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Unmasking Biplab Pal and his pathological psyche Published on December 29, 2007
Jahed Ahmed is a co-moderator at www.mukto-mona.com and writes from USA. He can be reached at [email protected]
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Unmasking Biplab Pal and his pathological psyche
Published on December 29, 2007
(Note to the readers: The following rebuttal may appear uninteresting to some readers. Some may think, it�s merely a waste of time and serves no good purpose. Admittedly, I am not fond of this kind of rebuttals myself, as I was years ago. Yet I think, this was needed. It may not help establish my credentials as a �serious writer� but I�d be happy, at least, if it helps readers identify some of those human weds on the net whose only criterion, sadly, to determine someone�s credibility as a honest thinker/writer is rooted simply in opposition to everything associated with Muslims/Islam and at times, blind obedience to the West. They are shrewd and try to easily dismiss you as one sympathetic to Islam or Communism (on a personal note, I have not been associated with any political party whatsoever, or its ideology in my life so far, and I�m an agnostic in my stance on religions) whenever you protest such idiosyncrasy. They prevail on and outside the net at a time when chances are high that they can easily masquerade themselves as a liberal thinker/activist when indeed sometimes they are more dangerous than a religious zealot. They wear mask and thus are in the need to be unmasked by all honest humanists/liberals thinkers. Thanks. �J.A.)
Part-1:
IRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/34924
"Any time it wishes so, US can teach a stern lesson to countries like Sudan, Libya. Our [Indian] impotent politicians have never managed to learn it from the US�.�
"Only verbal threats won't work. It's essential to attack anti-India terrorist camps in Bangladesh & Pakistan by missiles and air strikes. In this, world opinion will be by India's side as common people--fed up by terror-- don't respect humanists- another impotent ally of the terrorism."
-Translated from Biplab Pal�s Bangla article on Mumbai train blast*
My open response:
Dear Biplab Pal:
You�ve accused me of lying because you think you �have criticized Hindu fundamentalists and their killing of poor Muslims in the said article� and �attacking Bangladesh and extremist terror camps inside Bangladesh is not same thing.�
So dropping missiles and bombs in Bangladesh, an independent and sovereign country, is the best option which came out of your (un)productive mind and it won't kill poor people? And you don�t give a damn to the opinion of 140 millions Bangladeshis about such foreign incursion? We know- as of now, at least three terrorists involved in the Mumbai train blast come from Bihar, India. Would you prescribe same stupid and insane remedy to your own Indian govt. i.e. to bomb Bihar? Or consider Indian Express report of 22 July 2006, which says terror groups operating in Nepal is also involved in the train blast. Do you ask India to bomb Nepal as well alongside Bangladesh & Pakistan? So according to you, any country may bomb its neighbor, if it suspects the neighboring country is harboring rebels against it since US did so with success (!)? Likewise, Britain can bomb Ireland, China can bomb Taiwan and so on?
Biplab, you said �while criticizing Jamimul Bashar he [Jahed] never mentioned Jamimul attacked me because I wrote against the people who look for science in religious books-my article was directed against all the religions equally.� Frankly, I don�t care what Bashar says about you. I rebutted his nonsense because I found his views parochial and unscientific. Honestly speaking, I wouldn�t have acted otherwise if such nonsense was written even by my best friend. Those who know me know it well.
You claim to have taken �maximum blow against Hindu fundamentalists in Mukto-mona forum.� Is it because you first wanted to establish some credibility in readers� mind before speaking of your real mindset as it�s exposed now- a ultra nationalist jingoist view where public opinions hardly matter? Don�t you know- sometimes an unmasked Hindu/Muslim fanatic is less dangerous than a fascist masquerading as an atheist or a �scientific spiritualist�?
You said: �I agree Iraq was not involved in terrorism-it was a tactical mistake, but it did send a message that US could depose any Government at his will. The message itself is acting as a deterrent for USA.� So similarly, you want India to send the message that it �could depose any Government at his will�? But don�t you know in this case, your model country US spared Saudi Kingdom, the real sponsor of Islamic terror, and yet it could reduce no. of 9/11 like events in its soil as you claimed when you said �How many terror attacks we have in USA after 9/11? None, while during the same time Indians suffer at least five major terrorist attack. This is because India didn't attack sponsors of terrorism inside Bangladeshi and Pakisthani Govt. where as USA did attack Afganisthan & Iraq and showed that sponsors of terror on US soil will face the consequence [ Though].�)
So, dear man of scientific spirituality, how do you decide what�s scientific for India?
On one hand, your religion is �discovery of truth� and on the other hand, you said you �do not believe in �religions etc.� Well, as far as your commitment to truth is concerned, we can see, probably that�s why at vinnomot website one of your passions is experimenting with nudity. Is it because you want to discover more truths about human anatomy? That�s been already done, my friend.
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http://www.vinnomot.com/test/editorial/biplab/mumbai.pdf
Part-2:
IRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/34952
Biplab, you think I don�t �have any moral right to speak against bombing of Islamist camps unless� I �decide to leave US� and I �can not continue to enjoy sweet fruit of freedom guaranteed to� me �by aggressive US foreign policy and at the same time criticize it to prove� myself �a humanist.� �This is a sheer double standard.�
So the litmus test for the extent of my gratitude toward US would have to be based on the criterion that Biplab Pal, an ultra nationalist Indian, is describing? Sorry, I don�t buy it.
Do you have even the slightest of idea about the ideals that the very founders of US advocated so passionately? It�s, indeed- tolerance, rationalism and secularism. At least that�s what my understanding is every time I read Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison and Ben Franklin et al. It seems Biplab Pal of India knows more about American values than America�s own founding fathers? Or is it what you�re talking about Indianized version of American values?
When I protest or raise my voice against a particular US foreign policy, it�s only when I know it�s contradicting American people and their values such as freedom, truth and justice for all and when such policy is betraying the very ideals of America�s founding fathers. For a very similar reason, many even American intellectuals of the past and present criticized many of America�s foreign and social policies. Take today�s Jimmy Carter, Paul Kurtz, Howard Zinn, or Martin Luther King, Jr., Allen Ginsberg of the recent past. Are/were they all pro-Islamic and leftists? What about Nelson Mandela�s acrid criticism of UK/US aggression in Iraq? Remember, we�re talking about a man who was tortured by the white supremacist regime for 27 long years. What would have happened if Biplab Pal had to undergo same situation, I wonder? Even to speculate, I feel scared.
Biplab Pal, do you want me to be a boot licker of US govt. just because I have chosen to live here? Do it yourself as long as you wish to, but please, don�t prescribe it to others.
You have called Indian politicians �impotent� (�hijra� as you wrote in Bangla) since they failed (?) to bomb terrorist camps in Bangladesh. I�m simply curious, what �potency�, in general, means to you (I mean,
intellectual potency)? Once you bragged you wanted to change vinnomot and give it such a shape that all expatriate Bangalees in US (both from India/BD) could enjoy reading it since you thought all other Bangla newspapers published from the USA are trash. At last you�ve come up with a format (I�ve read a couple of your hard prints as well) that says in its titles �the only Bangla entertainment newspaper published from the world�s leading entertainment center Hollywood.� Vinnomot under you is covering news on Hindi film heroine Ash Rai, Bangla porno stars alongside publishing translation of Quran and the ad of halal meat grocery shops in Los Angeles! Is it your concept of �potency�? If so, Indian politicians must take pride in your comments!
Lastly, in a comparison with mukto-mona once you described vinnomot as a �fish-market.� What would it be, if you�re to describe honestly the present vinnomot under you? Would it be, �Sonagachhi� of Kolkata on the web, I wonder?
Regards,
Jahed Ahmed
New York
*Sonagachhi, a repeatedly appeared place in Bangla literature, movie, is a brothel in Kolkata.
Some related comments on the topic:
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/349252.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/349693.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/349464.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/349485.
https://gold.mukto-mona.com/Articles/farid_ahmed/Biplob_Pal.pdf6.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/34971
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Jahed Ahmed is a co-moderator at www.mukto-mona.com and writes from USA. He can be reached at [email protected]