Ayubi Bhai and Musfique
I am very happy to see that our Probashi Bangladeshis are also taking up Pen and Papers to object to the anti Bangladeshi propaganda specially by a sectuion Hindus originated from P. bangal and these clowns are ffed with wrote info by the sharmeo free press like muti,anum,abedi and our r.soltona chkkoborty apus.
Hell with these propogandsit and I feel like shubbing bamboo....... Because to me there is no way out pother than this as thgey are die hard indian agents out to destroy Bangladesh.
But friends these sharmeos does not knowe that we are real Bangladeshis and defeated the best army in the world and have shown the indis what Bangladeshis are ? we are very hard nut to crack and we will surely catch these kukur dalals one by one and try them for treason and anti Bangladesh acts.
I wonder how a reputed ,Global Politician,NY, USA could publish such unfounded,concocted and false propoganda write up against bangladesh without having a back check ? This really undermine the credibility of the esteemed news media.,
Readers and contributors who wish their beloved nation Bangladesh to flourish with right dignity and honour should write more and more highlighting the achievements as well failure of Bangladesh in news media specially in countries like UK/USA/Germany/Denmark and other EU countries where anti-Bangladesh lovers have good footings as RAW foots their bills we know.
I appreciate my friend Musfique/Aminul/Mustafa/Abid Bahar for their endless effort confronting these goons. Carry on young sentinenls of Bangladesh success will be yours and Bangladesh's one day which is not that far.Let us fight these evils and we will surely be able to throw them in Bay of Bengal for good.
Faruque Alamgir.
Salahuddin Ayubi <s_ayubi786@yahoo.com> wrote: Mr. Prodhan,
Many thanks for posting the excellent article. More of our people should write such article protesting against the false propagand particularly from Indians and from others in general. If we can not give these blighters the taste of their own medicine , these vile propaganda against bangladesh will not stop.
Salahuddin Ayubi
--- On Sun, 5/18/08, Musfique Prodhan <chena_kew@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Musfique Prodhan <chena_kew@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Dahuk]: Response to a charlatan
To: "notun Bangladesh" <notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com>, banglarnari@yahoogroups.com, "dahuk dahuk" <dahuk@yahoogroups.com>, "Biplob Kuddus" <vinnomot@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008, 6:58 PM
Dear readers here is an excellent article about the propaganda war against Bangladesh, by an expatriots. Though I am afraid that these, foreign nationals and foreign sponsored media terrorists wouldnot wake up, as they have sold their soul and self dignity. But such article should be enough to wake those up, who still have silightest amount of dignty and concious left in them. ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---- The Editor,Global Politician,NY, USA
Friday May 16 2008 15:03:59 PM BDT
Dear Dave,
I must admit that I was totally unaware of your site until today when I came across an article on press freedom in Bangladesh by Sunita Paul, the self-styled expert on south-east Asia, with a link in the News From Bangladesh to your site, where the article originally got posted. In recent weeks I have noticed some of her articles appear in the Asian Tribune.
Unfortunately, Ms. Paul's articles show a lack of first-hand knowledge of Bangladesh. As an Indian of Bengali origin, her views are molded by Indian perceptions about Bangladesh that are highly biased, hegemonic and misrepresent facts and actual figures. Truly, she is nothing more than a pen-pushing 'pundit' with an agenda that is geared towards promoting negative stereotypes about Bangladesh.
While Bangladesh is not a perfect democracy, and is trying hard to root out corruption from political arena in the last 16 months, to portray the country as hostile to press freedom is simply rubbish and a disingenuous attempt to smear its image. Ms. Paul should be ashamed of smearing its image. Bangladesh has no less press freedom than any state within the Indian Republic.
Many of us living in the USA and western nations often times entertain a sense of supremacist ego that automatically forces us to assume the worst of places that we know little about.. Anyone writing against common perceptions are routinely sidelined. Thus, in all his years of academic life in the USA, we never saw a single article from Dr. Edward Said published in any of the major newspapers in this kind. However, his views were routinely featured in many places in our globe. What explains this hideous side of American freedom of press? Who shut him down here in the USA? Who shuts Dr. Chomsky to this day?
As a keen observer on this subject for more than three decades, let me state that Bangladesh has more press freedom than many western liberal democracies.. The press is free to write anything that they like as long as views are not communal or hateful in kind, e.g., enticing violence against any group.
So, while Islam-bashing has become a new found passion in the so-called western liberal democracies (including many usergroups with anti-Muslim/ Islam agenda), mostly to promote the agenda of neo-empire builders in the West, which finds no problem in promoting xenophobia against Muslim minorities, such kind of irresponsible journalistic acts may not see much light in Bangladeshi press. Such censorship is exercised by the editors themselves, and government does not often get involved.
However, if articles promote xenophobia, then government has a civic responsibility to sue the editor, something that has happened for Mr. Matiur Rahman's paper with publica tion of an offensive article. Yes, such acts may be wrongly considered as curbing press freedom. But truly it is not. Fighting criminals is noble, while living with criminals is ignoble. Let me remind you that it was the same rationale used by the Indian Govt. of Rajiv Gandhi that did not allow publication of Rushdie's Satanic Verses. So, was Gandhi anti-press freedom when his government took that decision? Veteran Indian journalists like J. Singh did not feel so, nor did thousands of other genuine journalists in India. Obviously charlatan journalists like Ms. Paul may see the issue differently.
Ms. Paul mentions about threats against journalists like Sumi Khan. I have met Ms. Khan many times and had kept in touch with her for the last 4 years. She is a very honorable individual and a first rate journalist. I am a great fan of her. However, threats like those against some journalists (inlcluding Ms. Khan) are not uncommon in many democracies of our world, including India, where during the Hindutvadi rule in India, many journalists who questioned Hindu version of India (where other religious groups did not have place), were threatened and killed, a practice which has not totally disappeared even to this day in most BJP-ruled states. [Even in many wesern countries like the USA, writing or speaking on issues that are politically incorrect can cause one to lose one's job. Have not we seen this many times in the aftermath of 9/11? Who can deny this?] Such acts are definitely wrong to silence responsible journalists. But w hen did we hear Ms. Paul write about such problems prevalent in India? Zero.
To single out Bangladesh for evil acts of social misfits within the country is silly, let alone being unethical. It would be a poor judgment to let your site used as a forum for unethical, untrue propaganda that only fosters hatred and misunderstanding.
Best regards,
Habib R. Siddiqui
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