BRILLIANT WRITE UP ! Just an inkling of what is the future of Bangladesh if the Jamaats which are Pakistanis basically remain in Bangladesh, Interesting. part of the article below. In an interview to Lahore’s well-known magazine “Chattan”, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad had predicted Pakistan would break up in 20 to 25 years. Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam being taken to the International Crimes Tribunal-1 as the verdict on his trial is due “Whoever else remains there, I am sure, the Bengalis will not remain in it,” he had prophetically predicted, reminding all that as a Maulana, he understood both the strength and weakness of religion in politics much better than someone like Muhammad Ali Jinnah whose food habits would upset any pious Muslim. Ghulam Azam lived and upheld a cause named ‘Pakistan’ for whatever it was worth. The hollow conviction in an equally hollow cause comes through loud and clear in the trials that have laid bare many unknown tracts of history for the younger generations who were not around during the 1971 War but who live in the country it created. Azam’s lament that people don’t listen to Radio Pakistan in many parts of the country – for fear of Indian spies, as he would allege – is classic. It shows the war was lost for Pakistan even before it was actually won by the freedom fighters. Bangladesh was born in the minds of its people and took shape in the flag some of its brave sons designed much before it was established on ground. For someone like Maulana Azad, it had to happen. Azam’s problem – and that of his band of Islamist brothers – is their poor sense of history. Their failure was to understand that language and culture, tradition and ethnicity are much stronger elements in shaping a nation like Bangladesh than a pan-continental religion or a global ideology. But though Azam may die in jail, he leaves behind a political organisation which will continue to rock the stability of Bangladesh because it does not believe in it. It will be the over-arching platform for many shades of jihadis and terror merchants who will take full advantage of Bangladesh’s democracy without believing in it one bit. There lies the danger. In Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh has a party which opposed it at birth and still does not believe in its founding principles, a party which will seek to take full advantage of its democracy without ever having any commitment to uphold it. That is the legacy of Ghulam Azam, the merchant of a lost cause, the mastermind of a genocide, the man who leaves behind a powder keg which his soul-mates can ignite whenever they want to. But a man who remains fearful of death he ordered for so many of his countrymen.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 04:28:52 +0000
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