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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Re: [ALOCHONA] BONDE MATAROM GROUP Staged "Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism" drama in Dhaka [2 Attachments]

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Agreed. Some fanatic Hindu organizations hatched this theory that, custom of kissing the black stone (In Mecca) and worshipping shiva lingum are from the same root. It is a common prevailing misconception about Muslims in India. Few years back I had to do some searching and found out about some other popular misconceptions in Hindu communities about Islam. This includes distorting history of India and denying part of history. However it is a separate discussion altogether, I'll leave it for a different time.
 
Lately economic prosperity of India worked as a catalyst in fomenting and circulating such misconceptions about Islam. Rise of hyper nationalism propelling this unhealthy culture unabated.
 
Unfortunately, we Muslims do a bad job in explaining Islam to non-Muslims. There are many fair minded non-Muslims (And Muslims!!) who are very confused about Islam and what Muslims stand for.
 
Actually at the core, both Hinduism and Islam are pretty close faiths (It was news to be when I found out!) and have a lot of similarities (If anyone analyzes scriptures of these religions-----not talking about rituals or social customs). I am attaching two interesting articles with this post, I hope most Alochoks will enjoy reading it.
 
Peace.
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Aziz Huq <azizhuq@hotmail.com>
To: alochona alochona <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Jul 4, 2010 8:07 pm
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] BONDE MATAROM GROUP Staged "Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism" drama in Dhaka

 
Muslims are obligated to follow the teaching of the Quran and the Sunnah. No one is obligated to wear Arab dress. People do that for the love of the Prophet (SWS). The Prophet (SWS) never asked his followers to wear what he wore. Islam is a universal way of life (Deen) for all people for all times.
 
Kissing the black sone is desired by the Muslims because the Prophet (SWS) did that. Umar (RA), the second Khalifa of Islam, explained this vey clearly when he looked at the blackstone and said that it was a stone he would not bother to kiss this if he did not see the Prophet do this. No one is obligated to kiss or touch the black stone. Actually it is almost impossible to touch the blackstone these days becuase of the crowds. 
 
This is not the same as worshipping some thing else. Worshipping any entity other than the Almighy Allah is outside the scope of Islam. Thinking of bringing the two on the same platform of discussion says a lot about the author.
 
Aziz Huq

 
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: akbar_50@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:58:37 +0000
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] BONDE MATAROM GROUP Staged "Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism" drama in Dhaka

 
Very well said Mr. Islam,
 
To understand Farida Majid you have to travel a long way from the 7th century Arabia to India, the land where our forefathers were born and raised. Your culture, food, language and your features are all Indian but you love to think to be an Arab. Your motherland's praise makes you hateful but you love to kiss the hand of a Saudi mullah. Joy Bangla is a Hindu word to you but Zindabad makes you happy. Your mother tongue smells infidel to you but an Arabic word takes you to the heavens. What a miserable ignorance, what a mean interpretation? What a narrow understanding?
 
 A few weeks before I met an Indian Muslim man in full Saudi dress. I asked him if he was an Arab. He said no' but this is my Islamic dress. I reminded him that Muhammad's sworn enemies such as Abu Zahel also wore the same dress as Muhammad but to you why this dress has become so holly? He declined to answer because a fool can't understand logic. Once I told a Muslim friend of mine that worshipping the Shiva Linga and kissing the Black stone in the house of Kaba is nothing different. He could not gather any logic to answer me. I will advise people like you to be generous in your perceptions and view thing in a wider perspective.
 
If you have the courage to respond to my comments come on but do not ignore me by taking me as an enemy of Islam. Ignorance and dogmatism are the most powerful and potent enemies of Islam, it's not me or Farida Majid.
 
Akbar Hussain
 


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From: aminul_islam_raj@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:05:26 -0700
Subject: [ALOCHONA] BONDE MATAROM GROUP Staged "Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism" drama in Dhaka

 

Dear All,
I am familiar with the name of one farida majid. I went through many of her postings.She said that "Bonde Matarom is not a comunal Slogan.But it is clear that she is hard core anti muslim.
This Farida majid and his like minded people staged a  "Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism"  drama in Dhaka
 
Attorney William Sloan, a foreign delegate, addresses the International Conference on Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism at the Osmani Memorial Hall in the capital yesterday. Speakers at the conference urged international community for extending support to the process that Bangladesh government has initiated to try the war criminals. Photo: Shawkat JamilStaff Correspondent
The MSSK Trust, Forum for Secular Bangladesh and Trial of War Criminals of 1971 and South Asian People's Union against Fundamentalism and Communalism jointly organised the conference titled "The International Conference on Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism" at Osmani Memorial Auditorium.
In the resolution titled "Dhaka Declaration", the conference also called on international community for extending support to the process that Bangladesh government has initiated to try the war criminals.
The resolution was adopted at concluding session of the conference following daylong discussions attended by delegates including human rights activists, lawyers and experts from 11 countries.
The resolution said the trial of war criminals in Bangladesh would discourage the culture of impunity and urged international community "to unite against the culture of impunity to prevent genocides and war crimes from recurring."
Countries affected by terrorism and regional extremism were also urged to support the proposed regional taskforce, a taskforce proposed by Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, to combat religious extremism and terrorism.
The resolution also emphasized strict measures to check money laundering for what they said, "fundamentalist organisations across the world are using different NGOs, Banks and various financial institutions to finance militancy and terrorism through money laundering."
Building a domestic and regional secular humanist network by civil societies and governments across the world was also urged upon.
The conference also called upon Pakistan to take effective measures to curb and eliminate religious militancy, repeal anti-Ahmadiyya laws and blasphemy laws.
Earlier, during its inauguration, speakers from home and abroad urged all countries to form an inter-continental network based on secularism.
"Religious fundamentalism in many forms and faces has become a great problem. There is no time to lose. With cooperation from all we must cut it out globally before it is too late. Otherwise humanism will be in jeopardy," said Prof Kabir Chowdhury, president of the advisory committee of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee.
"If there are Muslim fundamentalists in Pakistan, there must be Hindu fundamentalists in India. If there is Hindu fundamentalists in India, there is no way to resist Muslim fundamentalists in Bangladesh," said former speaker of India PA Sangma.
Former speaker of Nepal Daman Dhungana said that democracy couldn't be achieved without overcoming religious extremism.
"Individually it is tough to overcome this, but globally it can be done," he added.
Prof Shafaraj Khan from Pakistan, Prof Maxim Dubayev from Russia, terrorism expert Chris Blackburn from UK, Cecilia Wikstrom, member of MEP, Sweden, Parvin Najfgholi Ardalan, human right activist from Iran and Attorney William Sloan also spoke in the inaugural session. Journalist Shahriar Kabir conducted the programme.
Speakers also discussed Jamaat-e-Islami's link with international terrorist organizations.
"Trial of war criminal is necessary for strengthening the foundation of democracy. It is a matter of great shame that collaborators were reinstated in Bangladesh politics," said Dr Peter Custers from The Netherlands in his speech during inaugural session.
He also mentioned that European countries politically support this effort of war crimes trial and suggested taking assistance from international lawyers.
"It's never too late for justice. Time is always now. It is always the right time to punish crime against humanity," said William Sloan.



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