(Re-sent with a typo correction)
As some of you might know, I have very little time to write on socio-political issues, or to visit online forums and social websites. Besides, I am actually getting tired of talking about the Muslim psyche. But let me comment on Mr. Chakrabarty's point below.
If a Koran-insulting Facebook posting by an individual can be called a legitimate reason for destroying 50 houses and 12 temples, including one that was 250 years old, belonging to his community, most of which probably would not have approved such an insult, then a blasphemy law to prevent such insults on the Koran would be legitimate.
If the overall Muslim psyche found the atrocities on the Buddhist community to be too wrong, the fanatics (reactionaries) in that religious clan would not be talking, let alone proposing a blasphemy law. If the overall Muslim psyche found the atrocities on the Buddhist community to be too wrong, we would have seen some people abandoning their Muslim identity in an appropriate sense of shame and protest.
Unfortunately, Badruddin Umar's thought has a basis, looking at the reality on the ground. However, the point that educated people need to make is that the Muslim psyche needs some serious reeducation, so that the severe disease of senselessness and incivility that the Muslims (on an overall average) are suffering from could be cured.
Sukhamaya Bain
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BTW: The Egyptian President releasing two 9 and 10 years old boys is nothing to be praised, if we were to maintain a reasonable standard below which everything is ordinary and no big deal. They should not have been in the jail to begin with. In a civilized society, someone probably would have told the boys parents that they have done a mischief of insulting a religious book, and the parents would have told them not to do it again, or at the most spanked them mildly; and that would have been the end of the story.
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From: subimal chakrabarty <subimal@yahoo.com>
To: "mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2012 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Morsi Orders Release of Christian Boys Held for Desecrating Holy Quran in Egypt - Ikhwanweb
To: "mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2012 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Morsi Orders Release of Christian Boys Held for Desecrating Holy Quran in Egypt - Ikhwanweb
No sir. I meant that the release of the child was a good news. Then I said that probably very shortly Egypt will have strict blasphemy law with pressure from fanatic Islamists. Badruddin Umar thinks that Ramu violence may give the reactionaries to come up with the proposal for blasphemy law.
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From: Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com>To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2012 11:36 AMSubject: Re: [mukto-mona] Morsi Orders Release of Christian Boys Held for Desecrating Holy Quran in Egypt - Ikhwanweb
