The Case for Rohingyas
Ever since the Gaza war I've been asking myself why didn't I raise my voice the same way for the other oppressed Muslims specially for the Rohingyas since ethnically they are Bengalis and live right next to us. While its not an excuse there are convincing reasons worthy of discussion.
First, I'm not an activist per se. I write re-actively most of the time than proactively. This is because my main interest has been in the sciences and engineering as in Computer Science and Engineering, although Gaza war has made some significant changes in me. But at the same time I've always been politically aware. Its hard for me to look away from the injustices happening right before my eyes. So this is a dialectic that I've been pondering upon for a while. You see some of the great minds excelled despite their challenging life. But at the same time, one could argue, that many were lost in the tribulations of life, specially if it is a moral choice at hand. After all how many of us could compromise our conscience like Al-Tusi?
Second, Gaza started purely as a religious war. The Flood of Al-Aqsa is perhaps the first attempt against the post-colonial order, to break the shackle of subservience to the Infidel World Order. The only uprising similar to it that comes immediately to the mind is that of Umar Al-Mukhtar's stance against Mussolini's invading Army projected intensely by Moustapha Akkad presenting Mukhtar's men strapping themselves against each other and ditching half of their bodies in the sand field against the advancing Italian tanks. The Flood of Al-Aqsa revived that lost spirit in the Ummah for resistance purely from a religious ground against the occupying Infidel forces.
Third, the journalistic resources on ME are very enriched and diverse. Compared to that journalistic resources for SA are next to none. What we have instead is sensational and propagandist journalism. So even though the Rohingya genocide is happening next door there is scarcely any reliable information available. For example, I didn't know that Rohingyas are infact Bengalis until perhaps late 2015 when an Islamist academic, a Professor in Anthropology i.e., the late Abney Golam Samad, wrote about it.
Fourth, as a Bengali myself I have grown a deep disrespect and suspicion of the Bengalis. So despite all their shenanigans it never crossed my mind that it’ll bring about anything meaningful for the Rohingyas. In fact I remember I was once sitting in a hospital reception that was televising the arrival of Her Excellency Amine Erdogan, the first lady of Türkiye after the latest genocidal drive against the Rohingyas. Soon after her arrival, the then sitting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina started her usual show off and dirty politics of capitalizing on the vulnerable.
In fact it is common knowledge that Hasina let the Rohingyas into the country so that she might get her long desired Nobel Peace prize. So when her media lackeys started showing her crocodile tears as if to compete with the passionate appeal of Amine Erdogan, may Allah bless her, to the world in favor of Rohingyas, the man sitting next to me broke into mockery showing clear distrust of Hasina and utter disgust towards her opportunistic politics. He literally commented that Hasina showed up just to show off after the arrival of Amine Erdogan.
So when in the beginning of this year I noticed a push for ARSA in Twitter I was naturally suspicious. But one video of its leader Jununi caught my attention and I kept it. He speaks in a Bengali dialect much similar to the Chittagonian. I don’t fully understand it. But there was something in his speech that moved me to the core. When he said,
‘anrar takot ki?’
i.e., who gives us flair?,
‘anrar hatiar ki?’
i.e., who is our patron?
and his compatriots reply,
‘Allah’!
it flares up the futuwwa i.e., the Islamic Chivalry.
In fact the talent of articulation is one of the miracles of God’s creation. So when I saw the news headline that the present “interim government” arrested Jununi because you know he terrorist it made me wonder about the probable reasons.
The government as I wrote earlier is definitely blessed by the western axis of power. In fact, soon after the so called revolution the present Army Chief offered his attendance to Washington and begged to revoke their ban on RAB its paramilitary sister wing so that it can resume its dollar earning missions ensuring “peace” for the International World Order.
In any case, I’ve long lost all interests in Bengalis and their shenanigans but at the end of the day I consider myself a Muslim and the plight of the oppressed makes me distressed. So there’s that.
