Dear All
Eight hundred years have passsed since the advent of Islam in Bangladesh
(1204, Bakhtier Khilji). During the muslim rule, people of Bengal, Hindus & Muslims
lived peacefully as friendly neighbours without any communal hatered or animosity
for each other. The Hindu Zamindari Syestem in Bengal was a creation of British
occupation....[Warren Hastings 1772-1774 Sunset Law] the seed communal hatered
was implanted by British to ensure the stability of it's rule, specifically after the First
Indian War of Inpendence (1856-57), the so-called Sepoy Mutiny when Hindus and
Muslims joined hand-in-hand to fight against the British Raj. In the subsequent years
the British occupiers followed the policy of Divide and Rule that culminated in the
communal partion of India.As a result a large number of people got uprooted from
their ancestorial habitat, both sides of the border.
Pakistan was created as the homeland for the muslims of India. .
[another British created homeland is Israel for jews where the Palestanians
were uprooted from their ancestorial lands ..........................]
MQM leader Altaf Hussain recently commented: The Partisan of India was
the greatest blunder in the history of Mankind....
See YouTube Videos:
[ (1) Partition of India was a Blunder in the history of mankind
(2) Partition of India a Blunder - Altaf Hussain
]
There was a disease .... the diagonosis and the solution (medicine/surgery)
were both wrong .... The patient is still alive and suffering with many
side effects and many new ailments ....Historical processes follows a
zikzak path but reaches a new height and we should always hope
& pray for the best at the end .... [ you are right,
God created Bangladesh at the end.......tomorrow will be even a
better day ........and God will help the people of Babngladesh
to create a society where there will be no second class citizen
and equality of all people will be established in the truest sense,
irrespective of one's religion or ethnicity]
Different people have different perspective and different views on these
historical matters. As we all know, what has happended in history is past
and can't be changed or repaired....However we can create a better society
where animosities and bitterness between people and communities
cease to exist .....No matter where it happens, communal hatered
can not be justified on any pretext whatsoever......
There should be no denying of the reality that although Bangladesh
is a secular muslim country communalism in various pockets
in the country still exists where hindus (and other minorities) are soft
targets of the criminals.
The communal attitude of all sorts at home must be totally abhorred and
condemned, not condoned.
Just like charity, the total eradication of communal attitude
should also start at home. We should not try to put our "dirts"
under the rugs .....As a nation we must establish "Zero Tolerance"
on all sorts of communalism: hidden or open.
[By the way, a zaminder is a tyrant sucker not because of his religion,
but because of the system that maximized his personal gains..
In Pakistan the zamindari System is still present, especially in the
We should all remember the torture suffered by Mukhtaran Mai under the
tribal zamindary power structure in Muzafforgarh district in west Punjab
- a recent news item-, June 2002]
Thanks for everyone's patience.
Syed Aslam
On 9/29/09, <siraj uddowllah@> wrote:
Dear All,
Last few debates which is going on in this column about secularism and communalism, if we go a bit in our past history, Muslims of East Bengal were the victims of torture by Hindu Zaminders and Muslims were put in a down trodden position and were given less facilities in all sphere of their life starting from education up to economic development as a whole. As a result Muslims used to remain poor and poorer in comparison to those Hindus and were the back and call of those Hindus and Hindu Zaminders as it is evident by one Muslim favoured Hindu writer Sharat Chandra Chattopaddya in his story "MOHESH". Of course there was another cottor anti-Muslim Hindu writer Bankim Chandra Bandopaddya was a serious anti-Muslims as is evident in all of his anti-Muslim writings. What Hindus are feeling now a days similarly before 1947 Muslims also living in their own majority Muslim populated home land in East Bengal used to feel like that.
Due to all of these Muslims of East Bengal supported and voted overwhelmingly to join with Pakistan to create a separate state for the Muslims. Only one benefit we got being in one Pakistan our Muslims uplifted by their education and economically. Except these later on it was found again in creating Pakistan the idea of separate muslim state were completely spoiled and failed by some high headed Pakistani Army Generals, Pakistani rulers (I mean West Pakistani) and power hungry West Pakistani foolish Politician Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. We should not forget also if Pakistan would not be created at that time to-day there would be no Bangadesh, there would be another Kashmir and the fate of us would be similar to that of Kashmir even worst than that.
Rferring to Mr. Shyamal Dutta what Mr. Syed Aslam told is partially true as "According to the news item, Mr. Shayamol Dutta was only a key note speaker, who mentioned that in 1947-division was based on communalism....that communalism created divisions among the people, the minorities (religious) have become aliens in their own land ......the remnants of communalism still exist......".
By arranging a round table conference or raising hue and cry in New York (USA) by Hindu, Bouddhya, Christian Aikkay Porishod lead by Sitangshu Guha and many others, is there any benefit to create more bitterness and communal feeling? Whether that sorts of communal disturbances is prevailing in our country for which so much media propaganda is going on?
In 1947 when I was small and a school going student in Assam, I was an eye witness of those Hindu Muslim riots. Also riots flared up in Calcutta, West Bengal the history of which many of our younger generation don't know yet.
My gratitude to the Late H.S. Sorwardy alongwith him our Bongo Bandhu Sk. Mujibur Rahman who came forward to the rescue of the Muslims of Calcutta by risking their lives at that very moment. Here I like to tell the history of the past only. Again I like to request not to see it in the communal viewpoint. Regards to all.
Dowllah.
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