"Firewall," what firewall?
Readers,
Farida Majid a novice in computers heard the word "Firewall" but failed to understand it. See below"
Mrs Farida Majid wrote: "Need to maintain a firewall between private and public"
Abid Bahar: When I commented about Humayan Azad as being "ambitious" I was talking about his public life as an activist and I was expecting from Mrs. Majid writing: "your characterization is inappropriate." I was also expecting from rational minded Azad's porno secularists to say something like "My personal experience from my close association with him for such and such years is that he lived a very modest life and was happy with his meager salary received from Dhaka University teaching Bengali literature." But look what the big mouth Farida wrote about a different subject, Abid Bahar:
Farida Majid:
"The petty liar fetches a more monsterous liar (Ayi Bahar Mela) to fend his lies. How does the messianic mission of spreading lies serve these liars by posting garbled text? Very peculiar! But you wouldn't expect LOGIC from one ...who refuses to believe in his lies."
Abid Bahar: Farida broke the firewall herself and her ad hominem at least twice. she calls me a "petty liar fetches a monsterous (sic) liar (Ayi Bahar Mela) to fend his lies." Here is also a wrong sentence construction.
She calls me a liar
(a) Without mentioning how I am a liar and where did I lie.
(b) "monsterous" is a spelling error.
(c) She doesn't explain her phrase" (Ayi Bahar Mela)" about the meaning in English translation, leaving the readers to interpret it as if a Bengali expression.
Most importantly, she has no right to use my name in sarcasm supposedly using an Urdu expression. This is also because we never met before and here we were debating on a topic "Humayan Azad" not "Farida Majid or Abid Bahar." Not finding the Urdu translation, I thought "(Ayi Bahar Mela)" was Bengali. To my knowledge, in Bengali, it is a common expression by Bengali prostitutes. To her appeal, (Ayi Bahar Mela)" I denied her sexual like approach and mentioned at the same time that if "I misunderstood her, I was very sorry." I had ground to suspect it because there are reports that Farida Majid loves to sleep with people younger than her. I have several emails from her friends, one received lately wrote. "I am told by a senior friend that you had an adulterous relationship with a ... with whom you lived for a number of years in the USA."
Farida Majid doctored an email supposedly sent to her by Dr. Siddiqui. The following facts will show that the so-called Dr. Habib Siddiqui's email to Farida Majid is concocted. I know Dr. Siddiqui very well but the letter's language and facts doesn't correspond to reality.
In Japan, Dr. Siddiqui didn't stay several rooms away from us. He actually shared the same room with my son and me. It is true, we have been working together to help the suffering humanity in Burmese society. In this humanitarian mission we got along very well. About the journal, I proposed him to accept Aung Saing as his assistant editor. I have been in so many publications as editors, author of books and author of articles that I didn't need to put my name in that journal as Dr Habib's assistant editor. I am also older than Dr. Habib Siddiqui. At the conference, to my knowledge, I didn't have any confrontation with Dr Habib Siddiqui. We still work as good friends of Burmese people. Lately when I was invited to join a round table conference in Pennsylvanian state University to discuss on problems in Burma, Dr. Siddiqui drove several hundred km to meet me and my wife. He is a gentleman. I am in regular contact with Dr. Siddiqui. Lately he commented on my work " Tell me, What is Rohingya genocide?" This work was published in the Burma Digest. Readers can check his open appreciation of my works. For helping the distressed people of Burma, I wish to keep our relationship both in academia and in the family level in good terms. If Siddiqui really sent a private email to Farida, she shouldn't have shared it with the readers. A friend of Farida wrote to me that she is 70 years old and becoming bitter due to her age.
About the doctored email from Dr. Siddiqui, readers will find that I try to avoid writing Dr./ Dr. Bahar before my name to avoid being seen as bragging.
The concocted email by Dr. Siddiqui is wrong also because Dr. Siddiqui is aware of my English writing skills and appreciates my family status. I hate to share the readers that during the British period, my grand father completed his post graduation degree from India and lived in Delhi, Chittagong and Calcutta and all his life was in teaching job. He was also a writer (not so famous.) My father was a high government official and our family members were University professors, lawyers in High Court in Dhaka and some are influential businessman in Bangladesh and in the West with lots of landed property in the city and in the village. To my knowledge Dr. Siddiqui's father was also not a PhD nor was my father.
Contrary to the concocted letter Farida Majid produced, but to myself, coming from this background in Bangladeshi standard is no less prominent than I guess Dr. Mohamed Yonus's family. Dr. Yonus's father was sona Mia who was in jewellery business! My question is: Do you need a great family background to prove your worth? Farida Majid talks nonsense.
Contrary to what the fake letter says, I had no connection with Chittagong University and the Rohingya project. I have done my MA from Ontario, Canada. My thesis was on Burma where I talked about Rohingya as one of the Burmese ethnic minorities.
Farida Majid: " Unable to refute the concrete facts about Humayun, Abid Bahar, true to his psychopathic conditioned reflex manner, began a vicious assault on me by taking recourse to demean a woman (on International Women's Day!) and by criminalizing 'old age'. This denigration of old age presupposes the attacker to be a person of early youth, someone who believes that he would never grow old, never ever. Slanders on my private life were mostly done out of risible speculation and hearsay with not a single fact matching reality, not even calling me Mrs. (Majid being my maiden name).
Abid Bahar: Majid says [Abid Bahar] "began a vicious assault on me by taking recourse to demean a woman (on International Women's Day!) and by criminalizing 'old age'. Ha ha ha, Are you crying Mrs. Majid? oho, oho, oho...!
I even didn't know that you send me the letter on the International Women's Day broking your "fire wall" to enter in my private zone and addressed me in derogatory/ terms.
By the way, I am not a young person you thought I am. I am over 60 years old and soon be retiring. But I am active. Visit the gm regularly and don't provoke people unless unless I am being provoked! Before I leave, I want readers including Mrs. Majid to know what a friend of Majid wrote about her. I will not mention his name to respect his privacy.
Majid's friend in anger wrote:
"Anyway, your views ... show an ignorance of their history. Don't make a fool of yourself by commenting on things that you have less information about. As you know very well I have corrected you on many such occasions, you will only demean your status with your readers."
Mrs. Majid, I can go on and on and on, but I don't want to spoil my valuable time with a boring subject called "Farida." But if you have time, consider this as part 1 of my rebuttal!
AB
The Need to Maintain a Firewall between Public and Private
In Rhetorics, 'the art of pesuasion', ad hominem is defined not just as a personal attack but an attack on the 'person', the human, rather than on the stated position of the debater and purposely away from the subject or focus of the debate. Ad hominem is used by a debater when he finds no answer to the opposition's accusation of false premises.
The subject of discussion was Humayun Azad's death. Abid Bahar's comments on Humayun contained several deliberate and mischievous lies. Humayun may have been controversial in certain quarters, but his pre-eminence as a writer and a noted linguistic scholar has never been in question. Yet Bahar's write-up calls him "ambitious" insinuating an obscure writer's desperate need for attention by being 'anti-Islamic'. I have come across similar sentiments from the so-called Muslim-loving crowd regarding the novelist Salman Rushdie. Their miniscule cultural compass refuses to acknowledge the fact that Rushdie was already a world-renowned and a prize-winning author before the publication of Satanic Verses.
I objected to Abid Bahar's falsehoods about Humayun. It was a public topic in a public arena. My expressed irritation may have adopted colorful language, but it never, repeat NEVER left the public arena. In strict pursuance of the rules of rhetorics, my verbal epithets were not 'personal attacks' but a form of public objection to a publicly made false statement about a well-known public personality, his gruesome victimization by the Islamist attackers, and his eventual death -- a national tragedy. I don't think I have used even a first person sentence in my rebuttal to Bahar's idiotic write-up on Humayun. I only presented facts about Humayun. How is it LOGICAL for Abid Bahar to switch the subject to Farida Majid?
Each one of us must be responsible for the truth-value of the statements we make in public. Bigotry is not a "personal opinion" -- it is a public menace. Communal prejudice of ONE person affects the community he or she inhabits like an infectious disease, hence it is a public hazard that must be confronted and battled with. As with any arts and craft, I am getting better at battling the Bangladeshi communalism.
I despise communalism, and hence I study it with the passion of a research scientist working on cancer. It has been the cause of immense human misery and suffering during the Partition of India. Today's communalism is deterring people's social progress and it comes from an inferiority complex that has been engendered by colonial history writing of our country. It also comes from stereotyping Islam in the age-old European institution of hatred of Islam. India never had this Islam-hatred in its history or civilization until the British began the task of writing Indian history. This is where the genius of Richard Eaton's Indian Islamic history writing comes in. He overturned the negative stereotypes, not by any sentimentality, but by the sheer power of thorough, methodologically accurate scholarship illuminated by in-depth analysis.
Unable to refute the concrete facts about Humayun, Abid Bahar, true to his psychopathic conditioned reflex manner, began a vicious assault on me by taking recourse to demean a woman (on International Women's Day!) and by criminalizing 'old age'. This denigration of old age presupposes the attacker to be a person of early youth, someone who believes that he would never grow old, never ever. Slanders on my private life were mostly done out of risible speculation and hearsay with not a single fact matching reality, not even calling me Mrs. (Majid being my maiden name).
Abid Bahar then, totally out of context, begins a fantasy story about himself having taken part in Muktijuddho. If he is now in his early youth, he should not have been born in 1971. The story does not click. Who else knows about his participation in 1971 Muktijuddho? Does any Sector Commander know him? Most of the freedom fighters have reached the age that Bahar seems to dislike intensely. Which civilized society in the world mocks and ridicules an elderly person for having reached a certain age? No one believes a genuine Freedom fighter would indulge in such indecency.
Similarly, Zag's speculations and slanders about me have to do more with his communalism than any facts about me. Habib Siddiqui's assault on me is also full of unproven, unverified lies and cheap character assassination techniques such as "adulterous relationship with a Hindu," etc. Ludicrous also is his suggestion that I'm a kisser of the butt of Rick Lazio, a L. I. Republican. As a registered Democrat in NY State (and a political assoc. of Christine Quinn of NY City Council) it would be hard for me to do that. Notice the pattern of my crimes and the affinity of tendency of my accusers?
Habib, earlier, did object to ignorant Abid Bahar calling Richard Eaton Islamophobe. In his note to me Habib describes his personal encounter with Abid Bahar and his dubious moral conduct. I now enclose his letter:
June 29, 2008
Farida apa,
Salam. Sorry for the delay in my response to you. I was in your city of NY (aware though that you are in Bangladesh now) visting my wife's relatives on Saturday and Sunday. I just returned. Sorry to hear about auntie's health problem. May Allah restore her health. While I don't recall seeing her, I met your sister, who was a my cousin sister Reena Apa's closest friend (even being the bride's maid at her wedding in Dhaka in 1963 or so, if I recall correctly). I understand she is in the UK now.
As to Abid Bahar, yes, I agree with your analysis of his mental health. For years he has been a BNP diehard always getting excited about protecting the interest of the party leaders. A couple of years ago, I was informed that while at Ctg. University, he did his MA thesis (sociology) on the Rohingya refugee problem. So, I suggested that rather than wasting his time on political nonsense, why not he start advocating for the displaced Rohingya? It required some convincing before he relented.
Last year, when I was invited as a chief guest for a conference on Burma in Tokyo, he was also invited as a guest speaker. It is there that I first met him face to face. I was very disappointed finding that he was not prepared for the talk he said he would present, and it appeared as if he was using the conference more towards visiting a new place than really contributing to better the condition of Rohingyas. It was decided by the organizers of the conference that I would be the editor of a journal that would contain proceedings of the Tokyo Conference in its first issue. After returning from the trip, he told me a couple of times to add him as a co-editor, which I thought improper and difficult to accommodate since he had little to nothing to contribute to the journal. His knowledge of English was wanting. I had to spend several days correcting his English for the papers he wanted to include in the journal. Almost every sentence had to be corrected. Just imagine! When he found out that I wasn't willing to make him a co-editor, he showed his real image like grammer matbar. He started intriguing - he grouped with some Rohingya refugees and ganged up against me suggesting that I be removed from being the editor. When I disclosed that his objection to me was because of my denying him the privilege, he simply denied that he had ever requested me for the co-editor position. I obviously did not record his phone conversation. But was simply shocked to find what a liar and mean person he was. After that episode, I distanced myself totally from him and his Rohingya friends. I am not fond of him.
People like Bahar sb. come from rather low educational and family background. They are the first generation educated people in their family. This has made them feel too haughty about their capabilities, esp. with a PhD degree in sociology. They don't know how to disagree in a civil way. That is why they are comfortable to attack others with their gutter language. The western world has given them the kind of equality and exposure that they would not have gotten in our home country. They crave for publicity (something that you also found with S.M. Islam).
Rather than publicizing my personal note, my suggestion is that you write a very pointed rebuttal showing Abid's ignorance on several levels, the least being his total ignorance about Prof. Eaton's work. If he had comprehended Dr. Eaton's work, he would not have commented the way he did. Funny that Abid sb. tried to portray himself as a Muslim-loving person. My recollection is he is far from that. I never saw him during my 4 days' visit in Tokyo, staying next door to him, to pray a single time or care about Islam. And yet like Saka Chowdhury he appears so Islam-loving. Hypocrisy 101!!!!
Thanks,
Habib
I sometimes think of Humayun's novel, Pak Shar Zamin Shad Baad, which had shades of ideas borrowed from a poem I wrote and published in Zillur Rahman Siddiqui's literary magazine, Dipankar, in 1989, and realize that Humayun was not writing fiction, but simply writing a 'court report' or a thana GD about these very people: these Islam-loving crooks, evil, lewd and venal to the core of their beings.
Humayun paid with his life for speaking the truth. We should also be firm in our adherence to Truth if we want to complete the incomplete victory of our Liberation War of 1971.
Farida Majid
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:14:05 +0400
Subject: Fwd: [bd_journalists] Farida Majid: The Nonsense humorist something!
From: jukhan@gmail.com
To: abid.bahar@gmail.com; farida_majid@hotmail.com
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From: Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 3:37 AM
Subject: RE: [bd_journalists] Farida Majid: The Nonsense humorist something!
To: "bd_journalists@yahoogroups.com" <bd_journalists@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: Dr Jalal Uddin Khan <jukhan@gmail.com>, Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com>
Dear Abid Bahar Bhai
I am distressed to hear that Farida Majid's verbal abuse has hurt your feelings. Farida Majid is an obsequious lackey of the Indian hegemonists. Last year I wrote about her, "Her servitude to the Indian hegemonists is quite repugnant, degrading and pathetic." In a debate with opponents, she resorts to name calling, which often is a kind of cantankerous vituperation. Her conscience, if any left, is mortgaged to the Indian hegemonists and this is why she acts like a hypnotised robot controlled by India.
Masud Bhai's approach is right and proper. Farida Majid's comments have to be brushed off like dirt. You do not need to narrate your patriotism to her. She will not understand it.
However, not everybody follows Masud Bhai's line. Some of them counter personal attacks with personal attacks. One such person, who countered Farida Majid's personal attack with personal attack, is an author and columnist, Dr. Habib Siddiqui. Dr. Siddiqui used to call her, 'Farida Apa'. Please see what he finally wrote about her ( Dr.Habib Siddiqui's email is saeva@aol.com. As far as I know, he is not a supporter of BNP-JI alliance, but he often writes on Islamic issues supporting Islam):
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From: saeva@aol.com saeva@aol.com [Dr. Habib Siddiqui]
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: Fw: Re: 'Fundamentalist economy in Bangladesh': An analysis
To: farida_majid@hotmail.com
Date: Monday, August 23, 2010, 6:37 PM
Shrimati Farida,
Shame on you for such a characterization. Speaking the truth is something that I have tried to do all my life, even though such may not have been popular amongst closet pro-Indian, pro-Hindu, feminist, and confused people like you. I am told by a senior friend that you had an adulterous relationship with a Hindu with whom you lived for a number of years in the USA. Whether that had anything to do with an untrue assessment of me, I simply don't know. Be assured that you are absolutely wrong. I call a spade a spade. I don't kiss anyone's butt. As much as I have criticized communal Hindus and their blind-devotees, I have never shied away from criticizing many extremists within Islam that have given a bad name to Islam. Since you are a computer novice, you may not have access to my writings of the 1980s to enlighten you on this.
Anyway, your views on Muslim issues show an ignorance of their history. Don't make a fool of yourself by commenting on things that you have less information about. As you know very well I have corrected you on many such occasions, you will only demean your status with your readers.
By the way, Dr. Barakat's brother Husham bhai is known to me. In a Philadelphia gathering, organized by Moder Pathshala, a couple of years ago, he confirmed that Indian anti-Muslim groups have used and exploited Barakat's work. Bangladesh Intel reports also suggest that he is a paid Indian agent. Try to talk to some high ranking NSI to confirm my side of allegation here. Barakat has been challenged on a number of press conferences soon after publication of his sloppy work, and he could not validate his sources and the data. Obviously, such revelations don't matter to an anti-Muslim, pro-Indian chamcha like you. You are simply disgusting! For most people, with age comes maturity. You are probably an exception to that rule.
I knew that my endorsement of the Muslim center in Lower Manhattan did not agree with yours. But that was not the first time we disagreed. We disagreed about burqa and scarf issue which you wanted banned. We disagreed on a number of such matters which did not go along with your feminist, Islam-bashing mindset, but I could never believe that you would have the gutter rat-like instinct and indecency to say that I am a perpetual communalist. It is a flawed analysis, srimati. I hope you are not on booze again or some drugs to get rid of your insomnia problem. Or perhaps at your very advanced age, you are becoming a senile. If you need a psychiatric help, don't hesitate to seek out. It must be too lonely for you. Seek help before it is too late. Also, consider retiring from the internet. That way, whatever respect you still garner can be saved.
Your kissing of the butt of the likes of Islamophobes (e.g., Lazio) has really shown your real ugly image. You are a disgrace to your illustrious grandpa and surely to the American Muslim community and many non-Muslims who had the hindsight to see Islamophobia in the opposition of your buddies to the Muslim center in Lower Manhattan. Shame on you.
Don't ever write to me. You are now included in my spam list.
HS
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We better concentrate on our persistent campaign to unite the patriots in order to safeguard our independence and sovereignty from the aggression of Indian hegemonism so that we can develop the country.
Very best wishes
Zoglul Bhai
To: bd_journalists@yahoogroups.com
From: dilkhola@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 13:47:13 -0800
Subject: Re: [bd_journalists] Farida Majid: The Nonsense humorist something!
Regards,
-Masud
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"Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events;
Small Minds Discuss People" - Elanor Roosevelt
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--- On Fri, 3/9/12, Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com>
Subject: [bd_journalists] Farida Majid: The Nonsense humorist something!
To: "Jalal Uddin Khan" <jukhan@gmail.com>, "Faruque Alamgir" <faruquealamgir@gmail.com>, "Farida Majid" <farida_majid@hotmail.com>, "mukto-mona" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>, bd_journalists@yahoogroups.com, "Isha Khan" <bd_mailer@yahoo.com>, "ovimot yahoogroups" <Ovimot@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, March 9, 2012, 12:59 PM
The Nature and Types of Post 1971 Freedom Fighters and Bangladesh's Porno Secularist
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Readers,
Farida Majid claims herself as a defender of the 1971 war and secularism. You can hardly find any logic in Farida Majid's lines (see below). It only shows how pathetic her writings are with spelling errors, abusive words and opinionated sentences. The only identity she often shows to raise her credibility is the name of her grandfather. But her mannerism, anger management problems, now a loner, she works like an old rotten canon, she is a total disgrace to her long dead grand father.
No where in my writings I said Bangladesh is a Muslim country. I never defended the two nation's theory nor I said anything against Hindu religion. My position is against India playing the role of a big brother (dada), blocking our rivers, killing Bangladeshi people and taking advantage of a puppet government for a free transit. I don't understand how this makes me a communal minded person.
Of course if Hasina and her ministers can call Ziaur Rahman a "rajaker" but Mujib an absentee leader as the father of the nation, (the latter wanted a confederation,) Hasina who lived in Dhaka during the liberation period with her entire family, and even gave birth to Joy, if she can become the defender of our liberation war, Farida Majid the halua paratha maker secularist at the time can also call me a pro- Pakistani.
My question: Farida Majid, where were you during the liberation war?
I was the leader of the procession that attacked Chittagong Radio station in Agrabad on 3rd March 1971. Later on we were driven away by the advancing Pakistani army and went to hide in the village from where we supplied food to the BDR/Bangladesh army led by Zia in Kalurghat area fighting the Pakistani army. We supplied food through a stolen Pakistani naval officer's Toyota car. After the fall of Kalur Ghat for a while we hid in a place 10 miles above Bandorban. By the end of April we came back and resumed our underground activities in Chittagong. One time a group of razakars on duty saw me taking a village road through the paddy field and fired at me but missed me because I drooped to the ground and dashed to safety. By this time I switched from Chatro League to Chatro Union (Motia group). We were doing our operations against razakars. We made another attempt to go to India through Burma, went up to Cox's Bazar by Bashkhali, Chokoria by the sea to Cox's Bazar and stayed in Hotel Simon but we failed in our mission to go to India via Burma. Finally in August we departed for India (about 120 young people escorted by military personnel) to get training through crossing the Chittagong Hill Tracts and after 17 days of journey on foot through rugged mountains arrived in India's Mizooram district. Back in Bangladesh one time I was returning back from a public meeting when a razakar hiding by the roadside tried to kill me but failed. This razakar obtained a freedom fighter certificate given by the AL.He is now an Awami Leagur like you!.This is very sad for Bangladesh.
I was never with Jamat but on record I wrote against religious fundamentalism.
Where were you Farida Majid, the big mouth? Where were you during this period?Where was Humayan Azad the porno writer and an extremist porno secularist during this period? As a grand mother now, at the time as a mother you must be cooking halua and birani for you and your children. Am I right? How did that taste? That must had razakar smell? When we were starving in jungles and our mothers were anxious about our safety, your big mouth must be eating these delicious razakari halua and paratha! I know many people like you became freedom fighters after the liberation war ended. One of them is Hasina. These grannies are now the phony porno secularists and worship India and does Indian dalali at a time when India is killing Bangladeshis all in the name of helping to grow secularism in Bangladesh through the local dalals. This is Farida Majid preaching us her great love for India and her very confused chimpanzee theory about religion, secularism, India and her porno lover Humayan Azad! Ha ha ha!!!!
Farida Mazid: Get the lesson, For an independent country, there shouldn't be a permanent enemy or a permanent friend. Life for an independent country is like the survival of the fittest. Bangladeshi politicians should be concerned about Bangladeshi peoples safety and welfare first before considering their foolish love.for India. In not doing their duty they are doing their Indian razakari.
My advise to you that in reviewing an article please learn to use academic vocabulary and not words from your Urdu literature saying "Aye Mela,"errors like "cimmunalists"
"originarybasis?" and abuses like"monsterous liar", "Abid Bahar introducing his concocted bullshit..."
Yes, prove it. otherwise people will call you stupid!
In your Chimpanzee theory, You wrote: " ...animals do not have religion, only human beings are SOMETIMES, in some special group classification, are identified by the religion they profess." If that is the case in your strange review of my article how can you call a written piece to be a "bullshit." If animals don't have religion, how come there is "bullshit" in your head? In all these loose canon character expressions by you, people are going to call you a moron (a person with minor mental retardation)? Isn't what your husband characterized you just before he left you? I can go on and on and on Mrs Majid!
2012/3/8 Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
The petty liar fetches a more monsterous liar (Ayi Bahar Mela) to fend his lies. How does the messianic mission of spreading lies serve these liars by posting garbled text? Very peculiar! But you wouldn't expect LOGIC from one who believes in the existence of Bakshal lurking behind every person who refuses to believe in his lies.
As for the vicious liar Ayi Bahar on Humayun Azad, almost every bit of information he indulged on is slanderous and proven falsehood. Humayun was, to the utter dismay of his enemy camp, a very popular teacher at DU. His students, men and women, really loved him. He was not known as a drunken slob, and was not a womanizer kind that is quite common in the 'antel' circle of Dhaka. The current VC, Prof. Arefin, Humayun's former colleague, once spoke of Humayun's popularity among his students resting on his moral integrity, his fearlessness about speaking the truth rather than on any other pretensions.
Humayun Azad's scholarly contribution towards the field of Bangla language and liguistic studies is really enormous and perhaps second only to Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah. He has several books of his own research findings besides being the editor of a 2-vol collection of essays on Bangla language over a period of 100 years. Altogether he was the author of more than 75 books by the time of his untimely death.
Abid Bahar introducing his concocted bullshit about Humayun with a quote from John Donne's famous sermon at St Paul is truly nauseating since it soon becomes apparent that Ayi Bahar is quite happy about Humayun's demise, and may very well have been closely associated with the group who organized the chapati assault on Humayun on 25th February, 2004.
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Call Hitler a racist!
What is wrong in calling Hitler a racist, Humayan Azad an extremist, Farida Majid a nonsense humorist? After all these are all "perpetually angry, rude and unhappy" people.
First of all, I don't understand why Farida Majid had to call me a "liar" without indicating where did I lie. If she doesn't remember, she must be getting crazy in her lonely life.
Secondly, why as a BKSALITE she had to use a Urdu phrase from no where. We are from Bangladesh using English language or assume that the other language Farida was using to be Bengali. She is a Bengali but seems like a BKSALITE Paki lover!
At the same time, her mind was wondering in the realm of Greek literature/ mythology. She seemed to be a loner and doesn't know what she is saying, thinking or writing but surprisingly she thinks she is always right.
I hope she is in her retirement otherwise she would be teaching students all the wrong things with her nonsense humor.
* Mrs Farida, it is not your" ...liguistic studies..." It is linguistic studies.
In your 70's I don't want to wish you get well. I only want you to stop writing what comes to your mind/ nonsense as humor.
Abid Bahar
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Humayan Azad's death
Abid Bahar
Ref :Humayun Azad dies of natural causes: German police
spokesman Dieter Groebner said. "There is absolutely no evidence of any violence,"
After reading his works it is clear to agree that Humayon Azad was both an ambitious and a haughty person. In his work "PAK SAR JAMIN SAD BAD," he was a provocateur, inciter. He was biting the leg of mad dogs; he was an adult man working like a child playing with fire. He was not to extinguish it with water but to add fuel. Why was Azad doing that? He was an ambitious person wanted to become internationally famous than his merit in pornographic writing deserved. Was he an anti Islamic person, anti Bangladeshi? Was he working for an outside lobbying group. Was he involved in Indian dada (big brother) inspired politics? Did he like to create more negative news about Bangladesh than it can presently afford?
Was he misguiding the youth? We also question, as a teacher did he write to educate people or he was in the business of inciting the fundamentalists? Was he a patriot? Was he a desperate man following the footsteps of Taslima Nasrin? Are there some common patterns? As a Bangladeshi in my present home away from home, I keep thinking about those questions as I think about Bangladesh also about the death of Azad/ the loss of a father to Azad's children and a husband to his wife. But did his students miss him? Azad, as a teacher, was a bad role model, heavily drunken man (German police found alcohol substance in his body). I was mostly thinking about the negative and extremist role he played and contributed to the future of Bangladesh.
I was also thinking that Bangladesh was lucky for its notorious son's death outside its sacred soil.
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