Generally if an Awami League leader is murdered, the Jamaat and those sympathetic towards them, the BNP, are the ones who are suspected first. And of course it is the same situation but in reverse, when a Jamaat or BNP leader is killed, with Awami League labelled as the prime suspect.  Islamic presenter and Imam Mr Faruki was against atheism, and was phobic towards atheists as well. There is no problem in that, anyone can be against atheism, or phobic towards atheists. Everyone has the freedom of speech, and they can use that right to express their own opinions. I support his freedom of speech, even if that goes against atheists. Last year one Rajib Haidar, an atheist blogger, was brutally murdered by Islamists. He was slaughtered. Naturally the first suspicions went towards Islamist groups. And later it turned out to be true. Later the Islamic presenter was slaughtered inside his home. Naturally, one may assume that atheists in Facebook are responsible for this heinous deed!

It is shocking but true, because there hasn’t been a single Facebook status from someone or a media report which even remotely implies that atheists are responsible for this deed. Why? Are all atheists innocent? They may have done this as an act of revenge because a blogger from their ranks was killed. When Awami league leaders are killed the Jamaat is suspected, and when Jamaat leaders are killed the Awami League is suspected. That is the rule. And yet when the pious and religious Imam was slaughtered in his own home, I couldn’t understand why everyone pointed their fingers towards Islamists! I am certain, that an Islamist group will be found responsible for this act.

When Hindu households are set ablaze, women are raped, lootings are conducted, Buddhist temples are destroyed, when the beards of Baul-Sonyashis (hermit-monks) are shaved off, when a bomb goes off under Ramna’s banyan tree, when th eniterty of Bangladesh is laid siege upon by a series of bomb attacks, when the Udichir programme is bombed, when bombs go off in 21st August, when Humayun Azad was sliced and diced, when Taslima Nasrin was attacked, when newspaper offices are bombed, on every occasion, who are suspected in the first instance? And how is it that every time the ones who were suspected initially, actually turn out to have committed the deed! Have you ever wondered why that happens? Atheist could have done all that as well, right? They could have orchestrated at least one or two incidents as a retaliatory act! But has it been the case even once?

A population’s livelihood depends largely on its nation’s constitution, its ediucatio0n system. Humans become civilized, become educated and then adopt a few ideals and place them in front themselves. Just as the nation of Pakistan was born putting religion first, and provoking fundamentalism. That is why the state of the people of Pakistan today is understandable. Meanwhile a group Jamaat Islami was created by Moududi. Jamaats’ leaders and members have governed themselves according to the books he wrote, the principles he left. Hitler’s Nazi army or the Bush administration in the States for example, where Bush’s unending idiocy had possessed the forces he commanded. Therefore those who are Islamic soldiers, what are their ideals? What books did they read which made them into this? The problem is right before our eyes, so is the solution. But are we pretending not to see it even when we do? Do we fear them so much that whenever we protest or rebel against them, we have to do so whilst protecting ourselves on all sides by gently stroking the heads of murders as well?

From Aroz Ali Matubbor, Ahmod Sharif, Humayun azad, Shawqat Osman, Shamsur Rahman to Taslima Nasrin, I have never heard that Facebook blogger atheists have knifed someone or made threats to someone. They never attacked mosques, never destroyed temples. They never killed Islamists. If someone gets killed or slaughtered, nobody suspects them. Farabi and other Islamists are the ones that are suspected. Does it mean that everyone thinks all free thinking, libertine atheists are incapable of murder. Forget murdering or slaughtering someone, they are incapable of even poking someone with a knife. They are not amongst those who attack mosques and temples. Those who break statues inside mosques, temples and prayer houses, they are all believers in a deity. They will never kill anyone just because he opposes their ideas and opinions. They’ll allow those with different opinions a chance to say their piece, even if the person issues them with death threats. The worst they’ll do is upload a passionate and ardent status update on Facebook in protest, the worst they’ll do is write a book about it, or they’ll seek out a newspaper column and write there. Nothing more than that.

By MD Rashed Alam

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