Dear Br. Moin, Walaikum wassalam. Sorry for not having replied sooner. All praises to Allah SWT that you liked my article. I read your comments and concerns. I have tried to address those issues in the next edition of the book which I finished very recently and will upload on the website very soon. I would request you to go through the new edition which is an enlarged version and more inclusive. If you feel it worthy of dissemination then please do it, at least by forwarding it to your friends. Propagating truth is our collective responsibility. We should co-operate each other. Feel free to share any further opinion. Yours brotherly, Frioz Mahboob Kamal

Dear Mr. Dey,
I appreciate that you have made your personal views known to me. You have raised some allegations against me. I must answer to those allegations point by point.

Your first point: You have written that I have told "lot of untruth" in my article. But surprisingly you didn't point even a single one from the text of my article. So how can I understand that your point is valid and truthful? Neither have you given me an opportunity to answer to such an allegation. You made just a flying comment without any proof. In future when you say something you must provide evidence, then you can deserve an answer.

Second point: You made a comment that "I love only a part of human being (Muslim)". How can you say that? As a Muslim, one should love not only humans but also plants and other creatures. I believe in that. The focus of my article was not about this issue. It was about history of 1971 from an Islamic perspective. So far, the history of 1971 was mostly written from secular, Indian or Hindu perspective. Little is written from Islamic perspective. I have tried to do that. After all, we do not look at an event with the same mindset. Some people think sex out of marriage is great love, but Muslims view it a crime only to be punished by stoning to death. Same thing happened in 1971. Some people celebrated it as a great victory, but others mourned it as a great defeat. The same thing happened in 1757 when Bengal fell to colonial power.

Third point: About the suggestion you made "I hope you will use ur intelligence for the well being of all human being." Of course I should do it. It is life-long mission of a true Muslim and that can be done in the best way by following Islam in all areas of life, not only in formal rituals in mosques. For doing any good deed, one doesn't need to forget and ignore Islam and Muslims plights.

Lastly, about your concluding suggestion: "Take care and try to do something else for ur bread and butter."

I understand from your name that you are a non-Muslim. So it is not surprising to me that how ignorant you are about a Muslim's faith. You think I am writing these articles for my bread and butter. How wrong you are! Almighty Allah has given me enough other skills to earn enough of that. Your ignorance has failed you to understand that Muslims do not survive and do things for mere bread and butter. Their prime purpose is to serve the cause of Islam. For that, they not only sacrifice their time, money, energy, intelligence and but also life. No government or agency need to pay for that. All are self-financed and self-employed. Look at your surroundings you will find enormous evidence to that. Unlike all other religions, Islam has a special vocabulary for such acts and for such people. These are Jihad and Shahadat (martyrdom). I understand that you are very much unhappy to see such engagement of true Muslims. My article is only a part of that.

Dear Nahyan,
I am not in the business of certifying who is a good Muslim or who is not. I made the analysis based on Islamic knowledge as best as I could gather. If anyone can come up with proper Islamic evidences against whatever I've written in my articles then they're welcome to do so. However, your last writing has revealed some gross misconceptions about Islam. And it is of very epidemic proportion among Bangladeshis. You quoted a verse out of context to bolster your arguments. The verse "la kum deenukum wa liyadeen" of surah Kafirun was addressed to stubborn Kafirs. Its meaning: "for you is your religion and for us is our religion." In this surah our beloved prophet Mohammad (pbuh) was asked to convey this declaration to Kafirs and Muslims were asked to stick to their own faith and to make no compromise with them. It is worth noting that this is the most abused verse by Shaikh Mujibur Rahman and his political cadres to tell the practising Muslims to keep their faith confined in themselves and not to bring religion to politics. Such secularist view is totally against the very basic teachings of Islam. For Muslims, the Almighty Allah's prescription is different. Allah, the most merciful has revealed, "Yeea aiyohallazeena aamanu udkhulu fis silm e kaaffa". (Meaning: O! Those who believe, enter into Islam fully.) Unlike other religion, Islam is a complete and comprehensive roadmap of life for the whole mankind till the last day. To be a Muslim it is required that he or she should fully submit to this Quranic revelation. So Islam is not a type of religion that should be practised only in mosques, rather in politics, economy, culture, warfare and in all other arenas of life. Our prophet (pbuh) and the early Muslims are the ideal model of such Islamic practice. It is not an option rather an obligation on every Muslim to practise the same belief. Unfortunately, this is not happening in Bangladesh. And that owes to religious ignorance of the general public and the overwhelming intellectual corruption of their faith by the country's highly deviant secularists. Secularism as a thought and political ideology out-rightly goes against this Quranic order, so it is haram in Islam. Muslim scholars may differ on many issues but they show consensus on this issue. But in your writing you brought this secular doctrine and were preaching that to me. I would request you to read my several articles on secularism in this website. You can also read my article 'Islamic Movement: Extremism or Expression of True Belief'. I would urge you to clear these misconceptions before engaging with secularists or nationalists, as they are not confused about where they stand. I would also suggest you to forgo your analysis method of judging a book by it's cover. The same analysis method yielded nothing but confusion when you judged my article only by it's title. Also don't use that flawed method again to judge my level of knowledge about BD politics. People with confused state have no principal. The so-called biggest Islamic parties in BD are suffering with the same delusional state. They have lost the trust of dedicated Islamists and now taking banters from the secularist parties. There is no common ground between these nationalists and us. I am pleased that my arguments gave you that impression. Our arguments should be strong. The fact that you didn't continue with your previous secular arguments says volume. You can take pride on the history of 1971 if you are secularist but bound to feel ashamed if you are Islamist.

Although you have raised an important issue that my arguments seems uncompromising to people with other faiths and secularists. But then again you failed to notice that they were not my main target audiences. The article was geared towards confused Muslims where I wanted to argue that you cannot have it both ways. There is no point quoting Quran or Hadith while arguing with somebody who doesn't believe in any of them. I fully appreciate that for those people the tactic should be different. However, for those who believe in rational and thoughtful understanding of history they may find this article worth considering. They'll understand the underlying logic of those Islamists who were against the partition. Infact I came across many ardent secularists who respected that stance, as they understood that was a natural path for any true Islamists. It's only the confused Muslims, who become illogical and resorts to misquoting Islamic teachings to argue their case persistently. These are the same masses you see queuing up to vote the same corrupt people again and again.

Regarding your query about the reasons behind my writing on 71, I like to say it is crucially important. It is about science of history, which is more important than other branches of science. It teaches us to be wise and human. We all ought to analyze our past mistakes. Advances in science or technology may improve our quality of life but will not make us more human. Analyzing the past and learning from the mistake helps us improve as human being. Clearly, our generation lacks that understanding. Thats why after so many years you find them bragging about the crimes they've committed and demonising those who sacrificed their life for the right path. History lesson is also important to identify the Mir Zafars of our society and making sure, they don't get away by masquerading as intellectual and historians. So, I feel hundreds of books should be written from Islamic perspective since we are Muslim. Unfortunately that has not happened. Most of the books are written by the enemies of Islam, the pro-Indian secularists. Therefore, how our people can get the true understanding of the history/ If a Nazi intellectual writes history of World War Two what others will know about their crimes. So, if Awami anti-Islamists writes about 1971 then what a Muslim can know? They can only glorify their own crime and the crime of India. Because, they are paid for that.

It is no strange that you are unhappy why I have published my article in the web page. This is the real problem with the secularist Awami Leugers. They are truly fascist and opposed to all types of free expression. Not only in the political field but also in intellectual fields. They know quite well that except hooliganism, corruption and slang abuse they have nothing to offer. Their leader Sheikh Mujib banned all political parties and closed all opposition newspapers as soon as he assumed power. Though they are no longer in power, the behaviour still exists. You compared my writing with that of the Danish cartoonist. Have you lost your sense of proportion? Do you know what that cartoonist did? He is the proponent of the same secularism that you are so eager to use when arguing with me. While I was opposing it. Wassalam.

Brother Nahyan,
I think this conversation has now turned in to a time wasting one. I appreciate any comments opposed to my articles as long as they are logical and follow decency. However, it is frustrating if one spends time explaining something only to see that people going back to the same old gibberish repeatedly. Your assumption that I support Saudi, UAE, Kuwaiti model of monarchy as well as atrocities committed by then Pakistani armies goes to prove my point. You said that just seeing the title of my article was enough for you to form an opinion about me. Interesting analysis method!! You also said the title is as illogical as other articles against Islam. If someone wants to be so utterly complacent that they cannot comprehend that his nation can make wrong decisions, then it is their own opinion guided by their illogical brainwashed xenophobic ideology. I certainly believe in analyzing the historical facts and don't believe in sweeping truths under the carpet just because it will embarrass my fellow citizens. I really don't mind even if I am the only person as Islam doesn't teach us follow the masses blindly.

Regarding Bangla language, I already discussed in detail about the narrow doctrine of 1952. So I won't mention it here. Again, just because you are the majority doesn't give you the right to impose your narrow nationalistic desire on other minorities. That's the difference between yours and my opinion about being majority. Same way Egyptians embraced Arabic, Punjabi and Sindhis embraced Urdu. All of those languages have far richer history then our Bangla but they compromised for greater welfare of the nation. Of course for majority of us Bengalis, such way of thinking is absurd. Even India have Hindi as their national language, whereas Hindi is not the language of majority. The perception of the common naive masses of BD is that Bangla language was going through the phase of obliteration during the Pakistani period. As if other ethnic languages of now Pakistan were destroyed to make way for Urdu. A common problem I've found arguing with an average supporter of 71 was that they always tend to concentrate on illogical trivial pursuit as if thats the main topic of the argument. Unfortunately, I can't see any difference in your logics either. You mentioned about the fatwas of so-called Ulamahs. It's a pity that I've to waste my time writing about such trivial issue. But couldn't let it go either. Don't you know that history is littered with so-called clergy men's who had done everything for narrow gain? That's the same reason you find fatwas supporting ban on hijab or Awami offshoots like Awami Ulama league. But is that how you judge Islam? Remember that Allah bestowed us with basic intellect with which to judge whether those fatwas are according to Quran or Sunnah. Personally, I would say that's another made-up story of a filthy Awami establishment same as the myth of 3 million. They often go as far as claiming their so-called freedom fighters would've succeeded anyway with or without India's help which even annoy their Indian masters. It's a pity that majority of BD people still happily go by the character certificates issued by them even after experiencing the moral deprivation of such people. When one is not confident about his own character, he often resorts to creating a myth to demonise the opponent.

Regarding the so-called mass rapes and atrocities that apparently led to the creation of BD, so you think it is right to destroy the geography of a country just because one part of the population were unjust against other. Then I can see more partitions are on the way for our tiny country. There are already lots of injustices and inequalities between different parts of our country. Already in UK I see lots of Sylheties fuming due to the injustices against them while they are the major remittance earner of BD. Chakma's have every right to create their own nation based on your logic. Mind you, that Chakma's were ardent supporter of unified Pakistan, so don't come up with another argument that Pakistan logic was only good for Muslims. Going by your logic, one need not complain against the harsh action of Bahrain gov to throw out all the Bangali expats for the crime of one or two Bangali rapist or murderer. Comparing Israel with then Pakistan is another of such argument that is based on sentiment rather than on any valid logic. I said before, that East Pakistan was not created by Pakistani invasion; rather we were the major proponent of that country in 1947. Many Bengalies became the top leader of the country. I repeat, if you only want to come up with these kind of absurd Israel, Anglo-US logic then I've no interest in entertaining such pathetic arguments anymore.

Regarding the concern about establishing Islamic states, all I would say is, I find it amusing when I see Awami leaguers showing fake concerns about Islam and lecture on it's jurisprudence. For them Islam seems to confine in occasional Umrah or hejab during election time, odd concerns about Palestinian or Iraqi peoples plight and attending janajas for their leaders. Ofcourse, for them the Islamic perspective against 71 is utterly distasteful. They simply don't want to hear about the crime they've committed while breaking apart the biggest Islamic country of that time. I wasn't arguing it was a perfect Islamic country. But by breaking it we lost the opportunity to transform it that way and becoming the beckon of hope to rest of the Muslim world. It's irrelevant to talk about what kind of failed Islamic country current Pakistan is as it currently have no bearing on us. It's a tough task to create one unified Islamic country. It's good that you also dream about that but it certainly doesn't help to transform that dream into reality if in the same time you support and feel joy about the breakage of any Muslim country for narrow nationalistic gain. To conclude, I would suggest you to read my article in full. If you are not convinced then fair enough, as I said already while replying to another reader that, I certainly don't expect to convince everyone as it largely depends on which notion (Islamic or Secular) an individual is subscribed to. I also don't want to debate with secularists forces of BD by restricitng myself outside the periphery of controversial issues. I want to tackle those issues head on. Truth sometimes hurts but it is paramount to convey to those people. I personally find a confused Muslim a bigger threat then an ardent secularist, as they can do more damage by posing as one of your own. Wassalam.