'Bangali racial fundamentalists' - Part Deux

It’s been quite a drama since I published my post on ‘Bangali racial fundamentalists on rampage’. It seems the BAL supporters couldn’t take it so easily and decided to have a go at me. One ‘anonymous’ supporter started personal attack on me by posting stupid comments. Another one decided to go a bit further and started threatening me. Well, to be honest, I didn’t expect things to go this far. Suddenly I felt I am against the mighty ‘Putin’ government. But these unfortunate incidents made one thing clear as far as Bangladeshi politics is concerned – “You cannot criticize any action committed for the sake of politics, if you dare to do you will face the consequences”. One good example is when the Bangali racial fundamentalists beat Jamaat activists to death in front of the TV camera. Now, as I have mentioned in my earlier post on this subject, the BAL activists and supporters claimed that this ‘beaten to death’ action is perfectly legitimate simply because the person who was beaten to death belongs to the ‘anti-liberation’ group. Sadly, even the intellectuals who write numerous articles day and night couldn’t find anything wrong in this atrocity. Zafar Iqbal, the self-proclaimed prophet of Human Rights, who gets mysterious calls from his supporters whenever there is a trouble in Bangladesh, wrote in his article about the incident – “the AL activists bursted in anger”. Full Stop. That’s it. Nothing more than this sentence, as if nothing has happened. This is sickly sad and really unfortunate for Bangladesh.

I want to mention one important issue regarding this incident. Apart from BAL, its supporters and the pro-AL intellectuals, all others have ‘successfully’ condemned this act of violence. However, one important thing is missing here, nobody asked for the punishment for those killers! Even if they were caught live on TV, their pictures available everywhere on the internet and their ‘pro-liberation’ videos available on you tube, Bangladesh have failed to punish these criminals. Does this mean you can get away with ‘anything’ as far as it’s political? A ‘no justice’ trend for political murders will only ensure that incidents like this will happen again in future and ‘NOTHING’ will happen to the criminals. When Sonny, a Bangladesh Engineering University (BUET) student, died as a result of the crossfire between two rival BNP groups few years back – nothing happened. The girl slept to death in the middle of the street while the BNP thugs kept shooting at each other from one hall to another. No, we didn’t have justice that time and we won’t have it this time as well even if we all know who the culprits are.

However, back to the topic, I believe the Bangali racial fundamentalist group popularly known as Bangladesh Awami League and its supporters are posing a dangerous threat to the practice of ‘tolerance’ needed in a democratic country. Their sheer arrogance is nothing new and since they always get success by being ‘anarchists’ , they believe that it’s the only way forward for achieving their targets.

“Just a day after the victory from Pakistani occupation, thirty-five years back a grotesque real-life drama was enacted at Dhaka Stadium on December 17, 1971. The actor was freedom fighter Kader Siddiqi, and the victims were two men. Alleged to be Razakars, they were bayoneted to death by Siddiqi in front of a group of cheery crowd of the Muktibahini or the liberation armed groups. Horst Fass and Michel Laurent of Associated Press (AP) have won the Pulitzer Prize by photographing the grotesque killings of the two persons. The horrifying AP photo series "Death in Dacca' haunted the then government. And it was one of the reasons why all the prisoners of war (POW) of 1971 were immediately shifted to India for safety. A repeat performance of the bizarre stage show on October 28 of beating up one man to death by over young men made Dhaka known as a notorious city across the world. On that date Awami League-led 14-party alliance workers swooped upon allegedly one Jamaat worker and beat him to death in broad daylight in presence of many people.”

As you can see the incident in 1971 and the one in 2006 is pretty much similar and most importantly the Bangali racial fundamentalists haven’t changed their reasoning or behaviour in 35 years time. Perhaps we can draw some conclusions based on their arrogant behaviours. Feel free to suggest more if necessary.

1. BAL claims that they have initiated, executed and brought independence for Bangladesh and therefore ‘they’ are the sole owner of Bangladesh. As a result they automatically belong to the ‘pro-liberation’ group and the rest who don’t believe in their ideology belong to the ‘anti-liberation’ group.

2. BAL firmly believes that they have the authority to kill or ban anyone who poses a threat to the ‘independence’ of the country. This is why Sheikh Mujib initiated a one party political system and banned all the newspapers.

3. BAL arrogantly claims that Bangladesh belongs to ‘Bangalis’ only. They continuously talk and act in such a way as if no other race exists in Bangladesh. After liberation, Sheikh Mujib famously asked all the tribe people to become ‘Bangali’!!

4. As BAL pretends to be the sole owner of Bangladesh, they also act as if they are the sole owner of Bangali culture. BAL and its supporters claim to be only party people in Bangladesh to defend, define and dictate the Bangali culture. If you don’t go by their rules, you are an ‘anti-Bangali’ force. Simply they are the ‘Bangali fanatics’!

5. BAL is, by textbook, a ‘left of the centre’ political party. However, their fanaticism, racial hatred and supremacy, arrogant and violent attitude towards opinions that differ from them puts them in the ‘centre of the right’ position. Bravo to BAL for beating BNP (right of the centre) and becoming a truly ‘fascist’ party!