By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury —— Bio and Archives--December 6, 2023
Editor’s Note: You won’t find anything about CFP’s latest columnist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, anywhere on social media. Not a word about him if you try to research him on Google, nor anything about his weekly online newspaper, The Weekly Blitz.
Canada Free Press knew the struggle of Shoaib before the Islamic Bangladesh government imprisoned him after he was wrongly convicted of blasphemy, sedition, and treason. We never heard from him for the seven years he remained in prison, from 2014 until 2021, because he had lost our email address, and we didn’t know whether he was still alive; didn’t know where he was.
We find it outstandingly courageous that he is now leading a one-man battle against the same radical Islamists who both imprisoned him and repeatedly tried to shut down his newspaper, trying to flag the West about the potential Islamist takeover of Bangladesh in the upcoming Jan. 7, 2024 general election.
"Bangladesh, the third-largest Muslim country with 170 million population is at the crossroad, where anti-Semite, anti-West radical Islamist, jihadist and Islamist terrorist groups are openly showing their fangs generating extreme wariness amongst the people in the country and the region as the Islamist takeover of Bangladesh would turn it into a sanctuary for extremist ideologies or even worse--another neo-Taliban state”, "Such fear is gradually getting intensified as in the recent years as, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which is termed as a ‘Tier-III Terrorist Organization’ by a number of US courts and its ideological allies such as Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and pro-Caliphate Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI) are getting the exposed sympathy of the Biden administration”, he writes in today’s CFP cover story.
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By Thakur Vikram Singh on 2023 12 06
Quite a thoughtful description of what currently is happening in Bangladesh - India's neighboring nation. Still the writer of this piece owes answer to a couple of question:
My second question is - author of this piece, the newly included columnist of CFP was convicted in 2014, as stated by the Editor of CFP at the prelude of the piece, on charges of sedition, treason and BLASPHEMY. As Awami League came to power in 2009, why this government had imprisoned this journalist for 7 years if they claim to be secularist or at least against radical Islam? To keep a journalist for 7 years in prison is clearly an attempt of destroying him physically and morally. It also might have severely devastated his family life and professional life thus resulted in acute financial hardship. On his release, has the Awami League government fully and duly compensated him?
On Google search, I found the following link to a House Resolution, which was passed in defense of the writer of this CFP piece: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hres64ih/pdf/BILLS-110hres64ih.pdf
This resolution clearly demanded in 2007:
(1) the Government of Bangladesh should im4 mediately drop all pending charges against Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury;
(2) the Government of Bangladesh should im8 mediately return all of Mr. Choudhury’s confiscated
possessions; and
(3) the Government of Bangladesh should cease harassment and intimidation of Mr. Choudhury,
take steps to protect Mr. Choudhury, and hold accountable those responsible for attacks against Mr.
Choudhury.
While the US House through this bi-partisan resolution (HR-64 of 2007) had clearly stated "the Government of Bangladesh should cease harassment and intimidation of Mr. Choudhury, take steps to protect Mr. Choudhury, and hold accountable those responsible for attacks against Mr. Choudhury", the Awami League government instead has imprisoned him by instructing the trial court and forced him in serving 7-years rigorous imprisonment.
Wasn't is a case of disrespecting the esteemed members of the US Congress? Doesn't such behavior of the ruling Awami League government prove its actual character of being no difference than BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami?
My opinion is - Awami League, BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami are the birds of same feather. Western media outlets, including CFP may now investigate the reason behind wrongful imprisonment of this writer and also interview him to know details of the ordeals he has endured during the 7-years rigorous imprisonment and following his release.
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