[Reader-list] About Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Naeem Mohaiemen (who's work I admire) wrote to me on this topic. His mail is reproduced below.
 
How good or bad a journalist Salah Uddin Choudhury is, is not pertinent. Whether he also writes as "Sunita Paul" who seems to be a proven plagiarist is also not pertinent.
 
Is Salah Uddin Choudhury real? Yes he is. 
 
Has he been the target of violence (whether by the State or by others)? Yes he has.
 
The pertinent point is the selectivity shown in touting 'causes' whether here on the Reader List or elsewhere. The hypocrisy.
 
Kshmendra
 
 
--- On Mon, 10/26/09, Naeem Mohaiemen <naeem.mohaiemen at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Naeem Mohaiemen <naeem.mohaiemen at gmail.com>
Subject: Salahuddin Shoaib Chowdhury
To: "Kshmendra Kaul" <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, October 26, 2009, 6:13 PM

He is also known as Sunita Paul

http://www.docstrangelove.com/2009/04/03/sunita-paul-plagiarist/

Take it from me that you would not want to champion this guy.

Do you want to post about this on reader list, or have me do it.

 
 

--- On Tue, 10/20/09, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Reader-list] About Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 2:06 PM

I have not seen much mention on the SARAI Reader List of the persecution suffered by the Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Choudhury. Usually there are many on this List who fervently pick up such 'causes' and participate in relevant 'protests' and 'petitions'.
 
Maybe I have missed seeing it.
 
Or, is there something about Salah Uddin Choudhury that he could be deemed as ignoble and ignorable. What could that be.
 
Kshmendra
 
 
"Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury" 
 
 
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is an award winning anti Jihadist Muslim journalist in Bangladesh. 

He is the editor of Weekly Blitz. This newspaper has both print and online edition reaching mostly policymakers, politicians, entrepreneurs, students, think tanks, civil and millitary officials, clergies and cross section of people in the world. 

Weekly Blitz is the largest and most infleutial English language newspaper published in Bangladesh. Online edition of the only anti Jihadist newspaper in the Muslim world is available online on www.weeklyblitz.net

Journalist, writer, poet, lyrist, author, political analyst and peace activist, Choudhury, started his career in journalism in 1989 as the Correspondent of TASS, state news agency of Soviet Union. Later he was promoted as the Chief Correspodent of Itar-Tass in Bangladesh.

On November 29, 2003, he was arrested at Zia International Airport in Bangladesh on his way to Israel to attend a peace conference. Choudhury was tortured, imprisoned and denied medical treatment in prison. Government brought sedition, treason and blasphemy charges against him for confronting religious extremism, advocating inter-faith dialogue and demanding relations between Dhaka and Jerusalem. He was released on April 30, 2005 after imprisonment of seventeen months. Although released on bail, Choudhury continues to face sedition, treason and blasphemy charges and the trial continues in a court in Dhaka. Sedition bears capital punishment [death penalty] according to law in Bangladesh.
Choudhury is the recipient of PEN USA Freedom to Write Award in 2005; American Jewish Committee's Moral Courage Award in 2006; Monaco Media Award in 2007 and Key to Englewood City [USA] in 2007.

He has written a number of books on various issues. His latest book titled 'Injustice and Jihad' was published in October 2007. Italian publication house Neftasia Editore has published Choudhury's book titled 'Non Sono Colpevole' in May 2008.

Choudhury's latest book titled 'Inside Madrassa', which contains descriptive and elaborate information on condition of Madrassas in Bangladesh, Pakistan and other Muslim nations has been published in October 2009. This book is a result of comprehensive research by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury for several years. Interested people can buy a copy of this book by contacting Blitz Publications, ediblitz at yahoo.com

In today's world, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is perhaps the most quoted Bangladeshi journalist in the international media. 

The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Sun, The Washington Times, The Australian, The Berliner Zeitung, The Jewish State, The Jewish Week, The Guardian and many other leading international and regional dailies and periodicals have published numerous editorials on Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.

Office of Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury's newspaper, Weekly Blitz was bombed by Islamist millitants in Dhaka [Bangladesh] in July 2006. 

On October 5, 2006, armed terrorists attacked the his office and physically assaulted him.
On 18th March 2008, members of Rapid Action Battalion [infamous of extra-judicial murders] abducted Mr. Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury at gun point from his office. He was blind-folded and physically assaulted. Because of quick actions by US Peace Activist Dr. Richard L Benkin and Rep. Mark Steven Kirkand other esteemed members of United States Congress, Choudhury escaped RAB's deathtrap.

On February 22, 2009, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury's newspaper office was once again attacked by the armed thugs belonging to ruling party. He and his staffs were physically assaulted and the attackers looted his laptop along with two manuscripts of his un-published books.

US Congress, European Parliament, Australian Senate passed resolutions demanding dropping of the false case of Mr. Choudhury and to give him proper security and stop all forms of harrassments. But, Bangladeshi authorities in Dhaka, instead of showing minimum respect to such calls, withdrew police protection from the residence of Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury in May 2008.

Shoaib Choudhury is a permanent member of PENUSA; Advisory Board Member of Islam-Israel Fellowship; Director, Forcefield NFP.

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is invited by many prestigious institutions in the world for giving lecture on the topic of his work. Yale University [New Haven, USA] and Rutgers University [New Jersey, USA] invited Choudhury to give lecture during October and November 2009.
 
http://www.americanchronicle.com/authors/view/2948
 
 
ARTICLES by Salah Uddin Choudhury:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/authors/view/2948#articles
 
 
 


      
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