I want to thank and applaud Mr. Pintu Kanungoe and Subimal Chakrabarty for being two of the rare voices of sanity and conscience on this forum. They understand that the ultimate value of any discourse lies not in establishing the abstract "truth" or falsehood of a philosophy or belief system but in what it means for the lives of human beings. Subimal, your Vidyasagar example was particularly apt. I, or anybody else, could not have articulated a better argument or come up with a better example.
Some of our friends (yes I consider them my friends; this is my favorite "McCainism") on this forum seem so fixated on the "truth" of their unsavory view of a particular religion that they have become totally unaware of the illogic of the arguments they espouse. They spurn even well-intentioned attempts to curb and marginalize extremist tendencies within that religion because that might put that religion in a positive light. Talk about getting one's priorities mixed up! They are not aware (or seem to have forgotten) that religion has meaning only in how it impacts human lives. Even if a particularly lousy religion can be interpreted and espoused in way that makes its followers better human beings, we should all applaud such efforts.
For my aforementioned friends, a little more reflection and shall I say, a little less bigotry, might be in order. That might even help them become "rational," "secular" and "humanist."
"Murkher dal tobe shono,
Manush eneche grontho,
Grontho aneni manush kono."
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
With best wishes,
M. Harun uz Zaman
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Daily Star publishes an interview with Mukto-Mona
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Mukto-Mona Celebrates 5th Anniversary
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MM Project : Grand assembly of local freedom fighters at Raumari
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