'Dr Muhammad Yunus — the blue eyed boy of Washington'
KBM Mahmoud portrays Dr Muhammad Yunus as more of a blue-eyed man of the United
States than a brown-eyed man of Bangladesh. However, behind Mahmoud's veneer
of neutrality and logic, lies an unbridled animosity fuelled by unhappiness at
the predicament of the current ruling party.
Mahmoud plays the common card of the sovereignty of Bangladesh. Yet, the truth
is, irrespective of which party is in power, our affairs are seldom sovereign.
It is fashionable to take an irrelevant anti-American stance. We are fortunate
that other nations, especially our development partners, do not take a closer
look at our affairs. To comment you first have to understand. Who understands
us? Do we understand ourselves?
There is not a man in the country who can stand up in front of an audience and
argue that the treatment of Dr Yunus is not driven by vindictiveness and
jealousy. This is why it has fallen solely upon the good finance minister to
defend the government's position. It is hoped that the finance minister's
renowned charm and integrity will wash off onto this rotten decision to oust Dr
Yunus.
It is hilarious that the popularity of Dr Yunus in the western capitals is
questioned in this way. He did not buy this popularity in these countries.
Millions of our countrymen seek to escape the ruination of our nation done by
our politicians by migrating to these very same countries. It is to these same
capitals that we run for expertise and knowledge on everything. Indeed, Dr Yunus
is more popular in all our labour markets abroad than either Sheikh Hasina or
Khaleda Zia. As if our politicians do not long for trips to these capitals where
they can be fawned upon by local chapters of their parties, steal soap and
towels from their hotels and ingratiate themselves to foreign leaders.
And so it is that we now have calls by people for an investigation into the
wealth of Dr Yunus when these same people have never called for an investigation
into the wealth of any member of their preferred political party in our
infamously corrupt nation. They are silent when murder, extortion and mayhem are
committed in the name of their own party. But they quite comfortably imply that
Dr Yunus may have stolen some money. They are shameless.
Comments from abroad, by anyone, on the dismissal of Dr Yunus have nothing to do
with the sovereignty of Bangladesh and everything to do with standing up against
the petty jealousy and infantile vindictiveness of Bangladeshi politicians.
Washington need not bother remembering anything about Bangladesh until
Bangladesh can conduct its internal affairs in a civilised manner.
Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait
http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/feed/letters/11182.txt
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