Moderator's Note:

Dear Mukto-monas,

I had kept the following piece of article by Mr Karim on hold which I thought was not quite decent in language and germane to the context. However, Mr Karim has protested my judgment by claiming his write-up was pretty decent and instead SKM's article 'why we critique only Islam' was written in 'dirty and indecent' as follows:

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"Dear Moderator, I am really surprised to know that my message is on hold because of 'indecent' language. Have you read the article of SKM? Do you think his article was descent? He tried to slap whole Islam and Muslims by all possible dirty words and lies. I struggled a lot with myself to write as decent as possible a reply (Otherwise it would have been as dirty as him). Not only that, read the latest article of Abul Kashem on 'Women in Islam'. I really can't believe that a person can write so dirty an article. I hope you will post my reply to that article which seriously hart my deep feelings.

Regards, Azharul karim"

alamgir wrote:

Dear Azhar,

Your message for which you have sent a quiery has been on hold because of bad language as I think. Since main moderator is not here I can't take a decision on it. You have to wait until Avijit returns.

I have already posted a couple of your articles which doesn't contain a decent language or relevant tone. I could advise you to focus on the issue and discuss/answer in decent language.

Acting moderator, Alamgir

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However , I have already received complain from a silent member of MM about the language of Mr KArim's postings. And I wish to let Mr Karim know that to the moderator's view, SKM's article has been written in pretty decent language although highly critical of Islam. I would advise Mr Karim to refute SKM's criticism in appropriate context. MM members could be wrong in their perception about different issues and sensible members like Mr Karim is supposed to prove it wrong in decent manner. I believe Mr Karim should take on the challenge SKM has put forward and defend Islam. And that's what MM is meant for.  He should refer to Ms Tasneem's and Amin's posts in order to learn how he should refute SKM's claims civilly. Mr Karim should prove how SKM's writing is full of lies, immature and silly. And bringing the issue of Sokka Saifur and his challenge to Hasina/Khaleda here is irrelevant and doesn't help the cause of MM. I'm also quite unsure of whether Mr Karim has sufficient knowledge about MM members like Ms Tasneem and Amin to conclude that they are simple Muslims (they could be great Muslims or even atheists!). I hope Mr Karim will understand the stand of MM and act accordingly in the future.

Acting Moderator, Alamgir!!

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Mr KArim's post:

Dear Moderator,

I don't understand why and how you related my mail (7680 ) with Mr. SKM’s posting. What answers I may find from this article? I can only fount a terrorist in this article. A terrorist is not only that person who has a gun; a terrorist could be a man who has pen that spreads hatred, writes without any simplest form of logic, writes with maturity lower than a kid, writes to please a certain quarter (what is reflected in some ‘thanksgiving’ mails), …….. I am more surprised to see that muktamona moderator thanked SKM for his article. But I didn't find any thanks note in Lopa or Yasmin's mails.

I really wonder how a man attacks a community with such a silly article with any minimum level of documentary support and simplest form of logic, and still receives high appreciation. Mr. Mirza didn't dare to reply Ms Lopa or Yasmin's mails because he knows that it would further reveal hollowness and shallowness of his knowledge and state of maturity. Where is his challenge now?

[[SKM’s Challenge: Lastly, let me throw an open challenge to all Islamists: if any Islamists can answer my all or some of the above questions, we promise, we will stop discussing/critiquing only Islam. That is if you can give the parallel situations exists today in any other religion also, then we will start discussing that devil also. I hope this deal is quite fair for everybody! ]]

Mr. Mirza, an Islamic scholar is not required to reveal the hollowness of your article. Simple Muslims like Lopa and Yasmin is enough for you. From your challenge I can only remember Mr. Sokka Saifur. He always challenges (in elections) Shekh Hsina and Khaleda Zia or any other prominent figures.  In any election he is a candidate. He always becomes a candidate against Khaleda and Hasina and throws open challenges. Should they take his challenge?

Regards

Azhar