12-04-2005, 12:00 AM
<b>It is very strange that Mr Dey is unable to understand why BD wants to be in company of the Arabs.The answer is very simple:-
The leaders of Bangladesh want to maintain a safe distance from predominantly Hindu India but at the same time it finds some undercurrents within the society who want to maintain their link with Bengali Culture. To ensure that there is no destabilisation on this Front, the BD political leadership try to give company to the Muslim Umma as much as possible.The tragedy is that the third generation converts who constitute a majority of the BD population are not accepted by the Arabs as true Muslims of some standing.Hence this identity crisis.
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The leaders of Bangladesh want to maintain a safe distance from predominantly Hindu India but at the same time it finds some undercurrents within the society who want to maintain their link with Bengali Culture. To ensure that there is no destabilisation on this Front, the BD political leadership try to give company to the Muslim Umma as much as possible.The tragedy is that the third generation converts who constitute a majority of the BD population are not accepted by the Arabs as true Muslims of some standing.Hence this identity crisis.
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