IN RESPONSE TO AJANTA DEB ROY'S GRAND VENTURE OF BEING HUMANE IN LIGHT OF ISLAMIC VIOLENCE IN BANGLADESH @Asad Noor's Vlog

IN RESPONSE TO AJANTA DEB ROY'S GRAND VENTURE OF BEING HUMANE IN LIGHT OF ISLAMIC VIOLENCE IN BANGLADESH @Asad Noor's Vlog 

@Ajanta Deb Ray : Go to the root of the disease. Do not be naive. Despite your idealism you are avoiding the scriptural basis of Islam which is fundamentally intolerant and violently opposed to whoever does not subscribe to its dictates. Therein all violence ensues. Unless you can address it you are being hypocritical. Therefore, teach the real basis of Islam as chronicled in the Qur'an, the Hadith and the Sira. Then the polity will get to know what the real intent of Islam is.

Make-believe conception of Islam is one and real Islam another. Merely being an apologist will do for it will not gain your humanistic movement much ground. You have to be truthful about the scriptural content of Islam and reveal it, free of fear or shame or so-called barren political correctness, in as civilised a manner as possible so that the kafirs in the Islamic world-view may no more be deluded by the false ideas floated around by apologists that all is nice and fair about the real Islam and it is only Islamists who are perverting the religion from its so-called humane ideals and motivations. This falsity must be shed and the truth told through your movement if you dare to live up to truth and justice. Unless you are thus truthful and stop covering up a festering corpse under masses of roses where the roses rot and the corpse rots too, you will fail to combat this professed and executed violence head on. Despite your sincere motivations and humanistic considerations otherwise you will but draw a blank at the end of all your endeavours for untruth can never triumph.

Science and reason have triumphed in the middle ages in the West to bring in the modern age of democracy of thinking and living after a protracted struggle over centuries which was based on objective analysis, articulation and exemplification of truth and not through recounting pretentious narratives about Christianity which simply weren't true nor have ever been so. So must you be brave and reveal the truth about Islam while taking care to objectively judge events and contextually examining its teachings but never in the process, though, by turning out to be apologists of any sort. Remember 'Satyameva jayatey naanritam' (Truth alone triumphs).

So, teach the world what the real Islam is and do not cover it up with concocted idealism and principles of ethics from elsewhere which are not basic to Islam. Let the people of the world know the real revealed intent of Islam as it is there in its trilogy of scriptures and in its bloody history whose everyday sequel we see in a never-ending series of violence by Islamists throughout the world, no less in Bangladesh which has had a history of such ethnic cleansing since the pre-Partition days of Noakhali in 1946. May your movement draw fresh members in terms of sympathetic support and ethical, idealistic and practical affiliation!

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo : courtesy, Ajanta Deb Roy