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Bangladesh: Proud to be Muslim

Saturday, January 20th, 2007 @ 03:53 UTC

by Neha Viswanathan

Countries:: Bangladesh
Topics:: Religion

Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying on being Muslim and being proud of it. “This image of Muslims claiming their “moderate”ness and the incessant Muslim bashing that comes from the wingnuts is poisoning the well. It has led to the notion that unless Muslims jump every time some Muslim has done something horrible, they are not being patriotic or they are supporting the terrorists.”

1 comment

shakira

i would just like to say my peom bare nice lol

Everyone this goes to you lot init…
Bangladesh is my mind,
Bangladesh is my kind,
Bangladesh represents my blood,
You can see it on the mud,
So get out my site,
Or ill show you the meaning of the Bangladesh kite!!!

I’m happy being a Bangladeshi and always will be!!!

# 2007-02-6 at 15:08 pm

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