As a proud Bangali, it is good to see strong, healthy debate amongst my fellow countrymen.
But whatever our views on Mujib / Zia and their descendants we as a nation must always maintain a red-line when it comes to extreme religiosity. Pakistan is our perfect example, our twin country where good intentions of a religious, moral code have been abused and abused until religion has become but a mutilated tool that is exploited by some of the vilest creatures on earth.
We can now see that Pak leaders (Zia ul Haq) who started of with a well-intentioned agenda to make their country more religious were incredibly naïve - and in the long run have caused more damage to their country than India, Israel and the rest of the world put together. By prioritising religion over education, we have seen a slow degradation of the Pak populous, to the stage where today everyone is taking pot-shots at their country. People have been made so naïve that a large majority will even support a savage, illiterate group against the very state and it's constitution.
Today a short read of PDF's Pak war threads can give us an idea of the turmoil and confusion Pak people are going through because of the seeds laid down at that time. Just when other, far older muslim regions in the world are awakening to the danger of allowing mullahs free reign and of mixing religion and politics, Bangladesh is heading in the opposite direction.
Thankfully, it is not too late for BD. We have a society where education is valued, we have a strong literacy rate and our poverty rate is decreasing. We are also by nature not a bloodthirsty race (a murder rate of 2.6% one of the lowest in any third world country). The brutal nature of Islamic extremists is alien to us. So we have a chance to stop ourselves from falling into the abyss. If we don't stop the rise of the mullah now, our future generations will curse us for eternity.
So please love who you want, hate who you want but do not allow anyone to elevate their politics using a monopoly on divinity.