Thursday, November 12, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Dissident Watch: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury - 'Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury's struggle in Bangladesh has played out dramatically: his 2003 arrest; his 2005 release; middle of the night battles to prevent his re-incarceration; accolades for his stance as a "Muslim Zionist"; and resolutions from the U.S. Congress and others in 2006 and 2007. Things have now settled into a Kafkaesque routine without visible end, one where the process is the punishment. Already unpopular with Bangladeshi Islamists, whose madrasas (Islamic schools) he exposed as centers for radicalization, Choudhury infuriated them in 2003 by breaking his country's clampdown on positive news about Israel and Jews. On November 29, as he made to board a plane for Israel, the authorities moved against him, seizing him, taking his passport, and placing him in solitary confinement...'
