bari.rashidul
Yunusism
Yunusism by Rashidul Bari
Introduction by Jerald Posman, Vice President, CUNY
Publisher: Madhab Chandro Das, Trayee Prokashan, Bangla Bazer, Dhaka
Book Publication Ceremony: Dhaka Sheraton on August 22, 2008
Presided by: Dr. Emajuddin Ahamed, Vice Chancellor, Dhaka University
Chief Guest: Al Mahmud, Prodan Kobi
Read from New Age: www.newagebd.com/2008/aug/23/img6.html
SYNOPSIS OF YUNUSISM
We refuse to believe the “bank of food, wealth, minerals, and fuels” of the world is bankrupt. We refuse to believe there are insufficient resources in the great vaults of mother earth. However, a few rich people have hijacked the great vaults of mother earth to which the poor have no access. We must fight them.
We also refuse to obey the fatwas of the ulema and the mullahs, because for so long they have been misguiding us. They encourage us to keep women at home for sex and to raise children. They advocate us marrying five wives, prohibiting them from driving, banning them from school, and stoning them to death “if necessary.” During my stay in Bangladesh, in 2007, in the rural area of Chittagong, mullahs ordered an unmarried female stoned to death for adultery in front of a delighted field of empty-headed Islamic ulema. These days they encourage us to make bombs and throw them at infidels and blasphemers. Although the Quran condemns killing innocents, nevertheless these terrorists destroyed American buildings in the name of Islam! Having done so, they not only killed 5,000 innocents, but slew the image of Islam. In fact, they hijacked Islam.
It is time to proclaim a revolution against the aforesaid hijackers. It is time to help the oppressed. It is time to rise from the dark to establish equality. It is time to lift our world from the quicksand of poverty onto the solid rock of surplus. It is time to proclaim the manifesto of our revolution—and we can make this dream come true through one philosophy: Yunusism.
It is Yunus who promoted the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 through the Bangladesh News Letter. It is Yunus who theorized the new concept of microcredit to benefit the world’s economy. It is Yunus who kicked at the fundamentalists’ foreheads by founding the Grameen Bank, of which 90 percent of the borrowers are women.
Grameen is not merely a bank; it is a religion designed to reduce poverty, improve education, house the homeless, abolish terrorism, heal the sick, protect the planet—and empower women. Within a quarter century, the Grameen movement has spanned nearly one hundred countries—including the United States—under the leadership of one charismatic person: Professor Muhammad Yunus.
It is time to persuade 1.3 billion Muslims to follow the path of Yunus rather than the path of the evil Osama Bin Laden, the ulema, or the mullahs. If we do not then men like Dr. Alvin Harp will continue to have a basis upon which to ask why the lives of 15 million people (Jews) are of greater value than those of 1.3 billion (Muslims).
Yunusism
Yunusism by Rashidul Bari
Introduction by Jerald Posman, Vice President, CUNY
Publisher: Madhab Chandro Das, Trayee Prokashan, Bangla Bazer, Dhaka
Book Publication Ceremony: Dhaka Sheraton on August 22, 2008
Presided by: Dr. Emajuddin Ahamed, Vice Chancellor, Dhaka University
Chief Guest: Al Mahmud, Prodan Kobi
Read from New Age: www.newagebd.com/2008/aug/23/img6.html
SYNOPSIS OF YUNUSISM
We refuse to believe the “bank of food, wealth, minerals, and fuels” of the world is bankrupt. We refuse to believe there are insufficient resources in the great vaults of mother earth. However, a few rich people have hijacked the great vaults of mother earth to which the poor have no access. We must fight them.
We also refuse to obey the fatwas of the ulema and the mullahs, because for so long they have been misguiding us. They encourage us to keep women at home for sex and to raise children. They advocate us marrying five wives, prohibiting them from driving, banning them from school, and stoning them to death “if necessary.” During my stay in Bangladesh, in 2007, in the rural area of Chittagong, mullahs ordered an unmarried female stoned to death for adultery in front of a delighted field of empty-headed Islamic ulema. These days they encourage us to make bombs and throw them at infidels and blasphemers. Although the Quran condemns killing innocents, nevertheless these terrorists destroyed American buildings in the name of Islam! Having done so, they not only killed 5,000 innocents, but slew the image of Islam. In fact, they hijacked Islam.
It is time to proclaim a revolution against the aforesaid hijackers. It is time to help the oppressed. It is time to rise from the dark to establish equality. It is time to lift our world from the quicksand of poverty onto the solid rock of surplus. It is time to proclaim the manifesto of our revolution—and we can make this dream come true through one philosophy: Yunusism.
It is Yunus who promoted the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 through the Bangladesh News Letter. It is Yunus who theorized the new concept of microcredit to benefit the world’s economy. It is Yunus who kicked at the fundamentalists’ foreheads by founding the Grameen Bank, of which 90 percent of the borrowers are women.
Grameen is not merely a bank; it is a religion designed to reduce poverty, improve education, house the homeless, abolish terrorism, heal the sick, protect the planet—and empower women. Within a quarter century, the Grameen movement has spanned nearly one hundred countries—including the United States—under the leadership of one charismatic person: Professor Muhammad Yunus.
It is time to persuade 1.3 billion Muslims to follow the path of Yunus rather than the path of the evil Osama Bin Laden, the ulema, or the mullahs. If we do not then men like Dr. Alvin Harp will continue to have a basis upon which to ask why the lives of 15 million people (Jews) are of greater value than those of 1.3 billion (Muslims).