সাম্প্রদায়িক সম্প্রীতি নষ্টের নেপথ্য কারিগর কারা? আরিফ জেবতিক
এই লেখাটি যখন লিখছি তখন কক্সবাজার জেলার রামুতে ধর্মীয় উগ্রপন্থীদের হাত থেকে সংখ্যালঘুদের রক্ষা করতে সেখানে চলছে ১৪৪ ধারা। তবে দুঃখের বিষয় হচ্ছে, রাতভর তাণ্ডবের পর প্রশাসন ব্যবস্থা নিতে এগিয়ে এসেছে সকালে। খবরে জানা যাচ্ছে, ফেসবুকে ধর্মীয় অনুভূতিতে আঘাত হানার তথাকথিত অভিযোগে কক্সবাজারের রামুতে বৌদ্ধবসতিতে রাতভর হামলা ও তাণ্ডব চালিয়েছে উগ্রপন্থীরা।
শনিবার রাত সাড়ে ১১টা থেকে ভোর ৪টা পর্যন্ত চলা এ হামলায় রামু উপজেলার সাতটি বৌদ্ধ মন্দির, প্রায় ৩০টি বাড়ি ও দোকান পুড়ে দেওয়া হয়েছে। হামলা, ভাঙচুর ও লুটপাট চালানো হয়েছে আরো শতাধিক বাড়ি ও দোকানে।
ঘটনার বিবরণ থেকে স্পষ্ট, ফেসবুকে কে বা কারা ধর্ম অবমাননামূলক একটি ছবি পোস্ট করলে রামুর একদল ধর্মীয় উগ্রপন্থী এর জন্য সেখানকার বৌদ্ধ ধর্মাবলম্বী এক যুবকের নাম প্রচার করে এবং তার প্রতিক্রিয়ায় বৌদ্ধদের উপাসনালয় এবং বসতিতে আক্রমণ করে।
কোনো এক অদ্ভুত কারণে আমরা বাংলাদেশে সাম্প্রতিক ধর্মীয় সংখ্যালঘু নির্যাতনকে এড়িয়ে যাচ্ছি, যে পরিমাণ মনোযোগ এই ইস্যুতে দেওয়া দরকার মিডিয়া, সুশীল সমাজ কিংবা রাষ্ট্রের পক্ষ থেকে সে পরিমাণ মনোযোগ এখানে দেওয়া হচ্ছে না। কিন্তু আমরা যতই অন্ধ হয়ে থাকি না কেন, প্রলয় রোধ করা যাবে না। দেশে আমরা এসবকে যতই ধামাচাপা দেওয়ার চেষ্টা করি, আন্তর্জাতিক মিডিয়ায় এ ধরনের খবরগুলো অনেক বেশি ফুলিয়ে-ফাঁপিয়ে প্রকাশ করা হয়। এতে করে মুসলিম প্রধান উদার ধর্মনিরপেক্ষ গণতান্ত্রিক রাষ্ট্র হিসেবে বাংলাদেশের পরিচিত বহির্বিশ্বে মারাত্মকভাবে ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত হয়। উল্লেখ করা প্রয়োজন, এমন একসময় রামুতে এই হামলা হয়েছে যখন দেশের প্রধানমন্ত্রী জাতিসংঘে বিশ্বশান্তির জন্য আহ্বান জানাচ্ছেন।
গত কয়েক মাসে উপর্যুপরি কয়েকটি ঘটনা বিশ্লেষণ করলে দেখা যাবে, এসব হামলার কিছু নির্দিষ্ট প্যাটার্ন আছে। যেসব স্থানে সংখ্যালঘুদের ওপর নির্যাতন করা হচ্ছে, সেসব এলাকায় জামায়াত-শিবির, হিযবুত তাহ্রীরসহ বর্তমানে চাপে থাকা ধর্মীয় গোষ্ঠীগুলোর রাজনৈতিক যোগাযোগ ও শক্তি তুলনামূলক বেশি। আশ্চর্যজনকভাবে প্রতিটি ক্ষেত্রেই প্রশাসন এগিয়ে এসেছে ঘটনা ঘটে যাওয়ার পর। কিন্তু সরকার বিষয়টি কখনোই খতিয়ে দেখেনি যে মাঠপর্যায়ের যেসব কর্মকর্তা ধর্মীয় অসহিষ্ণু ঘটনাগুলো নিয়ন্ত্রণে ব্যর্থ হচ্ছেন, তাঁদের নিয়োগ এবং পূর্বতন সময়ে কোনো রাজনৈতিক যোগাযোগ ছিল কি না। আমার বিশ্বাস, যদি খতিয়ে দেখা যায়, তাহলে এসব কর্মকর্তার অনেকের রাজনৈতিক যোগাযোগ দেখে হতভম্ব হতে হবে।
এর আগে গত আগস্ট মাসে দিনাজপুরের হিলিতেও হিন্দু ধর্মাবলম্বীদের বসতিতে নগ্ন আক্রমণ হয়েছে। ৪ আগস্ট বলাই বাজারে মসজিদ নির্মাণকে কেন্দ্র করে রাজাপুর ও মাজাপাড়া গ্রামে হিন্দু সম্প্রদায়ের ওপর হামলা এবং লুটপাট ও বাড়িঘরে আগুন দেয় দুর্বৃত্তরা। হিলির এ ঘটনার সঙ্গে চিরিরবন্দর উপজেলা প্রশাসনের কিছু কর্মকর্তার ইন্ধন রয়েছে বলে অভিযোগ করেছেন সংখ্যালঘু সম্প্রদায়ের নেতারা। জানা গেছে, প্রশাসন সেখানে ১৪৪ ধারা জারি করার জন্য মাইকে যা প্রচার করে তা ছিল উসকানিমূলক, উদ্দেশ্যমূলক এবং আদতে হামলা সংগঠনের পক্ষে এক বড় সহায়তা।
প্রশাসনের একশ্রেণীর কর্তাব্যক্তিরা যে এসব কাজে ইন্ধন দিচ্ছেন এর আরেকটি উদাহরণ হতে পারে ঠিক আগের মাসের বাগেরহাটের ঘটনাটি। ৩১ জুলাইয়ে বাগেরহাটের ফকিরহাটে হিন্দু অধ্যুষিত একটি গ্রামে সন্ত্রাসী হামলায় অন্তত ছয়জন আহত হয়েছে। নলধা মৌভোগ ইউনিয়নের নলধা ব্রহ্মডাঙ্গা গ্রামে এ হামলার পর ফকিরহাট উপজেলা নির্বাহী কর্মকর্তা দেবপ্রসাদ পাল পুলিশ মোতায়েনের সুপারিশ করলেও ফকিরহাট থানার ওসি লিয়াকত হোসেন সাংবাদিকদের জানান যে সেখানে পুলিশ মোতায়েনের পরিস্থিতি হয়নি!
একটু খেয়াল করলেই দেখা যাবে যে দীর্ঘদিন বাংলাদেশে সংখ্যালঘু নির্যাতনের বড় কোনো ঘটনা না ঘটলেও ইদানীং হরহামেশা এমনটি ঘটছে। প্রায় প্রতিটি ক্ষেত্রেই দেখা যায় মিথ্যা ঘোষণা দিয়ে একশ্রেণীর লোক হঠাৎ করে সংখ্যালঘুদের ঘরবাড়ি, ব্যবসা প্রতিষ্ঠান এবং উপাসনালয়গুলোয় হামলা করছে। এসব ক্ষেত্রে প্রশাসনের ভূমিকা 'ডাক্তার আসিবার পূর্বে রোগীটি মারা গেল' ধরনের। এসব হামলার সঙ্গে বাংলাদেশের ভাবমূর্তি বিনষ্ট করা, সাম্প্রদায়িক সম্প্রীতি ধ্বংসের চক্রান্ত এবং বিশেষ করে যুদ্ধাপরাধীদের বিচার বন্ধের কোনো সংযোগ আছে কি না তা সরকারকে বিশেষ যত্ন সহকারে খতিয়ে দেখতে হবে। সাম্প্রদায়িক হামলার এসব ঘটনাকে বিচ্ছিন্ন ভাবলে পার পাওয়া যাবে না। শুধু ২০০১ সালের নির্বাচন-পরবর্তী সহিংসতার কথা বলে সরকারি দল আওয়ামী লীগ হয়তো মাঠ গরম করতে পারবে, কিন্তু যদি বর্তমানের এসব হামলার সুষ্ঠু বিচার না হয় এবং এ প্রবণতা বন্ধ করা না যায়, তাহলে দেশের যে বড় ক্ষতি হয়ে যাবে সেটি ওই হাওয়াই বক্তৃতা দিয়ে পূরণ করা যাবে না।
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[mukto-mona] Fw: Re: 166 detained in Chittagong, Cox's Bazar:Quran Insulter should Have been arrested first --editorial
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[mukto-mona] Re: 166 detained in Chittagong, Cox's Bazar:Quran Insulter should Have been arrested first --editorial
The motive is clear and we know exactly are the actors. The state should deal with these people right now than letting these criminals escape the justice and regroup. No need to repeat the 1971 wink-wink amnesty.
-SD
Several Facebook users, meanwhile, said Uttam Barua, the Ramu youth being accused of Quran defamation, did not post the photo deemed to be offensive to Islam. They said Uttam was tagged in the photo from a Facebook ID called 'Insult Allah' and so he was in no way responsible.
bangladesh muslims attack buddhists..burn temples:
........ প্রত্যক্ষদর্শীর ভাষ্যে, যারা এই কাজ করেছে, তারা ঘটনার শুরুতেই ফেসবুক থেকে সেই ছবি ছাপিয়ে পোস্টার বানিয়ে তা প্রদর্শন করে উসকানিমূলক বক্তব্য দিতে থাকে। নিমেষের মধ্যে নাইক্ষ্যংছড়ি থেকে ট্রাকভর্তি বিক্ষোভকারীরা এসে আক্রমণের কাজে লেগে পড়ে। তাদের হাতে স্পষ্টত পেট্রল ও পাউডার-জাতীয় পদার্থ ছিল, যা দিয়ে আগুন লাগানো হয়েছে। এটাও জানা গেছে যে একটি জাহাজ তৈরির কারখানার ৫০০ কর্মীও মন্দির আক্রমণে অংশগ্রহণ করে। পটিয়ায়ও দুটি বৌদ্ধমন্দিরে আগুন লাগানো হয়েছে একই কায়দায়। .......
http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2012-10-03/news/294643
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The Religion-Traders routinely frame stories to establish their narrow objective:
Here is one example ...... (Just a tip of the iceberg):
Muslim Cleric Khalid Jadoon Accused of Framing Christian Girl with Down's Syndrome
Opposing Views - 2 days agoMuslim cleric Khalid Jadoon was arrested for trying to frame 11-year-old Rimsha Masih, who is accused of burning pages of a Koran near ...
Police escort blindfolded Muslim cleric Khalid Jadoon as he is brought before a judge at a court in Islamabad, September 2, 2012.Ayaz GulSeptember 02, 2012
ISLAMABAD — Police in Pakistan have arrested aMuslim cleric for allegedly planting evidence against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy. The development has raised hopes the girl may be released in a case that has revived calls for reform in the country's controversial anti-blasphemy laws. ..........Details At:
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Subimal Chakrabarty <subimal@yahoo.com> wrote:
It is a good question Mr. Anwar. Why was the film maker arrested? Does the USA have blasphemy law? As far as I know BD does not have blasphemy law. If it is true, then under what law would the Koran insulter be arrested? I think these people who insult a religious prophet or book should be sent for counseling. One informed American tells me that the movie maker was arrested against other charges not for making the video. Looks like a big conspiracy was involved. Who knows what happened with the Ramu case!
Sent from my iPhoneIf USA can arrest the Prophet insulter why not Hasina govt. can't arrest the Quran insulter ?---------- Forwarded Message ----------
From: "S A Hannan" <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com>
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Subject: [Dahuk]: 166 detained in Chittagong, Cox's Bazar:Quran Insulter should Have been arrested first --editorial
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 08:52:08 +0600
:166 detained in Chittagong, Cox's Bazar:Quran Insulter should Have been arrested first
A daily Star Report says that law enforcers have so far arrested 166 people in connection with Saturday's violence at Ramu in Cox's Bazar,Bangladesh , that later spread in the port city.Of the arrestees, 93 were picked up from Cox's Bazar and 73 from Chittagong, Sixteen cases -- 13 in Cox's Bazar and three with Patiya Police Staion -- have been filed so far against several thousand people in connection with the violence.Dipananda Bhikkhu, priest of Kolagaon Sarbojanin Ratnangkur Buddha Bihar, which was set on fire on Sunday, lodged one of the cases with Patiya Police Station accusing 37 persons by name and around 500 unknown persons. Of the cases in Cox's Bazar, six were lodged with Ramu, four with Ukhia, two with Teknaf and one with Sadar police stations, Babul Akhter, additional superintendent of police in Cox's Bazar, told The Daily Star. Law enforcers were reported to have been raiding different places in Cox's Bazar to detain more people involved in the sectarian attack..Lutfor Rahman Kajol, BNP lawmaker from Cox's Bazar-3 constituency, said he had asked police to arrest the man who carried a poster that was defaming the Quran during the rally at Ramu Chaumuhoni before the incident. "But police did not arrest the person. Had they done it, the situation would not have gone so bad," he added.We are happy that situation has improved . However police should not use the issue for innocent people. Filing cases against nameless thousands of people opend the door for harassment.We feel that the arrest of the Buddhist boy who gave an insulting picture of Quran in his face book account would have stopped the public fury and then later events would not have taken place..We have seen other reports which show ruling party is blaming the opposition BNP and Jamaat for the incidents.This is unfair attempt to politicise a matter.Some of them are blaming fanatics and communalists , the terms they use for Islamic minded people. Islamic minded people, of course protest any insult of Islam but they do not generally resort to violence. Such violence is done by rowdy people or simple people who do not know teachings of Islam.
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[mukto-mona] Re: Fw: [Ovimot] Fw: Bangladesh: R&AW engineered attacks on the Buddhi sts
Bro, we know exactly who did it. Stop your nonsensical arguments.
-SD
If Gomes tells the truth that hurts the Hasina regime, Is that true ?Eyes of the minorities of Bangladesh opened clearly now, they can see and understand who wasbehind this brutal attack at Ramu .Blaming BNP/Jamat won't work this time.RAW is more powerful than Hasina regime, their agents working side by side with our DGFI everybody know that.RAW agents having 'Jamai Ado'r by Hasina regime.
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Subject: Re: Fw: [Ovimot] Fw: Bangladesh: R&AW engineered attacks on the Buddhists
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 20:14:08 -0400
Smoke no more bro! If that were true, both BNP and Jamat cadres would be considered as RAW/Mossad/CIA agents! It is high time for Jamati goondas to take responsibility for their crimes! Mr. Idiot Gomes won't help you much insulting our intelligence.
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Subject: [Ovimot] Fw: Bangladesh: R&AW engineered attacks on the Buddhists
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 20:07:49 -0700 (PDT)�
Readers:��News published in Daily Amardesh corroborates the statement of Mr. William Gomes. Please go to the following link and read.�http://www.amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2012/10/02/166711
Thanks.
--- On Mon, 10/1/12, William Gomes <williamgomes.org@gmail.com> wrote:
From: William Gomes <williamgomes.org@gmail.com>
Subject: [chottala.com] Bangladesh: R&AW engineered attacks on the Buddhists
To: "Mrs. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister,Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh" <pm@pmo.gov.bd>
Date: Monday, October 1, 2012, 1:37 PM��
According to different news reports mob had torched and vandalized the Buddhist village in one of the worst religious attacks in Bangladesh which appeared to have been triggered by a Facebook posting allegedly defaming the Quran.
According to bdnews24, on 30th September 2012, seven Buddhist Viharas, around 30 houses and shops were torched in the attacks that started at 11:30pm and lasted until around 4am on 1st of October. More than a hundred houses and shops were also reportedly attacked, vandalized and looted
My sources inside Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) shared sensational inside story and background of the per-planned attack on the Buddhists in Cox�s Bazaar�s Ramu Upazila
The whole attack was engineered by special unit of Indian Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) in coordination with DGFI
A special team of monitoring the social media in the DGFI and R&AW were closely monitoring the social media� to monitor the� ongoing protest on anti Islam film in different parts of Bangladesh on social media
The government was facing challenge to tackle the protest on anti Islam movie in different parts of the country
The social media monitor team within the intelligence agency noticed that different people were tagged different photos related anti Islam movie and defaming Holy Quran , Uttam Barua was tagged in the photo from a Facebook ID called �Insult Allah�
The special units of R&AW consult with concern people in prime minister�s office ask to run special operation named �Operation Tango�
The main aim of operation tango was to spread the violence in hill district, specifically on the Buddhist and Hindu minorities
Selected officials were called immediately from different detachments of DGFI that includes Coxs� Bazar, Khagrachari, Rangamati, Bandarban and Chittagong
They were briefed, how to implement the operation tango. They special team of army commando were send to vandalized a village of Buddhists in Cox�s Bazaar�s Ramu Upazila early on 30th September 2012
Cox�s Bazaar district�s Superintendent of Police Selim Mohammed Jahangir was informed earlier by the tango team to remain silent while tango team run the operation and police were on high alert that tango team can successfully end the operation
Special units of R&AW informed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina earlier that operation tango will help to get the sympathy of minorities
They also briefed that minorities are your vote bank , before election this attack will benefit you in all ways
They also briefed BNP had embraced the government over Rohingya Muslims issue and it�s a proper time to use the situation while the opposition is protesting over anti islam movie
The tango team had suggested spreading attacks on minorities in different minority populated areas all over the country and that will continue one after another
A team of media professionals were briefed earlier to run continuous news propaganda naming the violence as an effort to Islamize the hill area and the opposition parties specifically BNP is behind the communal attack
While the ruling government is playing dirty game on the life of minorities with the Indian intelligence R&AW , minorities are paying a high cost
http://spyghana.com/opinion/featured-articles/bangladesh-raw-engineered-attacks-on-the-buddhists/
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Re: [mukto-mona] Humor
Again, that joke should be sent to the idiots so that they can still stay in the dark and keep farting louder!
-SD
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Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Humor
>>>>>>>>>>> Yeah. By a Christian on this case.
However I do not consider being fundamentalist is a bad thing. However being a intolerant fanatic is a VERY bad thing.
Shalom!!
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Sent: Tue, Oct 2, 2012 8:17 am
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Humor
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Dear all,
Hope you enjoy reading it. Taken from FB.....
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TAKE TIME TO READ. It's worth reading it. Trust me :)
Professor : You are a Christian, aren't you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?
Student : Yes.
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn't. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent.)
Professor: You can't answer, can you ? Let's start again, young fella. Is GOD good?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Is satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor: Where does satan come from ?
Student : From … GOD …
Professor: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn't it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor: So who created evil ?
(Student did not answer.)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them ?
(Student had no answer.)
Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre became very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)
Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it is, were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class was in uproar.)
Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class broke out into laughter. )
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Professor: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
P.S.
I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you'll probably want your friends / colleagues to enjoy the same, won't you?
Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.
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