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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