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[mukto-mona] The War against Islamists



The War against Islamists

Firoz Mahboob Kamal

 

Blair's battle cry

Mr Tony Blair -the former British Prime Minister, has asked the Western leaders to take their firm stand against Islamists. He thinks the Islamists are the real threat against the world order and peace. On 23rd April, 2014 in his speech in London's Bloomberg office, he told, "At the root of the crisis lies a radicalised and politicised view of Islam, an ideology that distorts and warps Islam's true message. The threat of this radical Islam is not abating. It is growing. It is spreading across the world. It is de-stabilising communities and even nations." Mr Blair added, "It is undermining the possibility of peaceful co-existence in an era of globalisation. And in the face of this threat we seem curiously reluctant to acknowledge it and powerless to counter it effectively."  His hyperbole on Islamic extremism went to the extent that he labelled it "the biggest threat to global security in the 21st century" and warned that "it is holding back development across Africa and the Far East". On such conceptual premise, he urged a "wilfully blind west" to realise it and must take sides. He also advised to make common cause with Russia and China in the G20 to counter the Islamic extremism that lies at the "root of all failures of western intervention".

 

Mr Blair's true colour became public when he launched a genocidal war in Afghanistan and Iraq with his partner in crime Mr Bush –the former US President. Nearly half of the British consider him a war criminal, and was forced to resign from the premiership with disgrace. Now he is adding new dimension to his criminal expertise. His current engagement, as revealed in his speech, is to invent new grounds for a global war. He appears more Zionist than even a hard core Israeli expansionist who shows no appetite for peace in the Middle East. Anshel Pfeffer, a columnist on the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, tweeted, "The fascinating thing about Blair's speech today is that it could have been a Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister) speech, word-for-word, they share the same outlook." Mr Blair shows his frustration and worries.  He laments, instead of being eliminated or defeated the Islamists are getting stronger and stronger and posing the biggest threat to the Western interests in the 21st century globally. As a former wartime Prime Minister, this is Mr Blair's saddest realization. In both the World Wars, the British could achieve something to celebrate. But this time, Mr Blair and his cohorts could celebrate only the destruction of two countries and death of more than a million. Now he comes up with a formula of more deaths and destruction. He suggests, the Western countries must forget their mutual differences and should form a global coalition against the Islamists. He advised to take even Russia and China as a partner in the anti-Islamic coalition. In his own words: "Whatever our other differences, we should be prepared to reach out and cooperate with the East, and in particular, Russia and China." Exactly the same suggestion was put forward by the Harvard Professor Dr Huntington in his book "The Clash of Civilisation".

 

The advocacy for war

Mr Bair is not alone to do the advocacy for war against Islam and the Islamists. They are many who want to blow up Baitullah Ka'ba and Masjidul Aqsa, burn the Holy Qur'an and dismantle any emerging Islamic state.  Mr Blair cited 4 reasons for taking side in war against the Islamists. Firstly, to ensure the West's energy supply. He says, "First and most obviously, it is still where a large part of the world's energy supplies are generated, and whatever the long term implications of the USA energy revolution, the world's dependence on the Middle East is not going to disappear any time soon. In any event, it has a determining effect on the price of oil; and thus on the stability and working of the global economy."  Secondly, it is the close proximity of the Muslims World to Europe. He says, "It is right on the doorstep of Europe. The boundary of the EU is a short distance from the Levantine coast. Instability here affects Europe, as does instability in North Africa, in close proximity to Spain and Italy."  Thirdly, it is Israel's survival and security interest. Israel is an artificial implant in the Muslim heart land. Hence amidst the Arabs' inherent immunity against such foreign graft, Israel always faces the chances of popular rejection. 

 

Blair too has no doubt about Israel's incompatibility and the mismatch of its body chemistry against the local Arabs and the Islamists. With the Islamic resurgence in the Middle East and Islamists' election victory, such apprehension on Israel's security has gone sky high. Hence Blair says, "The centre of this maelstrom is Israel. Its alliance with the USA, its partnership with leading countries of Europe, and the fact that it is a Western democracy, mean that its fate is never going to be a matter of indifference. Were the Israelis to be pulled into a regional conflict, there is no realistic way that the world could or would want to shrug it off."  Blair's enmity against Islamic resurgence is incurable. Hence he can't embrace the new change in the Muslim world. For the sake of Western interest and Israel's security, he denies even the survival rights of the Islamists –let alone democratic right. He discovers war against Islam and the Islamists the only option. He says, "It is in the Middle East that the future of Islam will be decided." Hence Mr Blair feels it the prime time to crush the future of Islam by positioning him with the anti-Islamists' war. In fact it is the key point of Mr Blair's whole speech. 

 

 The fear and frustration

Mr Blair's bitter frustration and fear of defeat in anti-Islamist war owes to his own experience in the longest war against two Muslim countries. In fact, no other British Prime Minister had such a long history of war involvement. Even Winston Churchill –the most known wartime British Prime Minister had half of Mr Blair's tenure in war management. Mr Blair and his partner in war crime Mr George Bush –the former US President, jointly launched the longest Crusade against Islam and the Muslims. Firstly, it was started in Afghanistan, then extended to Iraq, and now has spread to Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Mali and many more countries. They expected an easy victory and warm welcome from the people. But that didn't happen.

 

The US army invaded Afghanistan on 7 October 2001. The British army joined them. They dropped thousands of bombs and missiles on cities, villages, bazars, and even on mountains. They could flatten hills, destroy houses and kill hundreds of thousands of men and women, but failed to eliminate the Islamists. Mr Blair and Mr Bush took military manpower from more than 40 countries, but utterly failed to fulfil the mission. The Islamists are stronger than ever. As a fall-out of the invasion, the Islamists now constitute the formidable political force not only in Afghanistan, but also in neighbouring Pakistan. After 13 years of war, the invading armies are left with no option but to come out of Afghanistan with disgraceful failure. Their failure in Iraq is no less deplorable either. On 20 March, 2003, the USA army invaded Iraq with heartless bombings on cities, bazars, roads, high ways and military barracks. The British army joined the aggression too. They killed more than 500,000 people in Iraq. 4,486 US soldiers also lost their life and many more thousands were maimed. The war costs more than $2 trillion to the US economy. After all these loss in human lives and money, the US and its ally couldn't get any meaningful success. They had to withdraw their army with sense of defeat and humiliation. They handed over the country to the pro-Irani Shias. Their military aggression and atrocities made the Sunni Islamists more militant and powerful; they have spread to the neighbouring Syria to fight against the army of Bashar –the barbaric autocrat.

 

The immorality

The war in Afghanistan and Iraq had no legality. It was also highly immoral. No Afghan man or woman attacked the USA or UK soil. The USA government did not show any proof that any foreigner living in Afghanistan was involved in the attack on Twin Towers or in any other parts of the USA. Terrorism is defined as the use of force for any political, social or economic gain. Hence its needs weapons of violence. And who is having more power of violence than the USA and the other NATO countries? So they have established their own monopoly in the field. On the streets, the terrorists attack the weaker individuals; they do not produce any reason for that. The imperialists attack weaker states; they do not feel any need for showing reason for that either. In essence, both believe in the same ideology of coercion. In Bush and Blair camp, the obsession for dismantling Afghanistan - the only Islamist-held country was so strong that they overruled all other peaceful options. In war against Iraq, the greed for Iraqi oil prevailed over any other consideration. They didn't show any respect for the public opinion. In the whole human history, the anti-war demonstrations were never more massive and global as was against the Iraq war. On 15th of February, 2003, about 2 million people came to the street of London to show their anger against any war on Iraq. About 2 million people demonstrated in Rome. In more than 600 cities in the world, millions of people demonstrated against the war. But Mr Blair and his partner in crime Mr Bush didn't pay any heed to such global conscience for peace; rather showed full disrespect. What an irony! Mr Blair – a man with such contempt of peace loving global majority has been employed as the peace mediator in the Middle East!

 

The culture of invasion

The Western imperialists' appetite for stealing wealth of weaker countries looks unquenchable. It has generated a strong culture of military aggression, colonisation and exploitation. Exploitation needs political occupation of the target countries, hence needs military invasion. Hence, war of aggression against the weaker nations and the consequent occupation has been the West's prime contribution to the human history. So, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, ethnic cleansing, genocidal massacres, World Wars, atomic weapons, chemical weapons, unmanned drones and many other weapons of mass destructions have been the main inventions of the West. And in such genocidal brutality, they surpassed all previous records. Only in the two World Wars, they killed more than 75 million people, and brought huge destruction to cities, houses, highways industries and other physical infrastructures. But after all these destructions, their appetite for further wars of destruction has never abetted. Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, Truman  were not the only killer leaders in their stock, the killing machine of the present days' killers like Georg W Bush, Tony Blair and Barack Obama are no less brutal either. Hence the West's unprecedented carnage didn't end with the end of World Wars or wars against Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.

 

The chain of Mongol or Tartar invasions has ended thousand years ago. But the Western invasion and killings show no sign of ending. The terrorists can't survive without terrorism. The imperialists too can't survive without invasions. The British and the US troop are still in Afghanistan. But before the withdrawal, the West is now desperate to discover grounds for another invasion. Blair proposes the next war against the Islamists. He is the official envoy of the Western powers, as well of the UN to find peace in the Middle East. Hence, whatever he says, he says on behalf of the West –especially on issues related to Muslims. But it appears from Mr Blair's speech, finding peace in the Middle East is not his mandate, rather to invent some new theatre of war against the Islamists. Therefore, Mr Blair shows his desperation to find a recipe for such a war. In fact, the proposed war is not waiting in the pipe line; it has already started with a global dimension. As a part of that war, the US drones have already dropped thousands of bombs and missiles on the Islamists in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and other parts of the world. The Islamists are being arrested and killed in the Egypt, Bangladesh, Syria, Saudi Arabia, UAE and many other countries in the world. Even in the UK, the British Prime Minister David Cameron, like Mr Blair, has taken the side against the Islamists. He has ordered an "investigation" into the Muslim Brotherhood to find its links with "violent extremism" both in Britain and abroad. He is hunting enough clues for banning it as a terrorist organisation. His anti-Islamist motive gets exposed by the appointment of Britain's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Sir John Jenkins as the head of the enquiry. Both the Saudi and the Egyptian autocratic regimes regard the election-winning Brotherhood as a mortal threat to their autocratic rule, hence have designated it a terrorist organisation. Both the regimes have started brutal war against Muslim Brotherhood.  Mr Blair has unashamedly supported such stand of those dictators. Mr Cameron too has taken the same route. 

 

 

The coalition against Islamists

In the past, the invading enemies always enjoyed the support of home-grown collaborators in Muslim lands. In June 1757, Mir Zafar –the head of the Muslim army of Bengal did a heinous betrayal against his own country and helped the British invaders to win the war without even fighting. During invasion of Arab, the British Army had Sharif Hussain, his collaborating sons and many other partners. While occupying Palestine and the holy city of Jerusalem, most of the foot-soldiers of the British army were non-British. Mir Zafar and Sharif Hussein have died. But a new generation of Mir Zafars and Sharif Husseins have taken their place in almost all Muslim countries. Hence the crime of betrayal has not died. These home-grown collaborators have joined the US led coalition to fight the Islamists. They are killing the Muslims in the same way as the Americans and the British killed them in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nor do they run in shortage of most advanced killing machines. In fact, to enhance the killing power, the US has arranged a quick delivery of Apache helicopters to the Egyptian army and Hellfire missiles to President Maleki of Iraqi. Like General Sisi of Egypt, Maleki is so brutal in killing the Sunni Islamists that even the people belonging to close circle of the great Ayatullah Sistani call him a Shia Saddam. The Western leaders talk about democratic values, but they never took any stand against the atrocities of the autocratic rulers of the Middle East -like Saudi king, sheikhs of the Gulf countries and military dictator of Egypt. Neither do they condemn the Israeli atrocities against Arabs. On the contrary, they quickly and constantly replenish the lethal arsenals of these brutal rulers.

 

Mr Blair supported the military coup in Egypt that deposed the elected President Dr Muhammad Morsi. Military coup is a blatant robbery of people's democratic right. It is the army's terrorist attack to remove a constitutionally elected government. In a civilised country, like an armed robbery, army coup is also a punishable crime. Only the criminals with the wicked enmity against democracy can support such violence against an election president. But such enmity of the Western governments is not hidden. They made it public by supporting the army takeover. Mr Blair and Mr Obama were not alone to show their hatred against the Egyptian people's democratic choice, all the NATO countries did the same. Their naked contempt of the popular votes was thus exposed.

 

To the Western imperialists, election, democracy and constitutional rule have a special meaning. Being elected by landslide popular votes and forming a constitutional government do not carry any value or significance to them. The elected government must serve the West's geopolitical and economic interest. They must be their partner in war against Islamists too. Otherwise, they enjoy no legality in the West. Rather, they take every step for a quick overthrow. Hence electoral victory of the Nazimuddin Arbakan's Islamist Rafah Party in Turkey, victory of Islamic Salvation Party in Algeria and victory of Hamas in Palestine didn't receive any Western support. The Wests' friends in the bureaucracy, army, judiciary and media did everything to undo their election victory. Muslim Brotherhood also met the same fate in Egypt. Hence, democratic route has not been given an option for them. The West rather prefers the unelected brutal dictators as the closest ally, if they comply with their geo-political objectives. Therefore, General Abdul Fattah Sisi –the coup leader in Egypt receives the West's full support. His soldiers killed more than 2,500 innocent people in a single night, and a single judge of his court has announced death sentence for 683 people on a single day. But such crimes are conveniently overlooked.

 

The policy of subversion

The imperialists occupied the Muslim lands for more that hundred years. The aim was not to promote democracy, education or industry, rather plunder and subversion. In Bengal, the 190 years of the British occupation started in 1757 and ended in 1947. But the first and the only university in the whole territory of Bangladesh was not built before 1922. In those days, the greatest subversion was against Islam and the Islamists. During the whole tenure of British rule, they didn't allow the Muslims to learn the original Islam as revealed in the holy Qur'an and as practised by the prophet. Hence the prophetic Islam with its jihad, khilafa, sharia is a stranger in Bangladesh. It was indeed the worst casualty during the British rule. And that was true in every occupied land. Not only they allowed the growth of deviation and perversion in the name of Islam, but also sponsored such deviation and perversion in every possible way. The Qadiani perversion thus got its growth and nurture during the British rule.

 

The imperialists still pursue the same policy of subversion in the Muslim world. And the targets are still Islam and the Islamists. To pursue such subversion, Mr Blair and the alike have got another partner in crime in the Arab world. He is President Mr Bashar Al-Assad -the brutal mass murderer and destroyer of Syria. Saddam didn't do any genocidal war against his own people. Hence he didn't destroy the Iraqi cities. But Assad's army is flattening the Syrian cities and villages. He has already killed more than 150,000 Syrian people. Since he is killing the Islamists and breaking the backbone of a historic Muslim country, his other crimes are forgiven. Israel -since its creation in 1948 has produced a lot of mass murderers who killed thousands of innocent civilians and children in Palestine. They have bulldozed hundreds of Arab villages in the occupied Palestine. But none of the crimes of these criminals have been condemned by Bush, Blair or other Western leaders. Rather protecting and sponsoring these genocidal killers gets higher importance to these Western leaders. Saving the lives of the innocents and ensuring their basic human rights do not receive any priority over promoting their own interest. So, Bashar Al-Assad is preferable to the Islamists. Mr Blair didn't hide such view. The reason is simple. He is neither a threat against the Western interest, nor against Israel. He is only a threat to Islam and democracy. Hence the imperialists have common causes to work with him. The Western hypocrisy is thus nakedly exposed.

 

The imperialists are doing good business with the killer regimes of Bangladesh and Burma. In Afghanistan, they didn't find any problem in working with the worst war criminals. They supported and sponsored a proven war criminal called General Rashid Dostam -the Uzbek warlord. Even the US and the European press reported his horrendous war crimes. He killed many hundreds of unarmed Taleban prisoners while being transported in trucks like packed sand bags in freezing cold. They died on the way before reaching the destination. The US occupiers didn't find any reason to investigate such crime. Rather these killers are taken as the coalition partners in the war against Islam and the Islamists. In such mission, the imperialists can go to any extent –even can support the crime of the proven devils. That happened in the days of last prophet of Islam too. The Arab Jews supported the barbaric pagans to dismantle the nascent Islamic state in the early days of Islam. Now they are pursuing the same strategy to annihilate the Islamists.      

  

The fabrication and the Islamic compulsion

Mr Blair and other Western imperialists desperately need a war against Islam and the Islamists. They feel, only such a war can serve their strategic interests. Mr Blair argued: "It is in fact a struggle in which our own strategic interests are intimately involved."  Hence to make a case, they need massive fabrication against Islam and the Islamists -as was needed to launch war against Iraq and Afghanistan. They have already started telling lies against the basic teachings of Islam. To do so, Mr Blair has appeared as a Mullah. He has invented two sets of Islam. According to him, the real Islam is not the Islam of the jihadi Islamists. To him, the true Islam is the Islam that is practised by dictators like General Sisi of Egypt, Hasina of Bangladesh, Bashar of Syria, the kings of Saudi Arabia, the sheikhs of Gulf countries and other brutal Muslim rulers. Sharia, jihad, khilafa and unity of the Muslims have no place in this Islam. The believers of this Islam have no complaint against the Israeli occupation of Palestine, US occupation of Afghanistan, Russian occupation of Chechnya and Indian occupation of Kashmir. According to Mr Blair, Islam that teaches sharia, khilafa, unity and jihad against the internal and external occupation is non-Islam. He labels it medieval barbarity. His judgement on individual's human and civilizational worth is based on his compatibility with the Western values and culture. Since the practitioners of the Qur'anic Islam do not show such compatibility are labelled uncivilised.

 

Mr Blair and the likes have their own definition of terrorism too.  Whoever challenges the West's political and cultural occupation and shows steadfastness in implementing sharia is labelled terrorist. In fact, this is the core pathological problem of the imperialists. Mr Blair is not alone with such paranoid view. They fail to understand that the fundamentals of Islam can't be practised within the confines of individual life, neither within the premise of a prayer mat. It obligates a state like bigger space for its full practice. Indeed, it is the major area of difference between Islam and other religions. The religious obligations like the practice of sharia, jihad, Islamic education and culture can't be practised without full incorporation of the state and the powerful state institutions. Hence Muhammad (pbuh) -the last prophet of Islam was not only a devoted man on prayer-mat in the mosque, but also the most engaged head of the Islamic state. Every follower of the prophet has no option but to follow this prophetic tradition; otherwise he can't claim to be true Muslim.

 

Hence, for a true believer in Islam, taking the control of the state and the state institutions is not mere politics, rather the highest level of spirituality and servitude (ibadah) to Allah -the Almighty. Islam can only impact on all aspects of human life with its overwhelming Divine teachings through such full incorporation of the state in the Islamic fold. Only this way Islam can deliver the Divine blessings to the mankind. A true believer can't make iota of compromise on that point. The early Muslims made the heaviest sacrifice to reach that limit of servitude (ibadah) unto Allah. But the enemies of Islam call it political Islam. Mr Blair and his cohorts label it terrorism. Hazrat Ibrahim (AS)'s mission in Nimrod's court and Hazrat Musa (AS)'s mission in the court of Pharaoh did not receive any better attribute either. Hence it is not the problem of Islam, rather the problem of looking at Islam with a paradigm of ignorance. So, it is no wonder that the enemies of Islam will launch war against Islam on false accusations. The Islamists –like their faithful ancestors in all ages, enjoys no option but to fight such war.  Indeed, it is the part of the same Qur'anic package that was practised in the early days of Islam. 03/05/14

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[mukto-mona] Re: N'Gong Seven Murder: Did Hasina Administration allowed the killer Awam i Leadrs to leave the country safely ?

Our British and foreign slave civil society and leftist and Jamaat BNP are in involved in N Ganj murder, and all enforced disappearance, civil and leftist gave the strategy and tactics and BNP Jamaat executes those tactics. Our civil society now in RAB they are spreading money to RAB and witching our several administrations, they are planning to destroy and divide the administration so it will be easy for them to fall AL govt.


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> Our British and foreign slave civil society and leftist and Jamaat BNP are in in involved in N Ganj murder, civil and leftist gave the strategy and tactics and BNP Jamaat executed.


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Re: [mukto-mona] Re: Fw: Fwd: 'Excuse me, are you the Prime Minister?'



 
SB: "I had to conclude by saying that while the gun and alcohol cultures are two things that I very much dislike about America, compared to this country the country of my birth is a jungle."
 
You hate alcohol and gun culture of USA, but you admit this society is safer and better off than that of Bangladesh, where alcohol and gun are prohibited. Your statement reveals your misconception about alcohol and gun culture of USA.
 
You are right, society can turn into a hell even without legalizing alcohol and gun culture. That's a correct observation. Most criminalities happen due to cumulative anger or grudges. Intoxicated brain attains a self-absorbed forgiving state of mind. No one, in that state,  can recollect any bad feelings about anything. So, I think - controlled consumption of alcohol in a bar or in a private setting may even help reducing crime in the society. That may be the reason why most hellish societies are found in places where alcohol is forbidden.  
 
Jiten Roy 
 

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Subject: [mukto-mona] Re: Fw: Fwd: 'Excuse me, are you the Prime Minister?'

 
Indeed, the British have a lot of reasons to be a proud nation. This is clearly a case in point.
A few weeks back my wife and I had a social occasion, including going to the bar, with some very important Americans. One point of chatting was the American gun culture. I had to conclude by saying that while the gun and alcohol cultures are two things that I very much dislike about America, compared to this country the country of my birth is a jungle.




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বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংকের তদন্ত রিপোর্ট
রহিম শেখ ॥ আবারও জঙ্গী ও সন্ত্রাসী কর্মকাণ্ডে অর্থায়নের অভিযোগ উঠেছে বেসরকারী খাতের ইসলামী ব্যাংকের বিরুদ্ধে। সন্ত্রাসী ও জঙ্গী কার্যক্রমে অর্থায়ন বিষয়ে সম্প্রতি বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংকের তৈরি করা এক গোপন প্রতিবেদনে বলা হয়েছে, অনুমোদনহীন 'এডুকেশন এইড বাংলাদেশ' নামে একটি প্রতিষ্ঠানকে সোয়া ৫৫ লাখ টাকা দিয়ে সে টাকার ব্যবহার সম্পর্কে কোন তথ্য দিতে পারেনি ইসলামী ব্যাংক। এ ছাড়া 'সেন্টার ফর স্ট্র্যাটেজিক এ্যান্ড পলিসি স্টাডিজ (সিএসপিএস)' নামক একটি তথাকথিত গবেষণা প্রতিষ্ঠানকে ১ কোটি ২৩ লাখ ৬০ হাজার টাকা আর্থিক সহায়তা প্রদান করেছে ইসলামী ব্যাংকের সহযোগী প্রতিষ্ঠান ইসলামী ব্যাংক ফাউন্ডেশন। গত ১৫ এপ্রিল প্রধানমন্ত্রীর দফতর থেকে কেন্দ্রীয় ব্যাংকের গবর্নর ড. আতিউর রহমানের কাছে ইসলামী ব্যাংকে 'ঘটে যাওয়া দুর্নীতি' সম্পর্কে দ্রুত তথ্য পাঠানোর অনুরোধ জানিয়ে একটি চিঠি পাঠানো হয়। ওই চিঠির প্রেক্ষিতে প্রতিবেদনটি তৈরি করা হয়।
জানা গেছে, ১২ বছর চলার পর এডুকেশন এইড নামের প্রতিষ্ঠান বিলুপ্ত হয়ে যায়। এক মাসে গরিব ও মেধাবী শিক্ষার্থীদের ইংরেজী ভাষা শিক্ষা দেয়ার নাম করে চালানো হতো এডুকেশন এইড বাংলাদেশ। এক মাস কোন শিক্ষার্থী নির্দিষ্ট একটি বাসার বাইরে যেতে পারত না। তবে এ কার্যক্রম পরিচালনার জন্য সরকারের কাছ থেকে কোন অনুমোদন ছিল না প্রতিষ্ঠানটির। তারপরও এ অনুমোদনহীন প্রতিষ্ঠানে সোয়া ৫৫ লাখ টাকা অনুদান দেয় ইসলামী ব্যাংক বাংলাদেশ লিমিটেড। অভিযোগ উঠেছে, ১৯৯৭ সাল থেকে শুরু করে ২০০৯ সাল পর্যন্ত বিপুল পরিমাণ এ অর্থ ইংরেজী ভাষা শিক্ষার নামে সন্ত্রাসী ও জঙ্গী কার্যক্রমে অর্থ দিয়েছে বেসরকারী খাতের এ ব্যাংকটি।
বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংকের গোপন প্রতিবেদনে বলা হয়, এডুকেশন এইড নামের প্রতিষ্ঠানটি ইংরেজী ও কম্পিউটার শিক্ষার নামে জঙ্গী প্রশিক্ষণ দিত। এক মাস একটি নির্দিষ্ট বাসায় উঠতি বয়সের ইসলামের প্রতি দুর্বল শিক্ষার্থীদের আলকায়দার আদলে যুদ্ধে যাওয়ার জন্য প্রাথমিক প্রশিক্ষণ দেয়া হতো। এ প্রতিবেদনে বলা হয়েছে, ইসলামী ব্যাংক ফাউন্ডেশন কর্তৃক এডুকেশন এইড বাংলাদেশ নামক একটি অনুমোদনহীন প্রতিষ্ঠানকে দেয়া বিপুল অঙ্কের অর্থের ব্যবহার সরজমিনে যাচাই করার জন্য বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংকের পরিদর্শন দল উক্ত প্রতিষ্ঠানে যেতে চায়। কিন্তু ফাউন্ডেশন কর্তৃপক্ষ জানায়, আর্থিক সঙ্কটের কারণে প্রতিষ্ঠানটি ২০০৯ সালে বন্ধ হয়ে গেছে।
তবে ওই প্রতিষ্ঠানের চেয়ারম্যান অবসরপ্রাপ্ত সেনা কর্মকর্তা অধ্যাপক ড. মীর মোঃ আকরামুজ্জামান এবং নির্বাহী পরিচালক অধ্যাপক ড. এম কোরবান আলীর সঙ্গে ফাউন্ডেশন কার্যালয়ে বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংকের পরিদর্শন দলের বৈঠকের ব্যবস্থা করা হয়। সেখানে পরিদর্শন দলকে তারা জানান, ১৯৯৭ সালে ঢাকার ফার্মগেট এলাকায় ৪৫, পূর্ব তেজতুরী বাজার হোল্ডিং এ অবস্থিত ভাড়া বাড়িতে তারা মূলত ইংরেজী ভাষা কার্যক্রম পরিচালনা এবং কম্পিউটার প্রশিক্ষণ প্রদান করতেন। তবে প্রতিষ্ঠানটি তাদের কার্যক্রম পরিচালনার জন্য সরকারের কোন দফতর থেকে কোন প্রকার রেজিস্ট্রেশন কিংবা অনুমোদন গ্রহণ করেনি। ইংরেজী ভাষা শিক্ষা কার্যক্রম ছিল সম্পূর্ণ আবাসিক একটি কোর্স। যার মেয়াদকাল ছিল এক মাস। মেয়াদকালে কোন শিক্ষার্থীর ওই বাসার বাইরে যাওয়ার কোন সুযোগ ছিল না। প্রশিক্ষণার্থীদের কাছ থেকে নির্ধারিত ফিও নেয়া হতো। প্রতিষ্ঠানটিকে ইসলামী ব্যাংক ফাউন্ডেশন অনুদান দেয় ৫৫ লাখ ২৫ হাজার টাকা। পরিদর্শক দলের কাছে মনে হয়েছে, ইসলামী ব্যাংকের টাকা ও প্রশিক্ষণার্থীদের কাছ থেকে ফি আদায়ের পরও প্রতিষ্ঠানটি আর্থিক অস্বচ্ছলতার কারণে ২০০৯ সালে বন্ধ হয়ে যাওয়া রহস্যজনক। এ ধরনের অনুমোদনহীন প্রতিষ্ঠানকে আর্থিক সহায়তা প্রদানের বিষয়ে ইসলামী ব্যাংক ফাউন্ডেশন বলছে, যেহেতু প্রতিষ্ঠানটি গরিব ও মেধাবী শিক্ষার্থীদের বৃত্তি প্রদান করে, তাই তাদের অনুদান হিসেবে আলোচ্য অর্থ সরবরাহ করা হয়েছে। তবে বক্তব্যের সমর্থনে তারা কোন কাগজপত্র সরবরাহ করতে পারেনি। সোমবার ফার্মগেট এলাকার ৪৫, পূর্ব তেজতুরী বাজার হোল্ডিং এ অবস্থিত ভাড়া বাড়িতে গিয়ে প্রতিষ্ঠানটির সংশ্লিষ্ট কাউকেই পাওয়া যায়নি। এ বিষয়ে জানতে চাইলে ইসলামী ব্যাংকের ব্যবস্থাপনা পরিচালক মোহাম্মদ আব্দুল মান্নান জনকণ্ঠকে বলেন, এ ধরনের বিনিয়োগ কবে নাগাদ হয়েছে আমার জানা নেই। যদি বিনিয়োগ হয়ে থাকে তবে বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক যদি কোন পদক্ষেপ নেয়ার নির্দেশ দেয়, ইসলামী ব্যাংক তা পরিপালন করবে।
সেন্টার ফর স্ট্র্যাটেজিক এ্যান্ড পলিসি স্টাডিজ (সিএসপিএস) নামক একটি তথাকথিত গবেষণা প্রতিষ্ঠানকে ১ কোটি ২৩ লাখ ৬০ হাজার টাকা আর্থিক সহায়তা প্রদান করেছে বেসরকারী ইসলামী ব্যাংকের সহযোগী প্রতিষ্ঠান ইসলামী ব্যাংক ফাউন্ডেশন। প্রদত্ত অর্থের পরিমাণ, উদ্দেশ্য ইত্যাদি বিষয়ে ফাউন্ডেশন বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংককে প্রয়োজনীয় কিছু কাগজপত্র সরবরাহ করলেও অর্থগ্রহীতা প্রতিষ্ঠান এসব বিষয়ে কোন তথ্য প্রদান করেনি। ফলে বরাদ্দকৃত অর্থ সুবিধাভোগী প্রতিষ্ঠান যথার্থ ব্যবহার করেছে কিনা তা নিয়ে নিশ্চিত হওয়া যায়নি। এ ছাড়া দীর্ঘ ১০ বছরে তাদের গবেষণার ফলাফল বিষয়ে বা তাদের গবেষণালব্ধ জ্ঞান সমাজে কী অবদান রেখেছে সে সংক্রান্ত কোন তথ্য ফাউন্ডেশন প্রদান করেনি। এ বিষয়ে বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংকের পরিদর্শন দল প্রতিষ্ঠানটির কর্তৃপক্ষের কাছে তথ্য সরবরাহের জন্য লিখিত অনুরোধ করে। কিন্তু কোন আইনে বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক তাদের কাছে তথ্য চায় তা জানতে চেয়ে প্রতিষ্ঠানটির চেয়ারম্যান শাহ আবদুল হান্নান বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংকে একটি চিঠি দেন। চিঠিতে প্রতিষ্ঠানটির ওয়েবসাইট িি.িপংঢ়ংনফ.পড়স উল্লেখ রয়েছে। কিন্তু বর্তমানে এ ওয়েবসাইট খুঁজে পাওয়া যাচ্ছে না। এ সংক্রান্ত যে ওয়েবসাইট খুঁজে পাওয়া যায় সেটির ঠিকানা ইন্দোনেশিয়ার বোর্নিওতে।
এ বিষয়ে পরিদর্শন দল বলছে, অন্যান্য প্রতিষ্ঠান পরিদর্শন দলকে তথ্য দিয়ে সহায়তা করলেও ওই প্রতিষ্ঠান কোন ধরনের তথ্য দিয়ে সহায়তা করেনি। তারা মনে করে, শাহ আবদুল হান্নান ইসলামী ব্যাংক ফাউন্ডেশনেরও চেয়ারম্যান হওয়ায় এক্ষেত্রে তিনি নিজের প্রতিষ্ঠানকে অর্থ বরাদ্দ দেয়া ও তার ব্যবহার পরিদর্শন দলকে সরজমিনে পরিদর্শন করতে না দেয়ায় প্রতিষ্ঠানটির কর্মকাণ্ড নিয়ে তীব্র সন্দেহের সৃষ্টি হয়েছে। প্রতিবেদনে বিশেষভাবে উল্লেখ করা হয়েছে, ইসলামী ব্যাংক গুলশান শাখায় ওই প্রতিষ্ঠানের আল-ওয়াদিয়াহ্ চলতি হিসাব ০১০০৬৭৫৮ এর হিসাব খোলার ফরম ও নমুনা স্বাক্ষর কার্ড থেকে দেখা যায়, মেজর জেনারেল (অব) গোলাম কাদের, মোহাম্মদ ইব্রাহিম, শাহ আবদুল মান্নান, মীর কাসেম আলী, মেজর জেনারেল (অব) আজীজুর রহমান (বীর উত্তম), মেজর জেনারেল সৈয়দ মুহাম্মাদ ইব্রাহিম (বীর প্রতীক) ব্যক্তিগণ বিভিন্ন সময়ে হিসাব পরিচালনাকারী হিসেবে ছিলেন। নমুনা ভিত্তিতে সেন্টার ফর স্ট্র্যাটেজিক এ্যান্ড স্টাডিজের আল-ওয়াদিয়াহ চলতি হিসাব ০১০০৬৭৫৮ এর কতিপয় চেক পর্যালোচনায় দেখা গেছে, তারা ওই শাখায় পরিচালিত সিএসপিএস পেটি ক্যাশ খাতে অধিকাংশ অর্থ স্থানান্তর করে সেখান থেকে লেনদেন করেছেন। এ বিষয়ে জানতে চাইলে ইসলামী ব্যাংকের ব্যবস্থাপনা পরিচালক মোহাম্মদ আব্দুল মান্নান জনকণ্ঠকে বলেন, কোন প্রতিষ্ঠানে কবে নাগাদ টাকা দেয়া হয়েছে তা বলা সম্ভব নয়। সেন্টার ফর স্ট্র্যাটেজিক এ্যান্ড পলিসি স্টাডিজ (সিএসপিএস) প্রতিষ্ঠানে টাকা দেয়া প্রসঙ্গে তিনি বলেন, এ ধরনের কোন প্রতিষ্ঠানে ইসলামী ব্যাংক বা ফাউন্ডেশনের পক্ষ থেকে টাকা দেয়া হয়নি।
জানা যায়, গত ১৫ এপ্রিল প্রধানমন্ত্রীর কার্যালয়ের পরিচালক মোহাম্মদ মোখলেছুর রহমান স্বাক্ষরিত এক চিঠি পাঠানো হয় কেন্দ্রীয় ব্যাংকের গবর্নর আতিউর রহমানের কাছে। ওই চিঠিতে বলা হয়েছে, ইসলামী ব্যাংকে ঘটে যাওয়া অনিয়ম-দুর্নীতি সম্পর্কে ইতোপূর্বে বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক কিছু তথ্য দিয়ে সরকারকে সহযোগিতা করেছে। আরও কিছু অনিয়ম-দুর্নীতির অভিযোগ প্রধানমন্ত্রীর কার্যালয়ে এসেছে। এসব ক্ষেত্রে যে অনিয়ম-দুর্নীতি হয়েছে সে বিষয়ে বিস্তারিত তথ্য প্রয়োজন। আশা করছি, দ্রুত তথ্য দিয়ে সহযোগিতা করবেন। প্রধানমন্ত্রীর কার্যালয়ে আসা ইসলামী ব্যাংকের 'দুর্নীতির' অভিযোগের নথিপত্রের অনুলিপি ওই চিঠির সঙ্গে সংযুক্ত করে গবর্নরের কাছে পাঠানো হয়েছে। ওই চিঠির প্রেক্ষিতে বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক গোপন প্রতিবেদনটি তৈরি করে। বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক সূত্রে জানা গেছে, প্রধানমন্ত্রীর কার্যালয়ে শীঘ্রই প্রতিবেদনটি পাঠানো হবে।
প্রসঙ্গত, জঙ্গী অর্থায়নের অভিযোগ ওঠার পর কয়েক বছর ধরেই আন্তর্জাতিক চাপে রয়েছে ইসলামী ব্যাংক। এইচএসবিসি যুক্তরাজ্য, সিটি ব্যাংক এনএ, ব্যাংক অব আমেরিকা ইসলামী ব্যাংকের সঙ্গে লেনদেন বন্ধ করে দেয়। দেশের মধ্যে ঋণ বিতরণেও ইসলামী ব্যাংকের বিভিন্ন অনিয়ম ধরা পড়েছে বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংকের একাধিক পরিদর্শনে।


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Re: [mukto-mona] Re: Leader of mass never flee !!!!



This propaganda by the Vice President of US Awami League stating 'Bangabondhu means Bangladesh,Bangladesh means Bangabondhu' is a total bull sheet. No individual can be equated to the nation and the nation is far above any individual. This slavish slogan by the US Awami League Vice President is the root cause for corruption, nepotism, cronyism etc. in the country. Sheikh Hasina thinks she owns the country and her party members think that they have the right to siphon off national wealth as much as they like. In any civilised country, Sheikh Mujib and his progeny, Hasina would have faced criminal charges for misappropriation of national fund and blatant corruption. On present evidence, Hasina would have been thrown into prison for life.

- AR


From: Shah DeEldar <shahdeeldar@gmail.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Cc: manik mia <man1k195709@yahoo.com>; nabdc group <nabdc@googlegroups.com>; Hussain Suhrawardy <shahadathussaini@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2014, 23:18
Subject: [mukto-mona] Re: Leader of mass never flee !!!!

 
Mujib did not commit any crime against then Pakistan. He took the high way and did  exactly right thing to stay in Dacca and let him be arrested by Pak military. Had he flown to India, Pakistan would have started to blame India from the get go. The move was simply brilliant!  
-SD


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Shahadat Hussaini <shahadathussaini@hotmail.com> wrote:
"Bangabandhu also send his deputy Tajuddin Ahmed to the Indian authority in the 1st week of March '71 for possible Indian support to fight the mighty Pakistan forces."

Where in the world did you find it? 


Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 12:10:07 -0700
From: manik195709@yahoo.com
Subject: Fw: Leader of mass never flee !!!!
To:

On , Muhammad Ali <manik195709@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Thursday, May 1, 2014 3:09 PM, Muhammad Ali <manik195709@yahoo.com> wrote:
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahaman , the undisputed leader , the leaders of all the leaders , is an Institution by himself . We are so fortunate to have a leader like him . His farsightedness , pragmatic bold decisions have given us an Independent Country , a flag and a passport which Bengali had been deprived for thousands of years . 

Since Independence , Anti-Liberation forces have been trying their best to tarnish the image of Bangabandhu . They said that Bangabandhu didn't want Independence and for that reason he surrendered to Pakistan Army to become PM of Pakistan . What a childish talk and a lie ! If Bangabandhu desired to be PM of Pakistan , he could have achieved that long time ago as a sub-ordinate , foot-licking of the military autocratic ruler . It may be mentioned that Bangabandhu resigned from ministry to become party secretary in 1954 . 

Bangabandhu didn't flee in the darkness of March 25  '71, because 'popular mass leader never flee or surrender' . Following his direction ,  AL leaders and activists started arms struggle against the occupant Pakistan army . Later , they have to cross the border for safety and regrouping . Bangabandhu also send his deputy Tajuddin Ahmed to the Indian authority in the 1st week of March '71 for possible Indian support to fight the mighty Pakistan forces. Bangabandhu was in dialogue with Gen. Yahiah Khan and Bhutto in March '71 for transfer of power to the elected body on the basis of general election . If AL have formed govt. with implementation of 'Six points' , then we could have earned full autonomy without bloodshed . 

During our great liberation war though Bangabandhu was in captive but he was present in the hearts of freedom seeking Bengali's . His memorable speech of March 7 , '71 worked as an 'Energetic' to the fighting freedom fighters . Bangabandhu was so much in the mind of Bengali's that after surrender of heinous Pakistan forces , joy and festivities were not fulfilled until 'Greatest Bengali Leader of All Time' , returned to his homeland on January 10 , '72 .

We have witnessed the activities of  many Bengali leaders and politicians but no body is comparable with Bangabandhu. Unlike others , Bangabandhu had both 'Courage & Desire' to fight for the legitimate causes of the Bengali's . So , Bangabandhu means Bangladesh , Bangladesh means Bangabandhu . 'Late Bangabandhu' is more stronger and popular than 'Alive Bangabandhu' . All the 'Mis propaganda about Bangabandhu and our great liberation war' is making him more popular and acceptable to the new generation . 

Joy Bangla , Joy Bangabandhu ,

Dr. Muhammad Ali Manik ,
Vice President , US Awami League .
 




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