Dear Lopa,

I'm sorry about your feeling so much hostility here. If you don't
find it amenable to live where you're at, perhaps you should move to
a more liberal area in the U.S. if you can?

The major cities of the Northern West Coast are full of "brown"
people (and people of all other colors.)No one bothers about it that
much.

I took my son (a convert to Islam) out to brunch in one of those
cities recently, with another Muslim family. They were all wearing
full Islamic clothes, Kufis and Hijaabs, and no one paid the
slightest attention to us. I haven't heard of any intolerant behavior
anywhere near where I live.

Best,

FP



--- In mukto-mona@y..., lopa saleh <lopa_saleh@y...> wrote:
>
> Dear Friends,
> I thank everybody who responded either on the forum or personally
to my post, "I miss Bangladesh". Special thanks to Sherry, Audrey and
Penny who could see right through my heart even though they are not
the first generation Americans like myself. It's people like them
who make the world such a friendly place to live in. However, I would
like to clarify a few points for the readers who might have
misunderstood me.
> I do know that racism exists in its full form in Bangladesh.
Bangladeshi Muslims did break the temples when Babri mosque was
demolished in India. Also, I do know that my Hindu friends are being
routinely discriminated in Bangladesh. A significant part of my life
was spent in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. What we have done to the
innocent Chakma people starting from the building of the Kaptai dam
until today is unforgivable. But the purpose of my write up was not
to focus on the communalism in Bangladesh.
> All these years, I only sympathized with the minority for the
mistreatments they had received. But for the first time in my life, I
can exactly feel what my minority friends regularly go through in
Bangladesh. I cannot condemn the minority if one of them chooses to
migrate to a place wherever he/she can live with dignity. Some of the
Hindus have chosen to migrate to West Bengal. Does that mean West
Bengal is free from any racism/communalism? NO. The Muslim minority
is being discriminated in West Bengal. If racism in America fills my
heart with sadness and makes me nostalgic for my birthplace, where I
am not a minority, that does NOT imply that my birthplace does not
discriminate against the minority living there.
>
> Any sort of racism, anywhere in the world is a deplorable act and
should be protested!
>
> Warm Regards,
>
> Lopa Tasneem
>
>
>
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