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So called Physics
Teacher: a Practicing Talebanist
-Ajoy Roy
....Instead
of asking his women students to uncover the mystery of nature through laws
of physics, he is ordering his women students to covering their bodies with
�borqhahs�. In order to introduce Talebani culture he asked his Hindu
students to read �Kalema� and �Qoran�.....Even Islamic Physicist Dr.
Shamsher Ali did not dare to do such silly things in the classroom. The
gentleman concerned surpassed all �norm�s, a physics term well
acquainted by every students of physics......
Our
great Prime minister constantly cries with full-throated bell-metal voice with
high pitch that �
Bangladesh
is a
Moderate
Moslem
State
�. There is no place of communalism, although her followers and cadres are
die heart and out & out communal, no place of fundamentalism, though her
government allies Jammat & other Islamic partners openly preach and
practice fundamentalism, no place of Afghanistan brand talebanism� though
her present colleagues in 4-party alliance belonging to Islamic band-wagon did
cry and still crying for establishment talebanism form of Islamic State in BD.
Remember their full throated war cry during USA led invasion against Taleban
government of Afghan following 9/11 event, �Amra
holam taleban, Bangla habe taleban� (We are talebans, we will
make Bangladesh a taleban state). May we ask the great lady with colored
glass, beautifully made hair style, robed with colourful semi-transparent
chiffon sari while distributing alms (in the name of relief) to poorly dressed
distressed & flood stricken men & women, where those disciples of
Osmana bin Laden and followers of Talebanism brand of Islam gone madam?
Our
PM just yesterday once again uttered publicly in a meeting held at
Raipur
in Daudkandi upazila on the occasion of flood relief distribution ceremony
(yes I call it ceremony), �There are some parities that are deeply engaged
in conspiring against the country. Some are propagating that
Bangladesh
has turned to an ineffective state, sometimes it is being alleged that
Bangladesh
have Talebans and Al Quiedas. These are all propagandas- there are no traces
of Al Quieda nor Talebans in the country.� She further alleged, �these
interested circles are out to disrupt country�s economy with an ulterior
motive to make it weak� The PM opined that
Bangladesh
is never or would be a weak state�it is a successful state. In what way our
state is successful, one can surely make a pointed question to her and her
4-party alliance government. One may also raise question �Have your Islamic
partners in the government, or your fundamentalist supporters outside the
government gave up the ideals of establishing Islamic Republic in Taleban
model or Moududi model ?. Have they adopted new doctrine of BNP brand
democracy which has established �Moderate Moslem democratic System� in BD
giving up their old faith of Talebanism or Jamtesim ? I wonder ! Oh dear PM,
you must be living in a �fool�s paradise�. How could our PM explain the
existence of Bangla Bhai and his armed bahini conducted their terrorist
activities in the very nose of the administration and police, defiance of
PM�s order of the arrest by the highest law & order agencies including
the ministry of home affairs, the contradictory statements on the part of the
police administration saying that Bangla Bahi �is acting to help the police
in combating the Janajudhawallas� on the other hand highest police authority
denied the very existence of such person as Bangla bhai and his organization
�Jagrata Bangladesh�. On the one hand PM issued order to arrest Bangla
bhai, her important cabinet colleague Jamati minister Moulana Nizami declared
that Bangla bhai is a fictitious character, in reality he does not exist.
Since then our PM kept mum.
In
public platforms PM says �there is no Talebans or Al-Quiedas�, but a
physics teacher of Jahangirnagar University instead of teaching physics for
which he is being paid by the university authority is teaching philosophy of
talebanism. Instead of asking his women students to uncover the mystery of
nature through laws of physics, he is ordering his women students to covering
their bodies with �borqhahs�. In order to introduce Talebani culture he
asked his Hindu students to read �Kalema� and �Qoran�. It is a direct
approach to ask them to accept Islam giving up their traditional religion. Who
has given him that authority to preach Islam and teach Islamic principle
within the classroom of physics wherein laws of physics should be taught
instead. Instead assigning home task on a physical problem he asked his
students to write an essay on qualities of Allah. This is simply ridiculous!
It also rises question �does he know physics at all�? We think not. We
learnt that he took more than eight years to take a higher degree in Physics
from a foreign university. Even Islamic Physicist Dr. Shamsher Ali did not
dare to do such silly things in the classroom. The gentleman concerned
surpassed all �norm�s, a physics term well acquainted by every students of
physics.
Thank
god, at least a good sense prevailed on the part of the Academic committee of
Physics department,
Jahangirnagar
University
that decided to relieve the concerned teacher, Assistant Professor (sic!)
Obaidur Rahman from all teaching duties till a final decision is taken by the
higher authority of the university. The committee opined that non-academic
activities relating to religion within the classroom has vitiated the academic
environment of the department, created resentment among the students, and
brought a bad name to the department. The university authority returned to its
senses at last, as it had constituted a 5men inquiry committee with Pro-VC
Enamul Haque to probe into the matter. Other members are deans of four
faculties. The committee is to submit a report within
7th October 2004
. Different progressive students� organizations since then almost every day
were holding protest rallies impressing upon the university authority to take
appropriate against the talebani teacher. It is learnt that after the
departmental academic committee�s decision the teacher said that he now
�understands� his �mistakes�, but at the same time denied that he used
to address Hindu students and employees with �Arabic names�! �Ekey bale,
thelar naam babajee�.
Ajoy Roy
Dhaka 29. 09. 04
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