Yes, BDGL, this is true. On paper, Islam has a strict moral code, but reality is very different. There is a lot of hypocrisy among Muslims; while paying lip service to the Quran, they engage in all sort of vices.

It is not reported in the media, as Pak state terrorism & Saudi dollars are sufficient to muffle local coverage & purchase the integrity of foreign reporting. But we all know it goes on. Do a bit of googling and you can see what sort of horrific and rampant crimes of venality occur from Indonesia to Morocco.

Not that India or Hinduism is better. A huge amount of venal sleaze occurs in India too. The only thing is, Indians are candid enough to admit it (even if they are morally weak & physicaly lazy to eliminate it).

I was watching a program on the BBC (sorry, I mean Al Jazeera) where they were talking about the horrible plight of women in Pakistan. A Pak minister (for women’s development I think) & a senior Pak human rights activist was present. 80% of the program revolved around blaming India and Hinduism for Pak’s woes !! I was thinking how come Hindus have such a mass impact if they’re 0.6% of the population. As if magic my questions were answered by the huma rights activist, “It’s because pure Pak people have imbibed the ugly aspects of Hindu culture”.

Can you ever take such nonsense seriously?

Irrespective of hujur’s rhetoric on Islam per se, the picture he has drawn of the horrific plight of Hindus in Bangladesh is heart-rending, though not at all surprising. History has a funny way of repeating itself.

Rishi’s resp:
Hearing the truth can bring happiness..sometimes.
Glad you are happy.

Secondly, I agree with you that “Arabic culture does not equal Islamic culture” theoretically. But realistically, if you look closely in this day and age, Arabic culture has become synonymous with Islamic culture.

This is because, the varied pre-Submissive traditions of polytheistic co-existence are long dead, wiped out completely from their lands (inspite of sporadic “Ridda” wars by Arabs who refused to convert to a life of “Submission”). Are the pre-Submissive traditions in the Arabian peninsula that worshipped 360 Gods and Goddesses in amity at Makkah still alive today? How about the pre-Submissive traditions that built the majestic pyramids in Egyptian Nile valley or the breathtaking Petra Temple in Jordan or the Temple of Sheba in Yemen ? Given the recent attacks on the Egyptian relics and the suicide bomb attack at the Temple of Bilquis ( Sheba ), I’m not surprised if all the vestiges of the pre-Submissive past go the away of the Bamiyan Buddhas.

Today, there are only a few thousand Arabic-speaking Jews still struggling to survive in the Maghreb and the Levant ….. and there is a dwindling minority of Arab Christians who are fleeing the Middle-East in large numbers every day (especially in Lebanon, Iraq ).

The bottomline is, in today’s world, Arabic traditions are synonymous with “Submissive” traditions, whether we like it or not.

To conclude, I agree with you…. Keeping alive the Submissive tradition of absolute disrespect and degradation (for any vibrant tradition that refuses to submit to it), the Arab-wannabes in East Bengal have perfected the art of insulting the faith of the Hindu Bengalis and Buddhist Chakmas, by urinating on their women, their temples and their sacred deities.

First of all, to answer your loaded question on whether I have become politically correct, it will suffice to say that….I found out two days ago on “Nothing New” that explicitly mixing political incorrectness and the hallowed Arabic word for “Submission” (Hint: It begins with an “I” and rhymes with the Urdu word for “Mango”) in the same sentence is going to get me in trouble with the law (or atleast with the GB blog’s comments policy).

I respect Arnab tremendously and enjoy his blog… and I totally understand the fact that at the end of the day, this is his blog, not mine. So I decided to forswear all unambigious comments permanently (or atleast for a few days !).

Add to it the fact that atleast one Submissive friend Tarzan has been crying hoarse to get any un-Submissive points of view moderated – by insinuating that whatever polite, discussions (with varying shades of opinion) we may have on this blog, has somehow led it become a Rediff discussion board (which we know is full of cussing, abusing, name-calling jerks).

One such “friend” (with the guile of Hamid Gul, no less) went ahead and posted God-knows-what-else under my name (I am not sure what was written as I didn’t get the chance to read it , before it was thankfully moderated) to successfully convince Arnab that well, it did in fact resemble a Rediff discussion board.

Hence my decision to become politically correct and cryptic.

So, to finally answer your question, I didn’t want to use the direct translation (“Submission”) and write “well established Submissive tradition in East Bengal ” because it would give a completely different meaning.

I did not want to use the generic word “Abrahamic” because other Abrahamic traditions have barely any foothold in Bengal and this issue does not concern them.

In short, I couldn’t find any other word synonymous with the hallowed Arabic word for “Submission” . So I substituted “it” with the word “Arabic”.

Please enlighten me on Arabic traditions. I am all ears.

Hujur

I DID NOT post the message dated “Aug 30th, 2007 at 2:33 am”.

Please check the IP address of this im-poster … and compare it with the geographic location (Country, State) of the IP address(es) I normally post from.

I just feel sorry for the im-poster who does not have the cojones to write under his own name.

Or maybe… come to think of it – faking their identity, writing drivel in my name and getting me blocked/moderated from posting on GB is the goal of those “friends” who disagree with my views but cannot disprove them.

Hujur