Fear in police custody, part-6
On that day, I realized how much fanaticism has engulfed the country, how much it has infected the country like a cancer virus of religion. The day the police thought I should be stripped of my Muslim faith. It has been only 41 years since the country gained independence from Pakistan. For a non-sectarian state, for a secular state-system, for freedom from Pakistani fanatical sectarian Islam and Muslim-loving rulers, 3 million people of this country have been martyred! The skeletons of those martyrs can still be found by digging up the burial sites of this delta map. How is the police of independent Bangladesh so fanatical fundamentalism? Why is their religious sentiment so violent-sectarian like that of the Pakistani rulers?
After the liberation war of 1971, the country was supposed to be non-communal. Secularism was supposed to be the policy of the country. In the administration of that country, how are fanatical fundamentalist people police? How is the police administration equipped with barbaric fanatics? Freedom of speech is clearly mentioned in the constitution of that independent country. To express an opinion. I just expressed my opinion. Why did the police treat me like nonsense? Why did the police forget their law and order and brutally tortured me? Here the police have the right to torture me under any law? I did not brutally and fanatically rape a girl like a sexually-distorted rapist. I did not kill anyone like a murderer! I didn't steal anything by stealing from someone! I did not occupy the land like a land grabber. I have criticized the Prophet only with intuition and a sound mind. I called the Prophet womanizer. Even after having 12-13 wifes of the Prophet, why did he send Hafsa to her father's house as a lie, and had sex with the maid Maria in Hafsa's bedroom? After knowing this lack of character of the Prophet, the Prophet seemed to me to be an extreme lecher. That's why I called the Prophet womanizer. This word now became a crime more than a rapist, a murderer, a robber? I didn't harm anyone, I didn't shed anyone's blood, I just wrote on Facebook. Without harming anyone, without spilling anyone's blood, I have commented a few lines on my Facebook wall. Did it become a crime? If it is a crime, how big of a criminal should a murderer, a rapist, a bully be?
I was thinking the words while sitting in a corner inside the police station. The right wrist is swollen. Pain in the back below the knee of the left leg. I realized that the jeans were a little wrinkled. Strong stick hit here too! The soft spot is swollen. There were 3 cigarettes in the packet, consumed. Some time ago I asked a constable to bring me some food and a pack of Benson cigarettes. I gave money 500. That is gone, there is no news! It must have been 12 o'clock at night. There are 4 more accused in police custody. Five people including me. Some have committed robbery, some have attempted rape, some have robbed. Someone had a fight. The 4 of them sit side by side each posing with each other about their infamous reputation. They are very proud of their misdeeds. I'm sitting on one side alone, lonely. More amazing visions await me….
-Here! This! Who is Opriyo here! Opriyo who! Saying Hajat began to beat the house with a stick on the iron door!
I raised my head and looked at him and said, "Yes, I am."
An excited, angry young man in police uniform, with a revolver on his waist and standing at the door of Hajat, said, -Your Durga, Kali, Lakshmi, Swarsati are very beautiful, aren't they? Is this the country of your religion? Do whatever you want, make a clay idol, worship it and kick it again!
I said, - I do not believe in worshiping clay idols, gods and goddesses. I don't believe in any religion.
- So you can not write about your religion? Why are you writing about our Prophet?
i am silent
He began to shout again, "Who do you know, the beloved Prophet of Allah?" It is our Prophet! It is our Prophet! We respect and worship the Prophet more than Allah. Because of him we have today the greatest religion of the world Islam. Got the best book Quran. Do you know the religion of Islam? Religion of peace! Religion of peace! How dare you child of infidels speak ill of our Messenger of God? Whore child! Charal baby where!
I said very casually, - Why are you abusing my mother? What is wrong with my mother?
He widened his eyes and said, -"Shut up son of a whore!" Do not talk! I will not abuse your mother what to do? Your mother gave birth to a boy like you.
I said, - Why are you talking so incoherently? Why are you swearing in inaudible language? What has your religion taught you?
He got very excited and angry, took out the revolver from his waist and pushed it on my forehead and said, "-Shala child Maloon!" Talk about my religion again? Did you get it in India, child of Malaun? If I didn't have this police uniform on, I'd shoot you right here!
The fear thing is long gone. I said to myself, I will die if I die! However, I will not let this barbarian talk! I read the name on his chest on the uniform. Then I looked at him and called him by his name, "Look Mr. Shamim (pseudonym), I am not a Hindu." I am born in a Hindu family, but I do not follow any rituals of Hinduism. I don't even believe it. I am more proud to identify myself as an atheist and a human being. But yes, if I were a Hindu today, I could also say...
Before I finished speaking, he shouted, "Say!" Shala (brother in low) say! What do you say?
-You want to shoot me in the head in anger because I use the word little Luchaya (womanizer) with the name of the Prophet, you want to shoot me dead with great hatred. When hundreds of thousands of idols of Hindus are broken, temples are broken, their houses are occupied by Muslims in this country, how angry should Hindus be, Shamim Saheb? Can you tell how angry you should be? Muslims have broken the temple idols of Hindus till today, so the Hindus of this country have gone to kill the Muslims? Has anyone been cut because of religious sentiments? did not go Because Hindus are not as violent as Muslims!
Before I finished speaking, Shamim was pulled by someone from behind. He says, -Shamim brother, leave it all. He drags Shamim backwards. Shamim kept his revolver on his back and left without saying a word.
The head is completely on fire. I wanted to rescue the four pillars of Islam with words. But I couldn't. One of the defendants looked at me and said, "-Your courage is not low, brother!" How did you say the words looking at him in front of the barrel of the gun? If I were to urinate!
I said, -you don't need courage to tell the truth, if you have honesty in yourself, why only guns, you can tell the truth even in front of missiles.
-You have courage brother!
i am silent
I sat down on my knees, put my hands on my knees, put my head on them and tried to sleep a little. Sleep is not coming at all. On one side, mosquito bites, On the other, the sound of mosquitoes. It was two in the morning. no cigarettes There was a kind of discomfort. Someone came from somewhere and said, - Take a cigarette. Take vegetables and bread.
I was shocked to see him! Whom I paid three hours ago to bring some food and cigarettes. He brought two bread vegetables and a liter of mineral water. I was surprised to see a pack of cigarettes! It's not a pack of Benson cigarettes, brought by Wilson! Where Benson is a 7 rupees, Wilson half 7 rupees! Where Benson's pack of 20 cigarettes costs 135 rupees, brought by Wilson! Even the packet of 5 rupees! Where there are ten Wilsons. I calculated here that he did not spend 100 rupees. I said, - And give the rest of the money.
He bent his face and said, - Yes! Looking for money again? I searched for three hours and brought food, cigarettes and water! He looked at one of the defendants and said again, "-Look, this dog wants money back." New goods do not understand anything. Huh..
I am a new person in this police station. I never spent time at the police station. I don't want to know about the police. I have seen with my own eyes how an accused is harassed by taking advantage of his weakness when he is inside the police station cell.
I was also surprised to hear about the old constable who killed my food money. He is saying to the other defendants of cell, "Don't talk to this sinful person, your faith will be destroyed." the Shala (brother in low) is an atheist!
Hearing the words of that constable in the midst of thousands of hardships, I burst out laughing. He said, "-Why are you laughing, son of Shala?" Are you not afraid of fear?
I said with a smile, - Uncle, I am laughing to hear your faith!
- Why?
- Seeing that you yourself killed my 400 rupees and are now teaching the story of faith.
He said excitedly, -"I'm showing you!" I am making sure that you do not get bail. Sir, I will tell you to give bail in the case!
He left. While leaving, he threatened me that he would make arrangements so that I would not get bail in the case. I wonder if these people jump violently to correct others without correcting themselves! The bigoted Muslims who influenced the entire police station to surrender me today for blaspheming the Prophet, forced the police station to arrest me by bringing my parents-younger brother to the police station and torturing them, they do not have an iota of knowledge about the Prophet and Islam. They do not read the Koran, nor do they know the dark history of Islam. But they are the ones who decide which one is insulting the Prophet and which one is insulting Islam. They don't even have the slightest knowledge of Islam's system of slavery. But in the current modern social system, Islamic slavery is largely absent. The slavery practices are written on the pages of the Quran-Hadith of Islam. In that sense, Islam 1400 years ago and the current Muslim life system are completely opposite! Which do not go with the way of life of Muslims at all. Allah mentions seven heavens in the Qur'an. But science proves that there is no such thing as seven heavens. Earth spins in space at hundreds of miles per second in its orbit. The Qur'an speaks of a mythical paradise. However, there is no evidence that any believing Muslim has ever returned to heaven and landed on earth. The Qur'an says that the sun revolves around the earth. But science says that not the sun, but the earth revolves around the sun. The Quran says that the sky is the roof of the earth, Allah has decorated the sky with beautiful stars and stars to beautify the sky. But science says that the sky is not a roof over the earth, it is a vast void. And stars and stars are satellites. Sometimes I used to listen to the discourses of the lords in the waj mahfil about heaven. Once I heard in a waj mahfil, "Heaven is such a thing, Allah has made heaven so expensive that one brick of heaven can buy 70 worlds!" I was surprised to hear! Are the bricks of heaven made of gold? With that, you can not buy a house in the expensive cities of Europe and America! But are the bricks of heaven each piece of diamond? Even that will not be a millionth part of the world's total diamonds. So what kind of brick is it? What substance is it made of? Isn't it kind of a funny story? Well, people worship God so much, Allah, Ishwar, God, pray to him, has anyone seen God till today? Did you find out about its existence? There is not one religion in this world, there are about four and a half thousand religions. They have different religious practices. Why is that? According to religious people, if God is one God, then why thousands of different laws? Why thousands of religious cultures? If the followers of God worship idols, the followers of God say idol worship is forbidden in Islam! Shirk in idol Islam! Muhammad introduced Islam by brutally smashing the 360 idols of various religious sects at the Kaaba Sharif in Mocca.
At that time, I heard the sound of the door being unlocked. Two constables came to pick me up. Has any senior official of the police come to interrogate me? They handcuffed me before taking me out of the jail. The two took me to the OC's room holding me from both sides. Then the light of dawn started to emerge, the crows around the police station were calling. Two constables brought me and made me sit in the front chair facing the big official. A constable said, -"Sir, his name is Opriyo." This piglet to our Prophet….
Before the constable finished talking, the senior official waved his hand and said, "-Well, you go."
They left. And I am sitting silently in front of the big official. The senior officer started questioning me...
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