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Visiting Moeen U Ahmed seems to have gotten all tongue tied trying to explain where the extra 66 lakhs came from in his coffers.

He claims he took 35 lakhs but the bank prospectus says he took 99 lakhs.

Where did the other 64 lakhs go?

More details in E-bangladesh.

The obscurantist Imam is gone but watch out of the pseudo-secularists

Shabbir Ahmed

The controversial Imam of Baitul Mukarram Mosque, which is also dubbed as the National Mosque of Bangladesh, Maulana Obaidul Haque passed away a few days ago in early October 2007. Many expressed their grief and condolences for his sudden demise. As a chief Imam of the largest mosque in Bangladesh, he could have received respect and honor during his lifetime from all had he delivered only peaceful Fatwas based on the much hyped peaceful religion Islam. Unfortunately, he preferred to be a political Imam. For this, he was supported by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-Jamaat-i-Islami (BNP-JI) axis while he was criticized by the secular and pro-liberation forces for his lifetime controversial actions. In the past, he made outrageous remarks against freedom fighters and all other freedom loving Bengalis, who freed Bangladesh from the clutch of military-theocratic rule of Pakistan. This Razakar-minded Imam of Baitul Mukarram mosque called the freedom fighters as “Gaddars” meaning traitors.

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It’s Eid and with our major crackdown on VOIP terminators, it was hard to get a call into Dhaka. As we were discussing this, a very interesting information was presented to us.

Those that call from the U.S might have used the calling card “Access Asia”. They were terminating in Chittagong. These guys apparently had to pay 50 lakhs to a group of Brigadiers to get off the hook.

There are rumors floating around that the Army is vying for a VOIP license. Can you imagine having your calls terminate in the cantonment?

Are we going from Hawa Bhaban to Sena Bhaban?

Page 29 of this document shows that Gen. Moeen Uddin Ahmed (MUA) had a loan outstanding from the Trust Bank in the amount of Tk 99 lakh on December 31st, 2005. One year later, on December 31st 2006 the loan amount was down to Tk 33 lakh.

How does a General, on a General’s salary, pay off Tk 66 lakh in one year?

The prospectus from the Trust Bank can be found here: MUA’s Loans from Trust Bank.

[An amazing amazing analysis by Mash, cross posted from DocStrangeLove. Once I started reading it, I could not stop. PLEASE read it and share it.]

In September Iranian President Mahmud Ahmedinejad delivered a speech at Columbia University amidst much protest. The protests stemmed from his views on the Holocaust. Under questioning Ahmedinejad conceded that the Holocaust had indeed happened, but he was calling for further “research” to “approach the topic from different perspectives”. In doing so, Ahmedinejad was engaging in the modern form of Holocaust Denial. Ahmedinejad’s “different perspectives” were on display last year when he called for a conference on the Holocaust. At the time, his spokesman declared “I have visited the Nazi camps in Eastern Europe. I think it is exaggerated.”

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Ex home minister, AL law maker, and son of the great leader Captain M. Monsoor Ali, Mohammed Nasim was sentenced to 13 years in jail for corruption today by a Dhaka court.

His wife also got three years of jail term for abating her husband.

Although, we are disappointed at the MUA government for not doing anything to the rajakar Jamatis, we still approve of punishing known criminals like Mohammad Nasim. May he rest in jail.

Sources reveal that Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee refused a meeting request from Fakruddin Ahmed in New York in the recent U.N General Counsel meeting.

Signs of changing times?

The big Jamaati rajakar S. A. Hannan gets his back virtually kicked by the leading Islamic scholar on human rights in Islam and director of Canadian Muslim Congress Mr. Hasan Mahmud (Fatemolla).

They were debating whether Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh is a democratic party or not in Mukto Mona recently.

For an amazingly open and easy to read transcript, please check this document out: Is Jamaat Democratic?