The National Identity

[Force_Recon]

nowadays I read in a lot of newspaper articles and columns ,how Bangladesh is struggling about national identity.Its mostly about the war in 'fundamentalism' and 'secularism(liberalism)'.
some survey in circa 2004 revealed that religion came first for identification.yet there are certain groups saying we should be secular and Bangladeshi first and then Muslim/Non-Muslim after.

what do you people think?should we identify ourselves as Muslims and our country as a Muslim country or rather should we identify ourselves as Bangladeshis and BD as a secular country?

identification makes impacts on political alignments,too.

One of the sites that made me to start thinking about it.

[Severus]

the muslim identity wont work because, muslim to india, malaysia, pakistan, saudi arab eo ache ... but they are not so brother-brother with us, even though muslim ummah asks the muslim all over the world to be brothers. Yet, despite the brotherhood, pakistan got separated. so, this shows in the modern era, the brotherhood based on culture/nationality works more than religion.


tumi miya ei Bharat-Rakkhosh site e beshi ghuro

[Force_Recon]

nope that was given in the ULFA thread,forgot to mention.still forget the site,I am willing to talk abt this.If there has to be unity in the country there has to be consent to be something.
take BNP and AL.There are strong ideological divisions within the country in both the normal citizens and the politcians.

[}|Serial_Killer|{]

Religion is a inner feelings , belief and faith. Its very easy to hoax people in name of religion. Like what is doing Jamat.

Promoting ourselves as a bangali doesn't hurt your religious feelings. Religion is such a sensitive thing , excessive dealing with this , may cause harm to it.

So leave religion for your own, for internal you. As a citizen , you should proceed with nationality. This is my personal opinion.

[Severus]

awami league is culture-based-identity ( bangali jatiyotabad ) , where BNP is political based ( Bangladeshi jatiyotabaad ) ... now a tribal guy might ask a question : "why would we support awami league ? are are not bangali, but still bangladeshi "

[junkviper]

well. Although I support AL but I think that the priority or hierarchy shud b like this:

1. Bangladeshi (as all of us blong to bangladesh)
2. Bangalee /tribal.
3. Muslim/Hindu/buddhist/christian...

COz while narratin my identity to someone else as i cant say that i am a human bein,in the similar fashion i cant say anythin else except "Bangladeshi". Then we can say that i am a bangalee. Last of all i can mention my religious identity. this is just for maintaininin international aspects. But as a person we may consider identity as per our perspectives.

[self_shattered]

Originally Posted by }|Serial_Killer|{

Religion is a inner feelings , belief and faith. Its very easy to hoax people in name of religion. Like what is doing Jamat.

Promoting ourselves as a bangali doesn't hurt your religious feelings.

Motamoti eki mot
amar think churi korse

[dIsTiNG]

National Identity card thakle onek boro boro solution paitam. Jamon loan paoa, credit card paoa. Its like a social security number like usa. Ar sob cheye boro kotha ei ta thakle ak joner naame innocent lok criminal hoe jabena. Jamon akhon porjonto 10 ta kala jahangir dhorleo keu ashol ta na. eisob chinta arki.

Political ki religious topic ekhane faul. Ar AL/BNP er valoi khoti hobe 1st national ID card theke. Ora onek vua voter harabe. I am afraid oi bnp/al power e ashle ora vua national identity o banabe. As ora eisob churi te ostad. So, Ami chai BD jano ei ID card er sufol vog korte pare.

[dIsTiNG]

Ami nijeke Bangladeshi bolte beshi pochondo korbo. Karon West Bengal er manush ra nijeder Bangali bole. ALso they claim they are better Bangali. So, oto kothae jaite chaina. Oder sathe mix up hote chaina. Personally ami atoi opoman hoisi westbengal er lok dia as ami bangladesher. AMi Bangladeshi holei sudhu oder theke alada better identity pacchi. Ami bnp ke ontoto ei bepar taar jonne thanx dibo je ora ei Bangladeshi concept ta anse.

[needs_fire]

Originally Posted by Force_Recon

nowadays I read in a lot of newspaper articles and columns ,how Bangladesh is struggling about national identity.Its mostly about the war in 'fundamentalism' and 'secularism(liberalism)'.
some survey in circa 2004 revealed that religion came first for identification.yet there are certain groups saying we should be secular and Bangladeshi first and then Muslim/Non-Muslim after.

what do you people think?should we identify ourselves as Muslims and our country as a Muslim country or rather should we identify ourselves as Bangladeshis and BD as a secular country?

identification makes impacts on political alignments,too.

One of the sites that made me to start thinking about it.

first of all bharat rakshak is a Consortium of Indian Defence Websites.
it is a string of propaganda websites,most likely administered by RAW[research and analysis wing] agents. it portrays pakistan and bangladesh as countries soaked in blood of minorities.......and does say nothing about the riots in gujrat,in which thousands of muslims were incinerated........as indian police stood by.it talks nothing about the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya by shiv senas'............hindu fundamentalists.......


my personal view is that the "the state should be separated from religion"
national identity can never be defined being hindu,muslim or christian...etc.