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This document is in Urdu language which contains analysis of Jamaat e Islami in the light of Quran and Sunnah.<br />
Alhamdulilla i have done a long analysis of Jamaat Islami and finally jumped to a conclusion that Jamaat Islami is not on the right path of Quran and Sunnah with the understanding of Salafussaliheen.<br />
The document content plenty of proofs from Quran and Sunnah.<br />
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Attached document Urdu me hai aur isme ek mukhtasar sa jaayeza liya gaya hai, Maududi aur Jamaat Islami ke Deen ki samajh aur tarjumaani ka, inke manhaj aur aqaaid ka.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506733549842752892.post-55177921412751470432016-03-06T17:28:00.001-08:002016-03-06T17:28:02.680-08:007th March, 1971 Speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman HD<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J9vUulq4tZI" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506733549842752892.post-77254301541951327432016-01-10T05:17:00.001-08:002016-01-10T05:17:45.573-08:00Delwar Hossain Sayeedi's war crime <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kqcEgjmsQxM" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506733549842752892.post-39380209023727310812015-06-09T19:25:00.002-07:002015-06-09T19:25:40.676-07:00Razakar commander Hasan Ali to face noose or firing squad for war crimes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>The International Crimes Tribunal has ordered the execution of Kishoreganj’s fugitive Razakar commander Syed Md Hasan Ali by hanging by the neck or by shooting ‘till he is dead’.</strong><br />
<strong>The two ICTs have so far awarded capital punishment to 14 convicts in 19 cases, but this is the first time a tribunal has ordered the execution of the death sentence by shooting.</strong><br />
<strong>The verdict says: “Considering the overall flow of incidents, we’ve agreed that justice is possible only by awarding death sentence to Syed Md Hasan Ali.” Ali is the first war crimes convict to receive death sentence with provision of execution by shooting.Ali was awarded the capital punishment after five out of the six charges had been proven beyond doubt. The charges include genocide, murder, kidnap and confinement.</strong><br />
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The three-member ICT-1, led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim, awarded the punishment on Tuesday. <br />
The two other members are Justices Jahangir Hossain and Anwarul Haque. There is no instance in the country of anyone, awarded capital punishment under the Criminal Procedure Code, being executed by shooting. Death sentences are executed in the country by hanging the convicts by the neck.<br />
Earlier, the judge in the Bangabandhu murder case had ordered execution of the convicts by a firing squad but they were hanged to death following an order of the High Court.<br />
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In their observation, the judges said the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973 had not specified the means of execution. “But Clause-268 of the Criminal Procedure Code provides for execution by hanging until death. And Clause-34(a) of the Special Powers Act of 1974 provides for execution by hanging or shooting until death,” they said.“In our judgment, the death sentence can be executed by hanging the accused by the neck till he is dead or by shooting him till he is dead.” <br />
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Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told , “There is no instance of execution by a firing squad.<br />
“The convicts in the Bangabandhu murder case were ordered to be executed by a firing squad but the High Court did not maintain it.”<br />
He, however, said Bangabandhu’s murder was tried under the CrPC and the verdict was executed as per the Jail Code, which provided for execution only by hanging.<br />
But the Jail Code is not applicable to ICT judgment, he added.<br />
Referring to the ICT law, the attorney general said Ali could appeal against the verdict in 30 days from its pronouncement. He will lose the right to appeal after that period, he added.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506733549842752892.post-60462266103953239052015-02-20T09:52:00.000-08:002015-02-20T19:21:03.400-08:00The Massacre of 21st February 1952 Dhaka<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>We rather need to comprehend the reason why language activists had protested against the then Pakistan government's decision to make Urdu the sole state language of the erstwhile East and West Pakistan since this historic day did not come to pass on a single day, nor did it end there.</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>What began with an agitation programme by some students on the Dhaka University campus on December 6, 1947 in protest at discussions in different government forums about making Urdu the state language, reached its climax on the morning of Feb 21 in 1952.</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Students of schools, colleges and universities along with ordinary people under the leadership of Abdul Matin and Gaziul Haque gathered on the DU campus near Dhaka Medical College Hospital, violating Section 144, which had been imposed on that day to restrict assembly and protest programmes.Urdu and Bangla, although the two most commonly used languages of the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, had very different histories.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Their procession, which demanded the status of state language for Bangla, was fired upon by police, leaving many including Rafique, Jabbar, Barkat and Salam fatally injured. Their death breathed fire into the language movement ultimately forcing the then Pakistani government to adopt Bangla as a state language alongside Urdu.</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>However, Ekushey did not end there; it rather planted the seed of freedom in the hearts of Bangalees and 19 years later, an independent country named Bangladesh was born in 1971.</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>In November 1999, the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) proclaimed Ekushey February as the International Mother Language Day, which has since been observed every year to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.</strong></span><a href="http://j.mp/Kaspersky-Lab-Bangladesh/" style="color: #999494; display: block;" target="_blank"></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>The day is being observed this year with the theme "Inclusive Education through and with Language – Language Matters."</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Yet only a few hundred of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken in the world are used in education system and public domain and less than a hundred are used in the digital world, according to a UNESCO website.</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>In Bangladesh, out of about 40 languages used by different communities including the ethnic minority groups, only Bangla has made it to the education system and the digital world.</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>It should constantly remind us to protest against all forms of suppression of rights, whether sponsored by state or non-state machineries, and to stand firmly against domination and aggression of the mighty over the weak for it was Ekushey February that had paved the way for our independence. </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>On this day, we should, besides placing wreaths at the Shaheed Minar, perhaps recall that poem by Abul Fazal where he tells us that Eksuhey means not bowing your head down to any pressure -- an insight that calls for a country where every single person could express their thoughts in their own words and language without fear.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>To promote cultural homogeneity, Mohammed Ali Jinnah declared that Urdu be the only state language of Pakistan. Bangla was looked down on as it was thought to be a part of Hindu civilization that did not have any place in an Islamic country. The citizens of Eastern Pakistan immediately protested this move. Political agitation and unrest continued in the years afterwards. The accumulated frustration of the citizens of East Pakistan erupted in 1952. The government banned all political movements and demonstrations. On 21st February, denying this ban, a group of students from University of Dhaka tried to organize a procession demanding that Bangla be made the State Language besides Urdu. When they reached the border of the campus, they found that the whole campus was cordoned with police. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Trying to break out of the police barricade, students clashed repeatedly with the police forces. When the vice-chancellor of the university asked the policemen to disperse so that the students could continue their peaceful protests, his pleas were ignored and the police started firing tear-gas canisters in the crowd. The students also refused to disperse, and tried to gather again in different spots of the city. When they approached the legislative building, the police opened fire on the students. Several students were killed. When the news of this massacre spread, the entire Dhaka city went into a state of mourning and shut down. </strong></span></div>
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The International Crimes Tribunal will deliver its judgement in the case against war crimes accused Syed Mohammad Qaisar, a former Jatiya Party state minister, for his alleged involvement in the killing of over 150 people mostly Hindus, rape and other crimes during the 1971 Liberation War.<br />
Justice Obaidul Hassan, chairman of tribunal 2, passed the order yesterday.<br />
During the closing arguments in the case, the prosecution sought death for Qaisar for the crimes he had committed as the top leader of “Qaisar Bahini” – a group formed with 500-700 anti-liberation people in Habiganj and Brahmanbaria to collaborate with the Pakistani occupation forces.<br />
The prosecution also demanded compensation for two rape victims and a war baby.<br />
According to the prosecution, he was a local Peace Committee leader and razakar commander. Son of a Muslim League leader, Qaisar had been affiliated with Convention Muslim League, BNP and Jatiya Party in his political career.<br />
Qaisar from Itakhola village at Madhabpur in Habiganj contested the 1970’s election as an independent candidate but was defeated. After the independence, he fled to London and on his return in 1978 Qaisar was elected an MP in the 1979 election as an independent candidate and joined the BNP under the leadership of Gen Ziaur Rahman.<br />
Later he joined the Jatiya Party and was elected from Habiganj 4 in 1986 and 1988 elections. In 1988, Qaisar joined the Jatiya Party and became state minister for agriculture.<br />
The accused was arrested on May 16 last year, just a day after the tribunal had ordered his arrest, and admitted to a private hospital in the capital. The tribunal later granted him conditional bail considering his age.<br />
The 73-year-old is facing 16 charges of crimes against humanity that include genocide, torture, murder and rape.<br />
He was indicted on February 2 and the trial began on March 4. A total of<br /> 32 prosecution witnesses including a rape victim and a war baby testified against the accused; the defence, however, did not place any witness.<br />
On August 20, the tribunal kept the case adjourned for verdict. It also cancelled his bail and ordered jail. The prosecution said since war crimes convict Abdul Alim had not been given capital punishment due to old age, Qaisar tried to show his complications before the tribunal.<br />
On charge 16, Qaisar was charged for participating, abetting, facilitating and substantially contributing in the actual commission of the killing of 108 unarmed civilians belonging to Hindu community in Nasirnagar.<br />
In charge 12, the tribunal said at noon of a day in mid-August, Qaisar, his companions in “Qaisar Bahini” and members of razakar force had brought Mazeda Begum, her father Atab Mia and uncle Ayub Mia to the army camp set up at Jagadishpur High School at Madhabpur, on capture from their house.<br />
Qaisar had handed Mazeda over to the army, despite protest on her father’s part. The army men thus committed successive rape upon Mazeda.<br />
In charges six, Qaisar has been charged for raping an indigenous woman, Hiramoni, on May 11 or 12th of 1971 at Chanpur Tea Garden. Qaisar along with the Pakistani army personnel had gone to Chunarughat area and raped the Santal woman.<br />
Charges six, seven and eight mention the offences took place in May 1971. At that time, at least 17 people had been murdered and tortured by Qaisar along with the Pakistani army.<br />
According to charges 12-16, he had captured freedom fighters from Chunarughat, Madhabpur and Nasirnagar. In these criminal incidents, Qaisar used his personal force “Qaisar Bahini” to assist the Pakistani Army.<br />
Monwara Begum of the tribunal’s investigation agency conducted the probe against Qaisar. On May 29, 2010, the War Crime Fact Finding Committee handed over a list of the 19 top-rated war criminals to the tribunal. Qaisar’s name was on the list.<br />
‘No Qaisar Bahini’<br />
The defence of Qaisar during the closing arguments in the case claimed that there had been no collaborators’ group named “Qaisar Bahini” in Habiganj in 1971. Lawyer SM Shahjahan also claimed that the prosecution had failed to prove the case.<br />
The defence refuted the claims made by third prosecution witness Md Tajul Islam, 83. During his testimony on March 30, Tajul apologised to the tribunal for his involvement in atrocities as a member of the “Qaisar Bahini.”<br />
The witness said Qaisar had welcomed the Pakistani force to Shahbazpur along with his 15 associates on April 27, 1971. Then he met the commander of the Pakistan Army at Noapara and requested him to provide the group with arms. Tajul said he had been with Qaisar at that time.<br />
The tribunal also recorded the description of formation of the “Qaisar Bahini.”<br />
On April 14, Manzur Ali, a Convention Muslim League leader and uncle of Qaisar, called a meeting at his place where the chairman and the member of local Union Parishad were present. Qaisar joined the meeting. “I was present at that meeting and Qaisar was appointed as the chief of Peace Committee.”<br />
Tajul admitted that he had also been made a member of the Peace Committee. “And after that meeting, Qaisar created his group with at least 500 people from Itkhola, Ghatua, Belghar and Bejura villages,” the witness said.<br />
During the closing arguments, prosecutor Tureen Afroz said: “For the first time, a war child has testified in a war crimes trial in Bangladesh. Two women victims and the war child – also a woman – have been enduring miserable life. They were also subjected to social harassment. They are real claimants for compensation.”<br />
Then the tribunal asked her about the process of paying compensation, if Qaisar was convicted. The prosecutor replied that it was possible to pay the victims from the property of the accused. Official documents stated that at least 25,000 women faced forced pregnancies during the Liberation War which was the result of one of the war strategies of the Pakistani Army and the collaborators, the prosecutor said. <br /><a href="https://vimeo.com/98656889">https://vimeo.com/98656889</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506733549842752892.post-43771134990537137482014-12-21T19:20:00.001-08:002014-12-21T19:20:31.336-08:00Saiful Haq Omi on Genocides in bangladesh <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2cNMN8hJGn4" width="480"></iframe><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506733549842752892.post-58202396040414749022014-12-05T06:13:00.001-08:002014-12-05T06:13:38.443-08:00Barrister tureen on David Bergman contempt issue War Crime 1971<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1m7np9xcWGI" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506733549842752892.post-87071582564451049312014-11-21T10:37:00.000-08:002014-11-21T10:48:31.001-08:00"Dialectical Maududism"-Mammedutty Nilambur<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>I have been receiving lot of mails from some Jama'at Islami activists regarding their stand on Islam, Politics, Deen- Duniyavu, criticism of other organisations etc. I used this opportunity to study their books and observe their life style to analyse whether they are following this very strict principles of Jama'at Islami, made by the founder of Abul Ahla Moududi. I hereby attach my findings on Jama'at Islami as well as some new unfavourable developments in the Muslim Community. InshaAllah, it will be an insight for all INDEPENDENT thinkers who are not be a part of willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without using their intellectual power. I would like to make it clear that I have no intention to hurt the feeling of anyone through my article and I request you, the readers, to take it as a part of defending the religion of Islam. May Allah bless us, and grant us the strength to excel both here and in the hereafter.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>Whether it is globally or locally, Islam urges the people to think from the perspective of Quran and Sunna. There are Muslims (?), saying that 'shariah' is to be modified because it was revealed to the Arabian people (locally?)1400 years ago and a global interpretation of Quran and Sunna are more relevant than local. But being a Muslim, I do believe that Quran is an indisputable revelation of the Creator, Almighty God to the entire people, nevertheless of their caste, sect, sex, colour, race, language, territory etc. So it is totally free from any kind of thinking/considering of locally or globally, instead represents the entire universe.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>Allah said in Quran He has sent Messengers to the mankind in all ages to guide the people from evil to right path. Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) was the last and final messenger to the mankind. Whoever follows him will be benefited and whoever denies him will go to astray. For the success of all human beings both here and in the here after will depend on their true beliefs and practices based on the guidance of Allah and the Sunna of Prophet (peace be upon him).</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>Without any prejudice, if you analyse the Holy Quran and the life of Prophet (peace be upon him) we can understand that first preferences always given to the purification of people in their beliefs and practices. Prophet (peace be upon him) started his 'Dawah' primarily by inviting people to the fundamental principle of Islam i.e. no One worthy to worship but Allah alone and no associate and partner to Him. Apart from this Prophet (peace be upon him) has taught his companions about all major sin to minor sin as well as the most rewardable deed to the least one.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>If establishing the kingdom of Allah in the world by removing the unislamic government is an important deed for a Muslim, why did not prophet (peace be upon him), the messenger of Allah, teach the Muslims about it? Instead, many prophets lived and preached the message of Islam (the word meaning itself is PEACE) while living in unislamic ruling existing countries. Even some worked in 'Tagood government' (a Maududi style). For example Prophet Yoosuf alaisalaam was a Minister of a non Muslim ruler, king Walid bin Rayyan.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>It is relevant to remember the saying of prophet (peace be upon him)' whoever sought guidance from books other than the Quran, Allah will lead him astray (At-Tirmidhi 2906). This saying should be an insight for all Muslims to evaluate critically about some of our contemporary thinkers who interpreted Quran and Sunna for their worldly benefit by adopting the method of Karal Marx and Shiia.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>When the Quaraysh told prophet (peace be upon him); you have brought to your people a matter of worry, you have declared their way of life to be foolish, you have insulted their gods. If what you want is money, we will put together a fortune for you, so that you may be richest of us; if you want honour we will make you our chief, if you want power, we will make you king. Prophet replied to them; "I swear by Allah if they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left on condition that I give up my work, I would not abandon it until it becomes victories or I lose my life in its course". If the intention of prophet was establishing the kingdom of Allah he would have accepted the offers of quaraysh. It shows that establishing Kingdom of Allah in the world is not important while comparing to inviting the people to the fundamental principle of Islam i.e. no one worthy to worship but Allah alone.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>But it is unfortunate to see that some people are spending their time and energy for establishing the kingdom of Allah/Islamic State, in the world rather than purifying and correcting the people from their deviant beliefs and practices according to the Quran and Sunna. Implementing the Islamic law in the world is absolutely difficult than practising it in our life. But some people think that religion without power is just like some one staying in an imaginary home in the world (Qutubaat page: 408). But in contrary, he, Moulana Moududi also died without constructing such a home in this world and even many prophets were passed away without constructing such a home in this world. It was one of the greatest blunders of Moulana Maududi since many prophets lived in this REAL world without having power. Is it meant that they had lived here without being a true Muslim? MahadaAllah!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>Allah's Apostle said, "The reward of deeds depends upon the intention and every person will get the reward according to what he has intended. So whoever emigrated for Allah and His Apostle, then his emigration was for Allah and His Apostle. And whoever emigrated for worldly benefits or for a woman to marry, his emigration was for what he emigrated for." (Saheeh Bukhaaree). But see what Maududi said about prayer; congregation of five times prayer in a day is training Muslims to establish a strong Islamic state (Qutubaat page: 203). It means, all Jama'ate Islami believers offering their five times prayer with an intention of establishing an Islamic state in his living country. Now my dear readers just compare this Maududism with prophet's (peace be upon him) saying; then you can understand that there is big difference between Prophet's Followers and Maududi's followers. We Muslims are doing our good deeds to get reward from Allah in the life after death. But they are doing it for establishing Islamic state. Let us seek refuge to Allah.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>People those who are against Islam always trying to tarnish and corrupt religion both within the community as well as outside the community. But generally they are appearing with a different interpretation and approach to the Quran and Sunna. I hope it is not necessary to discus about the grave worshipers of some name sake Muslims since it may be clear to even ordinary people. But it is quite difficult to understand about such people those who present their deviant pseudo thoughts in the name of Islam with hard literature. They are trying to corrupt the religion by introducing unislamic revolutionary modes of thoughts which in reality is an unpractical solution for the people but leads to the birth of destructive political movements among the Muslims. Moulana Maududi and his organisation, Jamat-e-islami and its offshoots are the best example for this kind. They have been misinterpreted the Quran and Sunna for their political motives and hence, misunderstood by the people that Islam is a politically oriented religion to rule the entire world. They even have changed the pure concept of Thouhid, Ebatha, Elaah, Jihad, etc for the benefit of their deviant pseudo-Islamic thought.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>In fact many people accepted the Islam by understanding that it is a religion of PEACE and not a religion to rule the entire world. But unfortunately some Muslim brothers have misconception about even Islam that it is a religion to rule the entire world and hence, they spread this message of 'Hukumate Hilahi' among the Muslims. In reality, enemies using this opportunity to tarnish Islam as a religion of terrorist and intolerance</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>Secondly, they used to appear among the Muslims as a source of Unity, social service etc for the enrichment of the community. They always so talk active about the importance of unity of Muslims, welfare of Muslims, education of Muslims, political power of Muslims etc rather than unifying the Muslims in the Principles, beliefs and practices based on Quran and Sunna. Apparently, this sort of people are not really working in the course of Allah but helping the course of enemies to malign Islam. Islam is calumniated in its true beliefs and practices by such people. They are like the one who are trying to construct building without foundation and hence, leaving the Muslims as leather floating in the water.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>Recently, due to the influence of the term 'modernisation', some Muslims leaders have been taken a new way of approach while understanding and interpreting Quran and Sunna. They claim that understanding of Quran and Sunna can be used timely according to the demand of the particular situation and hence, methodology of Sahaba, the companions of Prophet (peace be upon him) is not a requisite for understanding and interpreting Quran and Sunna. They might have felt inferior to say that we Muslims are still following the orthodox principles, beliefs and practices taught by a man, named Mohammed(peace be upon him) 1400 years back in Arabia (Alhamdulillah it is not outdated but still modernised). I would like to alert them that Allah the Creator of each and every thing, can foreknow, foresee, hear and more over He is free from the influence of time and space continuum. Due to the influence of this modern phenomenon, they have deviated from the methodology of the 'people of best nation' as Prophet (peace be upon him) mentioned them and attracted to experiment modern approaches in Islam like Islamic Feminism, woman reading of Quran, Consensus of Public interest in Dawah (preaching), Rereading of Tauhid (Islamic Monotheism), Global Interpretation of Quran, Political campaign in the name of Islam, social Movements against Imperialism, Civil Rights movement, movement against exploiting natural resources etc</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>The most pertinent and the same time most disturbing aspect of this people is that they are so arrogant towards the Muslims, who are trying to follow strictly Quran and Sunna, than Atheist, pagans and others. They are very much cooperative and work together shoulder to shoulder with the enemies of Islam. Let me add some of the recent approaches of this people towards Islam to understand their stand in the course of Allah.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>1. Rereading of Tawheed: According to the demand of changing world, rereading of Tawheed (monotheism) is to be done. It was from a program in Asianet, named 'Shahariyath' organised by Jama'at Islami and its offshoot ICC.It shows how far they are from the teaching of Prophet Mohammed salallahu alaiwasallam and the main stream of Islam. A Muslim should not think so since Tawheed is the core of Islam. It seems to be a blind imitation of the contemporary thinkers like Amina Wadud who used to claim that rereading of Quran should be done in the perspective of women as it was done in the perspective of men. They added that the major sin in the contemporary world is the exploitation of nature. But, according to Islam, the major sin is shirk (associating partners with Allah). See how far they are from the Aqeedah (creed) and Manhaj (methodology) of Muslims. Verily, all the Messengers began their call with Tawheed, which they were commanded by Allah to convey it to the people. He, the Most High, said:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>Please do not misunderstand that it is an advertisement given by a non Muslim or a Mujahid or a Samastha Sunni for the promotion of COCA COLA but it is done by a Jama'ate Islami activist. There is nothing concern to a Muslim since he may not see anything wrong in this advertisement but according to jama'at Islami it is just like giving the sovereignty of Allah to Coca Cola Company. As we understood, recently they have led a strong social movement against Coca Cola Company in Plachimada in Kerala and claimed that they have recaptured the sovereignty of water from coca cola Company for Allah. They have oversimplified Allah by doing so. SubuhanaAllah! Later, they have been trying to clear the accusation against supporting Communist party in Kerala election as saying that it's because of their strong agitation towards imperialism of America. I would like to ask to Jama'at Islami, when did you give back the sovereignty of water to Coca Cola Company from Allah? Is it also recaptured from Allah or you got any message from Allah?!! 'PARADOX is it not your name JAMA'AT ISLAMI'!! (Vyruthyame Ninte Perallayo 'JAMA'AT ISLAMI')</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>Then scholar said, "Your two-fourth and three-fourth part of the life has gone" But before asking the fourth question, the boater asked one simple question to the scholar; do you know swimming? Scholar, the lofty man, said NO! Then boater said, "Your full life has gone because the boat is going to sink". Our jama'ate Islami brothers are just like the said scholar in the story. They are asking lot of questions to confuse the people. But unfortunately they don't know the most important answer of a question in Islam </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>Muslim should avoid all kind of bias to any particular organization but we should well aware that we believe in the true Islam. It is very clear from the Quran that there are two groups in the world, one is the group of Allah and other is the Shaytâan (devils).</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b><u>Those who feel that speaking against deviant pseudo-Islamic groups is a waste of time and energy, is in fact total contradiction to Quran and Sunna. See what Allah says in Quran, In Soorah Aal'imraan 3:110 Allah says "you are the best nation raised up among mankind (because) you command the good and prohibit the evil" Commanding the good is not sufficient in itself to earn us the title "best of the nations" it must be complemented by the prohibitions of evil.</u></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>So let us invite the people to a common plat form i.e. no one worthy to worship but Allah alone and unite them in one banner and hence, to achieve a peaceful life here and in the here after. It is the duty of each and every Muslim to convey this message of true Islam to the entire people and those who introduce heretical writings and deviant religious rites contrary to Quran and Sunna have to be exposed.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>Purifying the Religion of Allah and defending it from their attacks is a collective obligation, if Allah did not bring up some people to oppose the innovators, and then the religion would suffer harm, corruption and deviation. Indeed this type of corruption is even greater than the corruption resulting from the corruption of the disbelievers conquering the Muslims. Since when the unbelievers conquer the Muslims, they do not corrupt their hearts, or their religion, except after some time. But the innovators corrupt the hearts from the very beginning. So we must be always very much concerned and vigilant about these types of un- Islamic thoughts and practices. Allah knows better</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"><b>And say: "My Lord! I seek refuge with You from the whisperings (suggestions) of the Shayâtin (devils). (Al-Mu'minun 23:97)</b></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506733549842752892.post-73328813953263163892014-11-18T20:13:00.000-08:002014-11-18T20:13:16.923-08:00Don't Make Excuses for a Genocidal Criminal: On Ghulam Azam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ghulam Azam, a war criminal, died in a Bangladeshi prison on October 23 while serving a 90-year sentence. During the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh, the Pakistani army committed one of the largest genocides of the twentieth century. Azam's party, Jamaat-e-Islami, and militias formed by Azam, actively aided the Pakistani military to kill, loot, rape, torture, as well as commit arson and other crimes.<br />
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A piece was published in the Huffington Post UK on Oct 27 by Yasmin Khatun wrongly depicting Azam as a saint. This is a highly irresponsible attempt at historical revisionism, particularly given that most of the western world sided with the perpetrators of the genocide at the time. <br />
In the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/yasmin-khatun/ghulam-azam_b_6052544.html" target="_hplink">offending article</a>, Yasmin Khatun consistently refers to Azam as a "Professor." Azam was hardly a professor, he taught for barely four years in a small town high school. He never taught at the university level and never came close to meeting any requirements for a professorship. The fact that his supporters insist on referring to him as a professor is dangerously misleading. <br />
Many Bangladeshis found a measure of redemption knowing that Azam finally died a prisoner, although even that is a tiny justice indeed, compared to the enormity of his crimes. As Bangladesh continues the battle against religious and political extremism, and forges ahead with the aims of progress and a sustainable secular democracy it must never be forgotten that the future of Bangladesh was once in peril, and threatened by the jihadist agenda of Azam and Jamaat. <br />
It should be disturbing for everyone to have a major Western media outlet suddenly praising a convicted criminal of genocide. Even in the name of "free speech" one would never allow such denialism to pass if it pertained to the Nazi Holocaust. Why should the hundreds of thousands (some say millions) of victims of genocide in Bangladesh deserve less respect?<br />
Azam was accused of five different types of crimes, forming a total of 61 points of complaints, including planning, provocation, involvement, conspiracy and murder. Azam had formed militia groups, such as Al-Badr and Al-Shams, and actively helped Pakistani troops to kill Bangladeshi freedom fighters and helpless civilians. Azam's active role in the genocide has been made clear since 1971, as he frequently made statements in the Daily Sangram, the mouthpiece of his party. <br />
Reports to the contrary are a travesty of journalism and any historical revisionism in the media is a danger to our future. To print anything that lionizes convicted war criminals of Bangladesh is an insult to the countless victims, and shows disrespect to the country of Bangladesh, whose freedom was earned at the highest of costs.<br />
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be carried out within 21 days and before 28 days of the Supreme Court's latest upholding of a death sentence on 3rd November,2014. .<br />"The jail authorities will start the process of his execution after getting the certified copy of the verdict," our correspondent said, adding that Kamaruzzaman can only file a review petition to "buy a little more time, or hope for presidential clemency, which is unlikely to be granted under the present government". <strong> </strong></span><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="color: red;"> Assistant Secretary General Kamaruzzaman was sent to the gallows on seven counts of crimes against humanity including murder, genocide, torture and forced deportation</span>.</strong></span><img align="middle" alt="Image result for kamaruzzaman pic" border="0" class="iuth" height="196" name="imgthumb8" 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style="margin: 0px -23px 0px 0px;" title="http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=237048" width="320" />i<strong>s the senior assistant secretary general of the militant political party Bangladesh Jamayat-e-Islami convicted of war crimes during the 1971 Liberation war of Bangladesh.He is also the editor of the Militant organization Jamayat e Islam owned Weekly Sonar Bangla. </strong></span> </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><strong>In 1971, eight members of Jaritan’s family, including her husband and son, were gunned down. </strong></span><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><strong>“They dragged my husband out of our house to the yard and shot him six times. When he wanted water, they shot him again and he breathed his last. They brought my treasure trove, my son Hashem, threw him on his father’s dead body and killed him as well. Then they stabbed my brother-in-law with a bayonet and eventually killed him shooting inside his mouth,” Jaritan thus described her dreadful experience 43 years back.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>Jabeda Bewa, widow of another martyr Fazar Ali, said,“Kamaruzzaman, the leader of those who killed our men, has been sentenced to death. That is the least solace that we could have expected for our heavy hearts.”</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Nure Maan Bewa, wife of martyr Jasimuddin, said: “The Pakistani soldiers did not know the area. Razakars and al-Badr members showed them the way. They are the ones who did the massacre, made us widows and killed our relatives. They told the Pakistan soldiers that there were freedom fighters in our village. Kamaruzzaman was their leader. The death sentence will give us blood for blood. We are happy.”</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>That infamous mass killing turned the Sohagpur village in Nalitabari of Sherpur “manless.” After that, just like uncountable other villages across the country, Sohagpur also came to be known as a “village of widows.”</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>These widows have all testified against Kamaruzzaman in the war crimes case.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Jalaluddin, son of 1971 martyr Safir Uddin said, they were happy with the verdict and scared too. “Kamaruzzaman’s followers have been threatening us. They said they would teach us a good lesson when there is a change in power.”A total of 34 widows of Liberation War martyrs live in the village today. For most of them, the only sources of income are the meagre allowances from the government and a few private banks which by no stretch of imagination are reasonable.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: red;">On July 25, 1971, Pakistani soldiers ran a massacre in Sohagpur village on the Indian border – some 36km from Sherpur district town. On that day, they, along with their Razakar and al-Badr collaborators, killed at least 187 men in just six hours. They broke into people’s houses and brutally killed innocent peasants and labourers. Jamaat leader Kamaruzzaman, then a leader of Jamaat-e-Islami’s student front Islami Chhatra Sangha, was at the forefront</span>.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Many people from greater Sherpur area testified as prosecution witness against Kamaruzzaman before the International Crimes Tribunal, which handed down death sentence to the war criminal in May last year. The Supreme Court yesterday upheld that verdict after hearing Kamaruzzaman’s appeal petition.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>One of them was Manwar Hossain Khan alias Mohan Munshie. “I wanted to be a freedom fighter. But Kamaruzzaman forced said." me to become the security guard of a torture cell that he had set up in the house of Suren Babu.” Another witness Mojibur Rahman Panu said: “In 1971, Kamaruzzaman and his men picked me up from my house and took me to the Ahmadnagar camp. There they lined up many people and opened fire on them. I survived miraculously.” Sohagpur widows want execution of the verdict immediately!</strong></span></div>
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Sumi Khan <span style="color: #111111; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Even minutes before the court started proceedings yesterday, rumours hanged thick in the air about the possibility of lesser punishment for war criminal Mir Quasem Ali who had allegedly spent millions of US dollars to lobby against the International Crimes Tribunal.</span></div>
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This worried Sumi Khan, daughter of Saifuddin Khan, a freedom fighter who was abducted, confined and tortured in 1971 by the Chittagong unit of Al-Badr which was led by Quasem.</div>
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"Had my father been alive and testified as a witness, Quasem would definitely be hanged," she said. Tears trickled down her cheeks as she expressed her worry.</div>
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Saifuddin Khan was abducted from Aziz colony and confined at a torture cell of Dalim Hotel in Andarkilla of Chittagong by Al-Badr men where he along with others was savagely beaten and tortured under Quasem's leadership, according to the fourth charge against Quasem.</div>
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Although Saifuddin had been spared his life, the horrific memories of torture haunted him throughout his life.</div>
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Sumi recalled the horrific accounts she had heard from her father. "They did not even give us any water for 10 long days. Instead, they gave us urine to drink," she quoted her father as saying.</div>
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A special correspondent at the Bangla daily Dainik Janakantha, Sumi maintained professional composure throughout the proceedings, even when Quasem was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment for abduction, confinement and torture of her father under the fourth charge.Tears however returned to Sumi's eyes when the tribunal chairman announced death penalty for Quasem under the 11th charge.</div>
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"My father always believed that someday these people who opposed the liberation of our country, and tortured and killed the freedom fighters, would be brought to justice," she said.</div>
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Her father's belief was shaken after Bangabandhu Shiekh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated in 1975 because he feared that the war criminals and collaborators would make a comeback to independent Bangladesh, said Sumi.</div>
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Saifuddin Khan who was a leader of a left-leaning political party and an organiser of the liberation war, used to shelter freedom fighters at his house in the port city.</div>
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Nur Jahan Khan, Sumi's mother, said Saifuddin along with other freedom fighters was picked up from their house at Aziz Colony by Al-Badr men.</div>
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"About 10-12 Al-Badr men came to our house. All were wearing monkey caps. They said they did not mean any harm but were looking for 'miscreants' trying to break Pakistan's unity," she told The Daily Star over the phone while describing how her husband had been abducted.</div>
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"Father told me how Quasem and his men beat them [the freedom fighters] to make them utter the slogan 'Pakistan Jindabad'. But they spat at them instead," she said.</div>
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"My father is no more but wherever he is, I am sure his soul can now rest in peace," Sumi said after the verdict yesterday.</div>
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"I want to thank Bangabandhu's daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for keeping her commitment in conducting the war criminals' trial," she said expressing her gratitude.</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Al Badr Commander Mir Quasem Ali whose name became synonymous with genocide, rape, looting and arson in Chittagong during the liberation war in 1971, is an influential central leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI), being a member of its 15 member Central Executive Committee. He is the main brain behind JEI’s finances and played a crucial role in financially strengthening the organization after its rehabilitation by the former Bangladesh military ruler General Ziaur Rahman in 1976. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Earlier, after the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, JEI and other militant Islamic organizations which had collaborated with the occupation forces of Pakistan were banned by the founding father of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Quasem Ali was arrested last June for his role in perpetrating crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 liberation war</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Daily Naya Diganta that enjoys a circulation of around 3.2 million copies a day and Diganta TV which reaches out to 10 million Bangladeshi households globally, started running a sustained campaign against the ongoing war crimes trial in Bangladesh. Both Naya Diganta and Diganta TV form a part of Diganta Media Corporation owned by Mir Quasem Ali. During the liberation war and in the run up to the war Mir Quasem Ali was primarily known as an appendage to the occupying forces of Pakistan. He was arrested from Naya Diganta office within an hour and a half of the Tribunal issuing the order on June 17 last.<br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />Mir Quasem Ali has wide international reach. He enjoys good equations with Saudi Arabia as Country Director of Saudi based and resource rich Rabeta-al-alam-al-Isalmi, the NGO that funds many ventures in Bangladesh. He is also associated with the Saudi funded Ibne Sina Charitable Trust and Hospital that provides free Medicare facilities to the poor across the country.<br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />Openly defying restrictions imposed by the government on foreign visit by the JEI war crimes suspects, Mir Quasem Ali paid a high profile visit to Saudi Arabia in 2010, after formation of the war crimes tribunal, to seek Riyadh’s blessings and put pressure on Sheikh Hasina government to abandon war crimes trial. Saudi Arabia employs the largest number of Bangladeshi manpower and it turned out that during his visit he tried to convince the Saudi authorities to work as a pressure group. He gave a number of suggestions to them including stopping of recruitment of Bangladeshi manpower and termination of appointment of those already working there. He thought that such a situation would create turmoil in the country and compel the Bangladesh government to abandon the war crimes trial.<br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />Mir Quasem Ali is a prominent fund raiser for the JEI and played a key role in strengthening its finances. He manages the party accounts maintained with Islami Bank Bangladesh. He has consolidated his place in the JEI hierarchy by extending funds to the Rohingya radical groups who had fought along with the Taliban in Afghanistan.<br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />In 1971, Mir Quasem Ali was President of Chittagong District Islami Chhatra Sangha, then student front of JEI, that converted itself into the infamous Al Badr and carried out the most macabre killings and rape in the history of Bangladesh. On December 14, 1971, just two days before surrender of the occupying Pakistani forces, all leading intellectuals of the country were massacred en - masse by Al Badr in order to intellectually cripple the new nation. Mir Quasem Ali was one of the main architects of this massacre of intellectuals and professionals. Others who were in league with him in this mission included JEI chief Matiur Rahman Nizami and its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid, both of whom are now facing trial on war crimes charges after being indicted by the tribunal.<br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />At the beginning of the war Mir Quasem Ali was Al Badar Commander of Chittagong district. But soon, in consideration of his performance in inflicting large scale brutalities and torture on the freedom fighters and their sympathizers, he was elevated and made No 3 central Al Badar leader in the country. Then No 1 and 2 Al Badar leaders were Matiur Rahman Nizami and Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid respectively.<br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />Mahamaya Bhavan, located on Telegraph Road behind T&T Office, Chittagong, which was originally owned by a Hindu, was forcibly taken over by Mir Quasem Ali and named Dalim Hotel. This Dalim Hotel was converted into Al Badar torture camps where thousands of freedom fighters were forcibly kept huddled together and subjected to brutal torture. Many of them died there due to inhuman torture. Some of them were maimed for life. It was Mir Quasem Ali who called the shots from Dalim Hotel.<br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />Nasir Uddin Chowdhury, well known freedom fighter and Deputy Editor of ‘The Peoples View’ brought out from Chittagong, was also taken to Dalim Hotel on December 3, 1971 by Mir Quasem Ali’s Al Badar associates and subjected to torture and repression. After being released, Chowdhury disclosed that freedom fighters used to be kept blind folded by the Al Badar before being meted out with severe torture and it was Mir Quasem Ali whose diktats held sway. Another well known freedom fighter and Ganatantri Party Chittagong District President Saifuddin Khan was kept in Dalim Hotel and similarly subjected to extreme torture from November 17 to December 16, 1971. A well known Razakar named Abul Kalam who had tortured Saifuddin at Dalim Hotel is now an established business man and proprietor of a number of business establishments in Chittagong including TK group. He is presently an important JEI leader. Saifuddin also told that Dalim Hotel witnessed killings of thousands of freedom fighters in 1971. After surrender of Pakistani forces on December 16, 1971, Dalim Hotel wore a deserted look as Al Badar and Razakar elements led by Mir Quasem Ali fled from there.<br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />Mir Quasem Ali was the first President of JEI’s new student front Islami Chhatra Shibir when it was formed on February 6, 1977 by disbanding Islami Chhatra Sangha. Subsequently, he became Amir of Dhaka city JEI. Apart from being Director of Islami Bank Bangladesh, a bank floated from Saudi Arabia, he is also Country Director of Saudi based NGO Rabeta-al-Alam-al-Islami and Chairman of Saudi funded Ibne Sina Trust and Hospital that provides Medicare to the poor free of cost across the country.<br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />Auxiliary forces like the Al Badr, Al Shams and Razakar actively engaged with the Pakistan Army to thwart the liberation war in 1971. Crimes against humanity including murder, massacre, rape and loot had taken place in Chittagong under Mir Quasem Ali’s orders and carried out under his watchful eyes during the war. There are also evidence that he ordered the massacre and murders of the intellectuals and freedom fighters at the Razakar camps.<br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />Mir Quasem Ali, who is from Manikganj’s Harirampur, was known as ‘Mintu’ to the people of Chittagong during the war. He was part of the Islami Chhatra Sangha think tank that had prepared the list of the intellectuals to murder them at the fag end of war. The intellectuals were killed on December 14, 1971, only two days before the victory. After independence, Mir Quasem Ali fled to Saudi Arabia and returned only after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family was brutally massacred on Aug 15, 1975.<br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />Recently, Mir Quasem Ali, along with his US based brother Mir Masum Ali, hired a top US lobby firm Cassidy and Associates and spent $310,000 to move the US administration favorably. The effectiveness of Cassidy and Associate’s lobbying could in part be gauged from the fact that the US Ambassador for war crimes at-large Stephen Rapp visited Bangladesh three times in a row in 2011 and gave a number of advises to Bangladesh government on how to ensure a fair trial. Rapp also said that the US administration might provide some assistance to the Bangladesh war crimes tribunal depending on how he and the Congress viewed the fairness of the trial process.<br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" />If the ongoing trials of war crimes are held impartially and brought to a logical end, the war crimes mastermind including former JEI chief Ghulam Azam, present JEI chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid, Mir Quasem Ali and the rest of those now facing trial would be convicted and the new generation will also be made aware of the gruesome consequences of the abuse of religion to justify killings and other heinous crimes.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Motiur Rahman Nizami is the current chief of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. He is being held suspect while standing trial for war crimes in 1971 at the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh.</span></b></div>
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<u><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">A brief biography of Nizami:</span></b></u></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">March 31, 1943: Born Monmothpur village of Shathia upazilla in the district of Pabna.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Nizami received primary education in hisown village and then got admitted into Boalmari Madrasa.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">1955: Passed Dakhil examination in firstdivision.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">1959: He was placed in 16th position of the merit list with first division from Twaha Senior Madrasa of Shibpur, Pabna.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">1960: Nizami rose in the ranks of East Pakistan branch of Jamaat-e-islami Pakistan, having led the student organisation,Islamic Chhatro Shango (ICS)(now IslamicChhatro Shibir).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">1961: Passed Fazil exam from same institution securing a first division.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">1963: Received his Kamil degree in Islamic Jurisprudence/Fiqh from Alia Madrasa of Dhaka.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">1967: Completed his graduation.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">1978: Was allowed to return to Bangladesh after being banned political participation by first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.1991: Elected Member of the Parliament, representing Jamaat-e-islami constituency of Pabna 1.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">2001: Took the helm of Jamaat-e-Islami. 2001-03: Served as Minister of Agriculture.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">June 29, 2010: Arrested</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">December 11, 2011: Charges pressed May 2011: Shown arrested on allegations of smuggling armsto Assamese insurgents in India.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">May 28,2011: Indicted in war crimes charges</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">January 9, 2012: Tribunal took cognisance of charges</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">November 13, 2013: Trial beings in war crimes case</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">On January 31: Gets death penalty for the 10-truck arms haul</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">March 2, 2014: Trial end</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami has been sentenced to death for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Justice M Enayetur Rahim, chairman of the three-member International Crimes Tribunal 1, delivered the much-delayed verdict at 12:20pm on Wednesday.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Other members of the tribunal are Justice Jahangir Hossain and Justice Anwarul Haque.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Eight charges out of total 16, which include conspiracy, planning, complicity, incitement and active participation were proved, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 pronounced.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">The tribunal 1 has handed down war criminal Nizami death penalty on the charges of 2, 4, 6 and 16 while the Jamaat leader has been given life sentence on the charges of 1, 3, 7 and 8.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Earlier in the day, Nizami was taken to the tribunal around 9:25am and later he was kept in the tribunal lock-up.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">At 11:10am, Justice M Enayetur Rahim, started reading out the summary of 204-page verdict.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">This is the 10th verdict by the two war crimes tribunals.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">On Tuesday, the International Crimes Tribunal 1 fixed the date to pronounce its verdict on Wednesday.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Nizami had been shifted to Dhaka Central Jail from Kashimpur around 8:30pm on Tuesday and his physical condition was well, Jail Superintendent Forman Ali told the Dhaka Tribune.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Earlier, the verdict in the case against the Jamaat top leader was postponed twice. In the latest on June 24, the verdict was postponed due to Nizami's sickness.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Tight security measures have been taken in and around tribunal area as well as in the capital after announcement of the date.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">An adequate number of uniformed and plainclothes police personnel have been kept deployed elsewhere in the capital to avert any untoward incident centring the verdict.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">The trial against Nizami began on May 28, 2012.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">He was arrested on July 29, 2010 on charges of hurting religious sentiments. After three days, he was shown arrested in a war crimes case.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">On December 11, 2012, the prosecution brought 16 charges of crimes against humanity including conspiracy, planning, complicity, incitement and active participation against the Jamaat leader.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">The charges against him included killing of 70 people and torching 72 houses in December 1971 at Brishalika village in Pabna’s Bera upazila; murdering 450 people in Demra and Baushia villages; killing of several people in front of a Hindu temple at Kormocha village of Santhia upazila as well as looting, rape and abduction.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">As the head of East-Pakistan Islami Chhatra Sangha, then student wing of Jamaat, he led al-Badr group – a para militia force blamed for the systematic abduction and killing of intellectuals – until September, 1971.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Witness deposition in Nizmai’s case began in August, 2012 and ended in October last year with the testimony of Investigating Officer Abdur Razzak Khan, the 26th prosecution witness.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">The defence produced four witnesses including son of the accused Md Nazibur Rahman.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Trial of the case ended in last November and the tribunal kept it for verdict.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">But due to the retirement of the then tribunal chairman on December 31 before delivering the judgement, it was delayed by several more months.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">In February, Justice Rahim was appointed and the two tribunals shuffled. The judge ordered fresh arguments in the case.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">On March 24, the tribunal kept the case pending for verdict again and later fixed June 24 for delivering the judgement.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">But only hours before the verdict, the jail authorities claimed that they could not place the accused as he had fallen sick.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">The tribunal stopped pronouncing the verdict and ordered the authorities concerned to inform it about the physical condition of Nizami.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Even though the jail authorities within one week confirmed that Nizami’s physical condition was stable, it took the tribunal several months to set the latest date.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">On January 30, Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal gave death penalty to 14 convicts, including Nizami, under the Special Powers Act 1974 in a smuggling case.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Jamaat chief Nizami became member of the cabinet of the BNP-led alliance’s role in 2001-06.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, the war crimes tribunals have already given punishment to five top Jamaat leaders.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Moreover, three other top leaders are being tried in the tribunals.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">War convict Nizami was born on March 31, 1943, at Monmothpur village of Shanthia upazila in the district of Pabna.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><u>Al Badr Commander Mir Quasem Ali whose name became synonymous with genocide, rape, looting and arson in Chittagong during the liberation war in 1971, is an influential central leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI), being a member of its 15 member Central Executive Committee. He is the main brain behind JEI’s finances and played a crucial role in financially strengthening the organization after its rehabilitation by the former Bangladesh military ruler General Ziaur Rahman in 1976.</u> </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><u>Earlier, after the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, JEI and other militant Islamic organizations which had collaborated with the occupation forces of Pakistan were banned by the founding father of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Quasem Ali was arrested last June for his role in perpetrating crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 liberation war.</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Daily Naya Diganta that enjoys a circulation of around 3.2 million copies a day and Diganta TV which reaches out to 10 million Bangladeshi households globally, started running a sustained campaign against the ongoing war crimes trial in Bangladesh. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Both Naya Diganta and Diganta TV form a part of Diganta Media Corporation owned by Mir Quasem Ali.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Mir Quasem Ali has wide international reach. He enjoys good equations with Saudi Arabia as Country Director of Saudi based and resource rich Rabeta-al-alam-al-Isalmi, the NGO that funds many ventures in Bangladesh. He is also associated with the Saudi funded Ibne Sina Charitable Trust and Hospital that provides free Medicare facilities to the poor across the country.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Openly defying restrictions imposed by the government on foreign visit by the JEI war crimes suspects, Mir Quasem Ali paid a high profile visit to Saudi Arabia in 2010, after formation of the war crimes tribunal, to seek Riyadh’s blessings and put pressure on Sheikh Hasina government to abandon war crimes trial. Saudi Arabia employs the largest number of Bangladeshi manpower and it turned out that during his visit he tried to convince the Saudi authorities to work as a pressure group. He gave a number of suggestions to them including stopping of recruitment of Bangladeshi manpower and termination of appointment of those already working there. He thought that such a situation would create turmoil in the country and compel the Bangladesh government to abandon the war crimes trial.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><u>Mir Quasem Ali is a prominent fund raiser for the JEI and played a key role in strengthening its finances. He manages the party accounts maintained with Islami Bank Bangladesh. He has consolidated his place in the JEI hierarchy by extending funds to the Rohingya radical groups who had fought along with the Taliban in Afghanistan.</u></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">In 1971, Mir Quasem Ali was President of Chittagong District Islami Chhatra Sangha, then student front of JEI, that converted itself into the infamous Al Badr and carried out the most macabre killings and rape in the history of Bangladesh. On December 14, 1971, just two days before surrender of the occupying Pakistani forces, all leading intellectuals of the country were massacred en - masse by Al Badr in order to intellectually cripple the new nation. Mir Quasem Ali was one of the main architects of this massacre of intellectuals and professionals. Others who were in league with him in this mission included JEI chief Matiur Rahman Nizami and its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid, both of whom are now facing trial on war crimes charges after being indicted by the tribunal.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">At the beginning of the war Mir Quasem Ali was Al Badar Commander of Chittagong district. But soon, in consideration of his performance in inflicting large scale brutalities and torture on the freedom fighters and their sympathizers, he was elevated and made No 3 central Al Badar leader in the country. Then No 1 and 2 Al Badar leaders were Matiur Rahman Nizami and Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid respectively.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Mahamaya Bhavan, located on Telegraph Road behind T&T Office, Chittagong, which was originally owned by a Hindu, was forcibly taken over by Mir Quasem Ali and named Dalim Hotel. This Dalim Hotel was converted into Al Badar torture camps where thousands of freedom fighters were forcibly kept huddled together and subjected to brutal torture. Many of them died there due to inhuman torture. Some of them were maimed for life. It was Mir Quasem Ali who called the shots from Dalim Hotel.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><u><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Language movement activist ,well known freedom fighter and Ganatantri Party Chittagong District President Saifuddin Khan was kept in Dalim Hotel and similarly subjected to extreme torture from November 17 to December 16, 1971. A well known Razakar named Abul Kalam who had tortured Saifuddin at Dalim Hotel is now an established business man and proprietor of a number of business establishments in Chittagong including TK group. He is presently an important JEI leader. Saifuddin also told that Dalim Hotel witnessed killings of thousands of freedom fighters in 1971. After surrender of Pakistani forces on December 16, 1971, Dalim Hotel wore a deserted look as Al Badar and Razakar elements led by Mir Quasem Ali fled from there.</span></u></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Nasir Uddin Chowdhury, well known freedom fighter and Deputy Editor of ‘The Peoples View’ brought out from Chittagong, was also taken to Dalim Hotel on December 3, 1971 by Mir Quasem Ali’s Al Badar associates and subjected to torture and repression. After being released, Chowdhury disclosed that freedom fighters used to be kept blind folded by the Al Badar before being meted out with severe torture and it was Mir Quasem Ali whose diktats held sway. </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Mir Quasem Ali was the first President of JEI’s new student front Islami Chhatra Shibir when it was formed on February 6, 1977 by disbanding Islami Chhatra Sangha. Subsequently, he became Amir of Dhaka city JEI. Apart from being Director of Islami Bank Bangladesh, a bank floated from Saudi Arabia, he is also Country Director of Saudi based NGO Rabeta-al-Alam-al-Islami and Chairman of Saudi funded Ibne Sina Trust and Hospital that provides Medicare to the poor free of cost across the country.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><b>Auxiliary forces like the Al Badr, Al Shams and Razakar actively engaged with the Pakistan Army to thwart the liberation war in 1971. Crimes against humanity including murder, massacre, rape and loot had taken place in Chittagong under Mir Quasem Ali’s orders and carried out under his watchful eyes during the war. There are also evidence that he ordered the massacre and murders of the intellectuals and freedom fighters at the Razakar camps.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Mir Quasem Ali, who is from Manikganj’s Harirampur, was known as ‘Mintu’ to the people of Chittagong during the war. He was part of the Islami Chhatra Sangha think tank that had prepared the list of the intellectuals to murder them at the fag end of war. The intellectuals were killed on December 14, 1971, only two days before the victory. After independence, Mir Quasem Ali fled to Saudi Arabia and returned only after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family was brutally massacred on Aug 15, 1975.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><u>Recently, Mir Quasem Ali, along with his US based brother Mir Masum Ali, hired a top US lobby firm Cassidy and Associates and spent $310,000 to move the US administration favorably. The effectiveness of Cassidy and Associate’s lobbying could in part be gauged from the fact that the US Ambassador for war crimes at-large Stephen Rapp visited Bangladesh three times in a row in 2011 and gave a number of advises to Bangladesh government on how to ensure a fair trial. Rapp also said that the US administration might provide some assistance to the Bangladesh war crimes tribunal depending on how he and the Congress viewed the fairness of the trial process.</u></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"><u>If the ongoing trials of war crimes are held impartially and brought to a logical end, the war crimes mastermind including former JEI chief Ghulam Azam, present JEI chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid, Mir Quasem Ali and the rest of those now facing trial would be convicted and the new generation will also be made aware of the gruesome consequences of the abuse of religion to justify killings and other heinous crimes.</u></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">2. Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">3) Mohammadullah </span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">4)</span>Sheikh Mujibor Rahman</b><br />
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<b>5)Khandokar Mushtaq Ahmed</b><br />
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<b>9) Justice A F M Ahsanuddin Choudhury</b><br />
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<b>10) Hussain Muhammad Ershad</b><br />
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11) Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed </b><br />
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12) Abdur Rahman Bishwash</b><br />
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<b>13) Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed</b><br />
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14) A Q M Badruddoza Chowdhury</b><br />
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<b>15) Barrister Jamiruddin Sarkar (Caretaker)</b><br />
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<b>16) Prof. Yazuddin Ahmed</b><br />
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<b>17) Zillur Rahman</b><br />
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<b>18) Abdul Hamid</b><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506733549842752892.post-71756108763850518492014-03-28T23:23:00.001-07:002014-03-28T23:47:38.864-07:00History, as the Zias see it :Syed Badrul Ahsan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> First it was the exiled Tarique Rahman, son of Ziaur Rahman and Begum Khaleda Zia. Now it is his mother Khaleda Zia. Both have come up with new misleading information about March 1971. </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If they are to be believed, it was Ziaur Rahman who was the first president of Bangladesh. It was again Zia who declared the country's independence as the Pakistan army cracked down on an unarmed Bengali nation on 25 March 1971.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The facts pertaining to the declaration of Bangladesh speak for themselves.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Loshak, in his article “Pakistan Crisis” written soon after the genocide of Bengalis went under way, had this to state on developments between 25-26 March:<br />“The voice of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman came faintly through on a wavelength close to that of the official Pakistan Radio. In what must have been, and sounded like, a pre-recorded message, the Sheikh proclaimed East Pakistan to be the People's Republic of Bangla Desh.”<br />That message of freedom, passed on to Chittagong Awami League leader MA Hannan (who read it out over radio) and which subsequently became part of official documents relating to the War of Liberation, read thus:<br /><span style="color: red;">“This may be my last message. From today Bangla Desh is independent. I call upon the people of Bangla Desh, wherever you are and with whatever you have, to resist the army of occupation to the last. Your fight must go on until the last soldier of the Pakistan occupation army is expelled from the soil of Bangla Desh and final victory is achieved.”</span>Commandos of the Pakistan army arrested Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from his Dhanmondi residence in the early moments of 26 March 1971. As Siddik Salik notes in his “Witness to Surrender”: “Minutes later, Major Jaffar, Brigade Major of 57 Brigade, was on the wireless. I could hear his crisp voice saying 'BIG BIRD IN THE CAGE…OTHERS NOT IN THEIR NESTS…OVER'.”<br />On 27 March, organisers of the Biplobi Betar Kendra at Kalurghat in Chittagong made contact with Major Ziaur Rahman. At one point, Belal Mohammad, in less than serious mood, asked Zia if he had anything to say to the nation. Zia, as others were later to state, quickly went on air and, proclaiming himself president, “declared” Bangladesh's independence. That did not go down well with leading Bengalis in the port city, at that point yet to come under Pakistan army control. Eminent citizens like AK Khan and AR Mallick made it clear that such an announcement by Zia, an unknown major in the Pakistan army, would have no bearing on the resistance and in fact would be construed as a mutiny in the Pakistan army.<br />Zia quickly grasped the truth. Within minutes, he wrote out another statement, which he read out on the Biplobi Betar Kendra. The statement was the following:<br />“I, Major Zia, on behalf of our Great Leader, the Supreme Commander of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, do hereby proclaim the independence of Bangla Desh and (sic) that the government headed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has already been formed.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">It is further proclaimed that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is the sole leader of the elected representatives of 75 million people of Bangla Desh and the government headed by him is the only legitimate government of the people of the independent sovereign state of Bangla Desh, which is legally and constitutionally formed and is worthy of being recognised by all the governments of the world.</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: red;">I, therefore, appeal on behalf of our Great Leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to the governments of all the democratic countries of the world, especially the Big Powers and the neighbouring countries, to recognise the legal government of Bangla Desh and take effective steps to stop immediately the awful genocide that has been carried on by the army of occupation from Pakistan.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: purple;"><u>To dub us, the elected representatives of the majority of the people, as secessionists, is a cruel joke and should befool none.</u></span></span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>The guiding principle of the new state will be, first, neutrality; second, peace; third, friendship to all and enmity to none.</u></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May Allah help us.<br />Joi Bangla!”<br />Weeks later, on 17 April 1971, the Bangladesh provisional government was proclaimed in a region of Meherpur, Chuadanga (subsequently to be renamed as Mujibnagar). In the absence of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was officially proclaimed President of Bangladesh, Syed Nazrul Islam took charge as Acting President. Tajuddin Ahmed took over as Prime Minister, leading a small cabinet comprising M Mansoor Ali, AHM Quamruzzaman and Khondokar Moshtaque Ahmed as ministers.<br />Following liberation in December 1971, Bangabandhu returned to Bangladesh on 10 January 1972. He gave up the presidency, into which stepped Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, and took charge as Prime Minister. Against the background of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution in January 1975, when Bangladesh did away with the parliamentary system of government, Bangabandhu took over as President again.<br />After the assassination of the Father of the Nation in August 1975, events moved with dizzying speed in the country. Justice Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, installed as President on 6 November 1975 following the removal of Khondokar Moshtaque in a coup led by General Khaled Musharraf, remained in that office when on 7 November General Zia, earlier detained by Musharraf, rode to power. Initially proclaiming himself chief martial law administrator, within twenty-four hours he became one of the three deputy chief martial law administrators, with President Sayem taking upon himself the additional responsibility of chief martial law administrator.<br />Sayem was removed from presidential office in April 1977. He was replaced by Zia, who quickly organised a referendum that gave him “overwhelming support” to continue as President. In June 1978, still in military service, General Zia organised a presidential election in which he defeated his former commanding officer in the War of Liberation, General MAG Osmany. Ziaur Rahman was assassinated in an abortive coup d'etat in Chittagong on 30 May 1981. </span></h4>
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DHAKA, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi volunteers along with the country's head of the government on Wednesday sang the national anthem in chorus in capital Dhaka on the country's Independence Day in a bid to breach Guinness World Record.</div>
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Organizers said 254,681 volunteers from the Bangladesh Army, educational institutions and the general public sang the national anthem in chorus at about 11:00 a.m. local time.</div>
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, accompanied by a large number of her cabinet members, also sang in unison the national anthem -- " Amar Sonar Bangla Ami Tomai Bhalobash (My Golden Bengal, I Love You).."</div>
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Organizers had earlier said the main objective of this event was not only to celebrate Bangladesh's Independence Day which falls on Wednesday but also to show the world the inner strength and unity of the people of the nation.</div>
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According to the organizers, previously in May 2013 an Indian organization had set a Guinness Book record by arranging the singing of the Indian national anthem by 121,653 people.</div>
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Bangladesh's Ministry of Cultural Affairs in collaboration with the Bangladesh Army and other government and non-government organizations arranged the event titled "Lakho Konthe Sonar Bangla (Sonar Bangla in tens of thousands of voices)."</div>
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After successful completion of the incredible event, the organizers said all the relevant documents and images will be sent to the Guinness World Record committee for validation.</div>
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Guinness-accredited representatives were present to oversee the event.</div>
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Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi volunteers in December last year formed the world's biggest national flag in a bid to breach Guinness World Record.</div>
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The trial in the war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami incumbent chief Motiur Rahman Nizami ended on 24th march after rehearing of closing arguments by both the defence and the prosecution.</div>
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The three-member International Crimes Tribunal 1 headed by Justice M Enayetur Rahim heard the prosecution’s rebuttal on the defence arguments, the last stage of the trial proceedings, yesterday. The tribunal may pronounce the verdict any day.</div>
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Prosecutor Tureen Afroz sought capital punishment for Nizami; Mohammad Ali, the conducting prosecutor, said they had proved all the charges brought against Nizami and death penalty was the only punishment for such an accused.</div>
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Earlier, the two prosecutors and senior prosecutor Syed Haider Ali had placed closing arguments for three days.</div>
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Tureen yesterday answered to some questions on incitement raised by the defence. She told the tribunal that incitement had long been recognised as an independent offence in many countries including the UK.</div>
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Nizami is facing 16 war crimes charges for his alleged involvement in the crimes against humanity, genocide, rape and incitement, especially in Pabna and Dhaka, during the 1971 Liberation War.</div>
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On November 13 last year, the tribunal, then led by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir, kept the case waiting for the verdict.</div>
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It drew conclusion to the case against the backdrop of continuous failure of the defence to appear before the court. However, it also gave the defence an opportunity to place its argument.</div>
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Justice Kabir retired on December 31 before pronouncing the judgement. On February 24, Justice Enayetur was appointed as the new chairman of the tribunal. Following a defence petition which was also supported by prosecutor Mohammad Ali, the tribunal decided to hear afresh the closing arguments that began on March 10.</div>
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In their arguments over four days, the defence termed Nizami “innocent” and said he had not been involved with any crimes stated in the charge sheet.</div>
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Earlier, chief defence counsel Abdur Razzak placed legal arguments while this time Mizanul Islam and Tajul Islam did the job.</div>
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The defence said Nizami in his addresses had not directed to kill or destroy in whole or part any racial, religious, ethnic or national group that are components of genocide charge. Since he did not target any of those groups, it would not be genocide.</div>
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The defence admitted that Nizami was the chief of Islami Chhatra Sangha, the student body of Jamaat at that time, but also strongly claimed that the prosecution could not produce any evidence to prove that the accused was also the chief of al-Badr – the notorious group responsible for systematic abduction and killing of intellectuals at the fag end of the Liberation War.</div>
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Tribunal 1 earlier gave verdicts against Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee, its former chief Ghulam Azam and BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.</div>
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It took the tribunal 30 days to deliver the verdict in Sayedee’s case after the closing arguments had been complete, two months in Ghulam Azam’s case and more than two months in the case against Salauddin Quader. </div>
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“…… we were told to kill the hindus and Kafirs (non-believer in God). One day in June, we cordoned a village and were ordered to kill the Kafirs in that area. We found all the village women reciting from the Holy Quran, and the men holding special congregational prayers seeking God’s mercy. But they were unlucky. Our commanding officer ordered us not to waste any time.”</div>
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It all started with Operation Searchlight, a planned military pacification carried out by the Pakistan Army started on 25 March, 1971 to curb the Bengali nationalist movement by taking control of the major cities on March 26, and then eliminating all opposition, political or military, within one month. Before the beginning of the operation, all foreign journalists were systematically deported from Bangladesh. The main phase of Operation Searchlight ended with the fall of the last major town in Bengali hands in mid May.<br />
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According to New York Times (3/28/71) 10,000 people were killed; New York Times (3/29/71) 5,000-7,000 people were killed in Dhaka; The Sydney Morning Herald (3/29/71) 10,000 – 100,000 were killed; New York Times (4/1/71) 35,000 were killed in Dhaka during operation searchlight.<br />
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The operation also began the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities. These systematic killings served only to enrage the Bengalis, which ultimately resulted in the secession of East Pakistan later in December, 1971. The international media and reference books in English have published casualty figures which vary greatly; 200,000–3,000,000 for Bangladesh as a whole.<br />
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There is only one word for this: Genocide.<br />
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Genocide in Bangladesh, 1971<br />
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The mass killings in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) in 1971 vie with the annihilation of the <a href="http://www.gendercide.org/case_soviet.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Soviet POWs</strong></a>, the <a href="http://www.gendercide.org/case_jews.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">holocaust against the Jews</strong></a>, and the <a href="http://www.gendercide.org/case_rwanda.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">genocide in Rwanda</strong></a> as the most concentrated act of genocide in the twentieth century. In an attempt to crush forces seeking independence for East Pakistan, the West Pakistani military regime unleashed a systematic campaign of mass murder which aimed at killing millions of Bengalis, and likely succeeded in doing so.</div>
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In national elections held in December 1970, the Awami League won an overwhelming victory across Bengali territory. On February 22, 1971 the generals in West Pakistan took a decision to crush the Awami League and its supporters. It was recognized from the first that a campaign of genocide would be necessary to eradicate the threat: “Kill three million of them,” said President Yahya Khan at the February conference, “and the rest will eat out of our hands.” (Robert Payne,<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Massacre</em> [1972], p. 50.) On March 25 the genocide was launched. The university in Dacca (Dhaka) was attacked and students exterminated in their hundreds. Death squads roamed the streets of Dacca, killing some 7,000 people in a single night. It was only the beginning. “Within a week, half the population of Dacca had fled, and at least 30,000 people had been killed. Chittagong, too, had lost half its population. All over East Pakistan people were taking flight, and it was estimated that in April some thirty million people [!] were wandering helplessly across East Pakistan to escape the grasp of the military.” (Payne, <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Massacre</em>, p. 48.) Ten million refugees fled to India, overwhelming that country’s resources and spurring the eventual Indian military intervention. (The population of Bangladesh/East Pakistan at the outbreak of the genocide was about 75 million.)</div>
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The Guinness Book of Records lists the Bangladesh Genocide as one of the top 5 genocides in the 20th century.</div>
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The gendercide against Bengali men</h3>
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The war against the Bengali population proceeded in classic gendercidal fashion. According to Anthony Mascarenhas:</div>
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There is no doubt whatsoever about the targets of the genocide. They were: (1) The Bengali militarymen of the East Bengal Regiment, the East Pakistan Rifles, police and para-military Ansars and Mujahids. (2) The Hindus — “We are only killing the men; the women and children go free. We are soldiers not cowards to kill them …” I was to hear in Comilla [site of a major military base] [Comments R.J. Rummel: "One would think that murdering an unarmed man was a heroic act" (<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Death By Government</em>, p. 323)] (3) The Awami Leaguers — all office bearers and volunteers down to the lowest link in the chain of command. (4) The students — college and university boys and some of the more militant girls. (5) Bengali intellectuals such as professors and teachers whenever damned by the army as “militant.” (Anthony Mascarenhas, <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Rape of Bangla Desh</em> [Delhi: Vikas Publications, 1972(?)], pp. 116-17.)</div>
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Mascarenhas’s summary makes clear the linkages between gender and social class (the “intellectuals,” “professors,” “teachers,” “office bearers,” and — obviously — “militarymen” can all be expected to be overwhelmingly if not exclusively male, although in many cases their families died or fell victim to other atrocities alongside them). In this respect, the Bangladesh events can be classed as a combined gendercide and <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">elitocide</em>, with both strategies overwhelmingly targeting males for the most annihilatory excesses.</div>
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1. The Bengalis have proved themselves unreliable and must be ruled by West Pakistanis;<br />2. The Bengalis will have to be re-educated along proper Islamic lines. The – Islamization of the masses – this is the official jargon – is intended to eliminate secessionist tendencies and provide a strong religious bond with West Pakistan;<br />3. When the Hindus have been eliminated by death and fight, their property will be used as a golden carrot to win over the under privileged Muslim middle-class. This will provide the base for erecting administrative and political structures in the future.”</div>
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Bengali man and boys massacred by the West Pakistani regime.</h3>
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Robert Payne describes scenes of systematic mass slaughter around Dacca (Dhaka) that, while not explicitly “gendered” in his account, bear every hallmark of classic gender-selective roundups and gendercidal slaughters of non-combatant men:</div>
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<img align="right" alt="Bengali intellectuals murdered and dumped at dockside in Dacca." border="1" hspace="5" src="http://genocidebangladesh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/bangla1.jpg" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.701961); border: 1px solid rgb(161, 161, 161); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" vspace="5" />In the dead region surrounding Dacca, the military authorities conducted experiments in mass extermination in places unlikely to be seen by journalists. At Hariharpara, a once thriving village on the banks of the Buriganga River near Dacca, they found the three elements necessary for killing people in large numbers: a prison in which to hold the victims, a place for executing the prisoners, and a method for disposing of the bodies. The prison was a large riverside warehouse, or godown, belonging to the Pakistan National Oil Company, the place of execution was the river edge, or the shallows near the shore, and the bodies were disposed of by the simple means of permitting them to float downstream. The killing took place night after night. Usually the prisoners were roped together and made to wade out into the river. They were in batches of six or eight, and in the light of a powerful electric arc lamp, they were easy targets, black against the silvery water. The executioners stood on the pier, shooting down at the compact bunches of prisoners wading in the water. There were screams in the hot night air, and then silence. The prisoners fell on their sides and their bodies lapped against the shore. Then a new bunch of prisoners was brought out, and the process was repeated. In the morning the village boatmen hauled the bodies into midstream and the ropes binding the bodies were cut so that each body drifted separately downstream. (Payne, <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Massacre</em> [Macmillan, 1973], p. 55.)</div>
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How many died?</h3>
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Bangladeshi authorities claim that 3 million people were killed, while the Hamoodur Rahman Commission, an official Pakistan Government investigation, put the figure as low as 26,000 civilian casualties. The fact is that the number of dead in Bangladesh in 1971 was almost certainly well into seven figures. It was one of the worst genocides of the World War II era, outstripping Rwanda (800,000 killed) and probably surpassing even Indonesia (1 million to 1.5 million killed in 1965-66).</div>
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As R.J. Rummel writes:</div>
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The human death toll over only 267 days was incredible. Just to give for five out of the eighteen districts some incomplete statistics published in Bangladesh newspapers or by an Inquiry Committee, the Pakistani army killed 100,000 Bengalis in Dacca, 150,000 in Khulna, 75,000 in Jessore, 95,000 in Comilla, and 100,000 in Chittagong. For eighteen districts the total is 1,247,000 killed. This was an incomplete toll, and to this day no one really knows the final toll. Some estimates of the democide [Rummel's "death by government"] are much lower — one is of 300,000 dead — but most range from 1 million to 3 million. … The Pakistani army and allied paramilitary groups killed about one out of every sixty-one people in Pakistan overall; one out of every twenty-five Bengalis, Hindus, and others in East Pakistan. If the rate of killing for all of Pakistan is annualized over the years the Yahya martial law regime was in power (March 1969 to December 1971), then this one regime was more lethal than that of the Soviet Union, China under the communists, or Japan under the military (even through World War II). (Rummel, <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Death By Government</em>, p. 331.)</div>
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People regard that the best option is to regard “3 million” as not an absolute but an arbitrary number. The proportion of men versus women murdered is impossible to ascertain, but a speculation might be attempted. If we take the highest estimates for both women raped and Bengalis killed (400,000 and 3 million, respectively); if we accept that half as many women were killed as were raped; and if we double that number for murdered children of both sexes (total: 600,000), we are still left with a death-toll that is 80 percent adult male (2.4 million out of 3 million). Any such disproportion, which is almost certainly on the low side, would qualify Bangladesh as one of the worst gendercides against men in the last half-millennium.</div>
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Who was responsible?</h3>
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“For month after month in all the regions of East Pakistan the massacres went on,” writes Robert Payne. “They were not the small casual killings of young officers who wanted to demonstrate their efficiency, but organized massacres conducted by sophisticated staff officers, who knew exactly what they were doing. Muslim soldiers, sent out to kill Muslim peasants, went about their work mechanically and efficiently, until killing defenseless people became a habit like smoking cigarettes or drinking wine. … Not since Hitler invaded Russia had there been so vast a massacre.” (Payne,<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Massacre</em>,<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em>p. 29.)</div>
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There is no doubt that the mass killing in Bangladesh was among the most carefully and centrally planned of modern genocides. A cabal of five Pakistani generals orchestrated the events: President Yahya Khan, General Tikka Khan, chief of staff General Pirzada, security chief General Umar Khan, and intelligence chief General Akbar Khan. The U.S. government, long supportive of military rule in Pakistan, supplied some $3.8 million in military equipment to the dictatorship <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">after</em> the onset of the genocide, “and after a government spokesman told Congress that all shipments to Yahya Khan’s regime had ceased.” (Payne, <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Massacre</em>, p. 102.)</div>
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<a href="http://genocidebangladesh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/hindu-racism.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="hindu-racism.jpg"><img align="right" alt="hindu-racism.jpg" src="http://genocidebangladesh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/hindu-racism.jpg" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.701961); border: 1px solid rgb(161, 161, 161); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a>The genocide and gendercidal atrocities were also perpetrated by lower-ranking officers and ordinary soldiers. These “willing executioners” were fuelled by an abiding anti-Bengali racism, especially against the Hindu minority. “Bengalis were often compared with monkeys and chickens. Said Pakistan General Niazi, ‘It was a low lying land of low lying people.’ The Hindus among the Bengalis were as Jews to the Nazis: scum and vermin that [should] best be exterminated. As to the Moslem Bengalis, they were to live only on the sufferance of the soldiers: any infraction, any suspicion cast on them, any need for reprisal, could mean their death. And the soldiers were free to kill at will. The journalist Dan Coggin quoted one Punjabi captain as telling him, ‘We can kill anyone for anything. We are accountable to no one.’ This is the arrogance of Power.” (Rummel, <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Death By Government</em>, p. 335.)</div>
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Eyewitness accounts</h3>
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The atrocities of the razakars in killing the Bengalis equaled those of their Pakistani masters. An excerpt from an article written in the Azad, dated January 15, 1972, underscores the inhuman atrocities of the Pakistani troops and their associates, the razakar and al-Badr forces:</div>
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‘….The people of Narail can bear witness to the reign of terror, the inhuman atrocities, inflicted on them after (General) Yahya let loose his troops to do what they would. After March 25, many people fled Jessore in fear of their lives, and took refuge in Narail and its neighboring localities. Many of them were severely bashed by the soldiers of Yahya and lost their lives. Very few people ever returned. Bhayna is a flourishing village near Narail. Ali Akbar is a well-known figure there. On April 8, the Pakistani troops surrounded the village on the pretext that it was a sanctuary for freedom fighters. Just as fish are caught in a net so too were the people of this village all assembled, in an open field. Then everyone- men, women, and children–were all forced to line up. Young men between the ages of 25 and 30 were lined up separately. 45 people were shot to death on the spot. Three of Ali Akbar’s brothers were killed there. Ali Akbar was able to save himself by lying on the ground. But no one else of that group was as fortunate. Nadanor was the Killing field. Every day 20 to 30 people were taken there with their hands tied behind their backs, and killed. The dead bodies would be flung into the river. Apart from this, a slaughter house was also readied for Bengalis. Manik, Omar, and Ashraf were sent to Jessore Cantonment for training and then brought to this slaughter house. Every day they would slaughter 9 to 12 persons here. The rate per person was Taka ten. On one particular day, 45 persons were slaughtered here. From April 15 to December 10, the butchery continued. It is gathered that 2,723 people lost their lives here. People were brought here and bashed, then their ears were cut off, and their eyes gouged out. Finally they were slaughtered… : The Chairman of the Peace Committee was Moulana Solaiman. With Dr. Abul Hussain and Abdul Rashid Mukhtar, he assisted in the genocide. Omar would proudly say, “During the day I am Omar, at night I am Shimar( legendary executioner famous for extreme cruelty). Don’t you see my dagger? There are countless Kafirs (heretics) on it.”</div>
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Chuknagar: The largest genocide during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971</h3>
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Chuknagar is a small business town located in the Dumuria Thana of Khulna district and very close to the India Bangladesh border. In 71 thousands of refugees gathered in Chuknagar to go to Kolkata. According to a conservative account around ten thousand people were in Chuknagar waiting to cross the border.</div>
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In the early morning of May 10, the fatal day around 10am two trucks carrying Paki troops arrived at Kautala (then known as Patkhola). The Pakis were not many in number, most possibly a platoon or so. As soon as the Paki trucks stopped, the Pakis alighted from the truck carrying light machine guns (LMGs) and semi automatic rifles and opened fire on the public. Within a few minutes a lively town turned into a city of death.</div>
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The accounts of the two hundred interviewees were same. They differed only in details. “There were piled up dead bodies. Dead Kids’ on dead mum’s laps. Wives hugging their beloved husbands to protect them from killer bullets. Dads’ hugging their daughters to shield them. Within a flash they all were just dead bodies. Blood streamed into the Bhadra river, it became a river of corps. A few hours later when the Paki bastards ran out of bullets, they killed the rest of the people with bayonet.”</div>
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Further Documents and facts</h3>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP8.HTM" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Statistics Of Pakistan’s Democide: Estimates, Calculations, And Sources</a> – R. J. Rummel</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://muktadhara.net/page35.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Genocide 71</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://muktadhara.net/dumassacre.htm" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Massacre of Dhaka University students</a></li>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://muktadhara.net/killingzones.htm" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Killing Zones</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://muktadhara.net/seachlight.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Operation search light</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99aug08/world.htm#7" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mass grave found in Bangladesh</a> – Tribune India August, 1999</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.genocidebangladesh.org/?p=221" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An Army Insider’s Honest Expose of Atrocities in East Pakistan Debacle</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.bangladeshmariners.com/HmdrRprt/unearth.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unearthing the killing fields in Mirpur Dhaka for mass graves – evidence of genocide</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.genocidebangladesh.org/?p=554" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bangladesh War of Independence: West Pakistani Soldiers Kill Catholic Priests – Jerome D’Costa</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://deshivoice.blogspot.com/2007/12/preface-it-was-chilly-evening-with.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Genocide Seminar on Bangladesh 2007</a>: An unprecedented step by a US<br />Bangladesh Genocide Study Group at Kean University</li>
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“..It is Mujib’s home district. Kill as many bastards as you can and make sure there is no Hindu left alive,” I was ordered. – <a href="http://www.genocidebangladesh.org/?p=562" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Colonel Nadir Ali</a>, retired Pakistan Army Officer , Punjabi poet and short story writer</div>
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Denials</h3>
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According to Gregory H. Stanton, President, Genocide Watch there are <a href="http://www.genocidewatch.org/8stages.htm" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">eight stages</a>of a genocide. All of them are evident in the genocide commited by the Pakistan forces. The last of the eight stages is denial:</div>
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It is among the surest indicators of further genocidal massacres. The perpetrators of genocide dig up the mass graves, burn the bodies, try to cover up the evidence and intimidate the witnesses. They deny that they committed any crimes, and often blame what happened on the victims.</div>
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Articles</h3>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.mukto-mona.com/new_site/mukto-mona/Articles/kasem/mathematics_genocide.htm" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Mathematics of a Genocide</a> – Abul Kasem</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/269000_died_in_Bangladesh_war/articleshow/3147513.cms" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">269,000 people died in Bangladesh war, says new study</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://humanists.net/avijit/26th_march/nights_and_days.htm" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nights and Days of Pakistani Butchers</a> – Abul Kasem</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://humanists.net/avijit/26th_march/remembering_25th_ajoy.htm" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Remembering 25th March: The Darkest Night</a> – Dr. Ajoy Roy</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.bangladeshmariners.com/HmdrRprt/violat.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Violation of Human Rights and Genocide in Bangladesh</a> -M. Maniruzzaman Mia</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/12/15/d412153502117.htm" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tale of an abandoned monument:</a> Madhuri Lata still whimpers for her martyred husband and relatives</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,338612,00.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Never again? Genocide since 1945</a> – Scott Lamb</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5Ef8Hrx8Cd0C&pg=PA295&lpg=PA295&dq=bangladesh+liberation+war&source=web&ots=TBDqHmLuhu&sig=z7-bl6azSUdv2uzwAHHicsFirQ0#PPA295,M1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts: Chapter 9: Genocide in Bangladesh</a> – Rounaq Jahan.</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.hinduhumanrights.org/Bangladesh/kennedy.htm" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sen. Edward Kennedy on the Hindu Genocide in East Bengal ’71</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/6663" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #bf0202; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Legacy of the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh</a>- Rabindranath Trivedi</li>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>March 2, 2014 <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkOF6eDLHOvhlRwYvxh_IhILLOTVKynJk43e5xXkYicoxNORBfRKRMallBYnGF_8QdWyEXKrlTDOnkQn5O0oJSDOyP327x7gtBQ0q6eALKgf1XJCDvncWkAWQjdIxIv1vrRBorOuumkD_/s1600/Gunday-Poster-Wallpaper-HD-1024x715.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkOF6eDLHOvhlRwYvxh_IhILLOTVKynJk43e5xXkYicoxNORBfRKRMallBYnGF_8QdWyEXKrlTDOnkQn5O0oJSDOyP327x7gtBQ0q6eALKgf1XJCDvncWkAWQjdIxIv1vrRBorOuumkD_/s1600/Gunday-Poster-Wallpaper-HD-1024x715.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a><br /><br />Bollywood has big budgets, latest technology and an appeal across the world that would make any competitor envious. What it lacks is imagination and so often it fails to get its history right. The faux pas over ‘Gunday’ brings this into sharp focus. How could its makers get 1971 so horribly wrong! Is it just sloppy oversight, poor research and lack of historical perspective — or some kind of a ‘know-all attitude’ that permeates the entertainment czars who rule the tinsel town in the Indian financial-entertainment hub?<br /><br />In late 2011, I had lunch with a top Bollywood producer, one who had started to produce films after having made his millions as an actor. He was out on a tour of India’s many regions to promote his latest hit. Having heard him out on his latest film, I made him an offer. I said there is a great plot waiting to be done into a war film because Bollywood has so few of them and those that are there are hardly worth talking about. He admitted Bollywood’s failure to produce great war films, despite the many wars India has fought after independence.<br /><br />That is when I told him about ‘Operation Jackpot’, one of the best-coordinated naval commando operations in the history of warfare. If properly done, this could be Bollywood’s Guns of Navronne, I reasoned with the producer. I told him with some pride that the men who pulled off ‘Ops Jackpot’ were not the usual big moustache martial races of the sub-continent, but diminutive rice-eating Bengalis who blew up all available shipping on several East Pakistan ports within a span of few hours and left the harbours clogged to the nightmare of the beleaguered Pakistani commanders in 1971.<br /><br />Just after I had finished, he chipped in — “But this is a Bangladesh story, how will I sell it to an Indian audience”. I had to remind the producer that 1971 was a Bangladesh story as well as an Indian story because the war was fought together. He appeared less than convinced even after I had told him that Indian naval officers were involved in the planning of the operation, though it was the brave Bengalis who executed it. He asked me for some preliminary research material on ‘Ops Jackpot’ which I agreed to provide. But it really did not take off and the producer never got back to me. I have not named him because I want no controversy and would keep looking for someone to do possible film on ‘Ops Jackpot’. But if the pre-condition of a Bollywood producer to do the film is to find an Indian angle to launch an Indian Rambo into the choppy waters of East Pakistan, I am afraid I am not game. Simply because though Indian officials were involved in planning ‘Ops Jackpot’, the action on ground did not involve them.<br /><br />A few months ago, I had a long chat on this issue with my good friend Aravind Adiga, whose debut novel, White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker prize. He was in Kolkata, researching 1971 and we talked about the war, which I had seen at close quarters as a schoolboy in my hometown Agartala. Aravind has been a colleague at Time magazine and we have known each other for years. He lives in Bombay (I prefer that to Mumbai) and has many big-time contacts in Bollywood. He promised to pass on my idea to those who may possibly be interested to turn it into a film.<br /><br />But what haunts me is that question, which others interested in the plot may also ask — where is the Indian angle to the story? How do we sell it to an Indian audience, how do we appeal to the huge Indian market? I have a ready answer — for all practical purposes, it was a war we fought together, so 1971 is both a Bangladesh story and an Indian story but a story we made together and not — I repeat not — made in isolation. For the Bengalis who sacrificed so much for independence, it was a dream come true. For India, and surely its military, this was its finest hour. But if any film is made or book is written on 1971, it has to have in fair measure both sides of the story — the Bangladesh side and the Indian side.<br /><br />I strongly suspect that the makers of ‘Gunday’ have messed up in their eagerness to make a film for an Indian audience and have ended up projecting 1971 as an India-Pakistan war. That also betrays the classic Indian obsession with Pakistan — as if it is the one neighbour we have. Ignorance should foster humility but sometimes it promotes arrogance, especially in Bollywood, with all its wealth, power and reach. So the makers of ‘Gunday’ should not try to get away with a joke of an apology, saying they did not intend to hurt anybody’s sentiment. Very often, sentiments of a people and a nation are hurt inadvertently by foreigners who are ignorant and unwilling to double-check.<br /><br />Bollywood films have huge budgets — surely some of it could be spared for research. Any researcher who knows 1971 — including many important Indians who played a role in it and are still alive — would tell the makers of ‘Gunday’ to get enough of the eight months of Bengali suffering and heroism into the film before it turns into an Indian story.<br /><br />I have said this before and would say it again that Bollywood is one of the key elements of India’s soft power. From Russia to Egypt, from Japan to Africa, audiences swing to its song-and-dance extravaganzas. That is precisely why it is so important that governments in Delhi must be extra careful with what Bollywood does. The Censors must be more sensitive to episodes that could hurt sentiments in the neighbourhood and they surely need to impress on filmmakers to get their history right. 1971 was a great moment for both India and Bangladesh. We don’t want a ‘Gunday’ to spoil that wonderful ‘bliss-was-it-in-that-dawn-to-be-alive’ memory.</b></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506733549842752892.post-5387030390245264892014-02-12T18:43:00.001-08:002014-02-12T18:43:27.613-08:00Opportunism: Jamaat style I By Waseem Altaf<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 22.773332595825195px;"> Home and Madressah education, knowledge of Arabic, vast study of earlier texts on Islam and almost no exposure to modern education, yet ability to write colorful language, playing with high sounding words and experience in journalism was his qualification. A body of obscurantist literature, superficial in character, with almost no relevance to the dema</span><span class="yiv6813678336text_exposed_hide" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 22.773332595825195px;">...</span><span class="yiv6813678336text_exposed_show" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1392256837518_7249" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 22.773332595825195px;">nds of a modern and progressive lifestyle was his contribution. A prolific journalist rather than a scholar, he wrote with great speed to feed his eager readers. He was well-versed in employing the power of the written word, the ability which, on the one hand has positively contributed towards bringing about numerous cultural and intellectual revolutions in human history, and many a times it has played havoc with the growth of human consciousness. When the disconnect between fact (read ground reality) and fiction (read ideology) becomes apparent, either the fiction dies down, or the “sanctified” fiction is cleverly exploited in one’s own interest. The philosophy and writings of Abul Ala Maududi, his followers and their conduct in real life is a classic case of ideology in the service of vested interest.<br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />By 1938 he was against the formation of political parties, but in 1941 he had a change of heart and Maududi founded Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), with the prime objective of setting up of a kingdom of Allah in total rejection of secularism, democracy and nation-state where private and public sphere of man’s life would be governed by the principles of Islam. He considered them sinful and called for the total boycott of secular structures like the parliament, army, courts, educational institutions and government jobs. However his party later contested elections for the parliament, collaborated with the army, filed petitions in courts and penetrated into educational institutions and the government, setting their earlier ideology aside. Similar to Muslim Brotherhood, the JI focused on middle class professionals and state employees rather than traditional mullahs.<br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><b>Although Maududi opposed Jinnah and a separate state for Muslims, however, he moved to Pakistan with some of his followers. Initially he advocated the religious-cum-spiritual revival of Muslims who would not aspire for power and lead by example. But as he had witnessed the strength, religion wields in grabbing political power through mass mobilization, as experienced in the creation of Pakistan, he changed his political philosophy. His new slogan was “The Country is God’s; rule must be by God’s law; the government should be that of God’s pious men.” The “defense of Islam” in an “Islamic” state was thus the bedrock of JI in the years to follow. Soon after the Partition, the JI began to pressurize the government to frame an Islamic constitution. The JI labeled leftists, secularists and ethnic nationalists as anti-Islam and non-believers. </b><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><b>In 1953, the JI incited and carried out attacks against Ahmadis. The murder, looting and arson resulted in the deaths of 200 Ahmadis. The story was repeated in 1974 which culminated in declaring Ahmadis as non-Muslims. Through his influence over Ch. Mohammad Ali, the then PM, Maududi was able to include the Objectives Resolution as the preamble to 1956 Constitution and the first Muslim country to be named “The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.”</b></span><br />
<span class="yiv6813678336text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px;"><span style="line-height: 22.773332595825195px;"><b><br clear="none" /></b>In the beginning, Maududi was critical of Pakistan’s alliance with the US but then focused on combating communism. The JI received money from Saudi Arabia and Saudi-sponsored Rabita al-Alam-al- Islami for global outreach, particularly areas under communist influence. A Dar-ul-Fikr was set up in Mansoora, the JI headquarters at Lahore in the late 1960’s to publish accounts of communist oppression of Muslims. Urdu Digest, a publication by JI affiliates, was focusing on liberation of co-religionists under communist control. Interestingly, in February 2009 a seven member delegation of JI led by Qazi Hussain Ahmed visited China. At a meeting with Vice-Chairperson of National People’s Congress Tali Waldi, Qazi said that the Sino-Pak friendship was immortal and would continue to deepen with the passage of time. </span><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><span style="line-height: 22.773332595825195px;">Ayub Khan, who had initially deleted “Islamic” from Pakistan’s official name, added it later under pressure from the mullahs. Since PPP was socialistic while Awami League was a secular party the JI, fearing popularity of the two major political parties, was spearheading a campaign by 1969, for protection of Islamic ideology declaring that Pakistan was under threat from atheists, socialists and secularists. In the same year JI and Intelligence Bureau sponsored ulema, signed a joint fatwa declaring socialism and secularism as Kufr. In 1970 JI-sympathizer General Sher Ali Khan, Federal Minister for Information & Broadcasting and National Affairs during 1969-71 purged state and privately owned media of leftists and secularists. These were then replaced by JI cadres. In the 1970 general elections, the JI won just four seats out of a total of 300.</span><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><span style="line-height: 22.773332595825195px;">General Yahya’s military regime gave the JI a semi-official role in the former East Pakistan to act as the intelligence network for Pak Army, while it was part of the “military sponsored” six-party alliance of Islamist parties in East Pakistan called United Coalition Party.</span><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><span style="line-height: 22.773332595825195px;"><b>In May 1971 the JI and Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT), its student wing, were part of a 50,000 strong, “army engineered” razakar (volunteer) force comprising Al-Shams and Al-Bader which acted as army’s death squads. In addition to killing of tens of thousands of nationalist Bengalis, Al-Badar reportedly killed 10 professors of Dacca University, five leading journalists, two litterateurs and 26 doctors in Dacca alone.</b>( Continued)</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506733549842752892.post-32272852103980616912013-09-23T09:44:00.001-07:002013-09-23T09:44:47.907-07:00War Crimes Trial Exposed-4(b)- Fake Nannu interview by Jammaty Lobbyist Toby Cadman <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/I5U5HyIAoQI" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506733549842752892.post-74389439915977995192013-09-23T09:20:00.001-07:002013-09-23T09:26:59.239-07:00Prophet (S) was a forgetful person :Telling Lies Mandatory- Jamaat Founder Abul A'la Moududi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We will have to be brief about Maududi since he has written volumes upon volumes of nonsense. But a few glimpses should sufficiently demonstrate how the Moududi is playing god to his fans even after his death.
<b>His Name: Before presenting some glimpses of the famous Mullah Maududi’s wisdom and knowledge, let us reflect on his full name and title, Maulana Syed Abul A’la Maududi. The name translates as: “Our Master, Owner, the Father of the Most Glorious, Maududi”. It is strange that the man claiming to be a great Islamic scholar lived 76 odd years with this name. Does it need much insight to see that the very name is shrieking outright divinity and Shirk? According to the Quran, Maulana (our Master) is none but Allah (9:51). And, obviously, Al-A’la (the Most Glorious) can be none but God. Note: In this chapter, as an example, 1:31 will mean Vol 1 page 31.</b>
His Impact: The treacherous, imbecile Maududi, through his long, confused, confusing and inconclusive writings, has frozen the minds of millions of simple Muslims for the last half century making sure that the Ummah remains stuck in the spider-web of the manmade, counterfeit, Hadithi, Number Two Islam (N2I). The forsakers of the Quran got exactly what they deserved. A significant factor behind his popularity has been the generous royal Saudi support as in the case of the Egyptian Mullah-in-Chief, Syed Qutb in the 1950s.
Maududi’s ‘Brilliance’: Let us examine some brilliance of Maududi through his famous Six Volume Tafseer, Tafhimul Quran (Urdu), by Idara Tarjumanul Quran, Lahore, November, 1982. We will turn to his other writings from time to time, with due reference given.
<b>The Captive Women: 1:340 means Vol 1 Pg 340. The summary and conclusion of his discussion on war captives, Vol 1 Pg 340: Even today, the government must distribute the women war captives among Muslim soldiers and the soldiers should “use” them. This rule will apply to women regardless of whether they belong to the People of the Book, or any other religion. How would the Mullahs feel if Muslims, getting thrashed all around the world today, had their women treated by the ‘infidels’ in this abominable fashion?
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The Quran, verse 47:4 states that the captives of war must be freed either for ransom (e.g. exchange of POWs) or as an act of kindness as soon as the battle ends. There is no third option. When an eminent scholar differed with him and showed how the Quran has closed the door of slavery forever, Maududi responded, “The error of this man lies in that he relies on the Quran to form his opinion.” (Tafhimat 2:292)
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v The act of kindness means that the captives be made slaves and given into the ownership of (Muslim) individuals.
v A bondwoman given to any man by the rulers is as legal and binding a process as Nikah (marriage).
v A captive of war will remain a slave even if he or she embraces Islam.
v If a slave tries to escape or create mischief, the master has the right to kill him/her.
v While the Shari’ah (religious law made up by Mullahs) has limited the number of wives to four, it places NO LIMIT to the number of concubines a man can possess. He can have sexual relations with them freely. There is no reason for any man to feel bad about having sex with these (captured) concubines. (Tafhimul Quran 1:340 onwards, and 5:14 onwards)
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Beware! Dear reader, whenever you encounter statements like “Islam says this,” or “Shari’ah states that,” know that it is almost invariably the Mullah’s own wishful thinking rather than the Word of God.
<b>The Prophet’s Broken Teeth: In Tafhimul Quran 5:14 and Tarjaman-ul-Quran 1975 Pg 93, Maududi, on the spurious authority of Ibn Hisham, happily relates that the idolater Sohail bin ‘Umro was captured at the Battle of Badr. Some companions wanted to break his teeth, for he was a fiery orator against Islam. The Prophet admonished, “No! If I break his teeth, Allah will break my teeth even though I am a Prophet.” Sohail was left alone, but even then, after one year, at the Battle of Uhud, the exalted Prophet’s teeth were broken. In the Quran, Allah promises to protect the Prophet (S) from people (5:67). What sinister point is Maududi trying to make? Did the Prophet (S) really lose his teeth in the Battle of Uhud? He lived nine more years after that battle. I have not come across a single narrative suggesting any missing teeth on the person of the exalted Prophet.</b>
<b>Child Molestation: It is not only permissible to give in marriage the girls who have not had their menstrual periods yet. Rather, it is also permissible for the husbands to have sexual intercourse with them. Now it is obvious that something that has been allowed by the Quran, no Muslim has the right to declare it forbidden. (Mullah Maududi, Tafhimul Quran 5:571). Did he marry ‘off’ his daughters or nieces at age 6 or 9?</b>
The Mullahs are in the habit of opposing the Quran since the Glorious Book hurts their evil desires. The big question arises here, “Does the Quran permit this nonsense?” Here is the answer:
The Marriageable Age: According to the Mullahs, the beginning of the menstrual cycles in a girl and nocturnal emissions in a boy are firm indicators of their age of marriage. To the unfortunate Mullah, everything revolves around sex. A Hadith from Bukhari atrociously tells us that a girl can have Nikah (the marital contract) at 6 and the marriage can be consummated at age 9 since the exalted Prophet did that with Hazrat Ayesha! Is there any wonder that the West call him a child-molester? Why don't then the Sunnah-peddlers "marry off" their daughters at 6 and 9? Many countries set an arbitrary 16 years for the girl and 18 years for the boy. The Divine Wisdom enshrined in the Quran makes things so sensible. It sets up three rational criteria:
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3 - Competence to take care of one's own finances. (4:21)
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If Someone Dies of Hunger:
<b> If someone dies of hunger, he dies because Allah had written for him to die of hunger. (Tarjumanul Quran, Jan. 1966). Should the government and the community be so easily absolved of their fundamental duty? The Prophet (S) is reported to have said in a well-known Hadith, “If a single person sleeps hungry in a community, Allah removes His protection from that people.” Also, Hazrat Umar is reported to have said, “If a dog were to die of hunger by the Euphrates, I am afraid Umar will be held responsible.”
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<b>How to Establish a Solid Islamic State: </b>
Maududi shows a brilliant way to establish a solid Islamic state: Send notice to the population that they must announce within one year whether they should be considered Muslims or non-Muslims. After that one year, all children born to Muslims will be considered Muslims. All those who register as Muslims will be forced to observe the worships and rituals of Islam, five prayers a day, Friday prayers, 2.5 percent charity well-documented, fasting in the month of Ramadhan, Pilgrimage to Makkah for the affluent, sacrificing a sheep or goat at least once a year etc. Then whoever falls short of these obligations of Islam, will be beheaded. (Murtad Ki Saza, Punishment of the Apostate, August 1953, Pg 76). Please note that many Mullahs considered Maududi a heretic apostate. He might have been the first to be put to sword. If this brilliant concept of Maududi is implemented, all the Muslim population of that ‘solid’ Islamic state will walk around without heads on their shoulders.
<b>The Prophet Was Forgetful: The Prophet came to lead prayers. People lined up. He then started to leave, realizing that he was “junbb” (he had not done the post-coital wash). He left the standing lines and went to take a bath. Then he came back with water trickling. (Tarjumanul Quran, Oct 1956). Maududi presents this insult on the authority of Bukhari reminding the reader that Bukhari also states that it is Satan who causes men to forget during Salaat.</b>
<b>The Noble Ones Lived In Glass Houses: Maududi and other “experts” seem anxious to prove that the Prophet (S) was a forgetful person and that he and his companions walked around junbb. Did the exalted Prophet and his companions live in glass houses and had no sense of privacy? Were they so obsessed with sex? Or is it our Mullahs who are so obsessed? There are ample traditions filled with references to sex, ways of making love, lust, post-coital bath, menstruation, divorce, suckling, slaves, concubines, houris, etc with shameless detail. The grand Vision and the Supreme Ideology of Islam remain elusive to these small minds. The Prophet (S) and his companions were busy creating the noblest revolution in human history and they had no time for this kind of nonsense.
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<b>Copies of the Quran Were Burned: Hazrat Uthman burned six copies of the Quran which were all in different tongues. Allah and Rasul had not ordered him to do this. (Syed Maududi, Tarjumanul Quran 1975 Pg 39). Did Maududi witness this? Does the Quran state that it has been revealed in different ways, tongues or dialects?</b>
Is There Life In The Grave? The belief of life in the grave is dangerous and that of no life is also dangerous. (Maududi, Tarjumanul Quran, Dec. 1959). The all knowing Mullah should have checked with the Quran to find the answer. Dead means dead. It is the human nafs, or self that lives on, not the material body. And according to the Quran, the dead do not return to this world. (23:100, 32:12). Death is a prolonged state of sleep until the Day of Resurrection, according to the Quran as shown below.
36:51 And when the Trumpet is blown, out of their disintegrated states to their Lord they will run.
36:52 They will say, “Oh, woe to us! Who has awakened us from our beds of sleep? ---.”
Doom of the Grave – Without Judgment: These two verses strongly dismiss the clergy-peddled false concept of punishment in the grave. Will God punish the dead before the Day of Resurrection and before Judgment? Many kinds of suffering (‘Azaab) are named in the Quran but ‘Azaabil Qabr (Doom of the Grave) is not mentioned even once. But Mullah Maududi writes in his Tarjaman-ul-Quran Dec. 1959: Most people will suffer the doom of the grave until the Day of Resurrection, some of them because they used to eat in bed.
Maududi’s Religious Freedom: In an Islamic country, non-Muslims will have full rights to spread their belief, but we will not allow any Muslim to change his or her religion. (Tarjumanul Quran, Dec.1959 Pg 269). The Mullah would behead the ‘apostate’. Can you see the blatant and silly contradiction here? According to the Quran, there is no compulsion in religion. (2:256)
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<b>The ‘Infidel’ Kids: Children of non-Muslims will go to Paradise and will be made slaves of the owners of Paradise. (Ref same, Pg 134). The Mullah probably lived under the wishful thinking that he would be the owner of Paradise! How about slavery, even in Paradise? Maududi never thought that his own children could be eternal slaves.</b>
<b>The daughters of non-Muslims who died young will be made hoors of Paradise. (Asia, Lahore, June 14, 1969). And how will they be treated? According to Maududi, the men of Paradise will have their young, full-breasted houris indoors in their palaces. And the little infidel 'houri girls', eternally staying little, will live in beautiful outdoor tents. Men of Paradise will have sex with them whenever they go about strolling in the evenings. Ah, the poor ‘infidel’ kids!</b>
Telling Lies May Be Mandatory: Truth is one of the most important principles of Islam and lying is one of the greatest sins. But in real life, needs arise when telling lies is not only allowed, rather it becomes mandatory. (Tarjumanul Quran, May 1958 Pg 54)
<b>Temporary Marriage (Mut’ah) is permissible under certain circumstances. (Tarjumanul Quran, August 1955). Maududi puts forward an example: If a man and woman get stranded on an island, as soon as they procure food, they should go ahead and indulge in sex regardless of their marital status.</b>
Calling Upon The Dead Saints: In response to a question concerning praying at gravesites to the dead saints, Maududi maintains, “It is possible that you may be calling, but they may not be listening. It is also possible that they may be able to listen, but their soul might not be there and you may be calling nobody. Also, it may be that they might be having sex or praying to their Lord and you may tease them in your selfishness.” (Ref same, Pg 261). It is possible that Maududi had lost his mind. It is also possible that he has no idea of what he is talking about. See Quran 36:51-52 above.
Imam Abu Hanifa’s Fiqh has converted Islam into a frozen Hindu Shastra. (Tarjumanul Quran 1:136). [This one makes sense. SA]
About Allama Sir Muhammad Iqbal: In reply to a question regarding Sir Allama Iqbal’s critical view of questionable traditions, Maududi sarcastically states, “In the presence of other scholars, there is no need to know his views.” (Reference same, Pg 170). Allama Iqbal was a scholar par excellence and one of the greatest exponents of the Quran through his world-renowned poetry. Any scholarly work in Urdu ignoring the great Allama speaks of the mental destitution of the writer. Also, he was a benefactor of Maududi, providing the jobless Mullah with an opportunity to work at Pathankot. Yet, we do not find a single reference to his sublime thoughts or top class poetry in Maududi’s voluminous writings.
<b>v The more ancient the Mullah, the more authoritative he becomes. A dead Mullah also becomes more revered and authoritative. The Quran warns against blind following of ancestors and equates it with disbelief. (5:104 and many other verses).
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<b>Pre-emptive Divorce: The Mullah-in-Chief of the 20th century blindly follows the ancient ‘authorities’, e.g. Hanafi jurists: If a man utters “divorce” three times even before marriage, the woman he weds will be instantly divorced. (Reference same, Pg 188). How’s that?
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Dear reader, these were just a few glimpses of the brilliance of Maududi. Only space limits us from presenting quite a few more gems. Let us finish with one more:
ADULT MALE SUCKLING ON FEMALE BREASTS: This is a horrible Hadithi joke. Bukhari writes that Hazrat Ayesha’s goat had eaten up the date-leaf upon which were written two Quranic verses. This is supposed to have happened when there was chaos at home because of the demise of the Prophet (S). One of those verses was about stoning the ‘Sheikh and Sheikhah’, a mature or married man and woman, committing adultery. The other verse was about the grown-up men suckling on a young woman.
The goat-eaten, non-existent, “Ten Sucklings Verse” (the so-called Ayah Ridha'at) is a horrible joke. The 'Imams' of Hadith report that Hazrat Ayesha and Hazrat Maimoona used to advise women of an 'easy' way to admit unrelated men into their privacy. Let any grown up unrelated man suckle on the woman's breasts on ten different occasions and lo and behold! He becomes a Mahram (one who is a family member and can intrude into their privacy from then on). (Hadith 1934 Ibn Majah, 30:12 Malik’s Muwatta about the ‘criminal’ goat).
About foster mothers, the Quran clearly states:
4:23 The following women are prohibited for you in marriage: …… your foster-mothers who have ever nursed you, foster-sisters ……
<b>The verse is obviously talking of babies and their foster mothers. Children become related to one another in a solemn bond of brotherhood or sisterhood by nursing from a common woman. The woman attains the honor of becoming their mother. According to Maududi, Imam Hanbal says that suckling on a woman on three occasions will confer the bond of suckling relationship on a child. But Imam Shafi’i differs saying that it has to be five times. However, to an aesthetically sound mind the principle is quite clear. But our jurists and Mullahs get entangled in silly disputes. </b>
<b>On Pg 338 Vol 1 of his Tafhim, Mullah Maududi writes that although the jurists differ on the age of suckling, even if a grown up man suckles on a woman, he will enter into the bond of suckling! But the foolishness does not end here. Maududi asserts in Tarjumanul Quran that the amount of milk actually swallowed is of terrible importance. How much milk? Maududi frantically seeks help from Imam Abu Hanifa and Imam Malik and comes up with a solution. Well, the amount is that which will be enough to break the fast of a fasting person. However, the three Mullahs fail to elaborate how much milk will be sufficient to break a fast. The Mullahs have neither the sense, nor the courage to reject A hadith that insult human intelligence, such as this one of a grown up man suckling on a strange woman! Would the Mullahs advise this nonsense to their wives, sisters and daughters? Who knows if Maududi did that?</b>
<b>Ayatullah As-Syed Murtaza Hussain Nasir Ferozabadi, the compiler of “Life Events of Seven Sahaba” happily accepts the great insult but shows his ‘sensitivity’ by expressing his dismay on the reported judgment of Hazrat Ayesha and Hanbal for neglecting an important issue: “The man would have to handle the female breasts.” Maududi is least concerned about it.
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Oh, another question. What if a woman has no milk? "Imam" Abu Yousuf said: Sucking at BOTH the dry breasts of a woman will fulfill the Shari'ah law, provided it is done on ten different occasions. (Gharaib fil Tahqiq-il-Mazahib Wa Tafhimul Masaail, Vol 2 Pg 137).
<b> Dear reader, our Imams and Mullahs are in the habit of answering questions that were never asked! In fact, they invent hypothetical situations. </b>
Shabbir Ahmed, M.D.
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