Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf takes the hot seat in John Stuart's the Daily Sh...
September 30, 2006
The Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury trial farce continues
I have wrote about this many times before. Last year the news was:In a meeting with Dr. Richard L. Benkin the Bangladeshi ambassador to US claimed Choudhury's incarceration was related to a "purely internal financial dispute" that had "nothing to do with his attempted travel to Israel" or his journalistic activities.According to Choudhury's own words :Since my newspaper, the Weekly Blitz, published several articles that were favorable to Israel, we have been subject to various threats from local fanatics as well from the Palestinian ambassador...
September 29, 2006
The Muslim view
Dean Esmay challenges the Muslim views of the American rightist blogosphere and gets the heat. Michelle Malkin fires back. Eteraz has more.I wonder why some people view all the Muslims of the world as Jihadists and think that they have to wage an war against all the Muslims in the world. They think the same as the lunatic bin Laden, who waged an war against the West. They should read this first and chill o...
Election centered economy
The economist has an insightful article depicting how election inspires economic nationalism in Bangladesh. Prior to election Tk 8,746cr development projects were approved in 1 hour, which will in a way fund election expenses of government lawmakers. In Bangladesh's elections, the winner takes a...
Bengali Love
Pakistani president Pervez had a crush on a Bengali girl from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), his autobiography 'In The Line Of Fire: A Memoir' revea...
Nightmare in Bangladesh
People are again rioting for electricity in Bangladesh, this time in the capital, Dhaka. The power Minister resigns indicating another failure of the BNP government.This letter to the editor of the Daily Star depicts the misery the people are put through. The government's full efforts are to tackle their political opposition but they are creating another opposition, the common people.Weak political leadership has led to this crisis. The bad news:- the World Bank in July estimated that Bangladesh needed 10 billion dollars of investment over the...
Bangladesh can do it!
Patricia Kelly tells how Bangladesh took on Google and Microsoft. There are three Bangladeshi developers in the award winning Pageflakes te...
September 28, 2006
Youtube video of the day
"How dare you come to a Muslim area?"UK Home Secretary John Reid being heckled by an Islamist.I can't believe the UK government is tolerating th...
September 27, 2006
Poor children in a rich country
The above picture shows the green grass of the Spreebogen Park in front of the Berlin main rail station (Hauptbahnhof) and besides the Chancellors office. On 20th September a German NGO called the Deutscher Kinderschutzbund E.V. laid out 200,000 such blue flags in Spreebogen Park and other places in Berlin to protest negligence bythe government of the same number of poor children in the German capital. It is now official that one in six out of...
September 26, 2006
After the pope, now Mozart?
Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian prime minister and prominent statesman of Germany in the Nineteenth century said"An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts".However, this is the twenty first century and the world is ridden by the new fear, offending the Muslims and its consequences. A Berlin opera house proved Bismarck wrong by imposing self-censorship on the performance of the Mozart opera Idomeneo fearing an attack by Islamists. Receiving...
September 24, 2006
Bangladesh Blog Buzz
The latest happenings in Bangladeshi blogs around the world:* Education: Tanvir of Journal of a Disturbed Mind blog criticizes the new grading system of school final examination -S.S.C. (Grade 10) in Bangladesh. Students in some regions are getting the top GPA 5 grade in greater numbers; however they are not represented in the top universities as they cannot do well in the competitive examinations.* Politics: Journalist Tasneem Khalil depicts that police brutality on opposition activists can sometimes be an obscene affair.Some more pictures of...
September 22, 2006
Today's links
* Bangladesh making law to check computer hacking.* Suit claims UAE rulers enslaved boys.* My sweet baby girl Rai.* The Best Web-Based Computer Applications For Small Business.* Bangladesh builds FTTH syst...
September 18, 2006
Getting the bigger picture
The both women have something in common. Taslima Nasrin was exiled from Bangladesh because of her critical views of the treatment of women under Islamic society. Ayaan Hirsi Ali also criticized the treatment of women in Islamic society. They both are born Muslims.Taslima Nasrin writes an interesting review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's 'The Caged Virgin', which has been published in the Outlook India magazine (subscription required).Quotes from her review...
September 16, 2006
The Pope Fiasco and Stupid Muslim Reactions
From a recent speech Pope Benedict XVI delivered to scientists at the University of Regensburg quoting the dialogue between the erudite Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian on the subject of Christianity and Islam took place in the fourteenth century:In the seventh conversation ("diálesis" -- controversy) edited by professor Khoury, the emperor touches on the theme of the jihad (holy war). The emperor must have known that...
September 15, 2006
Transatlantic Fish Bhuna
UK and Ireland have thousands of Indian restaurants and most of them are owned by Bangladeshis. They are quite popular there for their dishes. The fame of the Indie Spice restaurant on Stranmillis Road in Belfast reached on the other side of the Atlantic. Its owner Arif Ahmed, a Bangladeshi got a takeaway order from Steve Francis, a New York dance music producer, also a founder member of the band Soul II Soul. The meal including the exotic fish...
September 14, 2006
Third world VVIP
Picture courtesy: Prothom Alo via Suchinta.The Bangladeshi Prime Minister was due on this road after a while. An ambulance was wailing on the street with a dying patient. But the traffic police was not letting the ambulance go. He wanted to let the VVIP first. After fifteen minutes the ambulance could move. When later asked who has priority, a high official Dhaka's traffic police said that the VVIPs have priority. But humanity should not be ignored....
September 11, 2006
Quote of the day
"Lest we forget, nearly three thousand innocents lost their lives on that day, innocents who need not have died but whose sole crime was reporting for work.They could have been your friends, relatives or neighbours.On that day, we were all Americans. Since that day, we have had Bali, Riyadh, Madrid, London, Egypt, Jordan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq (on going) and so on. Most of the victims of terrorism since that day had been Muslims. I hope the world is successful in destroying the scourge that is terrorism. That would be...
Today's Links
* 'Suicide bomber' flew on RP plane.* Shakes on a Plane.* The ultimate blog post.* Sheesha ban hits Jeddah cafes.* Not-so fresh meat in Germany.* A Glimpse of the UK Bangladeshi communi...
9/11 victims: lest we forget
Lt. Gregg Arthur Atlas (44) was a talented and an excellent Fireman in Ladder 34. He was a friendly person with a smile on his face and spontaneously spelled out practical jokes to take the pressure off of a serious moment.His company was the first unit to respond the call on the 9/11/2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York and Gregg was probably the first FDNY officer to enter the Twin Towers. Although troubled by the age, he did not back...
September 10, 2006
South Asia Blog Buzz
(Cross posted in the Global Voices Online)The latest from the South Asian blogs:Bangladesh:- Rajputro writes a satirical piece on how the load shedding (power cuts to manage shortage in electricity supply) in Bangladesh can be counterproductive.- Shafiur of imperfect|world|2006 is amused with the political dramas set out in Bangladesh as a form of protest.- Drishtipat has an interesting prediction for the Bangladesh parliament election 2007.India:- Blogcamp, India’s biggest blogging conference has started today. There are about 50 active blogger...
Table of Free Voices
Bebelplatz, a square in Berlin, near to state opera and the Humboldt University buildings has an infamous past. Seventy Three years ago (1933) Nazi youths instigated by their Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels burned around 20,000 books, including works by Thomas Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx and many other authors. Today on September 9, 2006, Bebelplatz is redeemed of the infamy of above crime. Dropping Knowledge, a Berlin...
September 08, 2006
Picture of the day
One of the many ships that carry tourists across Berlin's waterways providing wonderful scene...
September 04, 2006
TODAY'S LINKS* Controversial cartoons sparked train bomb plot.* Islamic Evil: defining the enemy.* Radicalising Europe's young Muslims.* Bangladeshis in the Middle East.* Gender: Free online journalism training.* Who killed the newspaper?* What Really Is Scientology? The truth behind the mysterious religi...
September 03, 2006
Bangladesh Blog Buzz
(Crossposted in the Global Voices Online)The latest opinions and views from the Bangladeshi blogs:* Refugees: Drishtipat discusses the plight of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as the International community is not taking notice. Rohingyas are Barmese Muslims from Arakan fled to Bangladesh to escape military persecution in Myanmar.* Gender Equity: Sonia discusses a flaw in the Bangladesh constitution which deters a Bangladeshi women to transmit her nationality to her spouse or children.* Energy: The recent Asia Energy coal mining controversy...
Today's Links
* Muslims must come forward.* Letter From Bangladesh: Where family ties still tightly bind.* The trial of Henry Kissinger.* Pregnant man carries a twin-brother.* Bangabhoomi andolan , Bangasena and Indian citizenship Act.* Balochistan is far from Banglade...
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