Attack on Ahmadiyyas
Zeeshan Hasan Dhanmondi RA, Dhaka
The attack on the Ahmadiyya mosque in Brahmanbaria is simply disgraceful. And so is the conduct of the police, who let the incident pass without registering any cases against the known leaders of the attack. Where is the RAB when it is really needed? The only justification for such a force is to take over in situations where the police are constrained by politics. This is certainly happening with regards to the Ahmadiyya community in Bangladesh. In case the government is under the illusion that the world is unaware of what is happening to religious minorities under their rule, I would direct them to any number of international news websites, including Muslim websites such as MuslimWakeUp.com. This is not an Ahmadiyya site, in case anyone is wondering, but one of the most widely read Muslim websites, and it now routinely talks about the oppression of Ahmadiyya Muslims by the fundamentalists in Bangladesh and Pakistan. ***I have just read a news item in your daily of 30 October under the heading "Ahmadiyya Mosque razed, 12 houses robbed in B' Baria." The news has made me angry and sad. We must at all costs resist and put an end to recurrence of such heinous incidents once and for all. It is now absolutely clear that the Ruling Coalition's active support has emboldened these religious fanatics and helped them carry out such dastardly acts. Incidents like these are a direct challenge to the very concept and foundation of our independence. Not only that it is a slap on the face of the majority of our population who are extremely tolerant and our longstanding secular traditions. What is the coalition government trying to do? Turn the country into an Islamic Republic in the tradition of Pakistan? Of late the government boasts of the actions of RAB , Cheetah, and Cobra that have apparently resulted in considerable improvement in the law and order. Despite the fact that their actions are "vigilante" in style and medieval in nature, yet I have no hesitation if these agencies go into action against this growing social menace which ultimately may turn out to be cancerous. At least in this particular incidence the end " may" justify the means. Incidents like these also create the grounds and opportunities for some of the highly "concerned" Heads of Foreign Missions of powerful countries of the West to provide their "kind advise" to our government on violation of Human Rights and Democracy etc. We are losing time. Let the nation unite and prevent this Hydra from spitting deadly venom into our society . Shamsher Chowdhury Dhaka
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