Religion is politics, and politics is religion; that's all ye need to know. The most potent weapon in politics is religion. It has to be made blunt to make politics reasonable. Even Gospel says, "Nobody has seen God, and nobody ever will" Obviously, nothing is more blasphemous than using God in the sectarian interest. God being lifeless has tolerated such offence through ages. However, the old tactics of using God may soon become obsolete as human society wakes up.
There is no need for God-fearing religious people to be violent. They should be the model for peace, tranquility, and holiness in the society, so others can learn from them and follow them. That should be the goal of the religious people. If a society is afraid of people, claiming to be religious, there is something wrong in the picture.
Previous religious wars were fought for political reason to gain territorial hegemony, nothing to do with God's works. Unfortunately, religious fanatics are still fighting that war; the endgame is still the territorial hegemony, nothing to do with nobility. Can this goal be achieved today through violence and force? I don't think so. The only way this mission can be accomplished in this day and age is through nobility and love, not through violence.
I agree with Hannan Saheb that -Talibans are bunch of misguided religious fanatics. Unfortunately, there are many such misguided religious fanatical people in Bangladesh also. They are the ones who attack religious temples, burn houses and businesses of others who do not agree with them. If they believe that - they are doing God's works through such heinous acts, they need immediate counseling.
Jiten Roy
--- On Wed, 10/10/12, S A Hannan <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com> wrote:
From: S A Hannan <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com>
Subject: RE: [mukto-mona] Taliban says it shot 'infidel' Pakistani teen for advocating girls' rights
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 10:18 AM
Taliban has done a heinous crime.Taliban phenomenon is a disgrace for Islam..
Shah Abdul Hannan
From: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com [mailto:mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jiten Roy
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 5:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Taliban says it shot 'infidel' Pakistani teen for advocating girls' rights
What can be said about this type of action? I have no comment, except to wait for the time when all these monstrosities will stop. I know – it will stop only when majority want to stop it. Unfortunately, they are not there yet. Many believe Talibans are the real victims. They have been driven out of their homeland. In the near sighted view, they may be right; but, in the far sighted view, they are cheering for the Frankenstein.
Jiten Roy
--- On Tue, 10/9/12, Shah Deeldar <shahdeeldar@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Shah Deeldar <shahdeeldar@yahoo.com>
Subject: [mukto-mona] Taliban says it shot 'infidel' Pakistani teen for advocating girls' rights
To: "mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "bangladesh-progressives@googlegroups.com" <bangladesh-progressives@googlegroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 6:04 PM
By Haq Nawaz Khan and Michele Langevine Leiby, Updated: Tuesday, October 9, 1:20 PM
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A 14-year-old Pakistani activist who won international acclaim for speaking out for girls denied education under the Taliban was shot and seriously wounded Tuesday on her way home from school, authorities said.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on ninth-grader Malala Yousafzai, who officials said was shot in the head by at least one gunman who approached a school bus in Mingora, a city in the scenic Swat valley in the country's northwest.
Shazai, another victim who was wounded when gunmen opened fire on the bus carrying Malala Yousafzai, explains the incident. (Source: The Express Tribune)
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Yousafzai was flown by helicopter to a military hospital in Peshawar , where officials said a bullet was lodged near her spine. Surgeons were unable to operate immediately because of swelling in her skull.
President Asif Ali Zardari directed that Yousafzai be sent abroad for medical care, a government spokesman said.
A seventh-grade girl was shot in the leg, according to local police.
Taliban insurgents controlled Swat for two years until a massive military operation drove them out in May 2009, but sporadic attacks have continued in the area.
Yousafzai became known in early 2009, when she wrote a diary about Talibanatrocities under a pen name for the BBC's Urdu service. In 2011, the Pakistani government awarded her a 1 million rupee ($10,500) prize and a peace award for her bravery in raising her voice for children's rights and girls' education when few others in Pakistan dared to.
Yousafzai also was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize in 2011.
The seventh-grader who was wounded in the leg said she and her classmates were leaving school when the attack occurred.
"Two bearded armed men stopped our school van and asked for Malala and opened fire from behind the van," the girl, named Shazia, said from the hospital where she and Yousafzai were first taken.
Ihsanullah Ihsan, chief spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, said in calls to the media that the militant group targeted Yousafzai because she generated "negative propaganda" about Muslims.
"She considers President Obama as her ideal. Malala is the symbol of the infidels and obscenity," Ihsan said.
Political leaders condemned the attack.
"We have to fight the mind-set that is involved in this. We have to condemn it," Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf told the Pakistani Senate. "Malala is like my daughter and yours, too. If that mind-set prevails, then whose daughter would be safe?"
Yousafzai also is an advocate for literacy in the Swat valley. She started her diary when the Taliban banned girls' education and bombed hundreds of schools, mostly those for girls, in Swat.
Her father, Zia Uddin Yousafzai, is an educator and a member of Swat's peace jirga, or tribal gathering.
"She is all right," he said in an interview. "Please pray for her early recovery and health."
After being forced out of Swat, Pakistani Taliban fighters relocated to the Afghan border region near the eastern Afghan provinces of Konar and Nurestan. They are blamed for attacks on Pakistani forces from across the border.
"This is a highly condemnable act of terror and an attempt to silence a brave voice," Mian Iftikhar Hussain, a spokesman for the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, said.
In her diary, Yousafzai wrote about her fears and growing Taliban influence. One morning, she wore her favorite pink dress. "During the morning assembly we were told not to wear colorful clothes as the Taliban would object to it," she wrote.
In another entry, she wrote: "On my way from school to home I heard a man saying, 'I will kill you.' " I hastened my pace and after a while I looked back if the man was still coming behind me. But to my utter relief he was talking on his mobile and must have been threatening someone else . . . ."
Michele Langevine Leiby reported from Islamabad . Richard Leiby in Islamabd also contributed reporting.
Will Pakistanis ever fight the demons that they have created for last sixty years in the name of Islam? I doubt.
Our BNP brothers might be creating the same demons in Bangladesh without realizing the problem?
-SD
"All great truths begin as blasphemies." GBS
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