[Reader-list] Secular Bengalis Find "Mohammad Cat" moment?

[Shambhu Rahmat]

A month ago, Bangladeshi Islamists made a fiery national issue over
"Mohammad Biral (cat)" cartoon and were handed head of ex-Communist
leader Motiur Rahman.

http://rumiahmed.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/picture-of-the-day/

http://rumiahmed.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/chronology-of-major-blasphemy-cases-in-bangladesh-1972-2007/


Can Secularists learn from tactics of opponents? Can they take
Jamaat's statement "there are no 1971 War Criminals" and 1971 was a
"civil war" and turn it into a mega-issue?

Watch the video (Bengali only), and read the links (English, below video)

http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2007/10/29/jamaat-1971/

As a tactical firestorm breaks out, the key is to not get hysterical
about "opoman" (insult) or "aspordha" (audacity).  Or to dream about
trials, or banning Jamaat (will NEVER happen), but to use this as a
tool to pry loose the Jamaat's current position as the reliable chess
piece that is totally within Army's gameset.

http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2007/10/25/jamaat-ec/

This is the Secularists' Mohammed Biral moment...?