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Monday, September 5, 2016

[mukto-mona] Is there any difference between the ex-patZindabadwallas & the 1971 petpetrators of Genocide?



NOTA BENE : জিন্দাবাদীদের হুক্কা হুয়া এখন পুরোটা ভারতমুখী -- ফারাক্কা বাঁধ নিয়ে আমরা আন্দোলন করে চলেছি সেই কতকাল থেকে  -- হঠাৎ নতুন করে তাদের টনক নড়লো -- কখন?   ঠিক যথন জাতি মীর কাসিম আলীর ফাঁসি নিয়ে সচকিত . . .
They don't really give a damn for Farakka, Tipaimukhi, or any other dam! The basis of all Zindabadi hatred and racism spewed against "India" is that it is a next-door neighbor who is BIG in size and it surrounds three quarters of Bangladesh.  Therefore, the fearmongering is about India 'gobbling' up BD any time -- any moment . . .
 


<<However, as the Jamaat saw it, the real problem was East Pakistan’s Hindus, who dominated the trade, and the communists. Maulana Maudoodi urged the ulema to rid the East Pakistani masses of what he called their ignorance of Islam, because “the influence of Hindu culture over their language, dress, habits and way of thinking is so big that they have lost all sense of its being an extraneous element in their life.”

The problem, so to say, was not exploitation at the hands of West Pakistan but what the Jamaat considered East Pakistan’s lack of Islamisation.

The Jamaat contended that Bengali literature was pervaded by Hindu ideas since Tagore was the major influence on it, while the similes and proverbs of Bengali reflected Hindu thought and social way of life. Besides, Bengali literature lacked what the Jamaat called Islamic politics, economics and way of life.

When Sheikh Mujib presented his Six Points, the Jamaat strongly rejected them on the pretext that they constituted a demand for secession. When the military operation was launched in East Pakistan in March 1971, the Jamaat intensified its campaign against the Awami League. The Jamaat dismissed the League and India as tools of a “world Christian-Jewish conspiracy” to dismember Pakistan.

In hindsight, the Jamaat propaganda may sound hysterical. However, at the time it helped rationalise the excesses committed against East Pakistanis. Not content with ideological justifications, the Jamaat raised militias and actively participated, alongside the army, in liquidating radical and progressive intellectuals and activists.

In May 1971, while East Pakistan was being brutalised, Maulana Rahmat Ilahi, the Jamaat’s general secretary, declared: “Our brave army has saved Pakistan.” Maulana Maudoodi appealed to East Pakistan’s “genuine Muslims to help the army in rounding up Awami Leaguers.”
 

October 29, 2011

https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/328737-jamaat-on-trial#




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Posted by: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>


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