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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Re: [chottala.com] ১৮ বুদ্ধিজীবীর খুনি আশরাফ ও মাঈন !!!!!!!



Lets take it further, Zia allowed them into politics, hr did not try them..why expect awami league


From: Muhammad Ali <manik195709@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [chottala.com] ১৮ বুদ্ধিজীবীর খুনি আশরাফ ও মাঈন !!!!!!!

 
Tribunal should investigate about Jamat leader JASHIMUDDIN SARKAR (Advocate), who alleged to be a member of Islami Chatro Shangho in 1971. He was directly involved in killing of his class mate LABLU ( Dhaka Intermediate Technical College),
Lablu's dead body was found in Dhanmondi Lake . Lablu was nephew of AL leader late Baki ( Ex. President of Chatro League).
After liberation Jashimuddin Sarkar has been hiding until August 1975 when he returned to BD and got admission in Chittagong University where he was very much active with Islami Chatro Shibir and later was elected VP of CHUCSU . 

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মানবতাবিরোধী অপরাধের বিচার১৮ বুদ্ধিজীবীর খুনি আশরাফ ও মাঈনগ্রেপ্তারে আবেদন হচ্ছে নিজস্ব প্রতিবেদক
আমেরিকাপ্রবাসী আশরাফুজ্জামান খান ও লন্ডনপ্রবাসী চৌধুরী মাঈনুদ্দিনকে গ্রেপ্তারের জন্য আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনালের তদন্ত সংস্থা ট্রাইব্যুনালে আবেদন জানাতে যাচ্ছে। বর্তমানে প্রবাসী এ দুই বাঙালির বিরুদ্ধে বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতাযুদ্ধের সময় ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের ৯ জন শিক্ষক, ছয়জন সাংবাদিক ও তিনজন চিকিৎসক হত্যার অভিযোগ এনে তদন্ত সংস্থা গ্রেপ্তারের আবেদন করছে। ইতিমধ্যে তদন্ত সংস্থা এই দুজনের বিরুদ্ধে তদন্ত প্রতিবেদন প্রস্তুত করেছে। আজ বুধবার এ প্রতিবেদন ট্রাইব্যুনালে দাখিলের জন্য প্রসিকিউশনের কাছে দাখিল করা হবে।
গতকাল মঙ্গলবার ঢাকার বেইলি রোডে তদন্ত সংস্থার কার্যালয়ে এক সংবাদ সম্মেলনে তদন্ত সংস্থার সমন্বয়কারী হান্নান খান এ তথ্য জানান। সংবাদ সম্মেলনে তদন্ত সংস্থার জ্যেষ্ঠ সদস্য সানাউল হকসহ তদন্ত সংস্থার অন্য কর্মকর্তারা উপস্থিত ছিলেন।
হান্নান খান বলেন, দুজনকে গ্রেপ্তারের জন্য এরই মধ্যে ইন্টারপোলের সঙ্গে যোগাযোগও শুরু হয়েছে। ইন্টারপোল ইতিবাচক সাড়া দিয়েছে। এর পরও যদি গ্রেপ্তার না করা যায় তাহলে তাঁদের অনুপস্থিতেই বিচারকার্য শুরু হবে। চৌধুরী মাঈনুদ্দিন ও আশরাফুজ্জামান খানের বিরুদ্ধে মোট এক হাজার ১৫৮ পৃষ্ঠার প্রতিবেদন তৈরি করা হয়েছে।
তদন্ত সংস্থার সমন্বয়কারী আরো বলেন, আলবদর বাহিনীর ঘাতক চৌধুরী মাঈন উদ্দিন এবং মোহাম্মদ আশরাফুজ্জামান খানের বিরুদ্ধে ১৯৭৩ সালের আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনাল অ্যাক্টের ৩(২) ধারা অনুযায়ী ১৮ জন বুদ্ধিজীবীকে অপহরণ, হত্যা ও গণহত্যার অভিযোগে তথ্য-প্রমাণ পাওয়া গেছে।
সংবাদ সম্মেলনে জানানো হয়, আশরাফুজ্জামান খান এবং চৌধুরী মাঈন উদ্দিনের নেতৃত্বে আলবদরের একটি সশস্ত্র দল পরিকল্পিতভাবে ঢাকার বুদ্ধিজীবীদের অপহরণ করে নির্মম নির্যাতনের পর হত্যা করে। সাংবাদিক শহীদুল্লা কায়সারকে সন্ধান করতে গিয়ে বাহাত্তর সালের ৩০ জানুয়ারি মিরপুর বিহারি ক্যাম্পে গিয়ে নিখোঁজ হন তাঁর ভাই প্রখ্যাত সাহিত্যিক জহির রায়হান। স্বাধীনতাযুদ্ধ চলাকালে সারা দেশে মোট ৯৬৮ জন শিক্ষাবিদ, ২১ জন বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় শিক্ষক এবং ৪১ জন আইনজীবীসহ ১০২০ জন বুদ্ধিজীবীকে হত্যা করা হয়।
সংবাদ সম্মেলনে জানানো হয়, এ দেশকে মেধাশূন্য করার জন্য বুদ্ধিজীবী হত্যার পরিকল্পনা করা হয়েছিল। এই পরিকল্পনা বাস্তবায়নে সরাসরি জামায়াতে ইসলামীর ছাত্র সংগঠন ইসলামী ছাত্র সংঘের সদস্যরা হাইকমান্ডের নির্দেশে আলবদর বাহিনীতে রূপান্তরিত হয়ে বুদ্ধিজীবী হত্যাকাণ্ডে অংশগ্রহণ করে। আলবদর বাহিনীর অপারেশন ইনচার্জ চৌধুরী মাঈনুদ্দিন এবং চিফ এক্সিকিউটর মো. আশরাফুজ্জামান খানের প্রত্যক্ষ অংশগ্রহণ ও নেতৃত্বে ১৯৭১ সালে ঢাকায় বুদ্ধিজীবী হত্যাকাণ্ড সংঘটিত হয়। তাঁরা উভয়েই ছাত্রজীবন থেকে ইসলামী ছাত্র সংঘের সক্রিয় সদস্য হিসেবে এবং পরবর্তী সময়ে হাইকমান্ডের সদস্য হিসেবে অন্তর্ভুক্ত হয়ে স্বাধীনতাযুদ্ধের বিপক্ষে অবস্থান নেন।
সংবাদ সম্মেলনে বলা হয়, একাত্তর সালের ১০ ডিসেম্বর রাতে দৈনিক ইত্তেফাকের নির্বাহী সম্পাদক সিরাজ উদ্দিন হোসেন এবং পিপিআইয়ের চিফ রিপোর্টার সৈয়দ নাজমুল হককে তাঁদের বাসা থেকে অপহরণ করা হয়। ১১ ডিসেম্বর ভোর রাতে দৈনিক পূর্বদেশ পত্রিকার চিফ রিপোর্টার আ ন ম গোলাম মোস্তফা, ১২ ডিসেম্বর বিবিসির সংবাদদাতা ও সাবেক পিপিআইয়ের জেনারেল ম্যানেজার নিজাম উদ্দিন আহমদ, ১৩ ডিসেম্বর তারিখে দৈনিক শিলালিপি পত্রিকার সম্পাদিকা সেলিনা পারভীন এবং ১৪ ডিসেম্বর দৈনিক সংবাদের যুগ্ম সম্পাদক ও বিশিষ্ট কথাসাহিত্যিক শহীদুল্লা কায়সারকে অপহরণ করা হয়। একই দিনে ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের শিক্ষক অধ্যাপক গিয়াসউদ্দিন আহমদ, অধ্যাপক রাশিদুল হাসান, অধ্যাপক আনোয়ার পাশা, ড. আবুল খায়ের, ড. সন্তোষ ভট্টাচার্য, ড. সিরাজুল হক খান, অধ্যাপক ফয়জুল মহি, মোফাজ্জল হায়দার চৌধুরী, মুনীর চৌধুরী এবং বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের চিকিৎসক ডা. মোহাম্মদ মর্তুজাকে অপহরণ করা হয়। ১৫ ডিসেম্বর বিশিষ্ট চক্ষু চিকিৎসক ডা. আলিম চৌধুরী এবং ঢাকা মেডিক্যাল কলেজের বিশিষ্ট কার্ডিওলজিস্ট ডা. ফজলে রাব্বীকে অপহরণ এবং নির্মমভাবে নির্যাতন করে হত্যা করা হয়। অপহৃত সাংবাদিকদের মধ্যে সেলিনা পারভীনের অর্ধগলিত লাশ রায়েরবাজার বধ্যভূমি থেকে একাত্তর সালের ১৮ ডিসেম্বর পাওয়া যায়। অন্য সাংবাদিকদের লাশের হদিস পাওয়া যায়নি।
হান্নান খান বলেন, মাঈনুদ্দিন ও আশরাফুজ্জামানের বিরুদ্ধে তাঁদের নিজ এলাকা যথাক্রমে ফেনী ও গোপালগঞ্জে তদন্ত করা হয়। একই সঙ্গে এলাকায় তাঁদের স্থাবর-অস্থাবর সম্পত্তির খোঁজ নেওয়া হয়। তাঁদের সম্পদের প্রাথমিক একটি তথ্য তদন্ত সংস্থা সংগ্রহ করেছে।
তদন্ত সংস্থার সূত্র মতে, ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের অধ্যাপক মুনীর চৌধুরী, অধ্যাপক মোফাজ্জল হায়দার চৌধুরী, অধ্যাপক আনোয়ার পাশা, অধ্যাপক সন্তোষ ভট্টাচার্য এবং সাংবাদিক শহীদুল্লাহ কায়সার ও সিরাজুদ্দীন হোসেনসহ অনেক বুদ্ধিজীবী হত্যায় মাঈনুদ্দিন ও আশরাফুজ্জামানের জড়িত থাকার প্রমাণ পাওয়া গেছে।
এই প্রতিবেদন সম্পর্কে আপনার মতামত দিতে এখানে ক্লিক করুন
প্রথম পাতা -এর আরো সংবাদ
অনলাইন জরিপআজকের প্রশ্নতথ্য ফাঁস করলে দণ্ডের বিধান রেখে এসইসির বিধি সংস্কারের তিনটি প্রস্তাব অনুমোদন করেছে মন্ত্রিসভা। এতে শেয়ার কারসাজি কমবে বলে মনে করেন কি?হ্যাঁনা
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[chottala.com] Fwd: Saudi Arabia's 'Religious Police' Reforms (wake up all Muslims - sooner the better)




Dear Islamist (follows and supports fundamentalism in Islam or still hesitant to support US and European led allied actions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Arab spring among us)

Let us wake up, ultra Wahabi Fundamentalists in Saudi Arabia are very slowly but definitely waking up. Women are resisting and opposing Wahabi rules, daring women are driving and wearing make up defying "religious police order", example- " in which she forced the three mutawiyin to stop bothering her, and regular uniformed police refused to assist the mutawiyin, was posted on YouTube and went viral. In the video, the unidentified woman threatened to report the mutawiyin to Al-Sheikh.". A little bit extra fundamentalists among us-  may see the video-click "posted" above to see defying lady and helpless police. So let us, all ages, wake up in our remaining  days, weeks, months, and years of fading existence in this world.
Yours Sincerely,
Golam F. Akhter, Bangladesh-USA Human Rights Coalition Inc. 
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Saudi Arabia's 'Religious Police' Reforms

by Irfan Al-Alawi and Stephen Schwartz
The Weekly Standard Blog
October 9, 2012

 Reference: Original Link:      http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2112/saudi-arabia-religious-police-reforms

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The Shrine of Prophet Muhammad, Sallallualeyisalem, in Medina.

In the seven years since King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz assumed the throne of Saudi Arabia, the absolute monarch, whose reformist aspirations are widely believed to be sincere, has attempted to curb some of the outrageous human rights violations for which the desert kingdom is known. Many of these have involved the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), the ubiquitous "moral guardians" that patrolled Saudi Arabian public space and occasionally raided private homes. But change has been obstructed by members of the royal family, state officials, and clerics representing the ultra-fundamentalist Wahhabi sect that is the official Islamic interpretation in the country and dominates it in a marriage-based alliance with the Al-Saud family.

At the beginning of October, Saudi Arabia announced reforms in the activities of the CPVPV that could mark a turn in the evolution of Saudi Arabia toward normality as a society.

Westerners call the CPVPV "the religious police," although they have lacked law-enforcement training or other professional characteristics of public-order bodies. Saudi subjects and foreign Muslims who visit Saudi Arabia refer to them as the "hai'a" (commission), or the "mutawiyin"—the latter meaning "the pious," "the devotees," or "the volunteers" but with a strong implication of vigilantism. Dressed in white robes and red-checkered headscarves, they remain feared and hated by the Saudi populace.

Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh.

In January 2012, King Abdullah appointed Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh as the new head of the mutawiyin, replacing a figure with a reformist reputation, Abdul Aziz Al-Humain. Paradoxically, Abdul Latif Al-Sheikh is a lineal descendant of Muhammad Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab, founder of the Wahhabi movement. But Al-Sheikh is credited with more advanced attitudes, especially on the status of women. Al-Sheikh has pointed out that Wahhabi-style strict separation of unrelated men and women, and a bar on women working in contact with men, contradict traditional Islamic law. In addition, among his first executive actions was to dismiss volunteers from the mutawiyin. In April 2012, he warned that members of the mutawiyin found to be harassing people would be punished, and castigated CPVPV personnel considered overzealous.

Then came an incident in May known in Saudi Arabia as the case of "the nail polish woman." An unknown young female used her celphone camera to film a confrontation with three members of the mutawiyin who tried to get her to leave a shopping mall, reportedly because she was wearing nail polish, lipstick, and a small portion of her hair was visible under her veil (hijab). Her video of the dispute, in which she forced the three mutawiyin to stop bothering her, and regular uniformed police refused to assist the mutawiyin, was posted on YouTube and went viral. In the video, the unidentified woman threatened to report the mutawiyin to Al-Sheikh.

One defiant woman and a YouTube video seem to have encouraged a faster pace in reform of the mutawiyin. When the "nail polish woman" episode occurred, Abdul Latif Al-Sheikh criticized the member of the mutawiyin leading the trio at the mall. In June, the popular blog Saudi Jeans described Al-Sheikh weeping as he told his staff about a meeting with King Abdullah in which the ruler asked him to prevent the mutawiyin from acting violently against Saudi subjects. Al-Sheikh also commented on the altercation involving the "nail polish woman," "The world is making airplanes and we are telling a woman to leave the mall because she is wearing nail polish."

At the beginning of October, Al-Sheikh announced that the powers of the mutawiyin would be drastically restricted. They will be barred from making arrests, conducting interrogations, or carrying out searches without a warrant from the local governor. They will no longer stand at the entrances of shopping malls to keep women out who do not adhere to the Wahhabi dress code or who are not accompanied by "approved" men—husbands, siblings, or parents.

Until recently totaling 3,500 paid members, along with their numerous (now excluded) volunteers, the mutawiyin have been a central factor in Saudi Arabian life since their creation by King Abd Al-Aziz Ibn Saud (1876-1953) after the establishment of Saudi dominion over Mecca and Medina in the mid-1920s. They are best remembered and most criticized for an atrocious incident in 2002, when a fire broke out at a girls' school in Mecca. Fourteen girls died as they were pushed back into the flames by the mutawiyin, under the pretext that in fleeing the blaze the students failed to cover themselves with sufficient modesty. The mutawiyin even prevented firemen from rescuing the girls and kept the gates of the school locked—a common practice supposed to avoid immoral gender mixing.

The honorable Muslimah Manal Al-Sharif.

The Saudi mutawiyin have generally made up their own rules. Their most infamous habits of interference with ordinary Saudis (as well as with foreign visitors) included demanding proof that mixed-gender couples were married or otherwise linked by family or blood ties, and preventing women from driving on the main roads. They do not monitor rural areas where women often operate cars and trucks, or special compounds where women drive, like that of the Saudi ARAMCO energy complex in Dammam and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), an ambitious, modern campus opened near Mecca in 2009. Wahhabi clerics and the mutawiyin oppose women driving on the argument that it encourages sexual promiscuity and prostitution. Yet thousands of Saudi women own cars and are forced to employ drivers. Women demanding the right to drive openly include Manal Al-Sharif, creator of an organization, Saudi Women to Drive, and Najla Hariri, who took the initiative last year of driving at will around the more cosmopolitan port and commercial city of Jedda.

The honorable Muslimah Najla Hariri.

But the mutawiyin have busied themselves with other matters aside from gender mixing and women driving. They enforced mosque attendance at prayer times, and punished Muslims engaged in so-called "idolatrous" practices of which Wahhabis disapprove. The latter include praying in the direction of Muhammad's sarcophagus in his mausoleum in Medina, where many foreign Muslims go for prayer during hajj pilgrimages.

The situation began to change slowly in 2005, when then-crown prince Abdullah, who already had a reputation for reformist aspirations and resentment of Wahhabi excesses, assumed the throne after the death of the enfeebled King Fahd, his half-brother. Once he gained power, King Abdullah sought to impose limits on the mutawiyin. In 2006, they were officially barred from conducting interrogations. But the morals patrols, although reporting to the king, pushed back, with support from the succeeding crown prince Nayef Bin Abd Al-Aziz, a hardline Wahhabi, who died in mid-June 2012. In 2007, with Abdullah in power and Nayef as interior minister, the mutawiyin accumulated a series of new brutalities. These included the unpunished murders of Salman Al-Huraisi, who was beaten to death in his house for suspected possession of alcohol, and of Ahmed Al-Bulawi, who was caught riding without a chaperone in the car of a Moroccan woman—for whom he worked as a driver. In both cases, the families of the victims took the mutawiyin to court, and in both instances (as in others) charges against the mutawiyin were postponed indefinitely or dropped.

The year 2007 additionally saw the detention and beating of 18 Iraqi Shia hajj pilgrims, holding U.S. and British passports, for praying according to the Shia ritual, which differs in slight details from the forms of Sunni Muslim prayer. As the mutawiyin and their responsibilities became a field for confrontation between reformers and fanatics, King Abdullah achieved a minor victory by removing the right of the morals patrols to carry thin leather-covered sticks with which to beat alleged offenders, including women who allowed the all-covering black cloak known as the abaya to slip enough to reveal a a small area of their ankles.

Riyadh.

Saudi sources warn that the hard-core Wahhabis will continue to fight King Abdullah's reforms, as well as the measures introduced by Abdul Latif Al-Sheikh.

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Re: [chottala.com] Suranjit Sen Talks right(VIDEO)



As a Rail Minister Mr Surenjit Sen Gopta is responsible for all activities done in  rail department either  is it god work done or is it corruption works done?..
Anti Corruption Commission is responsible to investigate all kind of  corruption activities  done by any person whether is he minister or driver?.
It seems that Mr Golam Rahman of ACC has many understanding problem and it seems that he is an inefficient and worthless officer.  It may be he does not understand what his duty as public paid servant of ACC or it may be that he is also public money looter as other looters either political or employee  public servant public money looters .
A Lawful honest efficient investigation committee should need to form for investigating the  property of Mr Gupta Sen Babu Surenjit inherited from his parents' property  and now belong to him and his children how much money and property?.
How have they earned these money and property?.
Regards
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At last he speaks right.
Yes, he can defend himself. Please see the video in the link below:
 
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[chottala.com] Afterlife exists says top brain surgeon




By Mark Hughes, New York 09 Oct 2012

http://www.telegrap h.co.uk/news/ worldnews/ northamerica/ usa/9597345/ Afterlife- exists-says- top-brain- surgeon.html

A prominent scientist who had previously dismissed the possibility of the
afterlife says he has reconsidered his belief after experiencing an out of
body experience which has convinced him that heaven exists.

Dr Eben Alexander, a Harvard-educated neurosurgeon, fell into a coma for
seven days in 2008 after contracting meningitis.

During his illness Dr Alexander says that the part of his brain which
controls human thought and emotion "shut down" and that he then experienced
"something so profound that it gave me a scientific reason to believe in
consciousness after death." In an essay for American magazine Newsweek,
which he wrote to promote his book Proof of Heaven, Dr Alexander says he
was met by a beautiful blue-eyed woman in a "place of clouds, big fluffy
pink-white ones" and "shimmering beings".

He continues: "Birds? Angels? These words registered later, when I was
writing down my recollections. But neither of these words do justice to the
beings themselves, which were quite simply different from anything I have
known on this planet. They were more advanced. Higher forms." The doctor
adds that a "huge and booming like a glorious chant, came down from above,
and I wondered if the winged beings were producing it. the sound was
palpable and almost material, like a rain that you can feel on your skin
but doesn't get you wet."

Dr Alexander says he had heard stories from patients who spoke of outer
body experiences but had disregarded them as "wishful thinking" but has
reconsidered his opinion following his own experience.

He added: "I know full well how extraordinary, how frankly unbelievable,
all this sounds. Had someone even a doctor told me a story like this in the
old days, I would have been quite certain that they were under the spell of
some delusion.

"But what happened to me was, far from being delusional, as real or more
real than any event in my life. That includes my wedding day and the birth
of my two sons." He added: "I've spent decades as a neurosurgeon at some of
the most prestigous medical institutions in our country. I know that many
of my peers hold as I myself did to the theory that the brain, and in
particular the cortex, generates consciousness and that we live in a
universe devoid of any kind of emotion, much less the unconditional love
that I now know God and the universe have toward us.

"But that belief, that theory, now lies broken at our feet. What happened
to me destroyed it."





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