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| Khondaker Muzammel Huq Newly Appointed Chairman of Grameen Bank |
The language of AL Fascism.:Muzammel Huq, the government-appointed chairman of the microlender, emailed the article, "Yunusgate: If you can't convince, create confusion",
Muzammel Huq, the government-appointed chairman of the microlender, emailed the article, "Yunusgate: If you can't convince, create confusion", written by Nayeemul Islam Khan, editor of Bangla-language daily Amader Shomoy.
The article that puts Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank in a negative light was posted on bdnews24.com on March 7 apparently for a wider readership.
Speaking to The Daily Star, two recipients confirmed that they have received the article's link from Muzammel's email account.
In a post, a blogger questioned Muzammel's intention of sending the article to a wider mailing list which he found on social network site Facebook.
The list obtained by The Daily Star has 126 recipients including a former president and two ministers of Bangladesh; aid organisations, UN agencies, diplomatic missions and foundations at home and abroad; and bankers and senior company executives.
The Daily Star yesterday asked Muzammel to explain the reason for sending the mail far and wide when he is the chairman of an organisation that is now in trouble over the exit of its founder Prof Yunus.
"People should know different sides of a story and then decide what they should or should not do," Muzammel said.
Pressed to comment further over the phone, he snapped: "I won't discuss with you (The Daily Star correspondent) any contents of my personal emails and why I did so. Why should I tell you about my personal things?" Then he hung up.
Muzammel, one of Yunus' former deputies, has been a vocal critic of the microcredit pioneer, and the promotion of a former employee came as a surprise to many and gave clear signs at the time that the government would oust Grameen's founder.
In response to Muzammel's email, David Bornstein, author of The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank, said: "As a journalist who has written extensively about microcredit, and the author of a well known book on Grameen, I am very interested in all matters relating to the Bank.
"But the article is reminiscent of the kind of rant one hears from "birthers" in the United States who assert that President Obama was born in Kenya. The piece is a litany of innuendo and accusation -- most of which the reader is asked to take on sheer faith.
"But what is well known and substantiated is the fact that the government of Bangladesh is consistently ranked one of the most corrupt in the world. Billions in foreign aid have been siphoned off by the government at the highest levels. Grameen, on the other hand, has been an anomaly: a bank that does not sanction bribes, where people do not get jobs through patronage, where the money actually reaches the poor, and where borrowers do not renege on their loans and get off scot-free because of family connections."
Dear Mr. Zakaria:
Assalamualikum. I'm glad that you wrote to me. May Allah accept your effort and make this noble work a success. Outsourcing is a very complicated business and extremely challenging to land on. Some of us keep trying and may see some small scale success in the near future.
Anyhow, could you pls share your personal email and contact number with me. I would like to give you a call and see if we can brain storming something to help the kids acquire more computer skills.
Thnx.
Helal
--- On Thu, 3/10/11, Mohammad Zakaria <goufbd@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Mohammad Zakaria <goufbd@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [KHABOR] Re: The need for balanced and pragmatic views on all issues
To: khabor@yahoogroups.com
Cc: "Helal Ahmed" <huahmed@yahoo.com>, "md. saiful KHAN" <saifakhan01@gmail.com>, alapon@yahoogroups.com, "Khabor Dot Com" <info@khabor.com>, "Abba" <hussain7192@rogers.com>, chottala@yahoogroups.com, "Nuran Nabi" <nurannabi@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 11:18 PM
Hi This is Mohammad Zakaria Executive Director GonoGobeshona o Unnayan Foundation in Bangladesh..Reading this e.mail about outsourcing business in Bangladesh I felt like writing a few lines about a rural IT Project we r running. Right now this is more about computer skill development of young men and women.Some of them lost their fisher father during that fateful sidr night while fishing in the sea.
I am wondering how to link their computer skills to future outsourcing and create jobs.
Best regard
Zakaria
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Helal Ahmed <huahmed@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Saif bhai:
Assalamualikum. I choose to address you as Saif bhai cause in your previous two responses you mentioned me as Helal Bhai. It feels much closer when someone addresses you as bhai. Though you are much elder to me, I'm flattered that you addressed me that way.
Hope you are not going to harm me after knowing my whereaboutsJ. I have been way from home since the beginning of 1996 but fortunate enough to go home on regular basis sometime twice a year. I moved to Canada from US in 2004 and currently residing in greater Toronto area (GTA). I earned an MBA degree from Chittagong University and a second one from Texas A&M - Commerce. My late father wondered how I managed to complete two MBA degrees without much study. I convinced him that it was His and my Mother's non-stop prayers helped me get through.
Though I left my country for better future (physically) but I'm always there through my soul. Bangladesh gave me so much that, at times, I feel ashamed for not being able to give anything back to Her. Currently I'm trying to establish IT outsourcing business with Bangladesh so that our next generation might have a better prospect ahead of them. If i fail, at least, i will be able tell myself that i tried.
I hope I shared enough to give you an idea about me. You may reach me at 647 828-3796 if you feel like yelling for arguing with a respected retired ambassador.
Thanks.
Helal
--- On Thu, 3/10/11, md. saiful KHAN <saifakhan01@gmail.com> wrote:
From: md. saiful KHAN <saifakhan01@gmail.com>
Subject: The need for balanced and pragmatic views on all issues
To: "Helal Ahmed" <huahmed@yahoo.com>
Cc: alapon@yahoogroups.com, "Khabor Dot Com" <info@khabor.com>, "Abba" <hussain7192@rogers.com>, khabor@yahoogroups.com, chottala@yahoogroups.com, "Nuran Nabi" <nurannabi@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 12:08 PM
Dear Bhai Helal
I have read your email response.
Thanks for your balanced response to my comment and observation.
But I think that you continue to remain unfair in your remarks on Dr. Nabi and freedom fighters.
Let us not be in real haste to reply back again to you. I hope to share some further thoughts on the overall issue next week.
I am a bit intrigued as to how long you are abroad and where are you based. So enlighten us further on this point later at your discretion and time convenient to you.
Saif Khan
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