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Publication: Mizanur Rahman Milon
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This article is all about the onslaught
of Islamic organizations against the secular nation of America. Since
I am from Bangladesh, I would like to start this essay by citing how Islamism
had spread in my motherland in short three decades. Bangladesh is
no ordinary country by any stretch of imagination. About 130 million
people are packed like sardines in a tiny land as big as the state of Wisconsin.
Bangladesh's political history is turbulent. The founding father
was assassinated in August 1975 to make room for Islamization. The
axis of military and Islamists veered the nation towards fundamentalism.
And the nation is now paying a heavy price. Things are not tranquil
at all in the backwaters of Bangladesh. The minorities are being
butchered in open daylight.
Unless you have been hibernating
somewhere else, you should know that a fascist Islamic fundamentalist party
by the name Jamat-i- Islami [JI] is ruling the 130 million Bangladeshis
as a coalition partner of Neo-Muslim League Bangladesh Nationalist Party
or BNP. The party JI is a branch of world Islamic parties. They are
essentially an Al Qaeda-like organization with clear agenda of the global
Islamism. These parties are like the communist parties of yesteryears.
The communists wanted to spread the mantra Marxism throughout the globe.
Any enlightened mind knows that all the Marxist-communists think themselves
as the comrades. A communist in South America considers himself as
a comrade of say an Indian - who does not share the same language, culture
and background. Likewise, an Islamist thinks himself as a brother
of another Islamist notwithstanding the difference they have in their language,
culture and background.
The Islamists consider themselves
as brothers under a unified Muslim Ummah [community]. Nationality,
language, social customs, etc., are objectionable to them. One may
read the propaganda of NABIC, which is a mouthpiece of global Islamism
done under the banner of certain expatriate Bangladeshis, against nationality
and language in their web site. The Islamic fundamentalists would
not have caused any trouble against modern civilization have they not opted
for capturing power through their global organizations like the communists.
In order to attain the goal of exporting puritanical form of Islam and
brutal laws of Islam all over the globe, the global Islamists formed many
political parties and alliances in all the Muslim countries of the world.
In non-Muslim countries such as in USA, they cannot form political parties
under legal framework. However, the global Islamists are smarter than the
communists and they are clever enough to fool many westerners. They
have created a huge number of Islamic organizations such as NABIC, CAIR,
ISNA, ICNA, and others to create the framework for spreading the barbaric
Islamic rules in the West. In Canada, the Islamic organizations even
fooled the Canadian government and got permission to use Sha'ria laws against
Muslim women. Think about it! Barbaric Sha'ria Laws against
women in a North American country!
One should never consider that the
Islamic organizations are non- political! The global mission of their
prophet was to bring the world under Islam banner and a repressive Sha'ria.
Like communists, they are united under the umbrella of Ummah. Unlike
communists, they are, however, very clever. Cleverer than the communists.
The communists wanted to establish a manmade rule. The Islamists
want to establish Islamic rule they claim to be of divine origin.
The communists did not believe or care about an afterlife. The Islamists
believe firmly in a golden and eternal afterlife. This is the reason
why they want to die for Islam and for Ummah. They are more inimical
to the West than the communists, pure and simple!
You will find however many commonalities
among the Islamists and communists. Both of these groups do not like
highly educated thinkers and scholars. They forbid rational thinking.
Take the examples for the case of China and Iran. In China, the Maoist
regime killed many scholars and rational thinkers in the name of Cultural
Revolution in the early 1960s. In Iran, the killer regime of Ayatollah
Khomeini killed millions of rational thinkers and scholars right after
the Islamic revolution. The communist China stopped higher education for
many decades in the name of Cultural Revolution. They set up institutes
everywhere to study Marxism and Maoism. Mao's Red Book was like a
Bible to his countrymen. School kids were required to memorize some
of the sayings of Mao. Talk about indoctrination! Likewise,
the Iranian fundamentalist government closed the universities for three
years and spread religious schools to create more and more Ayatollahs through
religious education. Now see what is happening over there?
In Iran, the uncouth Mullahs are in control of all the areas of the government.
You will find the Iranian nuclear scientists under full control of Mullahs
and Ayatollahs. The Mullahs are the bosses while the scientists are
like workers. The similar scenario was prevailing in many communist
regimes. This is why, the thinkers and intellectuals try hard to
find a way out of the control of these rogue regimes.
The characteristics of the Islamic
fundamentalists and the communists match very closely. However, they
have a bit difference in their attitude toward each other. The Islamists
do not want to keep a single communist alive within their territory.
The communists are a bit milder in the case of the Islamic fundamentalists.
The communists possess hatred against the capitalist West. This is
why, in Iran, the communists supported the fundamentalists for their rage
against America. But after the fundamentalists consolidated their
power in the aftermath of Shah of Iran's removal from Teheran, they killed
almost all the communists in Iran. Some communists of Iran even fled
and came to the capitalist USA to save their dear lives. Some of
the Iranian communists found a welcoming safe haven in the USA - the great
leader of the capitalist world.
As for the Bangladeshi fundamentalist
party JI, I want to remind the intelligent readers that these Islamic fundamentalists
are connected to the web of Islamic organizations all over the world like
the communists. Their subsidiary organizations like CAIR, NABIC, ISNA,
ICNA, and others are working in tandem in the name of civil rights organizations
to achieve the same goal of the Islamic fundamentalists. It hardly
escapes one's scrutiny that the communists created similar subsidiary organizations
to create grounds for communist revolution and subsequent takeover in many
countries all over the world. The Islamic fundamentalists are doing
the same in the western countries. In the aftermath of 9-11, the
government of USA became very alert of fundamentalist organizations' work;
thus, they banned many subsidiary Islamic organizations - which were found
to be connected with the Islamic terrorists and fundamentalists.
I would go this far to assert that many shrewd Islamists are working in
many so-called civil rights Islamic organizations in USA and other western
countries. Some of these organizations had the audacity to harbor
many fundamentalist killers. One such killer fundamentalist of Al-Badr
death squad of JI in erstwhile East Pakistan is M. Ashrafuzzaman Khan.
He was given an official position in the Islamic organization ICNA just
to whitewash his sinful past. Mr. Ashrafuzzaman Khan was the leader
of a roving death squad that abducted and killed scores of Bengali intellectuals
from Dhaka University staff quarter in the first two weeks of December
1971 when Bengalis were fighting a war to rid Pakistani military from the
occupied land. In that bloody conflict the Islamic fundamentalists
sided with the Pakistanis because they thought Islam would be better served
in South Asia if Pakistan remained intact. But they were soundly
defeated in 1971. The Islamists were demoralized in the early goings
of Bangladesh. They however connived with the military to overthrow
a legitimate government and to usher in fundamentalism in Bangladesh.
They grew like a cancer and now they are virtually controlling Bangladesh
politically from behind.
The Bangladeshi American secularists
are intently watching all the moves of JI of Bangladesh. They are
seriously aware of the heinous motive of the Islamists. The office-bearers
of the myriad Islamic organizations in the U.S. should be investigated.
If I am not wrong, the U. S. Immigration still investigates for links of
any applicant wanting to visit America to any communist organizations.
The Immigration department of the West should investigate the links of
the applicants to any Islamic organizations. The West should prevent
infiltration of Islamic fundamentalists in their countries as a preventive
measure. They must preserve the values of religious tolerance and
pluralism in their countries that has been developed over the years.
The Islamists would destroy these long-cherished values once they become
majority or if they could indoctrinate many unsuspecting citizens such
as minorities. It took close to two hundred years of works by the
likes of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and many more liberals
to foster the spirit of secularism (separation of Church and state) in
America. All this achievements can be lost if Islamists could make
inroads in America to propagate hateful messages skillfully and with tricksts.
Therefore, caveat emptor!
Mizanur Rahman Milon writes from
Arlington, Virginia, USA
