Nizami's fatwa
A couple of days earlier, there were news reports in some Bangla newspapers on Mr. Matiur Rahman Nizami, Ameer of Jamaat-e- Islami. He is reported to have given a Fatwa, 'religious ruling' that the present government's initiative to try the war criminals are, in fact, acts of anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic kind. We do not know wherefrom he brought these rulings of Islam for the people of Bangladesh, but we do hear the interpretations of the Holy Quran which rather emphasize severe punishments for rapists, arsonists, killers, unpatriotic citizens and collaborators who work against the motherland. In Islam, the people who work against their homeland, support the occupiers and invite the invaders are "non-believers".
During the war of liberation in 1971, the present listed war criminals were directly involved in all the above crimes. They raped our women, they burnt many houses, they killed Mukti Bahini men, they actively collaborated with the Pakistani army, they helped locate the houses of patriotic liberation forces to loot and burn for which they deserve "capital punishment" according to the Islamic law.
By delivering this sermon Mr. Matiur Rahman Nizami has, in fact, misinterpreted Islam and tried to mislead the Muslims. I demand that Mr. Nizami quote the verses of Islam wherein it has been said that the trial of war criminals amounts to an anti-Islamic activity. If he fails to quote he should be charged with misinterpretation of the Holy Koran or Islam because these are the people who are actively helping the destruction of Islam in the name of Jihad against infidels in Afghanistan, Pakistan and in other Muslim countries.
They do not want our sons and daughters to get modern education. They support education centres wherefrom they get easy recruits for their so-called Islamic Jihad. While Allah, the Merciful, Himself made education "Farz" or compulsory for all men and women, they support destruction of girl schools like Swat in Pakistan.
Let us all be cautious about these people to save Islam and Muslims all over the world.
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