Prothom Alo Cartoon Incident

[Fazal]

Prothom Alo's satire magazine suspended
The Dhaka district magistrate has suspended the Prothom Alo's satire magazine Aalpin, three days after it ran a controversial cartoon strip "hurting religious sensibilities". In an order, the magistrate informed its publisher that the publication of the cartoon story violated the Printing Press and Publications (Declaration and Registration) Act 1973, the Press Information Department said in a statement Thursday. "The publisher has been asked to explain in two weeks from notification why the Prothom Alo's Aalpin magazine will not be banned," said the order, quoted by PID. source: http://www.bdnews24.com/home.php

[cricket_dorshok]

OMG! are we heading towrads Afganshitan. Now Sapthahik2000 Eid issue banned:

Eid issue of Shaptahik 2000 banned

The government has banned the Eid issue of Bangla-language weekly magazine Shaptahik 2000, a top official said Thursday. Home secretary Abdul Karim told bdnews24.com that the Eid edition of the magazine had carried an article "offensive to religious sensibilities". The autobiographical article written by Daud Haider, self-exiled in Germany, is at the heart of the controversy. The acting editor of the magazine, Golam Mortoza, told bdnews24.com: "I heard about it. But we didn't get any official order." He said the magazine authorities had decided to take the Eid issue off the newsstands, taking into

http://www.bdnews24.com/home.php

[Rubu]

This is the problem with CTG. They could bang the students, who in most case driven by hot head rather than any political or even goal. But, they could not beat up the bastard mullahs who, we all know, looking for a political goal making an issue out of nothing.

how hard would have been to beat them up good and shut them up?

[Kabir]

Originally Posted by Rubu
how hard would have been to beat them up good and shut them up?

Not hard enough. But the aftermath would've been uncontrollable. And for that matter, they would lose all the support that they currently have...which is running low anyway.

[skeptic]

me hiding at the darkest corner of the milkyway and crying

[Kabir]

Keno bhai, mone eto dukho keno? Amader ke bolen jodi paren

[Nasif]

Originally Posted by Kabir
Keno bhai, mone eto dukho keno? Amader ke bolen jodi paren

Its not the sadness, কার্টুনের ঐ হুজুরের ভয়ে পলাইছে...

[BD-Shardul]

Originally Posted by Rubu

This is the problem with CTG. They could bang the students, who in most case driven by hot head rather than any political or even goal. But, they could not beat up the bastard mullahs who, we all know, looking for a political goal making an issue out of nothing.

how hard would have been to beat them up good and shut them up?

The mollahs are bad people. They are bastard. They are idiot. They are non-sense. They are extremist. They are backdated. They are .................the list continues

But still they are good people than the so called intellectuals like Daud Haider, Ariful Rahman. Because despite all the criticisms from the intellectuals like Ahmed Sharif, Humayun Azad, it were the mullah's who said their Janaja prayer. The day I will die, it will be the mollahs who will say janaja for me. They will be the people who will at least recite Innahlillah or some other prayer,and put me in the grave according to Islamic manner. , Those intellectual, educated, progressive people will not. They will at best write a poem, or publish an essay, which will be of no use for me.

[Miraz]

Prothom-Alo has sacked Sumonto Aslam, editor of Alpin, for publishing material that does not conform with the principles of Prothom-Alo.

Another selfish decision from Matiur Rahman.

[ialbd]

Originally Posted by Miraz
Prothom-Alo has sacked Sumonto Aslam, editor of Alpin, for publishing material that does not conform with the principles of Prothom-Alo.

Another selfish decision from Matiur Rahman.

Dont know how selfish this is Miraz bhai, but Matiur Rahman needs to do these to save his rear and Prothom-alo. If he stood by Aslam, his effigy would have been burning in Paltan by now....

Hopefully Sumonto Aslam was laid off with a big fat check, cuz his editorial career is badly tainted if not over. Use to enjoy his 'Baundule' articles at the last page of Alpin, 2-3 years back....

[Kana-Baba]

Originally Posted by Miraz
Prothom-Alo has sacked Sumonto Aslam, editor of Alpin, for publishing material that does not conform with the principles of Prothom-Alo.

Another selfish decision from Matiur Rahman.

Spot on!

Matiur Rahman did not stand behind the cartoonist, did not say a word against the arrest; moreover today he sacked Sumonto Aslam, a fine, young and promising journalist. Seems like he is interested to save his a$$ rather than standing against those religious bigots.

[Miraz]

Originally Posted by ialbd
Dont know how selfish this is Miraz bhai, but Matiur Rahman needs to do these to save his rear and Prothom-alo. If he stood by Aslam, his effigy would have been burning in Paltan by now....

Hopefully Sumonto Aslam was laid off with a big fat check, cuz his editorial career is badly tainted if not over. Use to enjoy his 'Baundule' articles at the last page of Alpin, 2-3 years back....

IMO, this is over reaction from Matiur Rahman to save his rear. If Sumonto Aslam is responsible, Matiur is also responsible to the same extent.

Why he is visiting Iftaar Parties and apologising?

He should also step down or stop making these selfish decisions.

[Special 1]

Originally Posted by BD-Shardul
The mollahs are bad people. They are bastard. They are idiot. They are non-sense. They are extremist. They are backdated. They are .................the list continues

But still they are good people than the so called intellectuals like Daud Haider, Ariful Rahman. Because despite all the criticisms from the intellectuals like Ahmed Sharif, Humayun Azad, it were the mullah's who said their Janaja prayer. The day I will die, it will be the mollahs who will say janaja for me. They will be the people who will at least recite Innahlillah or some other prayer,and put me in the grave according to Islamic manner. , Those intellectual, educated, progressive people will not. They will at best write a poem, or publish an essay, which will be of no use for me.

what is the point of your post?
It is a clerks job to do all the above things. And just because they do it they are better people?

[Special 1]

The problem started when bangladesh constitution was stripped of its religious neutrality clause.
The problem got worse when AL came to power in 1996 and started every one who was wearing punjabi and yupi rajakars.
The final nail was plugged in when Jamaat came to power in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks(altho the 2 evnts were not related, but 9/11 had that much of an impact)

[BD-Shardul]

One more thing:

We do not know about the intention of people. But this is very important in, beacuse based on our intention, Allah will reward us of our deeds. If Amini-Nezami of the Jamayat Party, a party that always uses religion as a means of political success, organising all these protests to achieve their own nefarious mundane purposes, then they are the biggest loser, even bigger then the cartoonist.

[Special 1]

Originally Posted by BD-Shardul
One more thing:

We do not know about the intention of people. But this is very important in, beacuse based on our intention, Allah will reward us of our deeds. If Amini-Nezami of the Jamayat Party, a party that always uses religion as a means of political success, organising all these protests to achieve their own nefarious mundane purposes, then they are the biggest loser, even bigger then the cartoonist.

You know u are commiting a big sin here.
You havent talked to the cartoonist and have not talked about his intentions and in public making assumptions about his intentions that tooo in the the month of ramadan.

[babubangla]

এই বেদায়াত কার্টুনখানা ফোরামে প্রকাশ করিয়া রুবু আমার ধর্মীয় অনুভুতিতে প্রবল আঘাত হানিয়াছে।
আঘাতে আমার মাথা ঝিম ঝিম এবং পা টলটল করিতেছে।
অবিলম্বে রুবুকে ফোরাম হইতে এক সপ্তাহের জন্য বহিষ্কার করা হোক।

না, শাস্তি কম হইয়া যাইতেছে—এত কম শাস্তিতে আমার গুরুতর আহত অনুভূতি নিরাময় হইবে না।
রুবুর পোস্ট সংখ্যা হইতে ২০০০ পোস্ট জরিমানা হিসাবে কাটিয়া নেয়া হোক।

উঁহু, তাও আমার আঘাতপ্রাপ্ত অনুভুতি শান্তি পাইতেছে না। শাস্তি আরো বাড়ানো দরকার।
রুবুকে ফোরাম স্টাফ পদ হইতে ডিমোশন দিয়া ফোরাম জেনিটর বানাইয়া দেয়া হোক।

ধুর শালা, তাও আমার ধর্মীয় অনুভুতি কুট-কুট করিতেছে, কিছুতেই আরাম হইতেছে না।
আসলে এইসব ভার্চুয়াল শাস্তিতে আমার ছিন্ন-বিছিন্ন অনুভুতি কানা-কড়িও জোড়া লাগিবে না।

আমি কিছুক্ষন আগে মাওলানা ডাকাইয়া আমার ধর্মীয় অনুভুতি আবার ভালো করিয়া পরীক্ষা করাইলাম।
অবস্থা বেশ বেগতিক। আস্তাগফিরুল্লা-মার্কা কার্টুনসম্বলিত রুবুর এই বেত্তমিজ থ্রেড আমার ধর্মীয় অনুভুতিতে এমন জায়গা মতো ঢুশ মারিয়াছে যে- আমার মুল্যবান অনুভুতি মোবারক এখন সকল প্রকার মেরামতের উর্ধ্বে।
জোড়া লাগাইবার কোন পথ নাই-- আমার ধর্মীয় অনুভুতি এখন পুরোপুরি ভাঙ্গিয়া ফেলিয়া আবার নতুন করিয়া বানাইতে হইবে।

দেখিয়াছ রুবু, তুমি আমার কতো বড় সর্বনাশ ঘটাইয়াছ?
যাই হোক, প্রথম কিস্তির ক্ষতিপুরন হিসাবে কিছু ব্লু –ফিল্ম ডিভিডি খরিদের খরচ বাবদ পঞ্চাশ ডলার তাড়াতাড়ি আমার নামে পে-পল করিয়া দাও। ব্লু-ফিল্ম দেখিয়া দেখিয়া আমি আমার মেরামত-অযোগ্য পুরানো ধর্মীয় অনুভুতি ভাঙ্গিয়া ফেলার কাজ শুরু করি।

তবে আশার কথা এই যে, মনে হইতেছে পুরানো অনুভুতি ভাঙ্গিয়া ফেলার কাজ আমি খুব শীঘ্রই শেষ করিতে পারিব। কারন তুমি কেবল মাত্র একখানি কার্টুন মারিয়া আমার ধর্মীয় অনুভুতির যে দশা করিয়াছ—তা দেখিয়া আমার ধর্মীয় অনুভুতির ফাউন্ডেশন খুব একটা শক্ত বলিয়া মনে হইতেছে না। ছোটবেলায় আমার অভিভাবকেরা কোন ঠিকাদারের হাতে যে আমার ধর্মীয় অনুভুতি বানাইবার টেন্ডার দিয়াছিল!! আমাকে ভেজাল-মিশ্রিত ধর্মীয় অনুভুতি গছাইয়া দিয়া ওই ঠিকাদার হারামজাদা নিশ্চয়ই টাকা মারিয়াছে।

তবে শুনিয়া রাখো, আমার নতুন ধর্মীয় অনুভুতি বানাইবার সময় আমি এমন শক্ত ফাউন্ডেশন দিয়া বানাইবো যাহাতে তোমার মতো দুস্ট লোকের ঠুনকো কার্টুনে আমার মুল্যবান ধর্মীয় অনুভুতি ভবিষ্যতে এমন তাসের ঘরের মতো ভাঙ্গিয়া না পড়ে।

[Hatebreed]

Classic Babubangla bhai

উঁহু, তাও আমার আঘাতপ্রাপ্ত অনুভুতি শান্তি পাইতেছে না। শাস্তি আরো বাড়ানো দরকার।
রুবুকে ফোরাম স্টাফ পদ হইতে ডিমোশন দিয়া ফোরাম জেনিটর বানাইয়া দেয়া হোক।

[Rubu]

সত্যিইতো। কি যে করিলাম। তা ইহার ক্ষতিপুরন স্বরুপ উক্ত বর্নিত ডিভিডি সহ ডিভিডির অভিনেত্রী কেও পাঠিয়ে দেব নাকি? বিসমিল্লাহ বলিয়া ওজু করিয়া বিবাহ করিয়া লইবেন। পরবর্তিতে তিন তালাক দিয়া বিদায় করিয়া দিবেন তাহলে আর কোন গুনাহ হইবে না।

BTW, good to see you back bro.

[nsd3]

Originally Posted by Rubu
This is the problem with CTG. They could bang the students, who in most case driven by hot head rather than any political or even goal. But, they could not beat up the bastard mullahs who, we all know, looking for a political goal making an issue out of nothing.

how hard would have been to beat them up good and shut them up?

I guess students got banged cuz they did "bhangchur" across the country. Mollahs didn't get banged as they did everything through speeches and meetings with CTG. No bhangchur was done - was it?

[Omio]

Classic stuff Babu vai,

[PoorFan]

Originally Posted by Special 1
The problem started when bangladesh constitution was stripped of its religious neutrality clause.
The problem got worse when AL came to power in 1996 and started every one who was wearing punjabi and yupi rajakars.
The final nail was plugged in when Jamaat came to power in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks(altho the 2 evnts were not related, but 9/11 had that much of an impact)

Well said.

[PoorFan]

Originally Posted by Rubu
সত্যিইতো। কি যে করিলাম। তা ইহার ক্ষতিপুরন স্বরুপ উক্ত বর্নিত ডিভিডি সহ ডিভিডির অভিনেত্রী কেও পাঠিয়ে দেব নাকি? বিসমিল্লাহ বলিয়া ওজু করিয়া বিবাহ করিয়া লইবেন। পরবর্তিতে তিন তালাক দিয়া বিদায় করিয়া দিবেন তাহলে আর কোন গুনাহ হইবে না।

Dear Babubangla & Rubu,
What if BC get suspended and had to shutdown for weeks, after being ordered a show cause notice from authority!?
Please don't let them do that.

[Alien]

Originally Posted by Nasif
Very sad and unfortunate if CG has arrested the cartoonist. It is the correct portrayal of our society's naming disorder. I applaud the cartoonist for portraying the message so nicely. We have reached to insane amount of "Mohammad" idolization while naming children, and, it needs to stop.

for the cartoonist. Pure genius.

Its better to have him arrested then have twenty mullah running after him with all degrees of fatwas. In that way he is better protected.

On a different note, people who think that having Mohammad before your name (there is a female equivalent can't remember) are one of those misguided souls mostly found in villages. There is no mention in the Quran that you need to have it before the name.

Also this is a lame attempt at humour. Ok, maybe the open minded individuals may find it amusing, but given how half our country works, you'll be crucified in no time. There is a limit for all jokes. And when it comes to jokes there is always a limit especially with regards to religion. So play with fire and you'll get burned sooner or later. Thats what happened here. He should have had the common sense before doing something like this.

So to the cartoonist and to the public.

[Fazal]

Just found out in http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/ that there was similar joke published in Islamic Chatra Shibir Magazine (Nov 1998, Edition Page 87) under Children's Voice ( courtesyhttp://www.somewhereinblog.net/blog/...cblog/28732243)






People who find Prothom Alo cartoon Offensive, do you guys find this offensive also? But where is the protest then? Do you remember anyone went to jail then? Any one saked? Any publisher scolded? How about now? Shouldn't justice be served now?

Where is Fatwa against Jamati Islam and its magazine? Where are the protector of Mohammed hiding in this case...can you please all stand up and show your real face please?

Guys Keu (jail) pabe ar keu (jail) Pabena... ta to hobe na ta to hobe na !!!!!