Militancy: Prevention is Better than Cure

[a response to DP blogpost]
A softer approach to the militancy- my brain agrees with Rumi, but my soul doesn’t!
But one thing both my brain and soul admits, ‘prevention is better than cure’! And for a better prevention, one needs to find out why a suicide bomber wants to sacrifice his life?

To my understanding, it’s the poverty and inequality, coupled with ignorance.

There is a correlation between the increasing economic inequality and growth of militancy. Take a look at the emergence of JMB… mostly in the northern part of Bangladesh… the area known for its poverty and seasonal famine (monga).

It’s not only the ‘sawab’ in the world and after it, but also the relief of free food and education which provokes poor people to send their children to madrasah. And when these children become adult and enter into the job market, the only option they find is to establish another madrasah and start teaching (beginning a vicious circle of madrasah proliferation). But at one point, when they find that the existing system is not reducing their poverty, it becomes easy to influence them to change the system!

So, we need to change the system too. First, try a fair redistribution of wealth, and second, change the syllabus of madrasah curriculam.

Just remembered… wasn’t it the economic and social inequality why the freedom fighters gave their life to free Bangladesh? Ah! they got it right almost four decades ago!