Millions of Muslims gather in Bangladesh for biswa ijtema, the world’s second largest Muslim congregation after the hajj. 50 years ago you could hardly get 500 people to attend such a meeting , now faith is reaching dangerous levels, more than 5 million people come to pray the same prayer every year, ‘oh god, the most merciful, don’t throw me into hell’. Bangladesh government is spending millions of dollars to make the place comfortable for the anti-science, anti-women, god-fearing sinners, desperate-to-go-to-heaven folks.
A highway
The train begins its run.
A road and a marketplace.
An open field
An abandoned boat.
A train and a station.
Oh god! don’t forgive me please, I don’t want to spend eternity with these morons!
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Zachary
January 14, 2013 at 1:49 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
almost makes you want to drink.
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January 14, 2013 at 1:50 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
বাংলা নিউজ টিভি আপনার কথাগুলি সাপোর্ট করে। এত লোক একত্রিত হওয়ার দরকার ছিল না। কিন্তু ৩ বিশ্বের দেশ বাংলাদেশ অভাব অনটন থেকে পালানোর জন্য ধর্ম ভাল অবলম্বন
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cchoton
January 14, 2013 at 8:53 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
শুধু এই নয় !!! রাস্তা অবরোধ করে জামাতের সহিত নামাজ নামক বিশ্রী ব্যাপারটাও নির্লজ্জের মতো সারা হয়। চটের বস্তাঘেরা হাগু-মুতু বিসর্জন স্থলের কথা বাদই দিলাম। এই ইজতেমায় বর্বর সব নীতি নিয়ম শিখে এসে মেয়ে-বৌদের ওপর এপ্লাই করা হয়!!! গোটা উপমহাদেশ এই নোংরামির শিকার। বাঃ ইসলাম !!! বাঃ
soponanowar
January 14, 2013 at 5:23 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
l hate u. hopefully u will die into the toilet . that time i will write my next commet ………………/………………..
Funny Bunny
January 14, 2013 at 11:40 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
‘oh god, the most merciful, don’t throw me into hell’… they could have made with color combination ‘WE ROCK’…LOL
Sarmistha
January 14, 2013 at 1:00 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
pray, beat, rape, kill and etc2
Dr. Didar
January 14, 2013 at 2:23 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Is this madness? I will call it submission to Allah.
Mashuque Mazumder
January 14, 2013 at 3:20 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Olympic game and this sort of religious gathering are flourishing year after year and this human custom will go parallel I think. Nobody could do better. Keep silence.
Lou Doench
January 14, 2013 at 6:51 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
From a purely aesthetic POV, I would kill to be that photographer. Amazing subject matter. Odd? Yes definitely odd, but compelling at the same time.
Sekhar Roy
January 15, 2013 at 4:28 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Dear Dr Nasreen
Please dont only project Islam and fanatics. You will find similar madness in Hindu religion. More than 10 millions of people assembled in Ellahabad for Kumbh mela and about half a million will be found chanting God God in Gangasagar in extreme South 24 Parganas in Bengal. Find out in photographs, you may find similar fanatics and madness everywhere in the name of God/ Allah. Most of the people never came forward to rescue a girl/ woman from the attack of the abusers/ rapists. Most of them are self centered dissociated from any social cause. Yet they find holiness in religious assemblies. Yet they find heaven. The world of God does not allow the ethiest or non believer to sustain. The fascism is in existence in so called religions and their followers. The fascist socieity dominates the blue earth to destroy the human civilization as per desires of the corporate capital in general and imperalialism in particular. It should be the bounden duty of the entlightened writers to expose the nuxus of God and imperialism and form opinion for a human society based on human values irrespective of human identities.
Sekhar Roy
Taslima Nasreen
January 15, 2013 at 7:30 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Funny that you missed madness 2.
P.Alom
January 19, 2013 at 4:24 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
I m ur son. I m nt bangladeshi. I will be an atheist if u can proof there is no allah.universe is like a point amongs the bilion of universe.again bilion of universe are surrounded by black hol.it may be after passes blackhol there maybe trilion*123456789……… of universe. There is no such last surrounding boundry of such superuniverse.now between superuniverse and a atom all are bonded by a unseen bond.it is like energy.if there will a mistak it may be hole system will be distroy.we should selute/pray to this type of energy.if this type energy is not exist we are not exist.so allah means power to keep this energy between superuniverse and atom is exist,not my faith it is proved.
P.Alom
January 19, 2013 at 4:26 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
H………………………….
SarahAnn
February 11, 2013 at 6:10 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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April 2, 2013 at 7:50 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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