--- On Sun, 5/16/10, Javed Ahmad <javedahmad@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Javed Ahmad <javedahmad@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: [ALOCHONA] Stoning a woman: Only the suffering is real, any justification of it is fake and crininal
To: "Isha Khan" <bd_mailer@yahoo.com>
Cc: farida_majid@hotmail.com
Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 9:01 PM
Dear Sister Farida in Islam, Salaam!
I think the grief and confusion could have been avoided if a little note was added that said somewhere something like this, 'this photograph is not real and is just an enactment'. By not doing it, many felt deceived thinking that it was real and thus reacted negatively. Frankly, I too did not like it because we really do not want to see anything like this happening in Bangladesh. Therefore, those of us who have reacted, it was actually a show of resistance.
As a journalist you have tried to make a point. It is possible that this sort of thing does happen in BD, but the information need to be as accurate as possible. Since a real photograph was not available and an artificial act was depicted in the photo, it should have been mentioned.
Journalism is a great career and I personally have a lot of respect for them provided they are truthful. But we get hurt and feel sad when we notice attempts in manipulation of a news in order to portray something that is not real. Truth stands out clear from error, we need not brush or hype it.
Thank you for sharing the images of Somalia. We need to understand that Somalia is a war torn country with a so called acting Islamic government. Only Allah knows how 'Islamic" they really are in their thinking and practices. It is very easy to get deceived with these images that may not carry the actual story behind. I have seen plenty of such cases in the past. For instance, all of you know that the Talibans deliberately destroyed the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan right before the US led invasion. But the real story was, Talibans actually tried to stop the angry crowd in that region from destroying the statues who were angry with the UN mission people who were there to repair and reconstruct the statues ignoring the hungry people there. They were angry because they saw that the UN cared more about the dead statues spending millions of dollars for the restoration of the statues and giving nothing to the people who were hungry. Thus the result was anger out of frustration. In another occasion, I came across with some horrific images of mutilation of human bodies where the caption said the the pictures were taken in East Timor where the Muslims were killing the Christians in such a way there. Whereas, the truth was quite the opposite! It was the Christians that were butchering the Muslims!
So you see, it all depends on who has the information with what motive. If the intention is bad, some wrong things could be done with the same piece of information. So, we need to be careful and alert in our information picking.
--- On Sun, 5/16/10, Isha Khan <bd_mailer@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Isha Khan <bd_mailer@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fw: [ALOCHONA] Stoning a woman: Only the suffering is real, any justification of it is fake and crininal
To:
Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 8:29 PM
--- On Sat, 5/15/10, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Stoning a woman: Only the suffering is real, any justification of it is fake and crininal
To:
Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 5:28 AM
I post the following pictures for those who adamently refused to use their God-given faculty of 'imagination' and condemned the photo illustration of stoning a woman in a local newspaper (April, 02, 2010) as an example of liberal "anti-Islamism' . I had checked the Star magazine and found it to be a photo illustration, a sort of art-work for the lead article: "Crime in the Name of Belief." http://www.thedaily star.net/ magazine/ 2010/02/04/ cover.htm It was NOT presented as a journalistic photo. There were no captions identifying the figures in the photo, I argued, -- no name, date or place attached to it. It was merely a dramatized photographic art-work to illustrate the topic at hand. Yet there was a big noise made about fakery, how the photo session was "staged" and therefore dishonest, disingenuous, conspiracy against Islam, etc. I was roundly ridiculed as anti-Islamic, as if stoning women as punishment of sinful women is such an integral part of Islam that any criticism of any inhuman aspect of it must be branded automatically as anti-Islamic. Taj Hashmi even wrote a long article, "Mullahs are Coming! Mullahs are Coming!" taunting the Islamophobes and fear-mongers. Below is an example of photo-journalism that depicts an actual event of stoning a young woman to death in Somalia, a country plunged in the depth of lawlessness in the name of Sharia, and no one in the world community seems to care. These pictures are stark, in plain view, and require no imagination nor any feeling for a fellow human being. Supporters of a brutal genocide -- Genocide 1971 of Bangladesh -- bear the hearts and minds of these stone-throwers of Somalia. Farida Majid [Attachment(s) from FARDEEN included below] | Punishment for Zina in Somalia (not for minors' viewing)
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