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A book review by Sekhar Roy

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হালনাগাদ: সোমবার, ২১ আগস্ট, ২০১৭

 

WHAT IS MODERATE ISLAM
Edited by Richard L. Benkin
Lexinton Book, USA
Akshaya Prakashan, New Delhi
Rs.500/- INR

 

The devil can cite Scriptures for his purpose, said Shakespeare in the Merchant of Venice. But to those Wahhabi Islamist clan generated from the Arab after the demise of the Hazrat Muhammad always considered what they have been doing was as per the saying of Islamist Scriptures viz. Quran and Hadith etc. and they never considered the killing non-believers, raping their women, looting their properties were a devilish act. It is rather considered a Jihad they have been waging for centuries against Non-Muslims in the world. Only difference is they don’t fight direct and open war in non-Muslim world where they are in minority, they take the path of insurgency in order to creating a sense of horror or a fear psychosis among the local population. If it is Spain today, it was London few months ago. If it was New York few years ago, it was Bombay and Paris then where those Islamist mercenaries would carry on their cowardice act of indiscriminate killing of innocent people in the name of Islam. Bangladesh and Pakistan also faced similar atrocities by the Islamist Jihadists in a regular intervals.

In search of any existence of moderate Islam that can counter the ultra-Islam, the book has taken effort in examining the Islamist ideology in depth. I recall to have noted a hypothesis in the US foreign affairs carried the article, Clash of Civilization, by Samuel P Huntington in which he argued that future wars would be fought not between countries, but between cultures, and that Islamic extremism would become the biggest threat to world peace. Many left intellectuals differed Samuel at that time, but now this has come to reality.

Islamic fanaticism was there but they were cornered in the last century owing to uprising of democratic and socialist movement throughout the world through concurring the Soviet land by the Leninists. One after another, countries joined the Soviet camp with the victory of the Marxist or Maoist revolutionaries. Anti US allied forces got strengthened with the expansion of Soviet social imperialism. Entire East Europe, Balkan countries, Latin America were bent to Soviets. Wherever those Soviet forces marched, those countries were concurred by the so-called communists. And they entered Afghanistan by defeating the Islamist forces. Iran was concurred by the Sunnis by ousting its non-Muslim ruler the Shah who took shelter in America. Pakistan, the US aided ally was broken into two pieces by India who belonged to the Soviet camp. US and British oil companies in the Middle East started facing opposition from the Soviet sponsored unrest day by day. The cold war, sky war or war of nerves between US and Soviet was the reality. Yet those Islamists man eaters were confined in their land and rest of the world found no threat.

It was started only in the Communist Nazibullah government in Afghanistan in the nineties. To teach the expansionist Soviets, US started arming those Islamist rebels and formed Taleban warriors to dismantle Soviet aided Nazibullah government. The CIA plan was successfully executed but the at the cost of strengthening most dangerous inhuman Islamist forces in Asia. Similarly, in order to teach lesson to another Soviet alley India, Pakistan sponsored Islamist terrorism engineered in Bangladesh through killing of Sk Mujibar Rahman the way Nazibullah was mercilessly killed. Saddham Husain and rulers of Tripoli was eliminated to ensure smooth oil business operation of America in the Middle East. But those corrupt rulers of Middle East following the path of moderate Islam were destroyed by NATO forces backed by CIA and Mossed. Then the Wahhabi Islamist fanatic forces aided by US allies started betraying their mentors and attacked all western countries through their mercenaries despite the Soviets broke into pieces. Therefore, it is none other than US allies are responsible for weakening moderate Islam throughout the world and squarely responsible for the current crisis.

Richard L Benkin who edited the book deserve appreciation as he organised the concerned people to recall the role of moderate Islam in maintaining world peace. Richard has presented us with an in-depth study of Bangladesh in particular taking into consideration the state of fanatic Sunni Islam and its domination in the country much to the dismay of the secular and atheists. He found no political party in that country is free from appeasing this ugly sect to gain or regain state power which is a reality. But the country that bears a historical character of defying Islamist fanatic forces strongly aided by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and organising struggle for Bengali language and right for self-determination dissociating from the Urdu speaking Pakistan in 1952 and 1971 respectively. In doing so the people irrespective of religious identity sacrificed lives for the nation building with direct support of neighbouring India. But soon the dream for establishing their country on secular democratic socialist ideals faded away and the defeated force brutally massacred their father of the nation, Sk Mujib in 1975 along with his entire family.
The dark period of Bangladesh history remained for 24 years under military junta or their political stooges. The people aspired to call back the golden days of her father of the present Prime Minister, but soon they became frustrated with intrusion of Islamist fundamentalist forces in the ruling dispensation and highhandedness of the law and order machinery to stop voice of dissent and to pamper the religious fanatic forces for defeating the ideals of a secular, democratic and socialist republic. The character of this Islamist republic with ‘Bismilla Rahim e Rahim’ as placed in the Constitution remained unchanged. The ongoing atrocities on Hindu minority section and driving them away from their mother land to India is a regular phenomenon. The same atrocities is being carried out in Pakistan or other Muslim dominated countries where Christian and other religious minority people face inhuman atrocities in a regular course.
Here again one can find how Islam can be deformed to a tool to misguide people and earn domination through wrong meaning of the Quran. Bakara 193, 216, Taoba 116, Sura Anfal 12, Sura Taoba 41 like Quaranic Ayats are on waging Jihad to be fought by the Muslim state power during war against invaders and not to be generalised and applied against Non-Muslim people to concur their land and properties through killing, rape, destruction of properties. But Islamist militants are trained, paid to destroy non Muslim citizens for nothing and to inflict a sense of horror. Wrong interpretation of Quran relates to its Ayats like Imran 82,86,106, Sura Nahol 106, sura munafikun 3, Sura Taoba 66,74 in which its only Allah has the power to punish with death penalty to the deserter of Islam or anti Islamist. Those Ayats nowhere empowered His disciples and followers to enforce death penalty or other atrocities on non-Muslims or deserters. Sura Bakarar 217 in which Allah passed order to punish those deserters in Jahannam, not by a Islamist to cause attack to set fire to death to the living species (Bukhari Abu Daud). Abdulla bin Ashad, the writer once appointed by Nabi Muhammad pardoned him who was once declared Murtad (deserter) and was rehabilitated and appointed a governor of Egypt by Nabi. The way Quran has been misinterpreted to suit the evil purpose and to disturb world peace.

Daniel Pipes, Kulbhusan warikoo, Amitabh Tripathi and others contributed their wonderful thoughts in the book which need careful study. The struggle for independence by the Balooch people where Muslims kill Muslims in vested interest is worth reading. The cover page photo significantly speaks a lot where a religious Muslim prays for peace and goodwill.


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