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Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, March 24, 2008 1:12:23 AM
"He is our ally; he is my brother; he is the bravest man I know. He is the man whom Islamists cannot silence."
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
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The Man Islamists Cannot Silence
By Richard L. Benkin
He fired the first salvo in 2003 and has been sticking his thumb in Islamist eyes ever since. Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury describes himself as a "Muslim Zionist." He is unabashedly pro-US, pro-Israel, and
anti-Islamist. More importantly, he remains all of that from within the Muslim world, which he refuses to leave. I have fielded any number of asylum requests for him, and he declined them all. "Retreat is not in my vocabulary," he says, for he believes that if he were to leave his country, his credibility would be gone, and Islamists would claim victory; a satisfaction he refuses to give them. "Bangladesh is
my country," he says. "Let the radicals leave!"
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