His sin – his views about Jews and Israel and confronting Jihadism, anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, and spiritual extremism. He was put in jail after being wrongly convicted of blasphemy, sedition, and treason. That is how Israel-hating Bangladesh handled my brother – Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.
Shoaib was put in a condemned cell alongside loss of life row inmates, which was a transparent violation of human rights and the rule of legislation. No nation on the earth retains basic prisoners inside a Condemned cell.
Human rights are for people however Shoaib for them was not human anymore. The man who was thought to be a senior and demanding journalist for Bangladesh was not even an equal anymore. I believe this was the rationale to maintain him on cleansing and mopping responsibility as a convicted prisoner.
If somebody desires to understand how an Islamic republic treats somebody who talks in favor of Jews or Israel, Shoaib Choudhury is the proper instance. Thousands and thousands of Muslims, if, wish to speak about Jews or Israel they preserve their lips locked contemplating the results Shoaib has confronted. I salute his braveness and his sturdy perception that made him not bow in entrance of these semi-Islamists and unfathomable mates of the West.
However, the fact is the very individuals whom he was convicted of speaking about deserted him. After 7 years of rigorous imprisonment in a condemned cell when he was launched, he was put in a world the place he was alone and unknown, one other condemned cell. However, he pulled up his sleeves, pulled his pen, and restarted his battle.
Even Wikipedia highlights felony expenses orchestrated towards him.
His battle resulted in even eradicating the “besides Israel” phrase from the Bangladeshi passport. The transfer that even the entire world couldn’t count on, an Islamic nation eradicating official restrictions on touring to Israel. However, he by no means obtained two candy phrases from these he was struggling for.
Being a journalist, for him the world shrunk to his condominium in Dhaka, the place he, his spouse, and his son have been identified to one another. “Mossad agent”, “Israeli Spy”, and “Blasphemy”; these phrases at all times hang-out him. The recollections of jail usually are not candy recollections, however he’s nonetheless dwelling with them.
He’s the form of soldier who works tirelessly and outcomes are there however, once more, there isn’t a one even to understand him for the whole lot or something he has achieved.
Right now, he’s dwelling a really strange life however his struggles don’t finish there. The newspaper, Blitz, which he, someway, is ready to keep and run is struggling. No native advertisers give him ads – guess what! for a similar cause; Israel and Jews. I don’t know when shall his struggles finish however I simply want him good well being.
In our lives, we at all times search for heroes. However sadly, most of us ignore these actual heroes out of our personal ignorance.