Bangladesh’s Radical IslamistsGet U.S. Backing

[oFFbEAT]

What a bunch of bastards.
I wonder why Pakistan, India don't protect their people and destroy the ISAF force.

What can JEW USA do against nuclear weapons?

They have nukes too....

 

[Not Sure]

My though process has nothing to do with my belief system(or lack of a belief system)......my thoughts and views are based on my observation of India's involvement in Bangladesh's internal politics and Indian support for an undemocratic totalitarian regime just for the sake of 'secularism' when they themselves are eager to kick their 'secular' government out in favor of a party that believes in Hindutva ideology.....in other words your hypocrisy!

Congress Party is secular? What world do you live in?

And it is BJP's prerogative what belief system it holds. Hindutva ideology embraces all faiths as equal, that is why much before the 'melting pot' United States came into existence, India was the refuge to all those driven from their homes and yet managed to keep the diversity intact. And there you are, Pakistan and Bangladesh, you cannot live together even with just two distinct groups even if they both are Muslims, leave alone another faith.

And they were Congress Party leaders who went along with the idea of a 'Pakistan' to rid the nation of most of the Muslims. The first time BJP came with full majority, within months its PM was in Lahore to discuss the Kashmir issue.

You are nothing but just another one who lives in a fool's paradise built by the media and reaped by the polities.

 

[JanjaWeed]

U.S wants every country to become a terrorist heaven first so that they can bring 'democracy' later...thereby gaining a foothold in that region.....clever tactics....

Typical US tactic. Target a country.. try & create anarchy there.. then cure it by selling democracy as the antidote at victim's cost. Oh well...I know now where they get inspiration to produce movies like Mission Impossible II.

 

[Anubis]

Congress Party is secular? What world do you live in?

And it is BJP's prerogative what belief system it holds. Hindutva ideology embraces all faiths as equal, that is why much before the 'melting pot' United States came into existence, India was the refuge to all those driven from their homes and yet managed to keep the diversity intact. And there you are, Pakistan and Bangladesh, you cannot live together even with just two distinct groups even if they both are Muslims, leave alone another faith.

And they were Congress Party leaders who went along with the idea of a 'Pakistan' to rid the nation of most of the Muslims. The first time BJP came with full majority, within months its PM was in Lahore to discuss the Kashmir issue.

You are nothing but just another one who lives in a fool's paradise built by the media and reaped by the polities.

Basically what you have done here is canvassed for Hindutvas and ranted about what Congress did in 47.....but have not addressed any of the issues I pointed out regarding Indian meddling in Bangladesh politics.

 

[GR!FF!N]

Indian meddling

that is not "Indian meddling" what kept BNP out of voting process.its her low confidence about winning.BNP and others survived "India's meddling" (though I wonder what extent India ever exercised it) for decades.sure they'll survive more.but I wonder whether they'll survive extremist muslims and their ideologies.

on the other hand,its not USA's @$$ if another volatile situation erupts in BD.its not Pakistan's,Mayanmar's or China's @$$.its always India's.cause these bangladeshis are expert in one thing,running towards India,if anything goes wrong.

 

[Anubis]

that is not "Indian meddling" what kept BNP out of voting process.its her low confidence about winning.BNP and others survived "India's meddling" (though I wonder what extent India ever exercised it) for decades.sure they'll survive more.but I wonder whether they'll survive extremist muslims and their ideologies.

on the other hand,its not USA's @$$ if another volatile situation erupts in BD.its not Pakistan's,Mayanmar's or China's @$$.its always India's.cause these bangladeshis are expert in one thing,running towards India,if anything goes wrong.

Absolutely wrong......Khaleda Zia was put under house arrest the moment she declared her march for democracy.....proving Hasina's low confidence on what the people might do.....by stopping her from holding a simple rally to the widespread casting of fraud votes (as reported by almost all the media) in an election which is already questionable Hasina proved that a fair election could not have been held under her governance.Hasina would never let BNP win the election....If KZ had run and (obviously lost) it would mean that she would have to give legitimacy to a government that everyone knew would be illegal even a sinle vote was cast!

 

[GR!FF!N]

@Anubis

was Khaleda arranging "March for Democracy" to submit her nomination??unless thats the case,don't bother about replying.you know what,in India,we're accustomed with such Vote Politics stunt.I belong to West Bengal and we've Left Front for such role now.before,it was TMC.

defying constitution is "Step Towards Democracy's death",not otherwise.nobody forced her out of Govt that'll take place till election.she herself did.

 

[Anubis]

@Anubis

was Khaleda arranging "March for Democracy" to submit her nomination??unless thats the case,don't bother about replying.you know what,in India,we're accustomed with such Vote Politics stunt.I belong to West Bengal and we've Left Front for such role now.before,it was TMC.

defying constitution is "Step Towards Democracy's death",not otherwise.nobody forced her out of Govt that'll take place till election.she herself did.

Hasina bibi just defied constitution by accepting 'opposition leaders'(puppets) into her cabinet.....she also defied constitution by swearing in news parliament where as old parliament was in place and not dismissed.....as of now BD has around 600 mps for 300 seats!Constitution in Bangladesh is just a piece of paper where anybody can write whatever he or she chooses.....

 

[Saiful Islam]

First of all, if you are referring to Jamaat, then that is quite funny calling them 'radicalist'. The fact that they are a democratic party and have taken part in the democratic process since probably the birth of the Bangladesh in no way deems them "radical". I don't believe in this "moderate" and "fundamentalist" mumbo jumbo because we should believe in the Quran and sunnah and that's the bottom line. In no way is Jamaat or any Islamic group in Bangladesh radical lmao.

Like I said (Indians) don't comment on things you don't know about.

 

[fallstuff]

Bangladesh’s Radical Islamists Get U.S. Backing - The Daily Beast

n 1971, the U.S. abetted a genocide in Bangladesh—and it’s now siding with the radical Islamist culprits, who are fomenting the country’s latest political crisis.

In 1971, the United States abetted a genocide in what is today Bangladesh. President Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, provided diplomatic and military succour to the Pakistan army and its Islamist allies as they slaughtered three million people, displaced ten million, and forced half a million Bengali women into sexual servitude. There has never been an apology from Washington. But 42 years after it got into bed with Islamist genocidaires in Bangladesh, the U.S. appears once again to be espousing their cause.

On Sunday, Bangladesh held the 10th general election since it became an independent state. The principal opposition—made up of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its chief ally, the Bangladesh Jamat-e-Islami, a clerical ensemble of alleged war criminals and aspiring theocrats—boycotted the vote. Their walkout was prompted by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s refusal to transfer power to a caretaker administration. Yet in spite of their withdrawal the polls, being constitutionally mandatory, went ahead. The ruling Awami League party, without a formidable opposition, won in a landslide. But, far from being a perfunctory show, this election was the most violent in the country’s history. Eighteen people were slain as the opposition, having sworn to keep out, showed up on election day to deter people from exercising their franchise. Polling stations were torched, voters threatened not to step out of their homes, and volunteers of the Awami League were assaulted by mobs. The warriors of the Jamat expressed their “disaffection” by raiding the villages of feeble religious minorities. As one Bangladeshi commentator put it: “In its 42 years of existence, Bangladesh has never seen such violence. It seems like someone has just opened the gates of hell.”

Hasina’s decision not to vacate her office, in defiance of a recent convention, was a grievous mistake. Attempting to remedy it by pushing her to concede to the opposition as it stands now—which is what Washington and its allies are doing—would be suicidal for Bangladesh. The violence that has devoured parts of Bangladesh over the last week was not a spontaneous outburst by disgruntled democrats. It was a campaign of terror calibrated to delegitimize the election and generate chaos, invite a crackdown, depict Hasina as a tyrant to Western governments while weakening her at home, and ultimately halt Bangladesh’s arduous effort—initiated by Hasina—to achieve a sincere reconciliation with its past.
At a time when Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto was aiding the Taliban’s rise in Afghanistan, Hasina was taking on Islamists cut from the same ideological cloth as the Taliban.

The opposition is afraid of the past because its revered members are culpable for some of the most agonizing memories it evokes. Thirteen battalions of mostly Bengali Islamists assisted the Pakistan army in carrying out the single largest massacre of Muslims since the birth of Islam—“a jihad against Hindu-corrupted Bengalis,” as one American witness to the events in 1971 in what was then East Pakistan called them. Kissinger and Nixon, having recruited Pakistan as a conduit in their effort to broker relations with Mao’s China, condoned the massacres. They told each other jokes about the killings. After independence, when East Pakistan established itself as Bangladesh, the new state gave itself a secular constitution. Sheikh Mujib, the father of the new nation, was fierce in the beginning. An act of parliament was passed in 1973 to set up a tribunal with jurisdiction to punish the perpetrators of the genocide. Two years later Mujib, along with almost every member of his family, was assassinated in a coup. Hasina, who was then living in Germany, survived. She was barred from entering the country. Gen. Ziaur Rahman, who took over the country in 1977, scrapped secularism and made “absolute trust and faith in the Almighty Allah” a fundamental feature of the constitution. When Rahman was assassinated in 1981, his wife, Khaleda Zia, took charge of his Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Islamists who a decade ago had slaughtered their compatriots in service of the Pakistan army became active once again in Bangladeshi politics.

There are no innocents in Bangladeshi politics and every politician is tainted by accusations of corruption. Yet Hasina, for the sheer resolve with which she combated the religious right, must rank among the most formidable women in recent history. At a time when Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto was aiding the Taliban’s rise in Afghanistan, Hasina was taking on Islamists cut from the same ideological cloth as the Taliban. She overcame exile, survived assassination attempts, and rebuilt the Awami League. Her party, the secular alternative in Bangladesh, has provided a modicum of protection to religious minorities. In 2010, she revived the war crimes tribunal: nearly four decades after the crimes, a whiff of justice. Oddly, instead of welcoming the trials, some of the world’s leading Islamic leaders urged Hasina to drop them. Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, the world’s leading authority on genocide denial, wrote to Hasina asking her to spare some of the convicts. But this was Bangladesh’s moment. Hundreds of thousands of young men and women poured into the streets of Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, demanding harsher punishments than the tribunal awarded.

Zia, in bed with the Islamists who were being dispatched to the gallows by the tribunal, found her appeal ebbing. Women are key drivers of growth in Bangladesh. The $12 billion garment industry is virtually dependent on their labour. But if Zia’s allies had their way, women would be forced out of the workforce and into the veil. At home, Zia’s “nationalist” outfit has supported men who are enemies of the Bengali nation. Abroad, Zia has vigorously projected herself as a victim. She has accused Hasina of suppressing democracy. But she’s hardly innocent: it’s her party which pulled out of the elections and forcibly stopped people from voting.

Now that elections are over, violence is the only instrument at Zia’s disposal. She and her allies will attempt to disrupt normal life to the point where the government will either have to assume authoritarian powers or negotiate with her. The status quo is untenable. Hasina will almost certainly dissolve the government and call fresh elections. But it’s important to grasp that democracy is not in peril in Bangladesh. Secularism is. Sanctions, now being contemplated in some capitals, will hurt ordinary Bengalis and assist the far right. They may reverse the gains of the previous half-decade. To get a sense of Hasina’s accomplishment during this time, consider these words by the author Salim Mansur: “a democratically elected government in a Muslim majority country for the first time in fourteen centuries of Arab-Muslim history arranged for, and brought to trial, Muslims charged with crimes against humanity.” Is there a leader in the contemporary Muslim world with a profile quarter as courageous as that?

Any attempt to interfere in Bangladesh’s affairs must begin with the realisation that Zia is not the victim. She is the force behind the unrest. Washington, given its awful history in Bangladesh, has a special obligation to ensure that it doesn’t, in the name of upholding democracy, end up once again giving succour to mass murderers and their political allies.

The writer Kopil Komireddi is a raging Hindu fanatic who believes that all meat eaters are violent.

 

[GR!FF!N]

Hasina bibi just defied constitution by accepting 'opposition leaders'(puppets) into her cabinet.....she also defied constitution by swearing in news parliament where as old parliament was in place and not dismissed.....as of now BD has around 600 mps for 300 seats!Constitution in Bangladesh is just a piece of paper where anybody can write whatever he or she chooses.....

and that shows the level of "following Rules of Democracy"..Constitution is one of the pillar of Democracy.defy that and it'll be no longer a democracy.I wonder how an opposition leader can perseive that "Election Commission" is corrupt.also,what kind of Election commission resides in BD who can't bar politicians from arranging massive rallies just few days before of vote.you guys need a firm justice system,a strong legislative system and an Election commission with massive power,just like India.In India,nobody defy court or election commission.even election commission can drag a govt to the supreme court and get whatever they need to conduct a fair election.[/quote]

 

[Anubis]

and that shows the level of "following Rules of Democracy"..Constitution is one of the pillar of Democracy.defy that and it'll be no longer a democracy.I wonder how an opposition leader can perseive that "Election Commission" is corrupt.also,what kind of Election commission resides in BD who can't bar politicians from arranging massive rallies just few days before of vote.you guys need a firm justice system,a strong legislative system and an Election commission with massive power,just like India.In India,nobody defy court or election commission.even election commission can drag a govt to the supreme court and get whatever they need to conduct a fair election.

[/quote]
Every single branch of the government(judicicary,legeslative and executive) is politicized to the core....the Prime Minister holds absolute power and controls everything.....Bangladesh never had a free Election Commission in its history....Our Constitution was created by a government which was undemocratic and totalitarian government....unless it is amended to the foundation we wont be having a real democratic government or a free and fair election in this country!And the EC did not top KZ from holding the rally....nobody officially stopped the rally....KZ was put under house arrest without any declaration form anywhere.....thousands of police officers surrounded her house and would not let her out.....they put trucks full of sand infront of the gates to block anyone from visiting her....No 'legal' procedure was followed to do what was done to her!Bangladesh constitution remains a joke!