Bangladesh declares Jamaat-i-Islami illegal

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Re: Bangladesh declares Jamaat-i-Islami illegal

@Jolie

If banning political parties over difference of ideology in a democratic country can be stupidly labelled ‘progress’, wouldn’t be wonderful if Europeans start banning their extreme right/neo Nazis/socialists/communist parties? How about likes of Britain bans racists organization EDL/BNP, after all fascism has no place in British politics. So really people who are preaching about tolerance need to actually study what tolerance really means, at least in socalled democratic politics.

Totally banning something is never the right answer. Today you ban one thing, tomorrow you find something else to ban. Can you imagine if Pakistan tries to ban MQM? Afterall they responsible for causing a lot of bloodshed, unrest and political and ethical intolerance in Pakistan’s biggest city? Banning political parties is simply a very dangerous and totally wrong precedent. The very same people who are cheering for this idiotic move would’ve been screaming blue murder if a religious party was behind banning a seemingly ‘secular’ organization. Sorry but swapping one type of intolerance with another doesn’t make things any better, intolerance is intolerance no matter what the label says on the tin. With such double standards, people really have no moral high ground to tell others what is right and what is wrong?

If JI members are involved in war crimes, how about the state deals with the according to the law. Sentence each and every single member of JI if they’re found guilty, even if it means putting 90% of JI members behind the bars. Other than that, let the voters use their democratic right, their freedom and liberties to vote for any party they like. Secularism is not an open war against religion, anyone who says otherwise, really has no clue what he or she’s talking about.

I honestly don’t understand why these young, battered, struggling democracies are so desperate to start running before they even learn to walk?

probably not a good idea, but I wont be losing any sleep over the Jamaat suddenly being left out in the cold.