The whole world should unite urgently to fight the bigotry Muslim and the non-Muslim organizations spreading in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, India, Denmark, Holland, Germany, France, Libya, Somalia, the USA and the UK. The fanatics are threat to the world civilization and peace, ethics and morality, peaceful co-existence and co-operation, right to survive and existence.
It is not democracy and human rights that the people of a religion shall hurt the people of other religion and force the poor people to desert their religion. Organisations like Boko Haraam, ISIL, Al-Qaeda, Hindu Mahashava and Bajrang must reform themselves and learn to respect the minorities and whoso seek shelters.
Asma Akhter
Dhaka
Similarities, dissimilarities
I have gone through the contents of the letter under caption written by Ameer Hamzah and published in this column of the New Nation on February 3. In this connection, I take the opportunity to add few lines for readers of this esteemed daily.
The five basic principles of human beings are food, clothing, shelter, education and medicine. Capitalists leave the responsibility with the individuals, signaling survival of the fittest and elimination of the unfit. The State will act as referee only. To the contrary, Marxists say that responsibility implies with the State, and every man will work according to his capacity.
On the other hand, in Islam, both the State and the rich will ensure food, clothing, shelter, education and medicine to the weak, the widow, the lame, the cripple, the unemployed and the mentally disorder man. Allah has tagged Namaj with socio-economic responsibilities in order to express its importance. According to Islamic view like Marxism, every man will act according to his capacity; the rich will pay Zakat (poor-tax), apart from taxes. Finally Islam has banned compound interest.
Shahadat Hossain
Pabna
