Ms. Shaheen, you said, "I don't want you to ignore the issue of hate at all", in response to my statement, "let me ignore your pot-kettle-hate-excuse talk." Your advice was not needed at all; because in most of my sociopolitical writings, I talk about hatred and put forth my thoughts on removing hatred from the world. When you write/think, "… you are full of it yourself …", you are plain wrong. I did not ignore hatred; I ignored "your talk", because your talk (of me being hateful) was unworthy of a response. But now I thank you for your caring talk about my health.
I generally do not wish to talk about any individual person, including myself. But since quite a few people, including yourself, in the internet forums talk about me, let me say a few things about myself.
When I was a student at Dhaka University in the 1970s, I used to live in a mostly Muslim-inhabited dorm. Some of my Muslim friends and I used to smoke from the same cigarette butt. I remember having a serious case of dysentery in 1979 after eating too much of beef when I visited a Muslim's friends village. I remember my brothers, sisters, their Muslim friends and me eating jackfruit pieces from the same bowl when I visited West Bengal. I remember at my niece's wedding in West Bengal, there were too many guests in the house, and my nephew and his friends, including Muslims boys, sleeping on the same big floor. I have established two scholarship/stipend funds in Bangladesh, and most of the money [~$1,000.00 (~Tk 80,000) that comes from bank interests annually] goes to Muslim students, as they are the majority there. I remember in 2012, after I came back from Bangladesh, I was showing some pictures to my children; and they smiled at one with me shaking hands with a cute girl wearing burqa while taking a top student award. Do these show that I hated the Muslims?
Now let me quote something that I recently wrote in response to Dr. Anisur Rahman's queries:
Begin Qoute: "As I say, when a Muslim took bath upstream in the river by my house in rural East Bengal, he/she probably urinated there; I had to take bath in that river; how could I think that he/she was untouchable to me? Muslims are indeed my brothers and sisters. Of course, most of them are too stupid when it comes to their religion; and certainly I am not proud of them. If I had the power, I would have Humanized them as soon as possible.
Now, your question of why Muslims are killing other Muslims? Here is the short version of my answer: They are too much into the irrational and unreal territory of their religion. So, they have a serious/deadly problem with people, including other Muslims, on what to do with their Allah, Mohammad, Quran, Hadit, etc. Because of their excessive religiosity, they follow or try to follow the prescriptions of their religion; and they are incapable of thinking with the common senses of right and wrong, justice and injustice, realities of the universe, etc. Without seeing natural realities, one could not advance in the fields of science, technology and other branches of knowledge, and as a consequence one would remain backward, poor, etc. This in turn, would make one vulnerable to committing criminal acts. It is a vicious cycle; and I am convinced that getting out of this cycle would require Muslims to stop brainwashing their children with Islam." End Quote.
I stand by every word I said above, not for telling you about me, but of all people in the world to live in justice, peace, dignity, human rights, etc.
To make it short for now, let me just ask you to try to correct your statement of, ""Barbarian atrocities" were not committed in Pakistan and Bangladesh against non-Muslims over the past 65 years."
Sukhamaya Bain
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Actually I don't want you to ignore the issue of hate at all. You accused others of hating, when you are full of it yourself, so perhaps you need to explain yourself before accusing others. Have you or your family been subjected to atrocities by Muslims which makes you so intolerant? If so, I hope you will be able to heal and move beyond it, because such intolerance will only hurt you in the long run. Anger affects our own health rather than the target of one's anger.
Here is the explanation you wanted: "Barbarian atrocities" were not committed in Pakistan and Bangladesh against non-Muslims over the past 65 years. They are a more recent phenomenon post 1971 which is less than 65 years. Many of these atrocities in Pakistan at least, are committed not just on non-Muslims but also on Muslim minorities like Shias, Ahmedis and Ismailis. In fact India has had more Hindu-Muslim riots over the past 65 years so you may want to fact check that one. And India has not shared a border with Afghanistan and been directly affected by the war on terror the way Pakistan has.
In Pakistan minorities lived in peace until its "Talibanization" following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and later the American invasion of Afghanistan post 9/11, which flooded Pakistan with Afghan Taliban refugees who have been wreaking havoc ever since. In the meantime RAW has been adding fuel to fire too in Baluchistan and other places, just as ISI has been in Kashmir and East Punjab. Thanks to US policies, Pakistan fell into the trap of training and promoting the Taliban against the Soviets and was then forced into the war on terror because Bush threatened to bomb Pakistan into the Stone Age if it did not co-operate. Then the drone strikes continued where civilians became "collateral damage" which fueled more terrorism. I don't suppose you use the term "barbarian atrocities" when Muslim civilians are the targets of drones do you? Collateral damage is a more sanitized term :).
I thought I had explained already that Saudi funded madrasahs in both Pakistan and Bangladesh have flourished since the 70's which have radicalized both populations. Saudi aid for Pakistan and Bangladesh have strings attached and promoting Wahabi intolerant Islam are those strings. Incidentally Saudi Arabia is a great friend of the West and Israel and they have unlimited oil resources to promote their agenda in poor Muslim countries.
The answer once again lies in politics Mr. Bain, but you wish to find a reason to blame religion so suit yourself. You are entitled to your opinions and prejudices, even if I think you are mistaken :).
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