[ALOCHONA] Can Egypt happen to Bangladesh ?

Can Egypt happen to Bangladesh ?


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RE: [ALOCHONA] BBC Promotes 'Islamophobia'

        Notice how grossly and shamelessly distorted the tragic event of innocent teenager Hena's killing at Shariatpur is, AND the way it is being represented as a media conspiracy of normal "occurences of Muslim society" by this paid blatherer named Shimul Chowdhury:
 
However, on 2nd of February 2011, the BBC quite disproportionately highlighted a news story relating to Bangladesh. In a remote village in the country's district of Shariatpur, a young woman was found guilty of having an extramarital relation with a married man and was lashed by village leaders at local salish. She died after six days in a hospital. The postmortem report is not out yet. Hence, the reason for her death is not ascertained beyond doubt.

              I am aghast at the conscience of Alochona members who take the lie-mongering of Shimul Chowdhury's prolific postings as normal occurences.  It is no wonder that they think commiting genocide is a normal occurence of "Muslim societies" and any complaint against genicide is considered 'Islamophobia'.
 
                 Farida Majid
 

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From: bdmailer@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:41:05 +0600
Subject: [ALOCHONA] BBC Promotes 'Islamophobia'

 

BBC Promotes 'Islamophobia'

By Shimul Chaudhury

In the last few years, many dreadful things happened in Bangladesh. Innumerable broad-daylight killings of opposition political leaders and activists by the police and by ruling party thugs. There were dozens of disappearances and subsequent killings of opposition people, attacks on journalists, throttling the right to demonstrate. The list goes on. On the border regions, hundreds of Bangladeshis have been brutally murdered by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) with total impunity. Sadly, most of these murders have been perpetrated in a horrific manner.

Being a poor nation under a totalitarian regime and under the hostile gaze of a big neighbor, we the Bangladeshis desperately want the world to know what is going on in our beloved land. Whenever atrocities by the police and by ruling party musclemen within the country and those by BSF in the border region occur, I tend to go to media giants like the BBC. Almost on all occasions, I have been disappointed, as I found the BBC largely silent about those inhumanities perpetrated by our government and by Indian forces.

However, on 2nd of February 2011, the BBC quite disproportionately highlighted a news story relating to Bangladesh. In a remote village in the country's district of Shariatpur, a young woman was found guilty of having an extramarital relation with a married man and was lashed by village leaders at local salish. She died after six days in a hospital. The postmortem report is not out yet. Hence, the reason for her death is not ascertained beyond doubt.

In such situations, in a culture like Bangladesh, some women put an end to their life to avoid social stigma that is attached to adultery and subsequent public humiliation. Whatever the case, the village arbitration is unlawful and a criminal act. Those involved in the lashing of that vulnerable young woman must be punished without any mercy or delay.

However, the BBC reported an improved version of the incident. It branded the village arbitration as a fatwa, termed the tragedy as a 'lashed-to-death' incident and related it to Islamic shariah law. The incident was criminal without a doubt, and such embellishments were not needed.

Generally, in a society like Bangladesh, when a woman is found guilty of extramarital sex, the village leaders show enormous interest to punish the woman. To give it a religious coloring and legitimacy, they call a semi-educated imam or muezzin to pronounce a verdict they have already fixed. And this is how it gets the label of fatwa. Actually, in Islam, fatwa is a sought-for, non-binding legal opinion of a competent scholar of Islamic jurisprudence, which only the court can enforce.

BBC's and other Western media's judgment of such occurrences involving Muslim society smacks of cultural caricaturing. This report is part of the bigger package of intellectual Islamophobia, as demonization of Islam still seems to be the predominant policy of Western news agencies like the BBC.

Conversely, the media giants like the BBC and CNN are quite silent about the undemocratic practices and inhumanities of the current regime in Bangladesh and about India's cruel treatment of Bangladeshis in the border region. This can be explained by the theory that the current regime in Bangladesh came to power through a 'pre-arranged' election orchestrated jointly by the West and India. The West has strategic interest in remaining in the good books of India. As it appears, the West and India will keep playing their politics at the expense of the sufferings of Bangladeshis; and the cultural victim is always Islam.

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By Shimul Chaudhury
E Mail : honestdebater@yahoo.ca
http://newsblaze.com/story/20110206112339zzzz.nb/topstory.html

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