Re: [mukto-mona] Fw: Demand for the Blasphemy Law

My sincere question to Mr. Hannan: who creates the turmoil? Who instigates them? 

I was a student of DU when Daud Haider wrote a so called blasphemous poem that was published in the daily Sanbad. The Sanbad office was burnt down. Daud Haider was allowed a safe passage out of the country. His village home was burnt down though. There was a big demonstration. We were on the sidelines. I got an opportunity to read the poem thanks to one of senior Muslim students. He was a religious person. But he enjoyed the poem and reading it again and again. The poet has not spared any prophet. Krishna, Buddha, and Jesus were included. My friend was saying to us,"Why did the mollas do that? Simply by writing a poem a poet cannot do any harm to a religion. But the way the way mollas reacted put shame on us. " 

10-15 years I met Daud Haider in one of my Muslim friends' house. I asked him,"Do you repent for having written that poem?" with a firm voice he answered,"No." Age has not changed his conviction. I don't know if my senior friend Siraj bhai has changed. But I still believe what he said: the mollas overreacted for nothing. 

Now I understand that it was all politics against secularism and general students and common people were only tools and tool men were the instigators. 

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On Apr 7, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Kamal Das <kamalctgu@gmail.com> wrote:

 

What Mr. Hannan feels is simply that these 'religious people' are to vulnerable to criticism though they are free to criticize those who don't subscribe to their religions.  These 'religious personalities' have long enjoyed special privileges.  It is against human right to protect a certain group of people who nurture and propagate wrong concepts about the Universe and live like parasites in the name of religion.

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 5:14 PM, S A Hannan <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com> wrote:

 

Dear Mr.  Jiten and others,

My best regards. Human logic differs. I sincerely feel that attack on religious personalities ( particularly on Prophets or founders of all religion) create turmoil and this should be handled by a law stipulating deterrent punishment's far as I know there is blasphemy law in some form in some western countries. Even our penal code does not allow insulting religion or their Prophets or founders. Only thing is punishment is low and it is not applied. I only propose that punishment should be stern and in such cases government should file case as they do in case of murder.

Shah Abdul Hannan

 

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From: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com [mailto:mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jiten Roy
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 8:24 AM
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Subject: [mukto-mona] Fw: Demand for the Blasphemy Law

 

 

When I hear demand for a law to protect the integrity of the God (or His messenger) from highly educated people, like Mr. S. A. Hannan, I keep wondering where their logical thinking abilities are. Don't they understand that, by asking for such a law, they are, in fact, questioning the almightiness of the God? This is not such a complicated logic. Is it?   If it comes from an uneducated religious person, I could understand but, mere fact that, such thought can emanate from highly educated people also - really puzzles me.      In my view – there is only one reason for the Blasphemy Law, and that is to block all criticisms of the subject. You do so when you are not confident about the integrity of the subject, and you are afraid that it will not withstand criticisms. If your faith is genuine, it should withstand all criticisms. Where am I going wrong? Jiten Roy --- On Fri, 4/6/12, Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com> wrote:   --- On Fri, 4/6/12, Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com> wrote:

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