Visitor_Name: Syed Munirul Islam
E_mail: shoumyo_murti@yahoo.com
Location: Minnesota, USA
Source: a friend
Date: 01 Feb 2003
Time: 22:00:31
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My greetings to Dr. Farooq. This appears to be an excellent site, a valuable, non-partisan effort to help heighten a global sense of awareness of genocides in general, and the Genocide in Bangladesh in 1971, in particular. There seems to be much emotive fury over this genocide, and perhaps rightfully so, but the danger looms large that such fury could obfuscate objective facts, causing interpretive tangencies to mushroom, which may or may not be reasonably factual. While such tangencies may soothe a few souls, even help promote some good causes, I doubt that a balanced understanding of genocides can be attained by partisan, and factually to some degree polluted, approaches to their discussion. Sadly, polluted interpretations of the 1971 Genocide seem pervasive. I hope this effort by Dr. Farooq to its objective documentation will assist an overdue need to initiate its clear understanding, thus helping our collective psyche become arguably better prepared to address future events that could lead to something similarly disastrous. In addition, such objective preparedness can also help nullify the recurrence of such a horrendous crime against humanity. I congratulate Dr. Farooq in his humanitarian effort of hosting this site. Sincerely, Syed Munirul Islam
[Webmaster's note: Dr. Rudy Rummel has taught at Indiana University (1963), Yale (1964-66), University of Hawaii (1966-1995); now Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Hawaii. Finalist for 1996 Nobel Peace Prize. He is a member of the Editorial Board of H-Genocide Discussion Group. For more details about him and his work on genocide in 1971, visit here.]
Visitor_Name: RUDY RUMMEL
E_mail: rummel@hawaii.edu
Location: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills
Source: THROUGH YOU
Date: 15 Feb 2003
Time: 11:59:09
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will reference this site to the H-GENOCIDE list. Well done
Visitor_Name: Rehman Mehbubor
E_mail: lazybum253739@yahoo.com
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Source: NFB 3/25/2003
Date: 25 Mar 2003
Time: 09:57:40
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Dear Dr. Farooque, Salam. We had correspondence before, I don't think you remember though. Besides praising you which obviously, you deserve my two cents would be keeping the site simple, straight forward, and professional looking as currently it is. Bring in inputs of many scholars, ordinary people, and expatriates around the world so the site becomes a treasure repository. I am already impressed with your work. What can I say, I wish you well. May be some day I will try to contribute with some research at your page, if possible. So far the site looks really promising. Thanks. Rehman Mehbubor
Visitor_Name: Dr Buland Akhtar Ph.D.
E_mail: Buland.Akhtar@trw.com
Location: U.K.
Source:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Time: 09:59:44
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Hello Bhai Omar Farooq I am a 55 year old Bangladeshi living in UK and was in Bangladesh during 1971. Please let me try and make a contribution to your galant effort. Regarding genocide in Bangladesh in 1971, please refer to the Pakistani version of events in 'Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report'. Edited parts of this report was recently (during 2000 or 2001?) serialised in the Daily Star of Dhaka. Even in this biased report, Pakistan accepts that 26000 people were killed by them. We, of course, know that that many people or more were killed on the night of 25 March alone. Even if we accept what the Pakistani report admits, then (a) that is an admission of 'genocide', or at least, 'killings of its innocent citizens', and (b)those are 26000 reasons why Pakistan should unconditionally apologise to Bangladesh. I intend to make future contributions. Please carry on with the good work. I wish you all the best. Buland
Visitor_Name: Abul B. Khuda
E_mail: abkhuda@yahoo.com
Location: USA
Source: Your e-mela article
Date: 02 Apr 2003
Time: 11:37:52
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Thanks for your hard work. Please keep it up. I have a request if you can go back and have include the history from 1948 at least the impotant events and also a day to day description from march 1st to 16th Dec. 1971. Thanks, Khuda.
Visitor_Name: Md. Mashiur Rahman
E_mail: moshi.rahman@compuware.com
Location: Rochester, MI, USA
Source: While browsing e-mela.com
Date: 05 Apr 2003
Time: 18:30:59
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Great Web-site !!! I was only a toddler during the Liberation War. Reading the Eyewitness Accts on the events that unfolded during that time helped me realize what our people went through that time. May GOD bless Bangladesh and all the fallen worriers who helped liberate our land.
Visitor_Name: Joyonto
E_mail: joy_onto11th@yahoo.com
Location: bangladesh
Source: e-mela
Date: 12 Apr 2003
Time: 11:00:46
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sir, i liked the site a lot . the post 1971 generation are deprived of a good relevant and reliable account on the whole issue. so this site can really work as a wonderful exception in the midst of all biased informations we generally get . hope that u can complete the whole thing soon . joy
Visitor_Name: Yahya Pramanic
E_mail: che_bengali@yahoo.com
Location: Los angels
Source: E-mela
Date: 13 May 2003
Time: 14:04:39
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Excellent info on the Genocide 1971. We are on the verge of naming it the Forgotten Holocaust. It is a brilliant effort to raise the issue. Kudos to you guys(esp Dr Farooq). Yahya
Visitor_Name: Asad
E_mail: asad_zaman2002@yahoo.com
Location: Bangladesh
Source: www.e-mela.com
Date: 02 Jul 2003
Time: 15:47:45
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Dear Viewers, Anything I hear,see or touch related to our freedom fighting ( MUKTIJUDDO) then and there hairs of my body becomes errected,then I strat coursing my luck that why I was only 3 of age at that time ( 1971). 1971 is the year when I lost my Father on 07 may at Dhaka. There were none other then my mother and 6 months older younger sister. His deadbody was burried at Azimpur. But due to my personal problem I could not become a member of PROJONMO '71.I have heard how my elder brothers flied away from Jhinaidah Cadate College the day before a brutal killing was done by the Pak Army.I have heard the way my elder brothers fought against the Pakistany Army and against the RAZAKAR. We used to live in a place which was liberated after 20th of Dec '71 that is Khulna. My brothers came with a everhigh head and just after entering to the city they were caught by the RAZAKARs of our local area led by Khan A Sabur ( who was buried near JATIYO SANGSOD BHABON----What a shame on our part!) and my mother who has just become a widow had to secrifice all her valuables to get my brothers back. And we had to boed our everhigh head to the RAZAKARA and still we are doing it for somebody's political benifit. I'm not a political person just a small government employee so I preserve my comments on that issue. My humbble submission to all the Bangalies--- who ever you are and where ever you are do not favour those earmarked traitor of Bangladesh.They are traitors and they will remain that who ever in the throen of Bangladesh--BNP or AL. Thank a lot to Mr Omar faruoq for presenting such a beautiful and informative web site. It will help our next generation to know about the history of Bangladesh. I have another humbble submission to the policy makers of our mother land is that who ever is in the rulling party and who ever you are please sit together to make a similar foreign policy and make sure by a constitutional power that , taht made foreign policy must be followed. Might be east based or west based or neighbour country based. Only then we can prosper. Purely personal openion
Visitor_Name: Haris Mohammed
E_mail: haris1100@yahoo.com
Location: Australia
Source: Search engine
Date: 04 Jul 2003
Time: 23:04:54
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Its really nice to see that some one is thinking about the country.But can't you add more picture of the 71. You can also add the language movement. People who are living outside can have a good idea about our culture.But really need to emphasize on 71.Some are trying to undermine the role of collaborators.why don't you use their photo so that atleast they can be known.also the birshertos photo.but have to feel that it was a war where we have to pay a lot.some don't beleive that.I really feel sad when both awami league and bnp support the jamat and other declared collaborators.where we are going?
Visitor_Name: Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs
E_mail: sjacobs@bama.ua.edu
Location: The University of Alabama, USA
Source: E-mail from Dr. Farooq
Date: 16 Jul 2003
Time: 12:50:48
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A most impressive site. Steve Jacobs Secretary-Treasurer International Association of Genocide Scholars.
Visitor_Name: Taneem Amin
E_mail: taneema@hotmal.com
Location: Nashville, TN, USA.
Source: From an article in E-mela.
Date: 05 Aug 2003
Time: 10:51:03
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Hello Sir! This mail is to thank and congratulate you for your exceptional job in designing this outstanding website (Genocide 1971 in Bangladesh). Please do accept my sincere gratitude and appreciation on this matter. It was long deserving. Over half a century later the world still tries to reconcile with the holocaust victims and seeks after its criminals. Unfortunately nothing like that has been done, proposed or even thought off on this matter. I guess we should blame ourselves for the great injustice that is been done to the country and all the people who lived through those horrible times. We haven't done enough for us and for our younger generations to make sure that none of us can ever forget what happened during those darkest months in our history. Our beloved Bangladesh deserves this much from us. In this sense you and others like you who have created these helpful historical websites, deserve applaud and sincere appreciation from the rest of us . Once again, thanks for everything. Wish you guys all the best. Please do let me know if I can be of any help. Take care. Taneem
Visitor_Name: Mirza Basravi
E_mail: basravim@yahoo.com
Location: California
Source: BDStudents
Date: 03 Oct 2003
Time: 22:43:26
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This is a message for Dr Mohammad Omar Farooq: Have you come across any recorded information about the Massacre of residents in the Kalurghat Jute Mills residential compound, in Chittagong? I had several relatives who were butchered in that compound. Do you have a place on your website where I can post this message for other viewers to see and respond? I will appreciate you response.
Visitor_Name: Kamruzzoha Chowdhury
E_mail: maxmindhk@yahoo.com.hk
Location: Hong Kong
Source: Through E-mela
Date: 04 Nov 2003
Time: 06:02:05
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This a excellent webpage I have ever seen about Genocide in Bangladesh'1971.Lots of informations,pictures articles and many more. Pls,keep it up and let our foreign friends know more about it. Thanks & Rgds, Zoha
[Webmaster's note: Susan Brownmiller is a well known name in the area of journalism and feminism. She is the author of Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, a book in which she covered the case of Bangladeshi women in 1971. For more details about her and her work, visit here.]
Visitor_Name: Susan Brownmiller
E_mail: sueb@echonyc.com
Location: New York
Source: Dr. Farooq
Date: 02 Dec 2003
Time: 08:47:26
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An excellent website on a terrible but terribly important subject, with superior graphics. -- Susan Brownmiller
Visitor_Name: farah
E_mail: petunia916@aol.com
Location: ny
Source: yahoo
Date: 05 Dec 2003
Time: 22:43:53
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Dear Dr. Farooq, Your website is fantastic. I am writing a paper on the genocide of 1971 and I have found so much valuable information. I've learned so much about my history. Thank you
Visitor_Name: Mohammed S. Ahsan (Rial)
E_mail: rial98@hotmail.com
Location: Toronto, canada
Source: Research
Date: 16 Dec 2003
Time: 00:44:39
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It is one of the most comprehensive archive of information on the matter. Hope the site will unfold the horrific nature of the planned events that took place between the 25th of March and 16th of December 1971. Rial
Visitor_Name: Sabyasachi Ghosh Dastidar
E_mail: DastidarS@oldwestbury.edu
Location: U.S.A.
Source:
Date: 05 Jan 2004
Time: 10:07:46
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Dear Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq: I really appreciate your effort. I wish there were more prople like you, especially when you realize so few concerned people around-the-world know our story of that genocide. Sabyasachi Ghosh Dastidar, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, State University of New York, Old Westbury
Visitor_Name: Dane Neumeyer
E_mail: dneumeye@sfu.ca
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Source: through search.
Date: 19 Feb 2004
Time: 15:36:29
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Dr. Farooq, my interests in Bengali history have recently been awakened for somewhat personal reasons. I was not aware of the 1971 genocide, and would like to know more about this matter. Through several websites, I am still a little unclear as to whom was getting exterminated. Was it primarily a hindu majority, or were fellow muslims being slaughtered for a defience to west pakistan, clearly voicing there cry for independance? If you could get back to me with perhaps some brief answers to these questions, that would be greatly apprieciated! Sincerely, Dane Neumeyer( aspiring Ph.D)
Visitor_Name: Abdullah-Al-Zayed
E_mail: shopnil_mazhi@yahoo.com
Location: c/o:Professor Shamsul Anwar,Principal,Anwara College,Anwara,Chittagong,Bangladesh.
Source: From google ath the time of searching `pothik`
Date: 26 Feb 2004
Time: 06:50:34
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Dear, I m zayed.I m a student of Computer and Communication Engr. at International Islamic University of Chittagong.Actualy i buld a website ...oneday i try to search `pothik` at Google there i come to know about ur website..by seeing this i m realy excited that a person who r from a long far away recalling his motherland. If u dont mind i want to permission to add this in my website.... and if u wish u can friendship with me,, Thanking u, Abdullah Al Zayed. www.pothik.tk
Visitor_Name: Nilupa Yeasmin Nipa
E_mail: nnipa@mmm.edu
Location: New York
Source: through google search
Date: 20 Apr 2004
Time: 14:12:27Comments
This homepage is very helpful.I appriciate Dr. Farooq's hard work putting lots of info together, certainly it helped me and i am sure it will help others.
Visitor_Name: Shakil
E_mail: shakil817@hotmail.com
Location: London,uk
Source: net surfing
Date: 23 Apr 2004
Time: 15:31:32Comments
Hello, I just recently became aware of 1971, and the genocide and mass systematic raping of women by the Pakistani army. I was so angered but i thought i should do something. I have written to BBC - 1,2,3,4, London TIMES, ITN ( independent television network,uk) , The London Guardian, The London Independent and various networks. I have got 4 responses, they want a film company / producer with a proven track record for documentaries to represent the 1971 atrocities and genocide. Any suggestions anyone? anyone know any benglai film producer types that do documentaries. i need help to make the UK aware of the genocide.
Visitor_Name: Saiful Islam
E_mail: saifislam61@aol.com
Location: Plano, Texas, USA
Source: NABIC-L
Date: 12 May 2004
Time: 00:29:49Comments
This is a great work for noble cause! Undoubtedly, this is one bold step and a positive contribution towards the cause of humanity -- exposing their pain and sufferings in genocide. I hope this website helps rekindle hearts with the awareness of genocide and generate strong public opinion to stop any future genocide. May the Supreme-being help remove all human sufferings from the world and may He help promote this noble cause of stopping genocide. According to Islamic Tradition (Hadith Qudsee): On the authority of Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with him) from the Prophet (PBUH) is that among the sayings he relates from Allah is that He said: O My servants, I have forbidden oppression for Myself and have made it forbidden amongst you, so do not oppress one another (includes every single human-being).
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Date: 13 May 2004
Time: 11:36:40Comments
Visitor_Name: Imran
E_mail: im_bd@hotmail.com
Location: Ireland
Source: By Bangladesh.net
Date: 20 May 2004
Time: 05:35:28Comments
I'm just feel the history of bangladesh becuse i'm too young.I respect those people who give blode for our country.
Visitor_Name: Carollane
E_mail: RLaneDick@aol.com
Location: Gray, Maine
Source: A friend
Date: 02 Jul 2004
Time: 18:00:18Comments
I just heard of this tragedy from a friend, that I think had family in Bangladesh. I am amazed that it is never talked about. The world hardly seems to know it happened.
Visitor_Name: saeed
E_mail: saeed213@rediff.com
Location: pakistan
Source:
Date: 10 Jul 2004
Time: 09:16:00Comments
u r fucking man who is abusing pakistan
Visitor_Name: saad hasan
E_mail: saad@email.com
Location: Dhaka
Source:
Date: 16 Aug 2004
Time: 22:17:54
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Anybody who celebrates a nationalistic and linguistic division of muslims and demonizes those who tried to prevent it as genocide has seriously misunderstood what it means to be Muslim. Yun tou Syed bhi ho, Mirza bhi ho, Afghan bhi ho [bengali bhi ho] Tum sabhi kuch ho batao tou Musalmaan bhi ho? Bengali Nationalism = Mukhti Bahani = Indian trained terrorists = carried out atrocities against non bengalis in E. Pak = conveniently excluded by the champions of bengali nationalist a la Mr. Farooqi Bangladesh = Hindu India's illigitimate child
Visitor_Name: Peter Smith
E_mail: magenafti@yahoo.com
Location: South Dakota
Source: surfing the net
Date: 26 Sep 2004
Time: 05:53:31
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Why do you not comment on the Palestinian genocide against the Jewish People. After the Oslo Accords the Palestinians gained complete control of 90% of the West bank and Gaza. At Camp David they were offered 97% of the disputed territories with the 3% to be made up from Israel proper. Why did they then begin a campaign of murder against Jewish women and children, bombing buses and firing into crowded marketplaces. Why do they openly call for the destruction of the State of Israel. Is this not genocide? The Nazi's murdered millions of Jews but did not kill themselves to do it. The Palestinains Jew hatred is so intense that they will kill themselves in their genocidal lust.
[Webmaster's comment: Any wrong and injustice committed by anyone is wrong, whether it is by the Zionists/Israelis against the Palestinians or vice versa. However, one should educate oneself about what is genocide and why genocide scholars have not dubbed Palestinian resistance, even in its condemnable extremist form, a genocide against the Israelis.]
Visitor_Name: Michael Mery
E_mail: mmery3a@yahoo.com
Location: near San Francisco, California
Source: have visited Bangladesh
Date: 04 Dec 2004
Time: 21:07:35Comments
on the home page in the list of genocides you might consider listing Congo which under King Leopold (See "King Leopold's Ghost" by Adam Hockschield) there were 9-11M deaths, far more than any other genocide. thanks for your work. Michael Mery
Visitor_Name: Daniel Little
E_mail: drldhl@hotmail.com
Location: Pennsylvania
Source: Internet Search
Date: 11 Dec 2004
Time: 20:10:32Comments
Dear Professor, I was abundantly blessed to find your work on India and Pakistan. Not only was it included in my response (when I was at the U.S. Army War College) to the U.S. Government on whether they should ratify NATOs new Peacekeeping agreement but is prominent in my academic work at Cambridge. May your wisdom bridge further understanding among all people. Dan L.
Visitor_Name: Mohammed Shuaib Sheikh
E_mail: ytakeeasy@hotmail.com
Location: London
Source: Internet Search for the dates of fall of Dacca and the use of Pakistan by the US to establish relations with China.
Date: 25 Dec 2004
Time: 11:42:44Comments
Dear Brother Dr Farooq, As Salam O Alakam. Recently while looking for the events around the time of creation of Bangladesh I stumbled upon your web site. I then wrote to you for a clarification and you were kind enough to respond quickly. Having read the eyewitness accounts of the atrocities by West Pakistani soldiers I write to you with my views. The atrocities that took place in East Pakistan in 1971 cannot be ignored or condoned even if only 10 percent of that is true. Further they cannot be justified even when we know the facts that many West Pakistanis both civilians and in the government service or just West Pakistanis who had made East Pakistan their home were also murdered most cruelly by the East Pakistanis. Regarding rapes, it is an appalling crime and one of the worse sins in Islam. No doubt some rapes must have happened and no condemnation is enough for that. But I can vividly recall BBC news for your attention. More than a year after the break up Bengali women were still approaching the UN or other such agency for abortion because the Pakistani soldiers had raped them! I also cannot forget a news item in which a news team covered the hauling of some 10 “Punjabi” shop keepers from their shops by the Bengalis, marching them to an open place at which point the camera stopped filming them and then I saw their bodies in blood soaked cloths lying on the ground. They had been killed with knives and spears. Irrespective of the reasons of the separation of East Pakistan it was a blow to Islamic world and a gift on a plate to the enemies of Islam, in particular to Hindustan. However even having read your references to Islam it still appears from your writings that it is of no importance or significance to you. The Pakistani leaders in 1971 were no good as ever but our problem is that we are very gullible. We have/had two enemies whom we fail to recognise. They are/were our corrupt rulers and our foreign enemies. Our corrupt rulers are responsible for our woes in the first instance. Then our foreign enemy took/takes advantage of the situation by setting one group against the other in our countries by spreading the lie that one group is exploiting the other. Then instead of fighting the corrupt leaders together we fought/fight with each other. Alas we have fought among ourselves in the past and we are still at it. It seems we will never learn. In my view Mujib Ur Rehman was a traitor. He put his personal interests ahead of the country’s interests. Today I know there are tensions between Silhitis and other Bengalis in Bangladesh. I wonder how the Bangladesh government would take it if a leader from one of the sides secretly crosses the border to visit Hindustan in the midst of tensions in Bangladesh to “discuss” the situation with Hindustani leaders? And that is what Mujib did. When I noticed your “Bridge Building” section I was encouraged. I thought perhaps it was an attempt to build bridges between our two countries but I was very disappointed to note there is nothing of the sort in it. You seem to be a religious minded person. So may I remind you that Islam teaches forgiving and not continuing animosity especially towards Muslims. Mohammed Shuaib Sheikh
Visitor_Name: Goolam H Jeewa
E_mail: elegant92@aol.com
Location: Lakewood California USA
Source: hajee@sympatico.ca
Date: 13 Feb 2005
Time: 15:27:52Comments
No wonder love - as it used to be linked with marriage, not sex - is 'Gone with the wind!' The Making and Unmaking of Love It is unbelievable that such genocide can be perpetrated in this time. History is very well preserved by way of your web-site. A very good documentary. Wish you well. WasSalaam
Visitor_Name: ANWAR FARIDI
E_mail: anwar4632000@yahoo.com
Location: USA
Source: inter net
Date: 10 Mar 2005
Time: 18:04:19Comments
Dr Omar you have done a good job,putting up this web site.Atleast people who suffered have a place to go and see we remember them.Events of 1971 were devastating for many famlies and are suffering even today. Creation of Pakistan (East and West)was due to the sacrifice of Bengali muslims in most part.It was bengali muslims who were for all out for muslim Pakistan.What happened there after? I have so many questions that are still unanswered and may be you can say some thing with some authority. 1.Right after creation of Pakistan,Awami league (student wing)asked for independent Bengali state.Why? 2.Influence of Hindus played an important part in creation of Bangladesh?. 3.Why was Mujib ur rehman (Father of Bangladesh)was killed by son of the soil.Infact the killers wanted to wipe out his entire family. Haseena was lucky she was not home at that time. 4.Bangladesh has more killings of head of state as compared to pre Bangladesh time. 5.Bangladesh was created by indian Army or Mukti bahiny. 6.Have the living condition for common man impoved since independence. I hope you will answer to these question that remain unanswered. Anwar faridi
Visitor_Name: pabitra sengupta
E_mail: pabitra_sengupta@vsnl.net
Location: Mumbai
Source: searching the web for taslima nasrin
Date: 04 Apr 2005
Time: 12:33:18Comments
I read your venomous outporings on Taslima Nasrin. Whatever may be her fault, your attack on her private life is definitely in very poor taste (specially when she herself has openly written about it all) and is not becoming of a personality like you. It seems you are suffering from malice towards her and therefore you cease to be considered as an objetive observer.
Visitor_Name: jeanette
E_mail: jpitts6@columbus.rr.com
Location: ohio
Source: just surfing looking for info
Date: 08 Apr 2005
Time: 18:54:44Comments
i looked up genocide just to get better informed and i was shocked at how much i don,t no.i can't understand how people can be so cruel to each other. the sad part is we i mean black people could be next. that attitude it could never happen to me makes us easy prey. much luv jeanette
Visitor_Name: Russell
E_mail: all_info_russell@yahoo.com
Location: NY USA
Source: I was searching for a book then....
Date: 22 Apr 2005
Time: 23:32:27
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I was searching for a book Hedaya wa Nihaya then i was up with this web spending almost 1 and half hour. I loved this web very much. This web gives me an insight to study the Bangladeshi History and into politics. thank you very much for your effort, whomever deserves that.
Visitor_Name: rafique saya
E_mail: rafique_sayan@yahoo.com
Location: USA
Source: Web Site
Date: 09 Jul 2005
Time: 22:30:17Comments
Even though I am not a Bengali, I was born in West Pakistan, I have lot of Bengalriends here and in Pakistan, I love Bengali cooking.I am very saden to know about the killings done by Pak soldier of Benaglies during 1971,I hope to God that we do not witness any Genocide anywhere in the world again, I know it is wishfull thinking. I do admire your great work, it is good to know our Dark period, that might help to educate our young generaton, keep up with a good work. Thanks
Visitor_Name: Trying To Understand
E_mail: rationalpolicies@hotmail.com
Location: U.S.
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Inquiry: Why is genocide against Israel accepted by most of Muslims? Please justify the following tenets: 5:54 "O ye who believe. Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors. They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily God guideth not a people unjust." 8:12-17 "Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): "I am with you. Give firmness to the believers. I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers. Smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger tips off them. This because they contend against God and his apostle. If any contend against God and his apostle, God is strict in punishment .. O ye who believe. When ye meet the unbelievers in hostile array, never turn your backs to them. If any do turn his back to them on such a day, unless it be a stratagem of war ... he draws on himself the wrath of God and his abode is Hell, an evil refuge (indeed)." 8:59-60 "Let not the unbelievers think that they can get the better (of the godly). They will never frustrate (them). Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies of God and your enemies and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom God doth know ..." 8:65 "O apostle! Rouse the believers to the fight. If there are twenty amongst you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish two hundred. If a hundred they will vanquish a thousand of the unbelievers, for these are a people without understanding." 9:5 "... fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem .." 9:14 "Fight them, and God will punish them by your hands, cover them with shame ..." 9:29 "Fight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by God and his apostle nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth (even if they are) of the people of the Book, until they pay the Jizya [religious tax] with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." 47:4 "Therefore, when ye meet the unbelievers, smite at their necks, at length when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly (on them)... but if it had been God's will, he could certainly have exacted retribution from them (himself), but (he lets you fight) in order to test you, some with others. But those who are slain in the way of God, he will never let their deeds be lost." 61:4 "Truly God loves those who fight in His cause in battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure."
Visitor_Name: kayla
E_mail: djkajdjadkljasdlkj
Location: jlkadjlskdajklaj
Source: idkComments
you suck
Visitor_Name: Mustafa Tareq
E_mail: mmustaf@gmail.com
Location: Louisiana, USA
Source: Just BrowsingComments
Dear Br. Omar Farooq: As Salam. We used to know each other during our DU/SM Hall life and met for the last time in 2002 or 2003 when you were in St. Louis, MO to attend a NABIC convention. Bachchu Bhai was also present on the occasion. It was nice to see your page on the issue of genocide. No comment about the content but about the color scheme. Use of Red on Green may somehow connect this page to the ground reality but is not at all soothing to eye. Salam and all the best to all of you in the family. Allah Hafezeq Tar
Visitor_Name: Aashish Choudhary
E_mail: ashu.sindhu01@gmail.com
Location: Noida
Source: GoogleComments