Comments on: Battling Islamists in Bangladesh

By: Afrin

Afrin — Wed, 18 May 2011 05:52:18 +0000

Hiding bin Laden in Pakistan has helped the ISI acquire billions if not a trillion dollar in aid from the US to fight terrorism in South Asia and the rest of the world. The whole money is unaccounted for. Laden’s safe haven in Pakistan points to the fact that a major part of that money is siphoned out by the Talibanized ISI into propping up killer suicide bombers and other terrorist networks operating globally.

Its time that the US looks at its foreign policy more realistically and intelligently. The US foreign policymakers of today are too amateurish and naive. For crooks it would be very easy to sneak through the US designed anti-terrorist fish net.

By: Blind Watchmaker

Blind Watchmaker — Tue, 17 May 2011 04:45:31 +0000

Hardliners all over the world do not bend to logic or reason. Fanaticism in the name of theology is wired into the minds of Christian, Jew, Muslim and other religious hardliners. It definitely has something to do with their upbringing or genes or both. It may be a multifactorial process. It should find a place in the new DSM-5.

To me it doesn’t seem to be normal. Why would people choose a self-destructive apoptotic process to realize their animal instincts. Animals are actually better in many ways. They only kill for food – an absolute necessity.

How will this self-annihilating process end? We have to wait and see its consequences in Pakistan and other flash points.

By: Frank Hatch

Frank Hatch — Thu, 12 May 2011 02:30:18 +0000

Dialectical Logic of Islamists:

“Dialectical logic is found in the core of Eastern and Western thouight. It is a common flaw to the human species. Although the various human cultures have developed their own methods of using this flaw, it is not simply a cultural defect. However, since each culture uses this flaw to defend and to define itself, every attempt to correct the flaw is perceived to be an attack on the culture itself. Islamists are particularly sensitive to this perceived attack; because the dialectical Absolute of the Koran is found in the attempt to synthesize the Old and New Testaments.” (The Lost, page 9)

Best Regards,

Frank Hatch
Initial Mass Displacements

By: Munia

Munia — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:57:37 +0000

Its easy to talk so many things, its great to think such a way for the welfare of Bangladesh but its really hard to do something from so far, living in USA!! People go there to make their own life and talk about the prosperity of Bangladesh…really very amaging!! Please come here and utilize your merit, efforts etc to do something….

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Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:12:17 +0000

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By: Global Voices Online » Bangladesh: Bloggers demand release of detained cartoonist

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:37:15 +0000

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By: Muhamad

Muhamad — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:10:19 +0000

An admirable article Mash bhai. I read the Koran, begrudgingly, at the age of 8/9, and I’m yet to derive any import out of it. The Koranic injunction to “read” isn’t applicable to everything, e.g., pre-Islamic erotic literature of Arabia. Let’s not forget what was done to a mere poetess.

By: Mash

Mash — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:49 +0000

I noticed that a couple of right wing American blogs have linked to E-Bangladesh and the cartoon controversy. Just to give you a feel for the the kind of bigotry and hate we are dealing with on both sides, read this comment on this right wing blog.

These mullahs in Bangladesh do a true disservice not only by their outrageous actions but also by their overdeveloped sense of outrage at anything and everything. They are outraged at everything — by doing so they take away the middle where legitimate dialogue can take place. What you are left with is genuine debate stifled and bigotry and hate coming from the two extremes. The wingnuts on the American right propagate the same kind of bigotry that we see from the Islamists — the two extremes are quite similar.

Now, for those people in Bangladesh who were “outraged” by the cartoon about the cat, please read the comment I linked to above and tell me if you understand the difference between hate speech that insults the Prophet and a cartoon. (I’ll give you a hint, the cartoon was not insulting the Prophet).

By: Sid

Sid — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:34:11 +0000

The New Age editorial is a spurious, willfully obtuse piece of propagandising. Who do they think they’re fooling? New Age is openly aligning themselves with the perpetrators of the fallacious assertion that the cartoon is anti-Prophet (SAW). Anyone with a brain and a cursory exposure to Bangla culture knows that that’s a lie and therefore a piece of propaganda. New Age is aligning itself with the Khilafists and they have the temerity to call others “pseudo-liberals”. This is yellow journalism at it’s worst.

By: Jagoruk Manush

Jagoruk Manush — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:28:33 +0000

A rise of a Mule from the ashes of a Phoenix Matiur Rahman of Prathom Alo and Matiur Rahman of Ekata. Time has changed. So has this world. Some changes have linkage with past. Others are so rapid, so much contradictory, that past can not hold the present. And, present can not recognize the past. The latter is Mr. Matiur Rahman, the editor of Prathom Alo and a stranger to his own past. His change is no less dramatic and devastating than the change that tore Soviet Union into pieces. The reasons of such incredible change of Matiur and of Soviet are the same,