Mental Extremism Leads To Terrorism
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
29 August
2022
Bangladeshi
Muslims Are Comparatively Recent Converts Who Still Retain Their Typical
Bengali Hindu Surnames Such As Dastidar, Talukdar, Majumdar Even Ghosh And
Ghoshal!
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Navbharattimes.com
has carried a disconcerting news item along with a video, showing a kid (not
more than 4 or 5-yr-old) brazenly telling the interviewer that he's not
interested in meeting the Hindu players in the Bangladesh cricket team. His
parents are also there, not admonishing him, but smiling instead. Currently,
there are two Hindu cricketers, Soumya Sarkar and Liton Das, playing for the
Bangladesh team and both are fairly good players.
Religious
indoctrination and discrimination begin right from the cradle. Nowadays,
Muslims (though not all) indoctrinate their children not to hobnob with Kafirs (infidels)
and Hindus tell their kids to stay away from the Mlecchha (Sanskrit for
impure).
What's
going on is beyond the ken of any sane person. I'm not vituperative against the
Muslims. My best friends have been Muslims and they're still with me. But if
the truth must be told, the Muslims of Bangladesh have become particularly
violent and virulent against Hindus in recent years.
I've been
to Bangladesh quite a few times to collect archaic and modern Bangla
manuscripts and papers. I interacted with the Bengali writers and scholars
there. My father being a Bengali, I speak the language with consummate ease and
that makes my entry and acceptance rather easy.
Suddenly,
the Bengali-speaking Muslims of Bangladesh have become too rabidly religious
and they abuse Hindus at will. This shocks as well as surprises me. This also
reminds me of V S Naipaul's trenchant observation in his book Beyond Belief
that converts are much more fanatic.
Bangladeshi
Muslims are comparatively recent converts who still retain their typical
Bengali Hindu surnames such as Dastidar, Talukdar, Majumdar even Ghosh and
Ghoshal!
Readers are
aware that a few years ago, Bangladesh witnessed a series of murders of Hindu
and atheist bloggers speaking against Islam.
These
fanatics often suggested that I should embrace Islam. Why on earth should I
accept Islam when I give two hoots to god and all idiotic religions?
Coming back
to early religious indoctrination of children of all faiths. This is (early)
mental extremism that leads to terrorism in later years. Such religiously
indoctrinated kids become hard-core adults and suffer from monomania. Religion
stymies their mental development and makes them obstinate in their beliefs when
they grow up.
That's why,
parents must never inculcate such erroneous beliefs in the minds of their
children and Muslims, in particular, must never send their wards to madrasas
where such beliefs get all the more consolidated.
Let a child
grow up sans any religion. If he or she accepts one after growing up, that's
okay but parents must never teach religion and instill the unnecessary fear of
god into them at an impressionable age.
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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 world's premier publications in several languages
including Persian.
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