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Brexit: Is Britain the new Pakistan

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An article in Huffington Post

Is this title a fair reflection.  It is a headline grab but the points it makes are
important.  The future has to look more peaceful than our present or past. 
Otherwise we remain on the same treadmill of needless and endless violence.  The EU
was the first step in breaking down the past. With Brexit the promise remains
unfulfilled.  The world remains like Pakistan, perpetually on the edge.

Nasik Elahi

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/10749766.html?yptr=yahoo

Subject: Bangladeshis can be as mean as Pakistanis.

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Here’s a mean and demonic maneuver of political opponents of Sheikha Haseena to serve a body- blow to the image of her illustrious father and her politics in Bangladesh. Similarly slanderous rumors (so what, even if a fact) were floated in Pakistan about Sk. Mujib’s nemesis ZAB.
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This was an open letter addressed to Khaleda, More than 200000 Copy were distributed among the Public in the major towns of Bangladesh

SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN’S BIRTH HISTORY

Honorable Prime Minister
Of late, the Minister for Education has instructed that in the new text books of schools Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s life history must be written. As it is an accepted universal fact that none can write history at his will or whims. History always evolves in the natural course of time and space. Therefore, Madam Prime Minister, appreciating this directive we the people of Bangladesh would humbly appeal with a caution to the Minister that a true and factual history of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman should be incorporated in the text books as the nation deserves to know how we were gifted with a leader of his stature who is being proclaimed as the ‘Father of the Nation’.
To help the Minister in his discourse, I would like to put forward some relevant facts acquired from the preserved documents in the archive of the Indian government not known to many of our countrymen.
In those preserved documents, some relevant information is recorded about the birth history of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his child hood.
In early nineteen twenties, one Mr. Chandi Das was a practicing lawyer in the Civil Court at Kolkata. He had a young beautiful daughter named Gouribala Das. One Mr. Aronnyo Kumar Chakravarti was working as a junior assistant to Mr. Chandi Das. Mr. Chakravarti had a free access to Mr. Das’s residence at his will and used to visit the family frequently. In the process he developed intimate personal illicit relationship with Gouribala. Consequentially, Gouribala became pregnant. When pregnancy was confirmed Gouribala and her father started pressing hard on Mr. Chakravarti to get married. But Mr. Chakravarti being a high cast Brahmin was not only outraged and flatly denied his illicit relationship but audaciously refused to marry Gouribala who belonged to a lower cast. He also disowned the claim that the child was sired by him. Such behavior from Mr. Chakravarti came as a rude shock to the entire family particularly to Mr. Das and he became seriously ill thinking about the ill fate of his beloved daughter’s future.
Finally, Gouribala gave birth to a son on 12.12.1920. The son was named after Mr. Aronnyo Kumar Chakravarti as Dev Das Chakravarti. Thereafter, Mr. Das persistently kept on requesting Mr. Aronnyo to accept Gouribala as his wife and Dev Das as his son but of no avail. In this melee the boy became three years old.
At that time, having no way out Mr. Das begged Mr. Sheikh Luthfur Rahman, his Muhuri (Document Writer) to marry Gouribala. The obedient Muhuri obliged Mr. Das and married Gouribala after she and begotten son Dev Das, sired by Mr. Chakravarti got converted into Islam taking the Muslim names Sahera Begum and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman accordingly.
An affidavit No118 dated 10.11.1923, was registered with the Kolkata Magistrate Court in this regard.

WITNESSES IN THE AFFIDEFIT REGISTERED

1. Mr. Abdur Rahman Shafayet, Court Daroga
Police Station (PS): Vandaria
Post Office: Vandaria
District: Erstwhile Barisal

2. Shree Anil Kumar, Court Daroga
District: Erstwhile Barisal

Madam Prime minister, if the above information is authentic then the public demands that these should be included while writing the birth history of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. If it is proven otherwise, then we the people urge the government to publish in the text book the name of Maternal Grand Father of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with detailed history of his maternal ancestry.

NB: It’s an earnest appeal to every conscious citizen of Bangladesh that each one of you should distribute at least five copies of this Leaflet for conveying the true facts to grow awareness among the younger generation.

Below is the Record achieved from Kolkata High Court Archive:

Mujibs_birth.pdf
111K View Download SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN’s birth history21.2.11.doc
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The letter obviously was circulated by the political opponents of Sheikha Hasina as a body blow to the image of Bongo Bondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
It was not a fault of Sheikh Mujib that he was sired by a high caste Hindu out of wedlock, or that his mother was a low caste Hindu converted to Islam not by effective proselytization but unsavory and pressing circumstances. These are the man-made measures to elevate or down-grade people in a class-ridden society.
An illustration of  typical sub-continental mind-set and its social value system that gives sinister labels like “Harami”, “Hindu ka nutfa”, “Doghla” and other such epithets. The indecorous truth however is that a good number of so-called ‘shareefzaade’ will fail their paternal validity if put to a DNA test.
Does this low-blow and libelous activity somehow reduce the great feat of founding of Bangladesh by Sheikh Mujib ?

Is Globalization The Real Culprit? Is Globalization Stoppable? Brief Thought by F.Sheikh

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It is true that the multinational corporations moved their businesses to regions where they can find cheap labor and increase their profits. It caused lot of dislocations, loss of jobs and anxiety in the developed countries. Bernie Sanders, who is the most credible and honest crusader for the working class, writes in today’s NYT

“We need to fundamentally reject our “free trade” policies and move to fair trade. Americans should not have to compete against workers in low-wage countries who earn pennies an hour. We must defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership. We must help poor countries develop sustainable economic models.”

It is very confusing to understand how the poor countries will improve their living standards without selling their products at better price in rich countries but still lot cheaper if same product was made in the developed country. And how the consumers, especially poor and middle class, in rich country will benefit if they have to pay lot more for a product if they can get same thing cheaply made abroad? A significant portion of rich countries’ economy depends on export of high tech and sophisticated products to poor countries and how one sided flow of products will be helpful and acceptable to poor countries?

Globalization is the byproduct and natural phenomenon of advances in technology and free flow of information that empowers the consumers everywhere to buy the best at minimum price. The corporations are using the same resources of modernity to advance their interests and increase their profits.

Arguments to stop globalization are nothing more than shouting in front of a runaway train to stop it. And real culprit may not be the Globalization itself, but the greedy corporations who enrich CEO but do not share the profits with labor. The solution may lie in taxing these corporations at higher rates, share profits with labor; and spend tax dollars on infrastructure, retraining labor force and provide needed safety net for the displaced workers.

“Massacre In Istanbul” Brief Thought By F. Sheikh

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We are still reeling from the horrible shock of Orlando massacre and now this hideous evil act in Istanbul taking many innocent lives and injuring dozens. No words can justly sooth the suffering of the innocent victims, and no words of condemnation can justly describe the depth of such evil acts. These are simply satanic acts.

There are all the warning signs that unless Turkey, all the surrounding Muslim countries of ISIS  and other Muslim countries wake up and collectively act to eradicate ISIS and other extremist organizations within their borders, it will not only eat them away like termites but it will also continue to spread this poison worldwide.

Unfortunately because of their  own selfish reason, they want USA and other western countries to eradicate ISIS  for them, which is delusional and self-defeating.

Is this a clash within Islamic civilization, clash of civilizations or both? No matter what the answer, it cannot be solved unless Muslims do it themselves.