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Sunday, August 4, 2013

[chottala.com] IF HITLER IS IN THE AUDIENCE, PLEASE STAND UP! A REVIEW OF ARTICLE "BUDDHIST EXTREMISM"?



IF HITLER IS IN THE AUDIENCE, PLEASE STAND UP! :A REVIEW OF ARTICLE "BUDDHIST EXTREMISM?"

Abid Bahar

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/buddhist-extremism/

When reading the article, "BUDDHIST EXTREMISM?" by, I felt like Hitler was quoting from his Meinkamp while speaking to his audience about Jewish "wickedness" and his followers were responding to him that he is right and realistic.

In addition to the arguments in the article, more alarming are the comments about the article inspiring Buddhist extremism to commit genocide of Muslims in Burma.

So I am asking, if there is Hitler in the room, please stand up!

Well I can see the speaker is Hitler himself and there are many of his followers in the audience, some are even from Burma carrying the 969 Swastika symbol..

True, in the world of ours there are still wicked forces that in the name of Buddhist, Christian or Islamic civilization reduces everything to religion, culture or race and recommends the solution in genocide of most ordinary people.

Several Corrections to right the wrong historical errors presented by the author:
(1) Compared to the expanding Europe in the new world, where only Christianity was allowed to survive, until the middle of the 20th century, (natives had no choice), Christianity, Judaism even atheism survived in all over Middle East. Jews and Christians were important ministers in Bagdad, Egypt and Cordova. When the British occupied Delhi, to their surprise they found that Hindus were majority. Spain's Cordova under Muslim rule produced Jewish philosopher Mymonades and others and still has been celebrated as the cradle of Jewish renaissance. 

(2) Muslim civilizations had no Holocaust or tragedies like Spanish inquisition or witch hunting. In fact Harzel, the founder of Zionism, who had a warrant of arrest against him in Europe found asylum in Ottoman Istanbul only.

(3) Now about Burma, those Rakhine that left Burma to escape the Burmese occupation of Arakan took shelter in the British Bengal now enjoys full citizenship of Bangladesh. But Rohingya, the indigenous people of Arakan (in the name of Buddhist civilization) faces genocide.

(4) Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia were not spread by sword, it was by Sufi mystics. It followed the same pattern that Christianity is spreading today in Burma and elsewhere.

(5) More importantly, after the Western influence in India and South East Asia, we see Islam stopped spreading and in fact Christianity is in the rise. By now Islamic civilization lost India, Palestine, Spain, Portugal, East European countries and East Turkman in China.

(6)About Thailand, even the Southern part of Thailand was a Malayan Muslim Sultanate occupied byThailand with Portuguge help.
 
The truth of the matter is that extremists like the present author, there are extremists everywhere fueling the flames of fire with prejudices until they find themselves burned by the fire they themselves had ignited against humanity with falsehood.


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Re: [chottala.com] Women at the crossroad of religion, politics and patriarchy ....



you are not the people of bangladesh. in fact you living abroad have disowned them


On 2 August 2013 09:39, Mohammed Jubair <mohammedjubair@hotmail.com> wrote:
 

Dear  Bose
People of Bangladesh will not allow Nastik to run the country, these nastic are really harmful to all religion of Bangladesh.
Nastik  means what is understood in general for people. We do not have to pull the academic meaning per say.
 

To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
From: soumitrabose@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:16:57 +0530
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] Women at the crossroad of religion, politics and patriarchy ....


 
jamatis use the word Nastik at every drop of their eyelids. It is a sanskrit word. Jamatis and BNP wallas have shown umpteen times their paltry knowledge of Bangla. Can any of them let us know what is the meaning of Nastik as per its etymology?


On 29 July 2013 09:48, Mohammed Jubair <mohammedjubair@hotmail.com> wrote:
 


Your are back again.  With all due respect, these ladies do not represent majority.
These less than 1% ... so called culturally(pre Islamic culture) inspired ladies.
These ladies do not have any agenda and they are not crossroad of religion and politics as you mentioned.
 
Yes, they are actor  of NastiK shahariar Khabir and gang.
 
Also, all hafazat are not perfect, they are human like you and me with option to say right or wrong.
 
Botton line is we would rather respect opinion of  someone other than Nastik.
 
  

 

To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
From: Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:12:50 -0400
Subject: [chottala.com] Women at the crossroad of religion, politics and patriarchy ....

 

Women at the crossroad of religion, politics and patriarchyপ্রিন্ট কর
Rokeya Chowdhury   
বৃহস্পতিবার, ২৫ জুলাই ২০১৩


"The large quantity of guilt attached to sexuality in patriarchy is overwhelmingly placed upon the female, who is, culturally speaking, held to be the culpable or the more culpable party in nearly any sexual liaison, whatever the extenuating circumstances.


 A tendency toward the reification of the female makes her more often a sexual object than a person. This is particularly so when she is denied human rights through chattel status. Even where this has been partly amended the cumulative effect of religion and custom is still very powerful and has enormous psychological consequences. Woman is still denied sexual freedom and the biological control over her body through the cult of virginity, the double standard, the prescription against abortion, and in many places because contraception is physically or psychically unavailable to her."
One could hardly resist reading back this 1969 text of Kate Millet after seeing the much talked about video link of the Hifazat-e Islam Chief, Ahmad Shafi.
And what did this elderly man have to say in his 'sermon' in front of a crowd?
* Men should not allow women to study after grade four-five. Women should receive minimum education only to take care of husband's property.
* Women should be homebound and be responsible for the husband's chattel; they should not roam around 'nakedly' (Ulongo).
* Women commit 'zina'(fornication) while out for study or work, that's why, their income does not carry 'barkat'(blessings).
*Birth control should be denounced; even polygamy could be resorted to for enhancement of the Muslim Umma.
*Coexistence of men and women in public allures men and encourages 'zina'.
Kate Millet was not incorrect in her observation that women are viewed as 'sexual object' rather than a person. It is quite astonishing how each of her lines cited above fits into Shafi's sermon. Ironically even in this 21st century, lives of women are essentially tied up between capitalism and patriarchy, while the former treats her as commodity, the latter holds her as a religious pawn.
 
If it wasn't so, how could Mr. Shafi dare to pronounce those derogatory remarks in a land where women workers constitute 80 per cent of the RMG sector which virtually runs our economy? Why is he allowed to roam around freely even after calling for curtailment of women's rights and choices of life? Would it be impossible to charge Mr. Shafi for defaming all the working forces and academia or for instigating violence against women? Can we allow such impunity when we have incidents like Hawa Akhter Jui who had her hand chopped off by her former husband for continuing college against his will or Rumana Monzur, who though being a university teacher had to lose her vision out of sheer possessiveness of her former husband?
Jui and Rumana were courageous enough to survive those gruesome incidents and they have uplifted our morale by their determination. But let us not forget Hena, the 14-year-old rape victim who was held liable for 'fornication' by a 'religious' edict. While the perpetrator successfully escaped the whipping, Hena could not survive the lashes. We have hundreds of Hena dying each year and may be thousands of perpetrators being trained and instigated by the sort of 'Ilm' (knowledge) spread by Mr. Shafi and like. Thanks to this,  we see a school teacher called a 'whore' in a public meeting for denying covering her head and the court has to declare afresh that women cannot be forced to veil. The court has expressed its concern over increasing social and religious vigilance on what women wear. And to our anguish, comes Mr. Shafi calling for restrictions on women's movement and attire in a disparaging language. But moral policing of women or blaming them for 'moral degradation' is not new in Bangladesh. Even, Hifazat-e Islam made a public admission that this is how religious sermons ('waz') have taken place in the country for decades, so why make a big fuss out of it?
This is indeed something that as a nation we should ask ourselves — why have we allowed this so long? Try any video link of 'waz' from Bangladesh available in the social media, if you believe in equality of sexes and races you are bound to be aggrieved and enraged. Why do we allow such nuisance to continue in the name of religion? Why are these 'sermons' available in stores for purchase, why does not the law step in? How does the authorities concerned remain unmoved even when many have expressed anxiety over presence of children in 'waz', which is a common platform to malign women? Why do we take these so lightly when we have alarming rate of violence against women including fatwa inflicted violence, infant mortality and maternal death?
 
These questions bear more relevance as the Hifazat was allowed and still being allowed to campaign for its most degrading 13-point demand in the name of democracy which includes demand for banning of women policy and 'free mixing of male and female'. In the face of huge uproar and protest from the media, civil society and rights activists Hifazat-e Islam said the organisation was not against women's liberty or right to work or education, they are merely demanding segregation of men and women in public sphere:
"There is nothing to prevent women from getting out of their homes, receiving education, and going to work wearing the hijab or dressing in a manner that is modest. For instance if there can be separate colleges and schools for women then it should not be a problem to create separate workplaces for them."
This explanation is an even more serious blow to the constitutional guarantee of equality of access to public life, education and work and freedom of expression irrespective of sexes. Leave alone constitutionality, narrowing down the demand to practicality it becomes apparent that this demand is being pressed to repress and belittle women. Would they go so far as to demand separate roads, highways, bus service, air crafts, and armed forces for men and women? If they are so determined about segregation then why don't they call out all Arabic teachers to restrain from tutoring female students or prohibit male teachers in female madrassahs?
And the rest has been said clearly and aloud by the Hifazat Chief and the organisation on principle has given its approval to what the leader said: "Women should be homebound and be responsible for husband's chattel". Let us take the opportunity to remember that it is the same organisation which not so long ago has publicly assaulted a female journalist, Nadia Sharmin of ETV for trying to collect news in a 'male gathering'. Similarly, the Finanical Express reporter Arafat Ara in Dhaka and Mohona TV Chief Reporter Sumi Khan in Chittagong were obstructed by Hifazat activists. Later the organisation leaders regretted the attacks, but they also requested female journalists not to cover its rally in Jessore.
 
Even after all these had happened, what reaction did we get from our Parliament which has female speaker, prime minister, opposition leader, several ministerial positions chaired by women including those from the 50 reserved seats. MP Syeda Asifa Ashrafi Papia of BNP said all that Hifazat was preaching was aimed at "security of women" and Mr. Shafi is being maligned through a 'media coup'. May be this is what is called 'condemnation of the condemner'. A ray of hope ushered in when the prime minister condemned the Hifazat chief, but it was short lived as she could not break through the patriarchal spell and took resort to the same terminology in impugning the opposition leader. We have again witnessed narrow party interest and vote count getting the upper hand over public interest.
And for those who think Hifazat-e Islam activists are some aliens residing in Quami Madrassas only, time has come to do a realty check. Our educational institutions, both private and public, are witnessing an increase of students bearing the idea that there should be seclusion of men and women in work and education. There is also a growing tendency among students to narrow down every aspect of public policy to religion. While giving lectures on Muslim Law, I have had a lot of difficulties dealing with students who would bring a non-authentic translation of the Quran in the class and argue over each and every statutory reform, even ones as harmless as marriage registration. Needless to say the texts referred to are utterly disrespectful to women.
But isn't that something which is bound to happen, because the whole fabric is somehow disrespectful and has an enmity towards women? Isn't it unbelievable that sitting in a law faculty it is not possible to run a Google search with the keywords 'sexual harassment' because it includes the three lettered word 'sex'? Isn't it true that we advertise sanitary napkins 24/7 but we have to carry it wrapped when we buy it? Do we not have a popular song which goes "Chumki choleche eka pothe, songi hole dosh ki tate?" Do we not have TV commercials presenting women as commodity, always craving for luxuries of life, beauty without brain and always belittled by men, be it husband, father-in-law or a fish seller? Don't we have colleagues and teachers and classmates who always try to portray women to be less competent, fragile and timid? Yes, we live in a society where women face systemic discrimination. Here every woman has to play an identity performance, the continuous struggle of proving her worth, for not being considered a lesser being –'woman'. A woman has more to prove, as a competent worker, a home maker, a loving wife and caring mother and more so to pass the social scrutiny of purity, which is tainted every now and then.
No wonder, while Mr. Shafi adds fuel to the fire our administration sleeps on our rights. Even when the existing data shows that most of the fatwa inflicted violence has involvement of Quami Madrasa students, our very own government increases budget allocation for madrassa education each year. Time and again, patriarchy and religion walk hand in hand.  So, let us keep the way for uniform and mass education blocked, let us restrict free flow of information, let us groom the abusers and let us cry on the abused, let us allow Mr. Shafi to preach, let us keep the abuser of our women, Ghulam Azama alive…let us turn back the clock…indeed, we have turned back the clock long ago!
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Rokeya Chowdhury is a lecturer, Faculty of Law, Dhaka University.
http://www.news-bangla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11511&Itemid=26



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আহমদ শফী যা বলেছেন







13 Jul 2013   12:10:55 PM   Saturday BdST
   

অবমাননা কি পুরুষেরও নয়?


গীতি আরা নাসরীন
বাংলানিউজটোয়েন্টিফোর.কম






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বাংলাদেশ সময়: ১১৪৮ ঘণ্টা, জুলাই ১৩, ২০১৩
জেডএম/জুয়েল মাজহার, কনসালট্যান্ট এডিটর
http://www.banglanews24.com/detailsnews.php?nssl=41a0a03bbd1fa902a86fee1eebbb457f&nttl=13072013210179

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http://bangla.bdnews24.com/bangladesh/article646506.bdnews

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11 Jul 2013   12:55:19 PM   Thursday BdST
   

নারীদের নিয়ে কুরুচিপূর্ণ বক্তব্য শফীর (ভিডিও)


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নারীদের নিয়ে কুরুচিপূর্ণ বক্তব্য শফীর (ভিডিও)
আল্লামা শাহ আহমদ শফী

ঢাকা: হেফাজতে ইসলামের আমির আল্লামা শাহ আহমদ শফী নারীদের স্বাধীনতা, শিক্ষা ও চাকরি সম্পর্কে কুরুচিপূর্ণ, সভ্যতা ও উন্নয়ন বিরোধী মন্তব্য করেছেন। ইন্টারনেটে প্রকাশিত একটি ওয়াজ মাহফিলে ভিডিওচিত্রে তার এ ধরনের বক্তব্য পাওয়া গেছে। বর্তমান বিশ্ব যেখানে নারীদের স্বাধীনতা, স্বনির্ভরতার ওপর জোর দিচ্ছে, তিনি আছেন উল্টো পথে।

ওয়াজে নারীদের তিনি তুলনা করেছেন তেঁতুলের সঙ্গে। তেঁতুল দেখলে মানুষের যেমন জিভে জল আসে তেমনি নারীদের দেখলে 'দিলের মইধ্যে লালা বাইর হয়' বলে মন্তব্য করেছেন তিনি। আল্লামা শফির ওই বক্তব্য নিয়ে সোশ্যাল মিডিয়া ফেসবুকসহ নানান ব্লগে এখন সমালোচনার ঝড় বইছে। বিভিন্ন শ্রেণী-পেশার মানুষ ওই বক্তব্যের নিন্দা জানাচ্ছেন। এ বিষয়ে এরই মধ্যে নারী নেত্রীরাও প্রতিবাদ জানিয়েছেন।

শফীর মতে, নারীদের কাজ হলো আসবাবপত্রের যত্ন নেওয়া, সন্তান লালন-পালন করা, ঘরের মধ্যে থাকা। ...... 

Watch Video at:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R-cd6P-u4WY
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[chottala.com] India wanted to invade Bangladesh in 1975



India wanted to invade Bangladesh in 1975

Hameed Shaheen

 

Pakistan Observer – August 5, 2013

Monday, August 05, 2013 - Islamabad—A startling revelation that Hindustan wanted to invade Bangladesh in 1975 to install there her own choice government appears in a new book `The Bangladesh Military Coup and the CIA Link' by B Z Khasru editor Capital Express New York, to be published shortly.

When Gen Ziaur Rahman emerged as a virtual ruler in Bandladesh following several bloody coups in 1975, he informed United States of an impending Hindustani invasion of Bangladesh. New Delhi, the book says, wanted to install government of her choice in Dhaka.

The invasion fear spiraled so high that Gen Zia made a radio call to his nation to be ready to confront the attack. It was an intense moment for the people of Bangladesh.

"The public mood in Dhaka reflected a total reversal of the sentiment at the end of the Bangladesh war in 1971 when the sentiment was explicitly anti-Pakistani and secular. Following the November 1975 events, the attitude turned explicitly pro-Pakistani, pro-Islamic, pro-American and pro-West" says an excerpt of the book.

This public mood in Dhaka reflected a total reversal of the sentiment at the end of the Bangladesh war in 1971 when the sentiment was explicitly anti-Pakistani and secular. Following the November 1975 events, the attitude turned explicitly pro-Pakistani, pro-Islamic, pro-American and pro-West.

In order to blunt the invasion, Gen Ziaur Rahman sent his acting foreign secretary Mr Nazrul Islam to seek US support to discourage New Delhi. Islam was to request that "America convey Bangladesh's feelings regarding the possible Indian move to China and Pakistan so that they could mobilize support from the Muslim countries. Accordingly, Islam asked Irving G. Cheslaw, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in Dhaka, for support to checkmate any Indian invasion.

As Islam talked with Cheslaw in Dhaka, the U.S. consul general in Kolkata discussed the events in Bangladesh with Ashok Gupta, West Bengal chief secretary, and Gen. J.F. R. Jacob, Eastern Command deputy chief, at a Soviet reception. Gupta described the Bangladesh situation as worrisome. Fighting was still going on there, and Dhaka's air was thick with anti-Indian slogans", says the excerpt. Meanwhile Mahbubul Alam Chashi, principal secretary to Bangladesh President A. M. Sayem," telephoned Davis E. Boster, U.S. ambassador in Dhaka, to seek assurance from the United States with respect to any external threat."

"Boster informed the State Department that "although Chashi's formulation was vague, what he clearly had in mind was assurance from us that we would help deter India from intervening in the current situation."

Responding to Bangladesh's request, the State Department "instructed the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka on 8 November 1975 to deliver a message pledging American support. The message said the Bangladesh government's "requests for our support during this unsettled period have received urgent and careful attention in Washington. We support the independence of Bangladesh and want to carry on the close and cooperative relations we have had with previous governments in Dacca. We will continue to be sympathetic to Bangladesh's needs and concerns."

On 8 November, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told the U.S. ambassador in New Delhi to meet with External Affairs Minister Y.B. Chavan or Foreign Secretary Kewal Singh to seek a high-level Indian assessment of the situation in Bangladesh and convey the message that the United States supported an independent Bangladesh.

Singh assured the American that New Delhi had no intention of interfering in Bangladesh affairs. How Bangladesh ran its government was its affair. But if its policies created problems or hurt Indian interests, then "India must express its concern." He believed Zia knew of India's views.

Zia panicked for the second time on the night of 23 November when he feared India was about to attack Bangladesh. At 0:30 a.m., he went on the radio appealing for the nation's unity in "this fatefulhour."

The military regime took the threat so seriously that it sent a secret envoy to Pakistan to seek Prime Minister Z. A. Bhutto's help to fend off the Indian attack.

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Why Bangladesh feared Indian invasion after 1975 coup

B.Z. Khasru

Kashmir Observer – August 1, 2013

When Gen. Ziaur Rahman became Bangladesh's virtual ruler following several bloody military coups in 1975, he told the United States that India intended to invade its small neighbor to install a puppet regime.

 

So intense was Zia's fear of an Indian invasion that on 7 November 1975 he made a call on the radio for national unity to face the attack. His call triggered more processions in Dhaka, initially sparked by the news of his release from detention by the officers who had mounted a failed coup earlier. The processions were laced with anti-Indian slogans.

 

This public mood in Dhaka reflected a total reversal of the sentiment at the end of the Bangladesh war in 1971 when the sentiment was explicitly anti-Pakistani and secular. Following the November 1975 events, the attitude turned explicitly pro-Pakistani, pro-Islamic, pro-American and pro-West.

 

Fearing a direct Indian intervention, the new regime instructed Nazrul Islam, acting foreign secretary of Bangladesh, to seek U.S. support to discourage New Delhi. He was to request that America convey Bangladesh's feelings regarding the possible Indian move to China and Pakistan so that they could mobilize support from the Muslim countries. Accordingly, Islam asked Irving G. Cheslaw, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in Dhaka, for support to checkmate any Indian invasion.

 

As Islam talked with Cheslaw in Dhaka, the U.S. consul general in Kolkata discussed the events in Bangladesh with Ashok Gupta, West Bengal chief secretary, and Gen.  J.F. R. Jacob, Eastern Command deputy chief, at a Soviet reception. Gupta described the Bangladesh situation as worrisome. Fighting was still going on there, and Dhaka's air was thick with anti-Indian slogans.

 

Indian general predicts Zia's peril

 

Jacob spent at least an hour at the reception. He was evidently in high spirits, obviously enjoying the host's vodka. He told Consul General David Korn that the Bangladesh situation was "very bad." He predicted Zia would not last very long.

 

When Korn asked if the fighting had ended, Jacob said it was continuing. Jacob knew this from monitoring of the Bangladesh army internal network. Korn asked what Jacob was going to do. Jacob replied, with a smile, "Nothing. I don't give a damn about Bangladesh."

 

Meanwhile, U.S. Consular Officer Joseph O'Neill spoke with a senior Indian Air Force officer and a Navy officer. He found both relaxed and unconcerned. A senior police officer told him the West Bengal-Bangladesh land border remained open.

The Bangladesh deputy high commissioner in Kolkata told O'Neill that he did not expect "outside interference," because the current leadership in Dhaka was very reasonable and intelligent. However, his deputy, in a separate conversation, told Korn he was quite worried about the possibility of an Indian military intervention.

Indeed, Bangladesh was worried.

 

Mahbubul Alam Chashi, principal secretary to Bangladesh President A. M. Sayem, telephoned Davis E. Boster, U.S. ambassador in Dhaka, to seek assurance from the United States with respect to any external threat.

 

Boster informed the State Department that "although Chashi's formulation was vague, what he clearly had in mind was assurance from us that we would help deter India from intervening in the current situation."

 

U.S. pledges support for Bangladesh

 

Responding to Bangladesh's request, the State Department instructed the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka on 8 November 1975 to deliver a message pledging American support. The message said the Bangladesh government's "requests for our support during this unsettled period have received urgent and careful attention in Washington. We support the independence of Bangladesh and want to carry on the close and cooperative relations we have had with previous governments in Dacca. We will continue to be sympathetic to Bangladesh's needs and concerns."

 

However, the United States faced "the practical question of how best to proceed in order to achieve what both our governments desire – to stabilize the present situation and avoid the possibility of outside intervention."

 

America was worried that any external pressure on India, particularly if it appeared to be organized by the United States, as suggested by Bangladesh, would only serve to confirm Delhi's suspicions and might well increase the possibility of Indian intervention. However, in line with Bangladesh's requests, Washington decided to keep in close touch with Pakistan to exchange views and to make clear America's "support for the restoration of stability in Bangladesh free from outside interference."

 

To calm the situation down, America urged Bangladesh to "take immediate steps to reassure" India that Dhaka intended to pursue good relations with New Delhi and to live up to its obligations to protect the foreign community and the Hindu minority. "In our judgment, this is the best way for the new regime to support our efforts in New Delhi to reduce the likelihood of Indian intervention."

 

On 8 November, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told the U.S. ambassador in New Delhi to meet with External Affairs Minister Y.B. Chavan or Foreign Secretary Kewal Singh to seek a high-level Indian assessment of the situation in Bangladesh and convey the message that the United States supported an independent Bangladesh.

 

Singh assured the American that New Delhi had no intention of interfering in Bangladesh affairs. How Bangladesh ran its government was its affair. But if its policies created problems or hurt Indian interests, then "India must express its concern."  

 

He believed Zia knew of India's views.

 

Zia panics again

 

Zia panicked for the second time on the night of 23 November when he feared India was about to attack Bangladesh. At 0:30 a.m., he went on the radio appealing for the nation's unity in "this fatefulhour."

 

The military regime took the threat so seriously that it sent a secret envoy to Pakistan to seek Prime Minister Z. A. Bhutto's help to fend off the Indian attack.

 

Immediately after receiving the news from Bangladesh, on 25 November Bhutto ordered Agha Shahi, Pakistan's foreign secretary, to ask the U.S. ambassador to see him, saying he was doing so at the prime minister's order.

 

Shahi had received a message hours earlier from the Pakistani ambassador in Rangoon, who had just had a meeting with Bangladesh Ambassador K.M. Kaiser. Kaiser was in Bangkok when he received telephonic instructions from the Bangladesh president to proceed immediately to Pakistan on a secret visit as a special presidential envoy.

 

He was to inform Bhutto of an alarming situation that had arisen for the security and independence of Bangladesh by actions of the Indians, who had already marched in and occupied certain areas of Bangladesh, an assertion the Americans later disputed.

 

Pakistan was less than pleased with Kaiser's proposed visit. The Pakistan foreign office preferred a "somewhat more reliable emissary." Kaiser asked for Pakistani visas for himself and an assistant.

 

Dhaka sends secret envoy to Islamabad

 

Henry Byroade, the U.S. ambassador in Islamabad, questioned Shahi on the timing of the reported Indian movement into Bangladesh, and specifically whether this might relate to reports a few days ago, which mentioned trench diggings along the border inside Bangladesh, or whether this was a new event. Shahi did not know. Byroade asked if he was concerned that India might try to make something big out of such a visit. Shahi said Bhutto had carefully considered that factor in deciding to go along with Kaiser's urgent plea to visit Pakistan.

 

Byroade in a cable to Washington downplayed Bangladesh's plea. He said "Kaiser is a bit of a self-starter, who gets involved in many, many things." Shahi described the visit as a "top secret." Bhutto agreed to see Kaiser because he feared that if he refused and his refusal became public there would be a strong negative public reaction against him for refusing to receive an envoy of the Bangladesh president.

 

Meanwhile, on 26 November, Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Tabarak Husain called Irving Cheslaw, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in Dhaka, at home at 8 p.m. for a discussion, especially with Zia on Bangladesh's concern that India could invade Bangladesh. Husain asked Cheslaw to go at once to the presidential palace.

 

Husain's meeting with Cheslaw took place after an attack on Samar Sen, India's high commissioner in Dhaka, by some armed elements of the Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal, a militant political group.  An Indian aircraft was coming to take him back to India for medical treatment. Husain believed that the high commissioner's departure under dramatic circumstances would only further heat up the existing situation, whereas his agreement to remain would help cool it down. Sen agreed and the Indian aircraft was turned around without landing in Dhaka.

 

After briefing Cheslaw of the situation, the foreign secretary called in Zia and Navy chief Admiral M.H. Khan, who wanted to pursue the discussion in greater detail. Zia described India's possible military invasion as an attempt to create instability in Bangladesh to bring into power a government completely under New Delhi's control.

 

India funded JSD?

 

Zia claimed that Bangladesh had evidence of military movements on the border. India also established training centers and even refugee camps in many of the same locations used in 1971. He felt that the incident at the Indian High Commission compound was no coincidence. The two men caught in connection with the incident were Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal members. JSD had been receiving money from the Indian government – directly from the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, Zia told Cheslaw.

 

He expected the Indians to move into Bangladesh very soon, even possibly in the next few days. Zia asked that America put pressure on India not to follow through with this madness. He said India "should be made to realize that this is not 1971. This is 1975 and they will find a military force of sixty thousand and a population of seventy-five million that will present enormous problems for" for New Delhi. Zia believed that the Indian military needed to control the area – Bangladesh – that stood between India's eastern territories and the rest of the country. He inferred that the Indians believed this would be an easier move to carry out because they could hold off the Pakistanis and the Himalayan passes were snowbound.

 

Both Zia and Husain requested that the American envoy immediately convey their tremendous anxiety to Washington – and particularly their request that the U.S. government provide all possible assistance in making India realize that this situation must be cooled down immediately.

 

"Walking with me to my car, the foreign secretary said he would have no objection if I conveyed the general sense of this discussion to other missions in Dacca, such as the British, even the Australians, in hope they could also be of assistance," Cheslaw informed Washington.

 

As things grew tense, India sent its foreign secretary to Moscow for consultation. On 26 November, the Soviet political counselor in New Delhi told an American diplomat that he had just heard on All India Radio that Kewal Singh, India's foreign secretary, had been received by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. The Soviet officer expressed some surprise at this development. Singh's meeting with Premier Alexi Kosygin had only been arranged at the strong urging of the Indian government. The Soviet Embassy had recommended appointments with Defense Minister Andrei Grechko and Kosygin.

 

In Washington, the State Department did not consider Kaiser credible. It advised the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad to tell the Pakistanis that the Bangladesh situation was not exactly what Kaiser told them. Accordingly, the U.S. political counselor told Hyat Mehdi, director general for South Asia at the Pakistan Foreign Ministry, "that contrary to Kaiser's allegation in Rangoon, we had no evidence that Indian forces have occupied any portions of Bangladesh territory."

 

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Re: [chottala.com] Recent Bangladesh Politics & JOY issue




Do not know exactly but some of the activity of JOY is being backed by Tareq Rahman..I was reading Govt is arranging subsidies is Rural Areas..well their are few things Joy and some of his allies are making some money..not to the extent they can, where as Getting Joy to enter into Politics..Tareq has enticed him with LARGE SUM of Money and when TAREQ GETS money  their are sources..supposedly Joy hesitated doing this...eventually saw some opportunity to make some additional money.well it seems source is OBAMA., BILL GATES & WARREN BUFFETT arranging some of these funding..it may not make difference at that end..I think this types of things where tried by SAKA CHY before..just being good Businessman..

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Subject: [chottala.com] Thurs, 8/8/13 Eid Prayer at 11600 Falls Rd, Potomac

 
Dear Community Members,  
   Salaam.  
--   Eid Al-Fitr prayer will be held at 9:30 on Thursday, 8/3/13, at 11600 Falls Rd, Potomac, MD 20854. Takbirat starts at 9:30, followed by prayer in congregation and khutba.  Please bring your prayer rug for more comfort. Socialize on the lawn after the prayers; light refreshments will be served.  
Plenty of parking plus overflow parking arranged at the synagogue next door -- please follow the directions of the volunteers.  
-- Khatam al-Quran at Tarawwih prayers will be tonight, 8/3/13.  Iftar through suhur potluck has been arranged; please come with your family and friends. Special dua will be held on 8/3 and 8/4.  
-- Qiyam al-Lail will continue at the center through the end of Ramadan.  
-- Zakat al-Fitr - payment ASAP before the Eid prayer is obligatory.  It is minimum $8.00 per person.  

May Allah accept our prayers.  

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