Trump's ban of Muslims and Nasirnagar arson in Bangladesh

The President Trump had vowed to ban Muslims to enter the United States until he “determines what the hell is going on”. Some people are saying that he won’t do it or he can’t do it in this country. I am not surprised by that response as it’s well known that “Denial” is the first stage of handling one’s grief.

I just would like to briefly remind a history of the United States. In 1793, there was an act to return the slaves to their masters, which was written in the form of text as ”...when a person held to labor in any of the United States,...shall escape into any other part of the said States or Territory, the person to whom such labor or service may be due...is hereby empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor...”

If you read carefully, you will see it doesn’t talk about “slaves” to return but it talks about mere “due labor” of a person to return to it’s masters. So, if you look for president’s executive order or law in congress to “ban muslims”, you may be disheartened. Instead look for a carefully and cleverly formulated words that would make it harder, if not impossible, to Muslims to immigrate to this country. The spin had already happened in Trump’s pre-election speech at Gettysburg that reads “suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting”. This would be more spinned with indirect words when it becomes a law or an executive order.

I am no way asking you to be fearful of it but asking to accept the reality and to be vigilant of risks. Time of struggle comes. And it would pass away. “Hasbi Allah, wa naimal waqeel: Allah is enough for me, and He is the best to determine the course of affairs”

An “Unrelated” topic: I am reading on Prothom-Alo that in Nasirnagar, Brahmanbaria, arsons are deliberately setting houses on fire of Hindu families. No doubt that we have racism in Bangladesh against minority, specially with Hindus, and still happening in various forms and shapes. It only comes to national limelight when it becomes too extreme like arsons. Sometime Bangladeshi Hindus suffer for something that happened in India or somewhere else in the world. Though the numbers of explicit racism may be less than the implicit racism but no doubt that it does exist. I would do injustice to our soul if we denounce racism and fascism of Donald Trump but keep silence to the racism and fascism what is being done in bangladesh with other religion. The Muslim majority people in Bangladesh won’t feel the pain and fear of Hindus in Bangladesh until they put theirself in the shoes of a minority. The United States is the land of law and order and still Muslims feel the pain and fear, so think about what our Hindu brothers and sisters feel in the country like Bangladesh where law and order is primarily preserved only for the politicians and powerful.