Muslim reformer undertakes Anti-Jihadist movie project

by Rakib Ahmed

(January 13, Dhaka, Sri Lanka Guardian) Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is facing sedition, treason and blasphemy charges since 2003 for confronting militant Islam, Sharia Law and criminal interpretation of Koran as well as for advocating relations between Israel and Muslim nations. According to Bangladeshi law, sedition bears death penalty.

When Pakistani former minister and journalist Sherry Rehman’s case is hitting the news headlines in the world, Shoaib Choudhury still remains media’s darker focus, though his anti-Jihadist newspaper Weekly Blitz office was bombed and attacked 6 times since 2005 and Mr. Choudhury was attacked at gun point in 2008.

Due to continuous editorials published in Weekly Blitz, notorious Islamist militancy group Hizbut Tahrir has been banned in Bangladesh in 2009 while anti-Semitic Islamist militancy group Hizb Ut Towhid has been blacklisted in 2010. Infamous anti-Semitic clergy Dr. Zakir Naik was denied entry in United Kingdom and Canada, when Weekly Blitz exposed his anti Israel and anti-West activities as well as his special affiliations towards Al Qaeda.

Award winning journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury has now undertaken a huge project of making a number of films with the goal of creating mass awareness against militant Islam, Jihad, Burqa, Sharia Law, Polygamy and notoriety under the garb of political Islam. Script and screenplay for the first movie of this series is ready for filming.

Black, a full length multi-lingual feature film will show as to how militant Islam is gradually becoming dominant force in the Muslim world. It will also show as to how, thousands of Hindu girls are every year abducted and forced into religious conversion by Muslim fanatics.

In a recent interview, Shoaib Choudhury said, each year, on an average, more than 16,000 Hindu girls are being abducted and converted into Islam. The trend is not stopping though in 2009, a secular political party came in power. He said, if such trend will continue, then by 2030, the total Hindu population in Bangladesh will brought to 3-4 million.

He said repression and persecution of Hindus never stopped in Bangladesh despite series of political changes.

Black is the first ever movie produced by a Bangladeshi cine production company named Vibgyor Films. It is planning to release this movie in Bangladesh, India, United States, Canada and United Kingdom as well as in a number of Arab nations.

Vibgyor Films has appealed to philanthropists, pro-democracy and anti-Jihadist organizations and groups as well as individuals to come forward with every possible help in implementation of this project.