By advocating peace, he is not doing anything wrong. He speaks for the protection of rights of religious minority in Bangladesh. Is this a crime? He confronts the culture of religious hatred. Is this a crime. He opposes misinterpretation of Islam by some evil forces and killing of innocent people in the name of JIHAD. Is this any crime? Let me leave this questions to the future readers.

So far I know, Weekly Blitz promotes Zionist themes and ideologies and advocates relations between Dhaka and Jerusalem. But, should it be any agenda for a Bangladeshi newspaper? Their over enthusiasm some time might put a question mark as to who are funding this newspaper to run Zionist idelogies. Moreover, Salah Uddin Shooaib Choudhury is a well known figure in Dhaka’s press community as a very ‘questioned’ figure. He supports Zionism and Israel despite the fact that his Muslim brethrens are regularly killed by Israeli forces with lame exuses. I think, Bangladesh government did the right thing by bringing a sedition charge against this man. His newspaper should also be banned in Bangladesh for spreading anti-Islamic themes. This newspaper is violating the norms of honoring the religious emotions of majority of the people in this country.

I also learnt that, this man, several months back became the advisor to a minority lawyer’s group. He leads more than few hundred lawyers of that particular group and is using this institution too in spreading false campaign against Islam and Islamic leaders. This organization is holding meetings in different parts of Bangladesh. And everywhere, Shoaib Choudhury is the main speaker. He openly defames Moulana Matiur Rahman Nizami and other respected leaders of Islamic political parties. Why? Because, he was kicked out of daily Inqilab?

You learn something new on SM every day.

The BNP/Jamaat current coalition is showing their power on him and I think the lynch mob was none other than BNP goondas. And the Bullshit mytyh of Muslim mob nailing pro-Israily journalist is nothing but trying to create sympathy from certain quarters. People barely know Shoaib back in country.

Probably Salh Uddin Chowdhury has pissed also the civil society of Bangladesh that nobody is taking time to listen to him. The Bangladesh press is free and persecution of journalists cause much steer in the civic society. I have circulated the news among other Bangladeshi bloggers and known journalists whether they know the latest status. So far I am yet to get a reply.

Its surprising that there is almost nothing on this except in his mouthpiece The weekly Blitz.

And let there be no ambiguity that he is still a free man and and unless we hear a second source verifying every word of Chowdhury, things still look dodgy. In Bangladesh there has never been a sedition case before and he is unlikely to be awarded the capital punishment without much public outrage within a short time. So some contemplates whether Chowdhury’s case is a cry wolf scenario.

The BNP government has to relinquish power on 27th of this month and there will be an interim (caretaker) government. So I think it will soon be revealed whether the BNP government exercised some misuse of power to cause Chowdhury the miseries.

I agree with Nara. In fact, I think India might be better source of pressure than the US. US pressure can be too easily misconstrued in the Muslim world. Perhaps that US can pressure India and some other friends to, in turn, pressure Bangladesh?

On another note, that really isn’t a very flattering picture – he looks like a desi serial killer from the 70s.

Also, this naysayer will continue believing that Iraq was not directly related to the GWOT. (I do not buy the whole we went there because of oil theory either.)There is plenty of evidence for people,who want to see it, that the administration was planning a war against Iraq prior to 9/11.