Why Bangladeshi Muslims have so much aversion to India
By Sumit
Paul, New Age Islam
24
November, 2023
“Bangladesh’s
young Muslims are happy because India lost the World Cup. Why are they so much
anti-India when India liberated their country and they depend on India for
almost everything, healthcare, entertainment, clothing, beef, onion etc.? Govts
encourage them to practise Islam, they do & so automatically become
anti-Hindu,” Taslima Nasrin said in a post on social media platform X.
Rebel
writer Taslima Nasreen is spot-on. The Bangladeshis, who're euphoric over
India's loss in the WC Final are the most ungrateful people. They're happy when
India loses and feel elated and exuberant whenever Pakistan wins. The only
reason that brings them together is Religion: Islam. These ungrateful morons
must ask their parents and grandparents, what Pakistan did to the Bengali
Muslims of the then East Pakistan? General Yahya Khan and Tikka Khan of
Pakistan engineered the 1971 Bangladesh genocide. The latter was the commander
of the Eastern Command of the Pakistan Army. He was known as the 'Butcher of
Bangladesh' for carrying out a ruthless and vicious military crackdown in Dhaka
in 1971 to suppress the liberation movement in Bangladesh. India saved the
country and lobotomised East Pakistan from Pakistan and formed a new country
called Bangladesh for which these people must remain thankful to Mrs Gandhi and
General Sam Manekshaw, who led the Indian Army to victory in the Bangladesh Liberation
War. Alas, this didn't happen. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was indeed grateful to Mrs
Gandhi and the Indian Army but after him, Bangladesh turned hostile. Now just
like Pakistan, it survives and subsists on hatred for Hindus and India. These
Bangladeshi Muslims look at India as the country of Kafirs or idolaters. Visit
Bangladesh and see for yourself how Bengali Hindus live there. There has been a
series of attacks on Hindu temples in Bangladesh. An octogenarian Hindu poet
was beaten up in a series of similar attacks in Bangladesh last month. In
August 2023, a human rights watch report issued by the NGO 'Shrishti o Chetona'
stated that "attacks on temples and other community properties" or
general anti-minority slurs, threats of "expulsion from the country and
abuse" were among the occurrences reported. Readers remember how Avijit
Roy was hacked to death by machete-wielding assailants in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on
26 February 2015. He was a Bangladeshi-American engineer, activist and atheist.
His atheist wife, Bonya, was also slashed on her shoulders, and the fingers of
her left hand were severed. But she survived.
This
is the vicious hold of religion (read Islam) that transforms humans. Bangladesh
is full of converts and converts have this ingrained tendency to assert their
over-loyalty to the faith they convert to. Look at the converted Christians in
India. They're more Christian in outward behaviour than the born Christians! A
Bangladeshi Muslim professor Dr Enayat Talukdar (Mind you, Talukdar is a
Hindu-Bengali surname) told me that almost all Bangla-speaking Muslims of
Bangladesh had Bangla-speaking Hindu ancestors who were converted to Islam not
long ago. Don't they say, Naya Musalman zyada pyaaz khaata hai (A neo-Muslim
consumes onions a lot)?
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A
regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative
religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the
world's premier publications in several languages including Persian.
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