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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

[mukto-mona] [মুক্তমনা বাংলা ব্লগ] 'বিশ্বাসের ভাইরাস: মেনে নয়, মনে নিন'

মুক্তমনা বাংলা ব্লগ has posted a new item,
'বিশ্বাসের ভাইরাস: মেনে নয়, মনে
নিন'



"নাফরমানি করিওনা, খোদার উপর
তোয়াক্কেল রাখো!" লাল সালু
উপন্যাসে মজিদের এই উক্তিটি
মনে আছে? মর্মার্থ হচ্ছে "মেনে
নাও, সুখী হবে"। কিন্তু
মুক্তমনাদের সমস্যা এখানেই,
এরা মেনে নিতে অভ্যস্ত নয়, মনে
নিতে চায়। যুক্তির বিচারে
গ্রহণযোগ্য সত্যকে মনে নেয়
যুক্তিবাদীরা, অন্যদিকে উদ্ভট
মিথকেও মেনে নিয়ে শান্তির কোল
খোঁজে ধার্মিকরা। নিজের
অজান্তেই আক্রান্ত হয়
প্যারাসাইটের, ভাইরাসের।
বস্তু [...]

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[mukto-mona] Women's right in Bangladesh. [1 Attachment]

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[mukto-mona] [মুক্তমনা বাংলা ব্লগ] 'সংযোগের রাজনীতি, বিচ্ছিন্নতার রাজনীতি'

মুক্তমনা বাংলা ব্লগ has posted a new item,
'সংযোগের রাজনীতি,
বিচ্ছিন্নতার রাজনীতি'

লিখেছেন -  সন্দীপন দাশ


"দিবে আর নিবে, মিলাবে মিলিবে,
যাবে না ফিরে –
এই ভারতের মহামানবের
সাগরতীরে"
কবির এই উক্তি স্রেফ রোমান্টিক
কপোল কল্পনা নয়। এই উক্তির
মধ্যেই রয়ে গেছে কবির বিশেষ এক
রাজনৈতিক দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি। শুধু
তাই নয়, এই উক্তিটিকে কে কীভাবে
ব্যবহার করবেন তার মধ্যেও
অর্থাৎ সেই ব্যবহারের মধ্যেও
থেকে যায় উক্ত ব্যক্তির বিশেষ
রাজনৈতিক দৃষ্টিভঙ্গির ছাপ।
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[mukto-mona] Jews Take Beating, AMAZING Muslim Saves Them



Jews Take Beating, AMAZING Muslim Saves Them

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Re: [mukto-mona] Re: context needed to understand life of prophet Muhammad PBUH



Most of those followers do it to get a foothold in the luscious heaven in the afterlife! As one develops a crescent of faith on the forehead good common sense disappears from brain.

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On Feb 26, 2014, at 7:31 PM, Sukhamaya Bain <subain1@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

Indeed, "a noble man is always a noble man; no context or excuse is needed to evaluate a noble man", to quote Dr. Jiten Roy. This would be especially true for a man who is claimed to be so noble that millions of people are crazy about imitating him for a 'complete code of life' some fifteen hundred years after his death.

However, I think the important point is not about the nobility of a man, however great he might have been. The important point is what people have been doing recently, are doing now, and want to do for the future. Most importantly, injustice and barbaric behavior under any pretext need to stop.

SuBain

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On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 9:03 PM, Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

Subimal Chakraborty Said: "I agree with Farida apa: crude bashing of Islam and for that matter any religion is indefensible. It is not only childish, it also provokes a fanatic and leaves in their hands 'weapons' to make an attempt to stop the progress of human thoughts and ideas. Therefore, critiquing of a religion should be objective and analytical with no preconceived hatred for it in the critic's mind." 
 
Who hates who? I do not think anybody here hates anybody personally; people just put forward opinions. The above statement means some people have hatred against some other people in this forum. This is a misguided notion.
 
Now - what's the meaning of "crude bashing?" All we have heard so far from Ms. Majid and Mr. Rahman are terms like - "Islam bashing" and "hatred for Islam," when they run out of arguments to counter criticism. To them, every criticism of their religion is out of hatred for their religion. Now, an atheist is joining that cohort; this smells like a political stand, not ideological.
 
The fact is – criticism of one's favorite object will always hurt his/her feeling; it does not matter how objective or analytical  criticism may be. Also, how can someone defend a blind faith with a sound logic? They can't. Blind faith logic will always sound ridiculous to an open minded person. Mr. Rahman thinks that he knows the authentic version of Islam. Isn't it a ridiculous claims also? How could anyone be so sure that he/she has the most authentic version of religion, unless it's his faith.

Lately, I am hearing from Mr. Rahman that judging Prophet needs proper context. To me,
a noble man is always a noble man; no context or excuse is needed to evaluate a noble man.
 
Jiten Roy


On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 7:33 PM, Shah Deeldar <shahdeeldar@yahoo.com> wrote:
 
Yes, you are so right about the collapse of the Persian empire. That removed the best wall that was ever built in the western frontier in that era. Had that been intact, we would have been saved from this abysmal mediocrity.
-SD

 
"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
-Seuss



On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:05 PM, Kamal Das <kamalctgu@gmail.com> wrote:
 
Nothing is more blasphemous and moronic to think that a passionate and almighty God sent his best and last messenger to a community of desert oasis and forgot about his best creation since then.  Even a blind could see that the last messenger was a failure till he adopted dacoits, blunder and mayhem of the weak Jewish communities from the hideout of Yatrib.   It was the collapse of the Persian Empire due to war of succession that made Islam the winner.  But again, the Ummayads, the archenemy of the Hashemites in which the Prophet belonged, was the winner.  As Ms. Majid is a closet fundamentalist, she gets irritated by a correct analysis of Islamic history. 

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On Feb 19, 2014, at 6:32 AM, Shah Deeldar <shahdeeldar@yahoo.com> wrote:

 
Maybe, we all should hide in a cave because the vicious mob will be angry and start killing innocents? Is that the thinking? A white flag with out a fight? We should only talk about flowers? Right?
-SD

 
"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
-Seuss



On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 7:04 PM, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:
Your imbecile mind will not comprehend the seriousness of the political situation with the vicious Jehadists in Bangladesh -- innocent people will eventually be the victims.
 But you and the troll don't care a hoot . . .
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:48:38 -0800
From: shahdeeldar@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Re: context needed to understnad life of prophet Muhammad PBUH
To: farida_majid@hotmail.com; mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com; bangladesh-progressives@googlegroups.com

If brother Shalom wants people to know the prophet and a religion better, then people have no choice but to ask some tough questions. If you do not like the heat, stay out it and be in peace. But ordering how a discussion should be moved forward is not really a Muktomona motto. You got your pet subjects and you are totally free to push forward whatever you think right for your taste. Please stop browbeating others in regards to what should be discussed and what not. That is called censorship. If I remember correct, we were equally critical about the authentic Marxism of Sankar-da when he tried to feed us with a different cool-aid.
-SD

 
"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
-Seuss



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Re: [mukto-mona] Re: context needed to understnad life of prophet Muhammad PBUH



Maybe one should start pointing out what is crude and what is not. Yes, line by line with the original quotes and see where that perfect political correctness leads us to? People, who have been chanting death to everything for centuries becoming suddenly civil and benevolent? I would not hold not my breath for such grand dream. Would anybody?
-SD
 
"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
-Seuss



On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 9:03 PM, Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

Subimal Chakraborty Said: "I agree with Farida apa: crude bashing of Islam and for that matter any religion is indefensible. It is not only childish, it also provokes a fanatic and leaves in their hands 'weapons' to make an attempt to stop the progress of human thoughts and ideas. Therefore, critiquing of a religion should be objective and analytical with no preconceived hatred for it in the critic's mind." 
 
Who hates who? I do not think anybody here hates anybody personally; people just put forward opinions. The above statement means some people have hatred against some other people in this forum. This is a misguided notion.
 
Now - what's the meaning of "crude bashing?" All we have heard so far from Ms. Majid and Mr. Rahman are terms like - "Islam bashing" and "hatred for Islam," when they run out of arguments to counter criticism. To them, every criticism of their religion is out of hatred for their religion. Now, an atheist is joining that cohort; this smells like a political stand, not ideological.
 
The fact is – criticism of one's favorite object will always hurt his/her feeling; it does not matter how objective or analytical  criticism may be. Also, how can someone defend a blind faith with a sound logic? They can't. Blind faith logic will always sound ridiculous to an open minded person. Mr. Rahman thinks that he knows the authentic version of Islam. Isn't it a ridiculous claims also? How could anyone be so sure that he/she has the most authentic version of religion, unless it's his faith.

Lately, I am hearing from Mr. Rahman that judging Prophet needs proper context. To me,
a noble man is always a noble man; no context or excuse is needed to evaluate a noble man.
 
Jiten Roy


On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 7:33 PM, Shah Deeldar <shahdeeldar@yahoo.com> wrote:
 
Yes, you are so right about the collapse of the Persian empire. That removed the best wall that was ever built in the western frontier in that era. Had that been intact, we would have been saved from this abysmal mediocrity.
-SD

 
"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
-Seuss



On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:05 PM, Kamal Das <kamalctgu@gmail.com> wrote:
 
Nothing is more blasphemous and moronic to think that a passionate and almighty God sent his best and last messenger to a community of desert oasis and forgot about his best creation since then.  Even a blind could see that the last messenger was a failure till he adopted dacoits, blunder and mayhem of the weak Jewish communities from the hideout of Yatrib.   It was the collapse of the Persian Empire due to war of succession that made Islam the winner.  But again, the Ummayads, the archenemy of the Hashemites in which the Prophet belonged, was the winner.  As Ms. Majid is a closet fundamentalist, she gets irritated by a correct analysis of Islamic history. 

Sent from my iPad

On Feb 19, 2014, at 6:32 AM, Shah Deeldar <shahdeeldar@yahoo.com> wrote:

 
Maybe, we all should hide in a cave because the vicious mob will be angry and start killing innocents? Is that the thinking? A white flag with out a fight? We should only talk about flowers? Right?
-SD

 
"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
-Seuss



On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 7:04 PM, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:
Your imbecile mind will not comprehend the seriousness of the political situation with the vicious Jehadists in Bangladesh -- innocent people will eventually be the victims.
 But you and the troll don't care a hoot . . .

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:48:38 -0800
From: shahdeeldar@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Re: context needed to understnad life of prophet Muhammad PBUH
To: farida_majid@hotmail.com; mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com; bangladesh-progressives@googlegroups.com

If brother Shalom wants people to know the prophet and a religion better, then people have no choice but to ask some tough questions. If you do not like the heat, stay out it and be in peace. But ordering how a discussion should be moved forward is not really a Muktomona motto. You got your pet subjects and you are totally free to push forward whatever you think right for your taste. Please stop browbeating others in regards to what should be discussed and what not. That is called censorship. If I remember correct, we were equally critical about the authentic Marxism of Sankar-da when he tried to feed us with a different cool-aid.
-SD

 
"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
-Seuss



On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:00 PM, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:
Please STOP posting this religious stuff in mukto-mona.  We've had this crude Islam-bashing type of writings day after day, month after month, year after year.


From: subain1@yahoo.com
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:16:21 -0800
Subject: [mukto-mona] Re: context needed to understnad life of prophet Muhammad PBUH

 

The talk of 'context needed to understand Mohammad' is essentially nonsense talk.

There is no need to understand a man who lived on Earth some fifteen hundred years back. What the world needs to do is to see the actions of people today, and reward, stay indifferent or punish those actions, depending on the virtue, innocence and criminality, respectively, of those actions. Mohammad does not need any such reward, indifference or punishment.

The problem with the soft-sellers of the Islamic doctrine is that they would call the absolutely non-criminal objective looks at Islam as 'not knowing the context', 'ignorance' and even 'hatred against Islam'; while at the same time they remain inactive and soft-supporters of Islamic criminals that act upon their use, misuse, abuse, 'not knowing the context' and 'ignorance' of Islam. While the soft-sellers of the stupidity and hatred of Islam remain mostly inactive and soft-supporters of hatred and atrocities against non-believers of Islam, they hardly ever push for serious punishments against the real criminals who do their crimes proclaiming to be on behalf of and for the protection of Islam.

I think mukto-mona, being a thinkers' forum (as opposed to blind-believers' forum), should mostly expunge the slavish, brainwashed, and illogical soft-selling of religion by people like QR.

SuBain

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On Monday, February 17, 2014 3:53 AM, QR <qrahman@netscape.net> wrote:
Dear all,

I welcome your initiative to critic Islam and prophet Muhammad (PBUH). However when you take out of context events, it may confuse and misguide a lot of people. I am forwarding a part of history which is important to know to be able to UNDERSTAND some of the decisions taken by the last messenger of God Muhammad (PBUH).

Specifically he gave multiple chances to Jewish tribes who not only broke singed treaties with the state of Medina but conspired to murder Muslims of that city (By becoming traitors during war).

If you have questions, feel free to ask.

Shalom!


-----Original Message-----
tes

 

Life of the last prophet -PBUH




Following the expulsion of the treacherous Jewish tribes of Banu Qainuqa' and Banu Nadeer for breaking the treaty with the Muslims, Rasulullah sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam exiled the remnants of these to Khaybar on the outskirts of Madinah.
Awaiting a decisive defeat of the Muslims by the Quraish which didn't materialise, the deceitful Jews grew in discontent and hatched a new conspiracy against Rasulullah sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam in the fifth year after hijrah.



Being too cowardly to face the Muslims in battle, 20 Jewish chiefs went to Makkah to draw the Quraish into a negotiation by forming a "coalition". In return for the Quraish attacking Madinah, full support would be provided to them by the Jews and both parties thereafter would be rid of Muhammad sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam and his followers once and for all. Smarting from successive humiliating defeats at the hands of the Sahaabah radiallaahu 'anhum, the Quraish jumped at the offer.


The Jewish delegation toured Arabia inciting the various tribes to take up arms against the Islamic State of Madinah. In Shawwaal, the Confederates (various tribes from Arabia under the leadership of the Quraish) converged on the outskirts of Madinah boasting a combined force of 10,000, which outnumbered the total Muslim population of Madinah at the time.

Based on surveillance reports of impending attacks, Rasulullah sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam ordered the digging of trenches to protect Madinah based on the advice of Salman al Farsi radiallaahu 'anhu. The period spent digging the trenches was one of the most difficult times endured by the Muslims in defense of Islam. The digging took several days and during this time, Rasulullah sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam and the Sahaabah radiallaahu 'anhum endured fatigue and near starvation. At the completion of the trenches, 3000 Muslims came out to guard Madinah against any advances by the kuffaar (disbelievers).
Witnessing the trenches was a great psychological setback for the kuffaar and although they tried to cross it was to no avail. Apart from the exchange of volleys of arrows, there was not much in the way of physical combat. This was more a battle of nerves as the Confederates grew more frustrated with each passing day.









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[mukto-mona] Memory Lane : Deadly Cargo - Bangladesh has become a safe haven for al Qaeda TIME ^ | October 21 2002 | ALEX PERRY / CHITTAGONG



Deadly Cargo - Bangladesh has become a safe haven for al Qaeda
TIME ^ | October 21 2002 | ALEX PERRY / CHITTAGONG 
Posted on 10/20/2002 11:28:03 AM by AM2000

Signs abound that Bangladesh has become a safe haven for Islamic jihadis—including Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters fresh off the boat from Afghanistan

As it headed for port through the midwinter dusk, there was little about the M.V. Mecca that stood out from the other boats plying the waters off southern Bangladesh. Portworkers and fishermen noted the same squat deckhouse and plump hold that for centuries have sheltered fishermen from the cyclones of the Bay of Bengal. The Mecca had the usual rusted rigging and smoke-blackened stern. And the crew too was like most others working off Chittagong: pure Rohingyas—stocky Muslim refugees from western Burma. Only the thick salt marks high on the Mecca's bow hinted that it was ending a voyage longer than most fishing trips. But this was Chittagong, South Asia's premier hub for pirates, gunrunners and smugglers. When the dockworkers saw the Mecca anchoring on a sandbank three kilometers out to sea on the night of Dec. 21, it was a signal to all not to ask questions.

For nine months the exact nature of the Mecca's cargo or the shipment's eventual destination remained unknown. But there were clues. Portworkers that night said they saw five motor launches ferry in large groups of men from the boat wearing black turbans, long beards and traditional Islamic salwar kameez. Their towering height suggested these travelers were foreigners, and the boxes of ammunition and the AK-47s slung across their shoulders helped sketch a sinister picture. Then in July, a senior member of Bangladesh's largest terrorist group, the 2,000-strong al-Qaeda-allied Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), told TIME the 150 men who entered Bangladesh that night were Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters from Afghanistan. Three senior Bangladeshi military sources also confirmed this was the case. And on Oct. 7, Indian police arrested Burmese-born HUJI fighter and weapons courier Fazle Karim (alias Abu Fuzi) as he arrived in Calcutta by train from Kashmir. A veteran of al-Qaeda's camps in eastern Afghanistan who told his interrogators he had twice met Osama bin Laden, Karim said he recognized two people he had trained with in Afghanistan while visiting HUJI hideouts in Bangladesh in August. The pair told him they were part of a group of "more than 100 Arabs and Afghans belonging to al-Qaeda and the Taliban who had arrived by ship at Chittagong in winter," Karim said, according to transcripts of his interview with Indian police.

The arrival of a large al-Qaeda group in the capital Dhaka that night raises pressing concerns that Bangladesh may have become a dangerous new front in America's war on terror. Indeed, one Bangladeshi newspaper last month even quoted an unnamed foreign embassy in Dhaka as saying Osama bin Laden's No. 2, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, had been hiding out in the country for months after arriving in Chittagong. (Last week, in an audio message that authorities have tentatively authenticated, al-Zawahiri warned of further attacks against the U.S., vowing that it will not go "unpunished for its crimes.") According to a source inside a Bangladeshi Islamic group with close ties to al-Qaeda, al-Zawahiri arrived in Dhaka in early March and stayed briefly in the compound of a local fundamentalist leader. It's unclear how al-Zawahiri came to be in Bangladesh, or whether he's still there. However, a source in the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (dgfi), a Bangladeshi military intelligence agency, told TIME that al-Zawahiri is believed to have left Bangladesh this summer, crossing over the eastern border into Burma with Rohingya rebels. U.S. intelligence, however, has no evidence this report is true.

As for the Mecca, its passengers' plans remained a mystery. One military source says most of the men stayed in Bangladesh rather than merely transiting, although he adds it was not clear whether the group sought only refuge or planned to establish a new base of operations. On Sept. 24, a fuller picture finally began to emerge when Bangladesh's domestic intelligence agency arrested four Yemenis, an Algerian, a Libyan and a Sudanese at three houses in the upper-crust district of Uttara in Dhaka. Bangladeshi intelligence sources said they received information from "several" foreign agencies that the men—Abu Nujaid of Libya, Sadek Al Nassami, Abu Sallam, Abu Umaiya and Abul Abbas of Yemen, Abul Ashem of Algeria and Hassan Adam of Sudan—were involved in militant arms training at a madrasah in the capital run by a Saudi-backed charity, al-Haramain. In September, Indonesia's al-Qaeda supersnitch Omar al-Faruq told the CIA that al-Haramain was the foundation used to channel bin Laden's money to him from the Middle East. An American expert in the region concurs that branches of the ultraconservative foundation have funded terrorism around the world—a fact that earned two al-Haramain foreign offices a blacklisting by Washington in March—although probably without the knowledge of al-Haramain's headquarters in Riyadh. "Disreputable folks have penetrated al-Haramain and used its offices, funds and personnel for nefarious purposes," he says.

The seven al-Haramain members were questioned by interrogators from domestic intelligence, police and the DGFI. Bangladeshi agents also fanned out across the country to investigate al-Haramain's 37 other branches, which promptly ceased operations. Although Bangladeshi intelligence sources confirmed the suspects were being questioned about links to al-Qaeda, they cautioned that no relationship with bin Laden's terror network had been discovered, nor any evidence of training. They added that the men had been in Bangladesh for three years and were also being interrogated over allegations of child trafficking. Sources within Bangladesh's intelligence community, however, told TIME the authorities had been embarrassed not to find any evidence at al-Haramain's five-story offices in Dhaka and were trying to play down the raid. They said the passports and entry stamps indicating that the seven arrested men entered Bangladesh in 1999 were most likely fakes. Whatever the case, after being held for five days at a secret location, the men were driven to court and released on Sept. 29. No charges or proceedings were brought. After they were freed from custody, the seven were driven to Dhaka's Sheraton hotel where they spent the night, and then disappeared. TIME's HUJI source claimed the trafficking story was merely an official smoke screen. "These are the same guys from the Mecca," he said. "These are bin Laden's people. They've been hiding here for several months."

Bangladesh, it is true, is no Afghanistan, or even Pakistan. For centuries, Bengalis have been united by a culture of tolerance that defies the familiar South Asian divide between Hindu and Muslim. After Sept. 11, the CIA did set up a new five-man base in Dhaka, but merely as part of a global policy of establishing a presence in all Muslim countries. The American intelligence community's view is summed up by one U.S. source who told TIME that Bangladesh is "not a real hot account." But Bangladesh also has its fundamentalists. And its southern coastal hills and northern borders with India are lawless and bristling with Islamic militants armed by gunrunners en route from Cambodia and southern Thailand to Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Central Asia and the Middle East.

Today, southern Bangladesh has become a haven for hundreds of jihadis on the lam. They find natural allies in Muslim guerrillas from India hiding out across the border, and in Muslim Rohingyas, tens of thousands of whom fled the ethnic and religious suppression of the Burmese military junta in the late 1970s and 1980s. Many Rohingyas are long-term refugees, but some are trained to cause trouble back home in camps tolerated by a succession of Bangladeshi governments. The original facilities date back to 1975, making them Asia's oldest jihadi training camps. And one former Burmese guerrilla who visits the camps regularly describes three near Ukhia, south of the town of Cox's Bazar, as able to accommodate a force of 2,500 between them. The biggest, he claims, has 26 interconnected bunkers complete with kitchens, lecture halls, telephones and televisions concealed beneath a three-meter-high false forest floor that stretches between two hills. Weapons available for training there include AK-47s, heavy machine guns, rifles, pistols, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars. Mantraps and mines, which can be triggered by spotters hiding in tree houses, protect approaches to the camp.

Over the years, the former guerrilla says, Ukhia has hosted militant visitors from the southern Philippines, Indonesia, southern Thailand, Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan, even Uzbekistan and Chechnya. Videotapes showing al-Qaeda in training that were unearthed by CNN in August include footage from 1990 that feature Rohingya rebels. And one of the five signatories to bin Laden's Feb. 23, 1998 call for a jihad against America was Fazjul Rahman, who signed in the name of "the Jihad movement of Bangladesh." Fighters trained and given new identities in Bangladesh also regularly find their way to conflicts in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Indian intelligence says the Islamic hijackers of an Indian Airlines plane with 189 passengers and crew on board, which they forced to fly from Kathmandu to Kandahar in December 1999, had traveled to Nepal from Bangladesh. "With the right amount of money, whoever you are, you can do anything," says one Western diplomat based in Dhaka. "If 150 militants want to come in here and buy themselves new passports and new identities, stock up on any weapons they might want and maybe do a little refresher training before heading off again, there's nothing to stop them." Indeed, December was a repeat visit for the Mecca, according to the HUJI source. In June 2001, he says the boat sailed from Karachi to Chittagong with 50 other militants who had completed their training in bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan.

The Bangladeshi government typically reacts with fury to reports of jihadi camps or fundamentalism within its borders. The reason isn't hard to fathom. In October 2001 two Islamic fundamentalist parties with a history of links to terror groups were elected as part of a four-way electoral alliance led by Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The accession of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islamic Oikya Jote to power in Bangladesh rang alarm bells. Islamic Oikya Jote is open about its sympathies: it is well known for its support of Islamic fundamentalism, the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The party's membership largely duplicates that of the HUJI, which was founded in 1992 by Bangladeshi mujahedin returning from Afghanistan with orders from bin Laden to turn the moderate Islamic state into a nation of true believers. The HUJI has been involved in scores of bombings, including two attempted assassinations of then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in July 2000. And while Jamaat now projects a moderate face, its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir has been behind a string of bomb attacks and killings. At gatherings during the campaign, Jamaat leaders spoke of breathing the "Islamic spirit of jihad" into the armed forces while supporters rallied around posters of bin Laden and the HUJI slogan: AMRA SOBAI HOBO TALIBAN, BANGLA HOBE AFGHANISTAN. ("We will all be Taliban and Bangladesh will be Afghanistan.")

Jamaat is also the main force behind the phenomenal growth of unlicensed madrasahs, known as qaumi madrasahs, in the past decade. There are now an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 in Bangladesh, of which 30 to 40, run by mujahedin veterans, are known to shelter militants and recruit fresh fighters. Such militants sometimes receive explicit encouragement from Bangladesh's spiritual leaders. Mullah Obaidul Haque, head of the national mosque in Dhaka and a Jamaat associate, told a gathering of thousands in the capital last December: "America and Bush must be destroyed. The Americans will be washed away if Bangladesh's 120 million Muslims spit on them." So controversial were the BNP's partners in government and so infuriating did they find reports of rising fundamentalism that earlier this year Zia twice denied that there were any "Taliban" in her government, or even in Bangladesh. But a Bangladeshi government official tells TIME that while Zia's administration is aware of the fundamentalist threat inside the country, tackling it head-on might trigger a violent backlash. Foreign Minister Morshed Khan took the same line, telling TIME that it was better to have such groups inside the government, looking out.

Al-Qaeda's links to the leadership of Jamaat or Islamic Oikya Jote may be largely rhetorical. But the DGFI, Bangladesh's military intelligence service, may have more to hide. Its agents maintain contact with their counterparts in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and have a long history of supporting rebels fighting Indian rule across the border, including providing safe houses in Dhaka for the leaders of the United Liberation Front for Assam (ULFA). The HUJI source and the portworkers who saw the Mecca arrive claim that the man who greeted the new arrivals was a major in the DGFI. The major checked the visitors in by name and led them to a fleet of suvs lined up on the docks, add the portworkers. A spokesman for the DGFI denied knowing that members of al-Qaeda had ever set foot in Bangladesh. He even denied that the major existed, although diplomatic registration records show the officer is a long-standing member of the service and was stationed in Calcutta in the mid-1990s. The HUJI source and a Bangladeshi military source maintain the major was the last link in an operation that began in Afghanistan. After leaving the Taliban's headquarters in Kandahar as the city fell in early December and crossing into Pakistan, the fugitives traveled to Karachi, hired the Mecca and made the sail around India.

The emergence of al-Qaeda in Dhaka is merely the latest sign that Bangladesh's more radical Islamic groups are coming out from the forests. The former Burmese rebel says three of the camps near Cox's Bazar have closed since October—not because of the kind of governmental pressure being applied in Pakistan, but because the militants feel safe enough to transfer their operations to like-minded madrasahs, some of them in the capital. On May 9 and 10, 63 representatives of nine Islamic groups—including Rohingya forces, the Islamic Oikya Jote and the ULFA—met in Ukhia to form the Bangladesh Islamic Manch, a united council under HUJI's leadership. So far, the Manch has restricted itself to circulating speeches by bin Laden and Mullah Masood Azhar, a Pakistani militant leader. But it has big plans, says the HUJI source: "The dream is to create a larger Islamic land than the territorial limits of Bangladesh to include Muslim areas of Assam, north Bengal and Burma's Arakan province." That dream, if Islamic terrorists are allowed to continue their operations in Bangladesh, could be a nightmare for the rest of the region.

With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Simon Elegant/Jakarta and Scott Macleod/Cairo

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/772547/posts

http://www.worldnewsbank.com/TIME's.html

Al-Qaeda: Alive and Starting to Kick Again

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সংসদ রিপোর্টার ॥ বিএনপি-জামায়াত জোট সরকারের আমলে আন্তর্জাতিক শীর্ষ জঙ্গী সংগঠন আল কায়েদা প্রধান জাওয়াহিরির বাংলাদেশে তিনবার এসে কয়েক মাস অবস্থানের তথ্য-প্রমাণ জাতীয় সংসদে উত্থাপন করলেন কৃষিমন্ত্রী বেগম মতিয়া চৌধুরী। একই সঙ্গে তিনি জঙ্গী-সন্ত্রাসী দল ও সংগঠনের সঙ্গে কিছু বিদেশী দূতাবাসের কর্মকর্তার গোপন বৈঠকের ব্যাপারেও তাঁদের সতর্ক করে দিয়ে বলেন, বিএনপি জঙ্গীদের মদত দিয়ে, আশ্রয়-প্রশ্রয় দিয়ে, তাদের মাধ্যমে সহিংস কর্মকা- চালিয়ে ক্ষমতা কুক্ষিগত করতে চায়। সন্ত্রাসী, জঙ্গী, তালেবান ও আলকায়েদার সঙ্গে বিএনপির সম্পর্ক নতুন কিছু নয়, লুকানো কিছু না। 
মঙ্গলবার জাতীয় সংসদে ৩০০ ধারায় প্রদত্ত এক বিবৃতিতে মতিয়া চৌধুরী বলেন, অনেক দূতাবাসের কর্মকর্তারা সন্ত্রাসী ও জঙ্গীদের সঙ্গে বৈঠক করেন। তখন আমার মনে পড়ে যায়- 'হাঁসে ডিম পাড়ে, গুইসাপ না না করে, আসলে ডিম খাওয়ার কুয়ারা করে।' বিএনপির ভারপ্রাপ্ত মহাসচিব মির্জা ফখরুল ইসলাম আলমগীরের বক্তব্যের জবাব দিতে গিয়ে তিনি আরও বলেন, ওইসব বিদেশী শক্তি জঙ্গী সংগঠন সম্পর্কে আমাদের সুবচন শোনায়। কিন্তু তারা এসব জঙ্গী সংগঠনকে মদত দেয়, আবার এসব জঙ্গী বাংলাদেশের ক্ষমতায় আসলে তাদের সঙ্গে সম্পর্কের কোন অভাবও দেখি না। তারা আসলে কি চান সেটা দেশবাসীর কাছে স্পষ্ট।
সম্প্রতি আলকায়েদা নেতা জাওয়াহিরির অডিওবার্তা ও পরবর্তীতে গাজীপুরের ত্রিশালে জঙ্গী হামলায় পুলিশ নিহত ও জেএমবির শীর্ষ সন্ত্রাসীদের ছিনিয়ে নেয়া প্রসঙ্গে মতিয়া চৌধুরী বলেন, 'কিছু দিন আগে বাংলাদেশ সম্পর্কে আল কায়েদা নেতা জাওয়াহিরি বক্তব্যের পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে সংসদে পয়েন্ট অব অর্ডারে দাঁড়িয়ে আমরা কিছু কথা বলি। আমাদের কথায় তীব্র ভাষায় প্রতিবাদ করেন বিএনপির ভারপ্রাপ্ত সম্পাদক মির্জা ফখরুল ইসলাম আলমগীর। ফখরুল ইসলাম বলেন, আমরাই (আওয়ামী লীগ) নাকি শুধু বলি বিএনপির আমলে বাংলাদেশে জাওয়াহিরির আগমন সম্পর্কে। আর কেউ নাকি বলে না বা জাওয়াহিরির আগমন প্রসঙ্গে কেউ কিছু প্রকাশও করেনি।
এ সময় বিশ্বের প্রভাবশালী টাইম ম্যাগাজিনের প্রকাশিত একটি রিপোর্টের উদ্ধৃতি দিয়ে মতিয়া চৌধুরী বলেন, '২০০২ সালে ২০ অক্টোবর টাইম ম্যাগাজিনে এলেক্স প্যারি একটি প্রতিবেদনে লিখেছেন। এতে বলা হয়েছে, বিএনপি-জামায়াত জোট ক্ষমতায় থাকার সময় ২০০১ সালের ২১ ডিসেম্বর সন্ধ্যায় ১৫০ জন আফগান তালেবান ও আল কায়েদা জঙ্গী বাংলাদেশে প্রবেশ করে। তালেবান শীর্ষ নেতা ফজলে করিম ভারতের পুলিশের কাছে গ্রেফতার হলে তিনি স্বীকার করেন ২১ ডিসেম্বর আরও এক শ' তালেবান ও আল কায়েদা জঙ্গী চট্টগ্রামে প্রবেশ করেছে। 
তিনি বলেন, এই রিপোর্টে স্পষ্ট করে বলা হয়েছে, ওই সময় বাংলাদেশের বিভিন্ন পত্রিকা নাম প্রকাশে অনিচ্ছুক এক কূটনীতিক দূতাবাসের বরাত দিয়ে লিখেছে বিন লাদেনের সেকেন্ড ম্যান মিসরীয় নাগরিক জাওয়াহিরি চট্টগ্রাম দিয়ে বাংলাদেশে প্রবেশ করেন এবং এখানে কয়েক মাস থাকেন। ধারণা করা হয় জাওয়াহিরি মার্চ মাসে ঢাকায় আসেন এবং একজন মৌলবাদী নেতার বাড়িতে অবস্থান করেন। তবে বাংলাদেশ ত্যাগ করার বিষয়টি নিশ্চিত নয়। 
মতিয়া চৌধুরী বলেন, 'টাইম রিপোর্টে আরও বলা হয়, ডিজিএফআইর একটি সূত্র জানিয়েছে আলকায়দা নেতা জাওয়াহিরি রোহিঙ্গা শরণার্থীদের সহায়তায় বার্মা দিয়ে চলে যান। ওই রিপোর্টে আরও বলা হয়, বাংলাদেশে জঙ্গীদের অবস্থান আছে। এ ব্যাপারে বাংলাদেশ সরকারকে জানানো হলে তারা রাগান্বিত হয়। যেহেতু ২০০১ সালে অক্টোবর মাসের নির্বাচনে খালেদা জিয়া ক্ষমতায় আসেন এবং তার জোটের দুটি দল তালেবানদের সঙ্গে সম্পৃক্ত এবং একটি দলের ছাত্র সংগঠন ইসলামী ছাত্র শিবিরের সঙ্গে তালেবান আল কায়েদাদের সম্পর্ক রয়েছে। পত্রিকাটির রিপোর্টে বলা হয়েছে, খালেদা জিয়া নিজে দুই বার অস্বীকার করলেও তার প্রশাসন সরকারের মধ্যে তালেবান ও আলকায়েদা সদস্য থাকার ব্যাপারে উদ্বেগ প্রকাশ করেছে। এ ব্যাপারে তৎকালীন পররাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী মোর্শেদ খানও উদ্বেগ প্রকাশ করে টাইমকে বলেন, দলের মধ্যে এরা থাকলে (তালেবান) কম ক্ষতিকর। কারণ তারা দলের ডিসিপ্লিনের মধ্যে থাকবে।
কৃষিমন্ত্রী আরও বলেন, সম্প্রতি একটি বিদেশী থিঙ্ক ট্যাঙ্কের প্রতিবেদনে প্রকাশ পেয়েছে ছাত্রশিবির বিশ্বের তৃতীয় শীর্ষ সন্ত্রাসী সংগঠন যারা তালেবান ও আলকায়েদার সঙ্গে জড়িত। এই ছাত্রশিবিরকে ২০০৪ সালে তৎকালীন প্রধানমন্ত্রীর পুত্রধন তারেক রহমান বলেছিলেন, এই ছাত্রশিবির এক মায়ের পেটের দুই ভাই। তাহলে তখনকার প্রধানমন্ত্রী তাদের জননী। তিনি বলেন, জেএমবি শীর্ষ সন্ত্রাসী বাংলা ভাই তারেককে মামা বলে ডাকত। বাংলা ভাইকে তারেক রহমানের মদদের ব্যাপারে মার্কিন রাষ্ট্রদূতকে জানান মুখ্য সচিব কামাল সিদ্দিকী। এছাড়া খালেদার পূর্ণ সমর্থন ছিল বাংলা ভাই ও শায়েখ আবদুর রহমানের প্রতি জানানো হয় রাষ্ট্রদূতকে। 
তিনি বলেন, আজ কি অপূর্ব মিল, যখন প্রিজনভ্যানে আক্রমণ করে পুলিশ কনস্টেবলকে হত্যা করা হলো, ছিনিয়ে নেয়া হলো জেএমবি জঙ্গীদের। এরপরে একজন জঙ্গী এনকাউন্টারে নিহত হলে বিএনপির ভারপ্রাপ্ত মহাসচিব ফখরুল ইসলাম বললেন, কিছু জানার আগেই তাকে হত্যা করা হয়েছে। কিন্তু একজন পুলিশ যে নিহত হয়েছে সে ব্যাপারে তাদের (বিএনপি) কোন কথা নেই। তারা আসলে এসব জঙ্গীদের মদত দিয়ে, আশ্রয়-প্রশ্রয় দিয়ে, তাদের মাধ্যমে সহিংস কর্মকা- চালিয়ে ক্ষমতা কুক্ষিগত করতে চায়। তাদের এ ব্যাপারে কোন লজ্জাবোধ নেই, রাগঢাক নাই। এটাও জানা আছে রাজশাহীর এসপির মাধ্যমে পুলিশ দিয়ে বাংলা ভাইকে ট্রাক মিছিল করার সুযোগ করে দেয়া হয়। 
মতিয়া চৌধুরী বলেন, 'আমি মির্জা ফখরুল ইসলামকে সজ্জন বলে জানি। উনি শিক্ষক ছিলেন, পড়ালেখা করতেন। কিন্তু সম্প্রতি তার বিবৃতি দেখে ও পড়ে আমার মনে হয়েছে ইদানীং এবং তারা ক্ষমতায় থাকা অবস্থায় টাইম ম্যাগাজিনের মতো পত্রপত্রিকা তিনি পড়তেন না। তাই হয়ত বলছেন তাদের সময়ে কোন তালেবান, আলকায়েদা বাংলাদেশে আসেনি। আমি তাকে বলব আপনি পড়ালেখা করুন জানুন তারপর কথা বলুন। পড়ালেখার চর্চাটা চালিয়ে যান।

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