" or "crossfire" just like Rab does.

However, these remain suspected extrajudicial executions, said the report which was made following AI interviews of 20 victims in June.

The report also blamed police for helping Rab distort records, covering up the human rights violations, biased investigations of such killings and not letting victims file cases against Rab.

Rab is a unit of police.

Instead of blaming even a single Rab personnel, investigations conducted by Rab and the government always end up calling the victims criminals and portraying the deaths as justified, said the report.

"By failing to take proper judicial action against Rab, successive Bangladeshi governments have effectively endorsed the force's claims and conduct and given it carte blanche to act with impunity. All we have seen from the current government are broken promises or worse, outright denial," said Amnesty International's Bangladesh researcher in Dhaka Abbas Faiz in a press release.

Inspector General of Police Hassan Mahmood Khandker told The Daily Star last night that he is unable to comment on the AI report since he has not read it or seen it.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=200002
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Government must act now to stop police unlawful killings

The Bangladesh authorities must honour their pledge to stop extrajudicial executions by a special police force accused of involvement in hundreds of killings, Amnesty International said today in a new report.

Crimes unseen: Extrajudicial executions in Bangladesh also documents how the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) justify these killings as accidental or as a result of officers acting in self-defence, although in reality many victims are killed following their arrest.

"Hardly a week goes by in Bangladesh without someone being shot by RAB with the authorities saying they were killed or injured in 'crossfire' or a 'gun-fight'. However the authorities choose to describe such incidents, the fact remains that they are suspected unlawful killings," said Abbas Faiz, Amnesty International's Bangladesh Researcher.

The RAB has been implicated in the killing of at least 700 people since its inception in 2004. Any investigations that have been carried out into those killed have either been handled by RAB or by a government-appointed judicial body but the details of their methodology or findings have remained secret. They have never resulted in judicial prosecution. RAB has consistently denied responsibility for unlawful killings and the authorities have accepted RAB claims.

"It is appalling that virtually all alleged instances of illegal RAB killings have gone unchallenged or unpunished. There can be no justice if the force is the chief investigator of its own wrong-doings. Such investigations cannot be impartial. There is nothing to stop the RAB from destroying the evidence and engineering the outcome," said Abbas Faiz. 

Former detainees also told Amnesty International how they were routinely tortured in custody, suffering beatings, food and sleep deprivation, and electric shocks.

At least 200 alleged RAB killings have occurred since January 2009 when the current Awami League government came to power, despite the Prime Minister's pledge to end extrajudicial executions and claims by the authorities that no extrajudicial executions were carried out in the country in this period. 

In addition, at least 30 people have been killed in other police operations since early 2010, with the police also portraying them as deaths in "shoot-outs" or "gun-fights".

"By failing to take proper judicial action against RAB, successive Bangladeshi governments have effectively endorsed the force's claims and conduct and given it carte blanche to act with impunity. All we have seen from the current government are broken promises or worse, outright denial," said Abbas Faiz.

In many cases the investigations blamed the victims, calling them criminals and portraying their deaths as justified even though available public evidence refuted that.

"The Bangladesh authorities must act now and take concrete steps to protect people from the alleged unlawful killings by their security forces .The government must ensure independent and impartial investigations into all suspected cases of extrajudicial executions and bring those responsible to justice."

Bangladesh's police and RAB continue to receive a wide range of military and police equipment from overseas, including from Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey and USA. In addition, diplomatic cables from the US Embassy in Dhaka, obtained and released by Wikileaks in December 2010 alleged that UK police had been training RAB officers.

Amnesty International calls upon these countries to refrain from supplying arms to Bangladesh that will be used by RAB and other security forces to commit extrajudicial executions and other human rights violations. Any country that knowingly sends arms or other supplies to equip a force which systematically violates human rights may itself bear some responsibility for those violations.

RAB was created in March 2004, to much public acclaim, as the government's response to a breakdown in law and order, particularly in western and central Bangladesh.

Rajshahi, Khulna and Dhaka districts, armed criminal groups or powerful mercenary gangs colluded with local politicians to run smuggling rings or extort money from local people. Within months of its creation, RAB's operations were characterized by a pattern of killings portrayed by the authorities as 'deaths in crossfire', many of which had the hallmarks of extrajudicial executions.

They usually occurred in deserted locations after a suspect's arrest. In some cases, there were witnesses to the arrests, but RAB authorities maintained that victims had been killed by 'crossfire', or in 'shoot-outs' or 'gunfights'.

Bangladesh's two main political parties – the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Awami League – have shown no commitment to limiting the powers of RAB.

In the first couple of months of coming to office, the Prime Minister spoke of a "zero tolerance" policy toward extrajudicial executions. Other government authorities repeated her pledge. These hopes were dashed in late 2009 when the authorities, including the Home Minister, began to claim that there were no extrajudicial executions in the country.

Crimes unseen: Extrajudicial executions in Bangladesh:  http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA13/005/2011/en/c18ad74b-75fe-4b15-b043-5982eebdb27d/asa130052011en.pdf


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[ALOCHONA] Mo Kha Alamgir's bank



Mo Kha Alamgir's bank





http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2011-08-24/news/180768

He is still MP?

http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2011-08-24/news/180727


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[ALOCHONA] new haji M mohsins



Muhammad Mohsin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Haji) Muhammad Mohsin (Bengaliহাজী মুহাম্মদ মহসিন) (1732–1812) was one of the most prolific philanthropists in the history of Bengal. His most notable contribution was during the great famine of Bengal during 1769-70.
Mohsin was born to Haji Faizullah and Zainab Khanam in Hughli (now in West BengalIndia) in 1732. He was home-schooled and gained knowledge in the study of the QuranHadith and the Fiqh. Later, he went on a voyage to other countries of Asia, including the regions in current-day IranIraqTurkey and the Arab peninsula

He also made the pilgrimage to Mecca, and visited MedinaKufaKarbala and other holy places. After performing the Hajj, he was given the title Haji.
Following his return, Mohsin took over the management of the estate of his widowed half-sister, Munnujan. 

She was the widow of Mirza Salahuddin, the Naib-faujdar or Deputy Military Governor of Hughli working for the Nawab of Bengal. She also inherited a fortune from her mother Zainab, whose first husband Aga Motahar had a lot of land and properties in Hughli, JessoreMurshidabad and Nadia.


After Munnujan's death in 1803, Mohsin inherited the fortune. However, he decided to bequeath this fortune for charity, and created a Waq'f or trust in 1806, with his entire wealth of 156,000 Taka.[citation needed] One-third of his fortune was to be donated for education and religious programmes, four-ninths for pensions to the elderly and disabled, and the remaining two-ninths for the expenses of the two trustees.
Mohsin died on 29 November 1812.[citation needed] Following his death, the government of Bengal (then the British East India Company) took over the management of the trust, and many educational institutions were started with the grants from the trust. Many students, especially the poor Muslim students, were given scholarships from the Mohsin fund.[citation needed]


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Have we created any new " Haji M Mohsin " ....... in the shonar bangladesh, a country of hope, big-promises and broken-hearts?


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[ALOCHONA] KAFILA - Why Jai Karan supports Anna Hazare




Why Jai Karan supports Anna Hazare

Shivam Vij | August 24, 2011 at 12:07 AM | Tags: Anna Hazare, caste, Dalits, Lokpal Bill | Categories: Debates, Government, Identities, Law, Movements, Politics | URL: http://wp.me/pcwAA-2hO

My own feelings about the Anna Hazare movement are mixed, or you could say confused. I like the way the movement is bringing an arrogant government to its knees, and though I don't know if their version of the Lokpal Bill is the best way to fight corruption, I appreciate how they have exposed the [...]


Why Jai Karan supports Anna Hazare

August 24, 2011

Shivam Vij

KAFILA

http://kafila.org/2011/08/24/why-jai-karan-supports-anna-hazare/

 

My own feelings about the Anna Hazare movement are mixed, or you could say confused. I like the way the movement is bringing an arrogant government to its knees, and though I don't know if their version of the Lokpal Bill is the best way to fight corruption, I appreciate how they have exposed the UPA's farce of a bill.

 

I get the point that fellow-travellers Nivedita Menon and Aditya Nigam are making about democracy and political movements, but as one unit of 'the people', I don't see why I should support a movement just because it is popular. Perhaps it is my elitism and naivete and cynicism. Or perhaps I'm just confused by now. The taste of the pudding is in the eating, and I'd like to see where this takes us.

 

While I sort out my confusion, I see a message on Facebook, attributed to Anu Ramdas, that says:

 

kafila's 4 prominent authors write a series of con articles about how valid the media crap fest around baburao hazare is. running away from big media, indeed! don't look too hard at the caste/religion of these paid 'public intellectuals'.

 

Since I don't see why Anu Ramdas is any more a representative of the Dalit community than Jai Karan, I am taking the liberty of reproducing in full Jai Karan's interview to The Times of India:

 

Govt has let us down, Anna is our only hope

Shobhan Saxena, Aug 21

 

In an indication of the kind of effect Anna Hazare has had on the nation, Jai Karan, a sapera in Badarpur, on the Delhi-Haryana border, who can't read or write and is jobless most of the time, tells Shobhan Saxena that the anti-corruption crusader is his only hope. Excerpts:

 

How do you make a living since you are not allowed to keep snakes or perform with them anymore?

Most men here have formed been and dhol parties, and we perform at weddings and birthdays. We get some work for four-five months during the wedding season. The rest of the year we sit here and wait for work. Our situation is hopeless .

 

The government doesn't allow you to follow your traditional profession, but has it done anything to help you get alternative jobs?

They have done nothing at all, only promises. Five years back, the Delhi government invited us to perform at Central Park in Connaught Place, and Sheila Dikshit promised to give us jobs. We are still waiting. We have been demanding jobs for our children in zoos and forest departments because we can handle snakes, but no one has bothered to call us.

 

But the government invites you to perform at cultural events. Doesn't that help?

Rarely. More than 70 saperas were invited to perform at the Commonwealth Games village during the Games. We were paid Rs 200 per person per day. We were supposed to get complete sapera dress but they didn't give us shoes. I think Suresh Kalmadi swallowed that money too. They spent thousands of crores on the Games and gave us Rs 200, making us walk barefoot in front of foreigners .

 

Have you put your demands for jobs and education in front of the government?

Yes, dozens of times. But nobody listens. We have submitted petitions and raised slogans. No one has done anything yet. They have killed our profession, snatched our snakes and abandoned us. We have no hope from the government which is itself drowning in scams. Now, Anna Hazare is our only hope.

 

Anna is campaigning for a strong Lokpal. How will that help you?

Anna is fighting against corruption and we are the worst victims of corruption . If we go to a government office for a job, the officials ask for bribe. If we want scholarships for our children , they ask for bribes. When we tried to make BPL cards, they asked for money. Because we didn't have money to bribe them, they gave us Above Poverty Line cards.

 

How will a Lokpal check all this?

If there is a strong Lokpal, we can go to him and register our complaints. At the moment, there is no one to complain to. The corrupt are not scared of anyone and they openly ask for bribes even for things which are due to us. When we go to government offices with our caste certificate , they ask us to go away, saying 'You are not Scheduled Caste' .

 

But you have a Scheduled Caste (SC) certificate…

Yes, I have, but it's in English and I don't know what it says (shows the certificate issued by deputy commissioner, south district. It says saperas are SC). This is a useless piece of paper. We have no education. How can we get jobs without education? It's better that the government gives us licenses for performing with snakes. Then we won't have to beg before politicians, and bribe the officials for education and jobs. At least the future of our young men will be secure.

 

Do you expect the government to listen to your demands?

We expect nothing from the government. If there is a wedding or a party in your house or neighbourhood, please call us to perform. At least, we will make some money.



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RE: [ALOCHONA] Why Bangladesh is very important to India



Probashi:
Please keep doing what you are supposed to do to keep Bangladesh out of the Wolf. Please do not shy out. You know as well as I know that there are lot of  activists who wants Bangladesh to be on the fold or lap of Hindutva Rule with akhand Bharat and wants Bangladeshis not to know the facts. They do not like facts. They are a miniscule minority with lots of persistence and are working since 1947. They will never succeed.
Shahadat Suhrawardy
 

To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: meghna1900@yahoo.com.au
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:28:40 -0700
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Why Bangladesh is very important to India

 
what is the problem......zana is just reflecting on facts of life!!!!

we all know that and some of us try to keep these facts under the carpet.


khoda hafez.


From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
To: Alochona Alochona <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 15 August 2011 2:27 AM
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Why Bangladesh is very important to India

 
          Who the hell is this?  Another Sunita Paul, an expert in South Asian affairs? Although it is true that India is fighting several separatist movements all over India and especially in the North-East, the talk of India wanting "unlimited access" into Bangladesh is a fruit of an overheated imbecile brain.
 
         <<In recent years , India needed to have unlimited access into Bangladesh to punish, monitor and destroy all kinds of freedom movement from the north-east states of India including Chinese influence over them. Bangladesh blocks their view of monitoring and establishing domination of the central government. India needed Hasina and her BAL to fulfil their ability to control, monitor and establish Indian authority. Besides, India considers that they won Bangladesh in the Indo-Pak war.>>

       Let us try to diagnose the disease from which this moronic patient is suffering. Who habitually describes 1971 War of Liberation as Indo-Pak war?  Where do we find the description of India's military assistance to Mukti fighters as India's 'winning' of Bangladesh in 1971?  For answers to these questions look up the web site of Golam Azam of Jamaati Islam of Bangladesh.
 
             You can fool some of the people some of the time. But you cannot fool all the people even for a brief period of a concocted article in the FaceBook.
 

To:
From: bdmailer@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:07:32 +0600
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Why Bangladesh is very important to India

 
Why Bangladesh is very important to India

Zana Ghutekurani in FaceBook

After the foundation of India and Pakistan, India became friend with USSR (& other leftist countries) and Pakistan became friend with China and USA . Need to mention that during that time USA had love-affair with middle eastern belt. Balanced power distribution, bipolar hegemony in imp for the peace process or negotiating power around the world. When USSR was unbroken, small countries had opportunity to negotiate and place its position.

The Indo-Pak war (1971), which we call the war of independence (1971), the dissection of east wing from the west wing of Pakistan provided India with opportunity to establish its unipolar hegemony in this region. Thus , after 71, India did not require to look back. Specially after the killing of Khalistan movement India gained its absolute power in this region.

Therefore, When India won in Indo-Pak war and occupied east wing , none of the friends of Pakistan (eg, USA , China) was happy, and did not want to recognise it as a sovereign state .

After the breakdown of USSR, the dynamics in the global power distribution changed overnight. While in 1947, we witnessed bi-polar hegemony (USSR vs USA) the world begins its journey within uni-polar hegemony, and USA gained absolute power.

And USA receive the opportunity to ask for anything, became a wild brat. This is very uncomfortable situation for many countries, for instance, right now the middle eastern countries are under fire. May be it will not be smarter to think that, the USA is fighting against terrorism. Note , one of the major OPEC pipe lines going via Afghanistan. ( Iraq had another one :).

At present USA does not have good relation with China. USA has taken loans from China which it cannot pay back. Besides china owns many businesses in USA too. It is not good news for USA that china is becoming stronger day by day , thus threat to USA (This is why we hear that the China doesn't have democracy :P and the medias of USA are writing a lot on lack of democracy, human rights violation in China) .

Now USA also needs India. Cheaper products, labour, IT/tech support etc are the plus points for USA to think India as their better recruit.

From the Indian side, since the arrival of the Muslims, the proponents of the newly revived Hinduism (900 to 1300) was not very happy. The Muslims who were mostly middle Eastern, not only started to take powers in many places overthrowing recently established Hindu royalties but also brought a religion which many people started to adopt . Until the arrival of the European business people , the anti-Muslim feelings was not there , but it was produced and nurtured under the famous "divide and rule" theory of The British. The birth of India and Pakistan is the contribution of that anti-Muslim attitude.

At current global situation, India's anti-muslim stand is expressed by liaison USA and also with Israel. Therefore, India became number a country to stand beside USA to assist it with spreading (USA) unipolar hegemony!

Close India-Israel tie of India is also considered as anti-middle eastern or anti-Arab stand. We already know that the formation of Israel is criticised by the most Muslim countries around the globe. Thus , having 20 corer Muslims, having close tie with Israel India further clarify its anti-muslim(also anti-middle-east) stand .

India is always interested to work on anything that will put Pakistan in disadvantaged condition and possible failure as a state. Not only India has its eyes on every inch of the land of Pakistani but taking opportunity to help USA and send its Army in Afghan is one step ahead of their expectation, which they never can think of losing.

On the other hand, the relation between India and China relation was never good. The issues on Tibet and Kashmir , they have many disagreements. , Besides the emergence of leftists in the north-eastern side of India also makes it enemy of China.

Recently ,the north-east part of India is experiencing agitation. Mostly the Indo-Tibetan and the Tibetan races live in that part . The cultures of that area which is distinct from the mainland India's culture also adds into this conflict. The influence of china there also is very important issue. The leftists parties have been able to influence people who are already disadvantaged and living in poverty.

India needs immediate control over those areas. [Please note that to dominate those areas, India mainly use their Bengalis from the West Bengal]
In recent years , India needed to have unlimited access into Bangladesh to punish, monitor and destroy all kinds of freedom movement from the north-east states of India including Chinese influence over them. Bangladesh blocks their view of monitoring and establishing domination of the central government. India needed Hasina and her BAL to fulfil their ability to control, monitor and establish Indian authority. Besides, India considers that they won Bangladesh in the Indo-Pak war.

It is also suspicious why Bangladesh experience so much turmoil in establishing government from 2006 to 2007. It seems that, right now India's main goal is to establish a suitable situation, in which it can influence any party that comes into power (eg, BNP and BAL). BAL has its history of unquestionable loyalty towards India, after all it has helped India to ensure unipolar hegemony in this region.

Now India may want other parties within the country to bargain with it in coming into power. It is considered that BAL had pre-election commitment with India long before election. Thus BAL is already India's pet.

India seriously need to pet other parties too. However, India will abhor both leftist and the Islamist parties for simple reasons. Leftists because their support from China (Mao), and Islamists due to its religious stand and its support from the Middle-east.

However, India is also in problematic situation in making friendship with BNP, one of the largest parties in Bangladesh. BNP has Bangladeshi 'nationalism' which directly contradicts Indian interest to domesticate Bangladesh via its west Bengal citizens, it also is influenced by the Islamic countries and china which India does not like.

If any leftist party , that is influenced by the leftists from the west Bengal, and also harbour strong ethnic identity as "Bengal" might also serve India's purpose, though the leftists influenced by China will not be quite expected for India to build friendship.

If India does not have plan to make Bangladesh another Kashmir, It will need to find more friends in Bangladesh. BAL and many of her followers have already opened their hearts , given themselves under the feet of Bharat Mata, now let us see who else India can manage her total access into Bangladesh in future to maintain its status in this region and free its north-eatsrern side from the chinese(leftist) influence.






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[ALOCHONA] Farooq Maududi's (son of Maulana Maudoodi) interview



Farooq Maudoodi (Son of Maulana Maudoodi) speaking about the truth of Jamaat-e-Islami. It's a must watch. The discussion below is also interesting. May be the LORD Hannan will come out of his shell to comment 

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Sent: Aug 22, 2011 11:18 AM
To: asiapeace , abdalian@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Fw: Asiapeace (ACHA) Fw: Farooq Maududi's interview

 

That may partly have been his wife's doing. His wife was not a wallflower. She was a very intelligent lady and able to think for herself (I have heard from people who knew her that she used to bike around without a burkah before she got married and did not take up the burqa after she got married....her husband had to keep his theories outside the house)..

Omar 
 


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From:

Subject: Fw: Asiapeace (ACHA) Fw: Farooq Maududi's interview
To: "

Date: Monday, August 22, 2011, 9:50 AM


 For me the most eye-opener is the fact that Maulana Maududi kept his children away from all the activities of JI!

 
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Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 9:15 AM
Subject: Asiapeace (ACHA) Fw: Farooq Maududi's interview
 


--- On Mon, 8/22/11, Fawad Manzoor <> wrote:


From: Fawad Manzoor

Subject: [Abdalian] Farooq Maududi's interview
To: "Abdalian Groups" <abdalian@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, August 22, 2011, 6:41 AM

 
Mr. Maudoodi's son has alot of good stuff to say about Jamat e Islami and also the current CJ of LHC who wa gunda of JI. In fact LHC CJ was involved in kidnapping while he was representing some JI wing of lawyers.
 
Fawad
 
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Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 6:19 AM
Subject: Farooq Maududi's interview
The truth comes out openly finally. Farooq Maudoodi (Son of Maulana Maudoodi) speaking about the truth of Jamaat-e-Islami. It's a must watch. He is most damning towards Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Liaqat Baloch, Munawwar Hassan. Please click on the link to watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9EEAX7ubYo&feature=youtu.be
 
Some will claim that he is angry with the JI therefore he said all this.
 
Some interesting things he said included:
 
In adalaton say insaaf hasil karnay kay lie umer-e-nooh, sabar-e-Ayub aur Qaroon ka Khazana chahiye.
 
Police walay FIR nahee darj kartay aur kehtay hayn, ISI aur Fauj nay mana kiya hua hay kay Jamiat aur Jamaat kay khilaf koi muqadama nahee darj karna
 
Munawwar bhee NSF mayn tha. Unn kee darhi nahee thee, guitar bajatay thay. Wahan say CIA nay Jamiat mayn post kiya.
 
CJ Ijaz of LHC civil lines mayn Jamiat kay harawal dastay mayn thay. Woh ghudagardi aur badmaashi mayn sab say agay hotay thay
 
Allah uss din say Pakistan ko mehfooz rakhay jub yeh Jamaat-e-Islami is mulk par qabiz ho.
 
 
 



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Re: [ALOCHONA] FW: The ideology of thought control in Pakistan Dawn By Maheen Usmani



O LA BAMBA

 

You are going senile by the day. Have a shrimp on the BARBY! Enjoy the Beaches of OZ. MIGHT WAKE U UP.

 

I think your BUDDIES will be embarrased to on what you are saying about prior to 1971. Prior to 1971 until 1969 at least  your Mymensingh cousin Ayub's pyarra MONEM Khan was the LAAT of BONGO. Ask some of your OLTIMER pals what it was like.

 

Your Buddies dont like to think about those days so you are an EMBARASSMENT to them.


-----Original Message-----
From: probashi M
Sent: Aug 17, 2011 7:40 PM
To: "alochona@yahoogroups.com"
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] FW: The ideology of thought control in Pakistan Dawn By Maheen Usmani

 

farida majid + her friends, will never have the guts to talk about ' misdeeds" of AL leaders prior to March 1971.
How they fooled us with big promises during 1970 election and how they had never-ending fun in kolkata in 1971.

Ask AL people in Mymensingh, how they betrayed a local AL leader so that top AL leaders could snatch his
beautiful wife to their harem.

This is just 1 story of AL thugs, there are many more.


khoda hafez.


From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
To: Alochona Alochona <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 15 August 2011 1:03 AM
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] FW: The ideology of thought control in Pakistan Dawn By Maheen Usmani

 
        What do you mean by "non religious"?  May be my English is not the same language as yours.  Or, it could be that any body who is not a blind communalist, not a Hindu-hater or a hatemonger and a 2-nation theory subscriber is being labeled by you as "non religious"?
 
           Are you advertising yourself as the model of a person who is "religious"? 

          So all those took part in the 1971 Genocide of innocent, non-threatening civilians, and those who brutally massacred Sheikh Mujib and his family on 15th Aug. 1975 are all to be called "religious". 
 
           If you had even a minimal comptence in English language, you would have understood that Maheen Usmani's article is strongly opposing any such crazy suggestion.
 
           You do suffer from the delusions of a psychopath.

To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: banglar_12_bhuiyan@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 12:37:41 +0100
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] FW: The ideology of thought control in Pakistan Dawn By Maheen Usmani

 
Lets go for non religious see how they work:
 
Non religious do not have a single moral standing - in 1954 anti corruption minister in 1971 becoming father of the nation.
 
In 1972 nationalising all the industries - by that way destryed all the industrial booming (Zia de-nationalised, saved the nation) 
 
1974 Bakshal established
 
All these are RANGILA acting by so called upper class non-religious RANGILA literate Actors.

From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 18:03:34
Subject: [ALOCHONA] FW: The ideology of thought control in Pakistan Dawn By Maheen Usmani

 
             The "ideology of Pakistan" comes in vari-colored packages and 'moraks' in Bangladesh and we are too dumbed down by the politicians to pause and ponder.  One of the packages is labeled "Shonarbangladesh," a web magazine of the Jamaat. There is also the newspaper Amar desh.
                        
             The interesting point made by this article is that the brainwashed people are the literates, the educated and the middle class.  We in Bangladesh automatically assume that the illiterates are the ones who are the first to be duped by the bogey of Islam.
 
              In my opnion illiterates are the smarter and being more genuinely religious, they are the ones who reject the fake 'dharmo-onuragi' amongst the populace and the politicians.  Our literate middle class people love false mollas or 'bok-dharmiks'.
 
                Farida Majid    

The ideology of thought control in Pakistan

By Maheen Usmani
 
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It has become something of a personality cult in Pakistan. Nowhereis this cognitive dissonance more visible than amongst the educated who refuse to accept facts and logic, clinging instead to a neurotic persecution complex.
 
Columnist Khaled Ahmed says: "The vast majority of literate Pakistanis take comfort in ignorance, skepticism and conspiracy theories. The self-glorification of an imagined past matched by habits of national denial have assumed crisis proportions today when Pakistan's existence is under far more serious threat from fellow Muslims than it was in 1947 from rival non Muslim communities." What lies beneath this inability to critique and lack of intelligent analysis? Undoubtedly, one's education influences views on politics and society. As Robert Frost aptly puts it: "education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
 
To sift the chaff from the grain, let us consider a ubiquitous slogan about the 'ideology' of Pakistan. A staple of our school textbooks, it echoed in massive public rallies as well as debates on secularism. Pakistan ka matlab kiya? La illaha il lallah (What is the meaning of Pakistan? There is no God but Allah) has become the rallying cry of the campaign to Islamise Pakistani society. Ironically, it is a slogan that was coined long after the creation of Pakistan, but it is now being falsely ascribed to the leaders of the Pakistan movement in 1947.
 
Religion has often proved to be a powerful binding factor which has merged heterogeneous groups into a distinct nationality. Through appeal to supernatural authority, religion promotes national unity as a divine command. Examples abound in contemporary history: the Greek church as a source for Greek nationalism, the Catholic church as a factor in Irish separatism, Judaism and the state of Israel, Islam and Pakistan.
 
Soon after he seized power in 1977, General Zia ul-Haq sought to create a nation based on religion rather than on secular principles. An important part of the Islamisation agenda was defining the Islamic 'ideology' of Pakistan. In stark contrast to modern textbooks, no textbook written prior to 1977 mentions the 'Ideology of Pakistan'.
 
Since education was a key factor in Zia's Machiavellian manoeuvrings, a presidential order was issued that all Pakistan Studies textbooks must "demonstrate that the basis of Pakistan is not to be founded in racial, linguistic, or geographical factors, but, rather, in the shared experience of a common religion. To get students to know and appreciate the Ideology of Pakistan, and to popularise it with slogans. To guide students towards the ultimate goal of Pakistan – the creation of a completely Islamised State."
 
Instead of being a Muslim state as envisaged by its founders, Pakistan was recast in the mould of an Islamic state, where Islamic law would reign supreme. A state sponsored and systematic purging of liberal and secular values of future generations of Pakistan ensued.
 
History was rewritten to redefine Pakistani as an Islamic society, and no research on ancient India, the medieval period or the colonial era. Our history was linked with the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates, thus alienating it from ancient Indian history. This interpretation creates a Muslim consciousness that seeks it's identity outside India.

Historian Mubarak Ali cautions "History should not be influenced by religious beliefs since history has no religion. Pakistan came into being in 1947, but our history existed before this which cannot be deleted."
History textbooks written soon after Partition – a time when the grief of shattered families who experienced communal killings was at its peak – show a more liberal mindset. The history of the subcontinent was taken to start with the ancient Indus valley civilisations rather than with the conquest of India by the first Muslim invader, Mohammad bin Qasim, in 712. In contrast to today's history books, these books contained discussions of the empires of Emperor Ashoka and the Maurya dynasty. Has there has been a deliberate revival of communal antagonism over 30 years after Partition? Undoubtedly, the permanent militarisation of society requires a permanent enemy.
 
Although Edward Everett may state that "education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army", the task of defending Pakistan's ideological borders has been entrusted to the military as they are defenders of the 'faith.' Textbooks extol the achievements of Muslim conquering heroes, as well as those of the Armed Forces. In sharp contrast, no contributions by any heroes in fields like education, medicine, law or social work are highlighted.

September 6 commemorates the defense of the country against an Indian attack in 1965. According to our textbooks, it was India which attacked Lahore in the middle of the night, without any provocation, but our army won this war. The reality is that Pakistan started the 1965 war on August 5 by sending soldiers into Kashmir and India retaliated the following day.
 
Instead of the soul searching and accountability undertaken by nations like Japan and Germany after devastating wars, our history textbooks explained the separation of East Pakistan in 1971 as an evil design by India which created the guerrilla group Mukhti Bahini in order to seize Pakistani territory. Although we lost half of Pakistan, there was no mention of the gross inequalities which led to the grievances of the Bengalis. Tens of thousands died, millions were displaced, atrocities were committed and the country was rent asunder. But the guilty were never punished.
 
The seeds of the distortion of history and the preponderance of religious dogma which were sown decades ago are bearing fruit today. Examples from the curriculum designed by the Federal Ministry of Education abound. The Social Studies textbook for Class 7 says: "European nations have been working during the past three centuries, through conspiracies on naked aggression to subjugate the countries of the Muslim world."
 
14-year-old students of Pakistan Studies are being taught that: "one of the reasons of the downfall of the Muslims in the sub-continent was the lack of the spirit of jihad."
13-year-olds are instructed: "In Islam jihad is very important…..The person who offers his life never dies….All the prayers nurture one's passion of jihad."
Thus, a primary and secondary school environment is being created which is nurturing prejudice and extremism. "College and university come much too late; change must begin at the primary and secondary school level," sums up physicist and lecturer Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy.

Although religious schools or madrassas in Pakistan are often blamed for breeding extremism, only 6 per cent of children are educated in these schools. Furthermore, research does not confirm the link between madrassa education and terrorism. The cause for the intolerance experienced by Ahmadis, Hindus and Christians lies in public education, structured as it has been to defend Pakistan against some phantom enemy. Non-Muslims are forced to read the same textbooks which contain derogatory remarks against Hindus, e.g being eternal enemies of Muslims. Our myopic educational system discourages questioning and causes ethnic and religious minorities to be viewed with suspicion.
 
Pakistan is primarily a young country, so it is the youth which is severely impacted by rampant unemployment, inflation, corruption and violence. Many amongst this disenchanted segment have started seeing religion as their anchor and are attracted to demagogues like Zaid Hamid. A self-proclaimed jihadist who claims to have fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan, Hamid banks on the insecurity and frustrations of college students and television viewers. Just as Adolf Hitler dwelt on Germany's 'wounded honour' in his famous beer-hall oratory in Munich (where he promised that Germany would conquer the world), Hamid calls for the Pakistan Army to go to war against India and liberate Kashmir, Palestine, Chechnya and Afghanistan.
 
Our curriculum stresses the formal and ritualistic aspects of Islam, as against those which emphasise social justice. Science and secular knowledge are regarded with contempt. Dr Hoodbhoy says, "I have never seen a first-rate Muslim scientist become an Islamist or a terrorist even when he or she is a strong believer. But second-and third-rate technologists are more susceptible. These are people who use science in some capacity but without any need to understand it very much—engineers, doctors, technicians, etc.—all of whom are more inclined towards radicalism. They have been trained to absorb facts without thinking, and this makes them more susceptible to the inducements of holy books and preachers."

The steady diet of religious fundamentalism and blind faith has clouded objective and rational thinking, and transformed Pakistan from a moderate Muslim-majority country into one where the majority wants Islam to play a key role in politics. A 2008 survey by World Public Opinion found that 54 per cent of Pakistanis wanted strict application of Sharia. The British Council polled 1226 young Pakistanis between 18 and 29 in 2009 and found that 'three-quarters of all young people identify themselves primarily as Muslims. Just 14 per cent chose to define themselves primarily as a citizen of Pakistan.'
 
Pakistan's skewed priorities may account for the huge amount spent on its ever increasing "defence needs" and only 1.5 per cent of it's GDP on education. But lost in the brouhaha over the lack of access to education is the dire need to revise the dogmatic and distorted school curriculum. As the pendulum swings in Pakistan between radicals and moderates, we need our friends to stand with us and demand that Pakistanis don't need an education which stunts, blinds, distorts and deadens any more. As Alvin Toffler said, "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
 
Maheen Usmani is a freelance journalist. She has reported on varied subjects, ranging from socio-political issues to sports, travel, culture and counter terrorism.
 








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