Dear Belal Beg:
First Happy New Year to you and to the rest of the readers.
I would like state to you that the premise of my research is that fascism is against any democratic development. It doesn't allow opposition to its ideas and it uses violence in politics.Please check the Italian and the Spanish variety.Surprisingly Mujib had somuch similarities with those. It works on the concept of ownership/ father and its followers as the children concept. My research was specifically about Mujib's use of violence in politics which we have seen led to further bloodbath to his own death and the unrest/ anger still continues. If circumstances made him a statesman he would be a Nelson Mendala or Gandhi who would have preched reconcilliation and nonviolence in Bangladesh politics. But Mujib's upbringing made him a musleman and the killer of Bangladesh's infant democracy. .In dealing with this topic I have used examples, references, and the necessary online liks, reading questions for further research. But unlike a regular book here I have used a nontraditional approach: a book of pictures/ I have used illustrations.But this is not altogether uncommon in the West.
As you have noticed I was clearly against Mujib's brand of South Asian Fascism which I can predict it will continue to hunt Bangladesh for years to come. He was truly a very powerful fascist. We should all be against irrationalism, an academic responsibility Drs or Mr/s alike. So in no way attacking fascism is unethical. On record I was a once a devotee of Mujib, later on of Moni Sing Communist Party supporter. I went to India on foot for 17 days for trainning crossing the Chittagong Hill Tracts to Mizooram. Several times I was about to be killed by the razakars. If they had good aim, at this moment I wouldn't be writing this reply to you. So I don't fit in your categorization and intolerance. However, I must say that I am sorry to cause annoyance to your devotion to the leader. This is exacly what I had expected from some readers because I hurt in the sickness called hero-worshiping disease. Hero-worshipping is an irrational thing. But with a Ph.D. and as a believer of rationality and with some love for the country I left permanently unlike many fibble-minded followers of Bangabandu I was not vassilating. If you don't know yet please let me inform you that hero-worshipping is a disease in the followers of fascist leaders. After this explanation, if you have a little more patience please check my revised version of the book. But I thank you very much for your response.
Kind Regards
Abid Bahar
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Sent: Thu, December 31, 2009 4:50:20 PM
Subject: RE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BANGABANDU AND BANGLADESH
Dr. Abid,
I had started to read your interestingly presented book on Bangabandhu. You know, these days reading materials pour in like torrential rains. Obviously you don't read them all. You pick and choose. A Dr. before your name enticed me to read your book. I, as an ordinary man, naturally expected scholarly work from a scholar. But you shocked me in the very first page when you referred to a film to describe Sheikh Mujib's tricky ways to avert crisis. I was impelled to stop there as I figured out you will write everything yellow because you are Jaundiced. The theame you are out to elucidate, was possibly best published in a major UK Daily after Mujib's return to Bangladesh. The caption of the story was ' Sheikh Mujib, a Statesman or a village headman'.
From your organization of the book, interpretation of photographs and facts, one can very easily find out it is a Bihari or Punjabi or Moududi interpretation of the history of Bangladesh. These people could never fathom out why the Bengalis were so crazy about their language, culture, equal human rights and democratic rule. Entire history of the growth of modern Bengali nationalism centers round those fundamental themes of civilized life. As a freeman, you have the right to call an one eye blinded boy lotus-eyed or spade a spade or a piece of rope a snake but that does not affect the world. However by trying to daemonise Sheikh Mujib whom BBC's survey found out to be the greatest Bengali in history, you have resduced yourself to the pitiable level of one Rintu who wrote a book named 'Amaaar fanshi chai' to black paint Sheikh Hasina. This does not go with the responsibility and ethical norms of PhD. Again, your evalution of Mujib has not added any thing new. You will come across a Naigra of such tirades against Mujib in the Pakistani media over the last four decades. But nothing could touch the height of Mujib. Inspite of his short comings Sheikh Mujib is the Statue of Liberty for the Bengali Nation. It is a pity you can't see it.
Thank you for your time.
Belal Beg
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