Muslims From Bangladesh

"Mashrafe is a top-class captain. One of the best Asia has produced."

"Mash is a type of guy you want to play for. He gives 100% so you have to give 100%. It is good for any team. Nobody can be lazy with Mash. He is a good cricketer. He is a very accurate bowler, and he can smack the ball against the spinners. He has authority, which is good."

"Great pleasure to work alongside this top man, Mashrafe Mortaza."

"I love Mash a lot There is a good relationship between us. Earlier, we played as the opponent. I played together this time, it was a good time."

"Mashrafe is of course an incredible captain. He is experienced and as a human being, he is excellent as well. He makes everyone laugh with funny little talks. It has been really nice to play under his captaincy. He listened to everyone attentively which was very nice gesture from him. He is the one who never give up. Everyone in the team respects him."

"I think he is the best talented cricketer in the history of Bangladesh."

"I do not see myself as so cheap (low) that I would judge myself on a trophy. I do not play cricket for a trophy. A trophy is very important at one stage, and I believe Inshallah one day, Bangladesh will win one. It is important because it will boost the young generation coming into cricket. So in that sense you can say Bangladesh need a trophy, but not necessarily right now. And from a personal point of view, if you judge Mashrafe based on a trophy, that is up to you, but I do not see myself as that cheap (low)."

"Mashrafe Bin Mortaza is highly regarded not only in Bangladesh but all over the cricketing world due to his achievements and commitment towards the game."

"Mashrafe Mortaza is a fighter."

"When you look at Bangladesh, Mashrafe is a fine captain. He leads by example. He is a warrior-like captain and all the guys follow him."

"Mashrafe is ‘a piece of diamond’. People all over the world admire him. I know he will do well both in the cricket field and in Narail."

"Let me shatter some illusions today. We are entertainers. We are not heroes. The heroes are our freedom fighters. We do not sacrifice anything for the cause of the nation. The freedom fighters did. Don't misunderstand me, cricket is not everything. What we try to do is to bring happiness to our nation."

"I do not know how long I can continue my game with this team. But I can assure you that when I realize that my skills and willpower are decreasing, then I will drop myself."

"If I could play 100 more matches with my 200 wickets, then I could have been a more important bowler. Perhaps everyone would have been very proud of me if I was a bowler of 300 or 350 wickets. I believe I have the ability to play for a long time, but even though I have played for 14 years for the country, I still lost three to four years due to the injury."

"If I do not perform, then I have to move away. If you come to play for the country, then you have to be responsible when representing the flag of the country. 160 million people are watching, 160 million people have judgment. It must be paid."

"What do we do? If I say it very bluntly – we take money, we perform. Like a singer or an actor, we do performing art. Nothing more. The Muktijoddhad [1971 Liberation warriors] didn’t face bullets to get money on winning. Who is being compared to whom? If there are any heroes in cricket, they are Rakibul Hasans or martyrs like [Abdul Halim] Jewel... Rakibul Bhai had dared to enter the cricket field with ‘Joy Bangla’ inscribed on his bat [before the 1971 Liberation]. That is big. Even bigger was his going to the front with his father’s gun. Shohid (martyr) Jewel left cricket and joined the crack platoon [a 1971 Liberation war guerrilla formation]. That is bravery. Dealing with fast-bowling has romanticism and duty, not bravery."

"I never planned ahead for anything in my life -- not for my exams, not when I had to buy clothes for an occasion -- I always do things at the last moment. So when I got the captaincy, I kept doing what I always did. I never thought about success, failure, future or past."

"I say, those who cry ‘patriotism, patriotism’ around cricket, if all of them for one day did not drop banana skin on the streets or did not spit on the streets or obeyed traffic rules, the country would have changed. This huge energy was not wasted after cricket and was used to do one’s work honestly even for a day, that would be showing patriotism. I do not understand the definition of patriotism of these people."

"Sharing of two sisters: At present, the one who has the highest power in Bangladesh, whose finger controls the big businesses and high-level jobs of the country, the most powerful among the military-civilian bureaucrats of the government, ministers, prime ministers, presidents and relatives of the prime minister wherever they are, the promotion, demotion and transfer of officials from the highest level of the military to any level whose mood or It is arbitrary, not getting business at the government level, on which all the legal and illegal money of this country is deposited, currently the cashier of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina family, who manages the entire country's economy with one hand, except for politics, who does not have the slightest trace of love for the people of this country, who does not think of the people of this country as a race of foxes, dogs, and others. The one who does not say anything, if he wakes up in the middle of the night or if he hears in the middle of the night, twelve crore people of this country have all been killed in the great flood, then he will lose his soul in happiness, who, always, does not think and wish for anything other than the misfortunes and misfortunes of the people of this country, who is none other than Sheikh Rehana, the 2nd daughter of the father of the nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the younger sister of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. On the afternoon of 7th July 1996, he came to Ganabhaban. His elder sister to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Came directly to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and said, this, Sheikh Mujib alone is your father? Sheikh Mujib is not my father? Where is my share? What do I not share? I have to take 5 ministers. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, I will not get the minister. Run, let run. I will get as much money as I need. all you have Due to the screams of the two sisters, a special team of 16 hundred (sixteen) members of PGR (Prime Minister's Guard Regiment) consisting of 64 (sixty four) officers of the army, air force and navy assigned to the Prime Minister's 24-hour round-the-clock security, if the members of the PGR (Prime Minister's Guard Regiment) on duty on that day stood confused in their duties, removed them at the behest of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Overlook is advised as it is a family matter. If you don't minister my five men today, I will leave for America. When I come I will bring equal share. remember Saying this Bangabandhu's daughter Sheikh Rehana left. At the next stage, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina went to America and brought her younger sister Sheikh Rehana to the country after the final stage of sharing and compromise on the condition that Sheikh Rehana will be Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's cashier. All money should come through the hands of Sheikh Rehana and after Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Rehana will be Sheikh Mujib's successor."

"From now on, you will use the lethal weapon, shoot everyone you get. Wherever you see gathering from above... now I am making the (shooting) done from above, from the helicopter, it has already been started."

"Rumors have been spread during the movement that Sheikh Hasina has fled. But I want to tell you that Sheikh Hasina has not fled, never flees."

"No one stay here."

"No one knows the pain of losing a loved one more than I do."

"I am indeed rather residing very close to the country, so that I may probably silently enter by lucky chance at any time."

"If the grandchildren of the freedom fighters do not get job, then will the grandchildren of Razakar get it? My question is to the countrymen. Razakar's grandchildren will get jobs, will freedom fighters grandshildren not get job? what is their fault?"

"Responding to a question from reporters on quota reform"

"The price of brinjal has gone above 110 taka. It has now come down to 80 taka. Instead of making brinjal fritters with brinjal, you can make it with other vegetables that are easily available. That's what we eat. 'You can make a very good brinjal fritters with sweet pumpkin instead of brinjal. We do it like this. That's how it can be done."

"Khaleda Zia said, "The Padma Bridge is being built in charlatan process, it will not rise there, it will collapse if you climb." And the one who has stopped the money of the bridge like Padma Bridge for the post of MD (Muhammad Yunus) should also be given two dunks in the Padma river and again put him on the bridge. Don't let him die. Then if they may be taught."

"Like East Timor, they will carve out a Christian country taking parts of Bangladesh [Chattogram] and Myanmar with a base in the Bay of Bengal." Sheikh Hasina, the Awami League president, said in a meeting on Thursday, reported The Daily Star. It was the 14-party alliance's first meeting with the Awami League president after polls. "The offer came from a white man," Sheikh Hasina said without revealing any details. "It may appear that it is aimed at only one country, but it is not. I know where else they intend to go," she said that there will be more trouble but she is not worried about it. "If I allowed a certain country to build an airbase in Bangladesh, then I would have had no problem."

"Since my last tenure we have been trying to find the root causes of poverty and how we could reduce it. We wanted to ensure food security so we put all our force into producing more food and also the distribution system so that food should first reach to the poorest of the poor. Then we tried to create job opportunities for them in the rural areas."

"What do you want, that I should start crying, ‘Oh, crisis, we have a crisis!’ Do you want that?"

"I am urging the (BNP) leader to stop these bomb and grenade attacks, these acts of sabotage, and killings, of arson and damage to property."

"The path you are following will not bring any benefit for the people. Instead you will lose public faith and confidence."

"We want to come out of the vicious circle of unhealthy politics."

"Maintaining decency, we could go anywhere and do all of our works -- Islam gives that liberty and scope to women ...women have to create their own fate and work out their own future."

"[The fundamentalist groups] are trying, no doubt about it, and there are some people trying to encourage them, but we have controlled the situation."

"My job is to assist the common people, I do politics for the people, not for me ... People are enjoying democracy now."

"All the democratic institutions are working and people are satisfied and people are enjoying it. So the way you say I am dominating, I am not dominating. I am serving people."

"World leaders should keep their word, particularly the developed countries."

"My priority is to establish this country as a poverty-free country, we have a long way to go – we have to do more. When I have been able to establish this country as a poverty-free country, a hunger-free country, a developed country, perhaps at that time, perhaps then I may say I am proud."

"It was an extremely heinous act. What kind of Muslims are these people? They don't have any religion, their only religion is terrorism."

"My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation."

"I think that the friendship between Bangladesh and India is like a flowing river and full with generosity. This is the spirit of the people of the two neighbours. I think if our commitments are honest, we would be able to achieve many things that are beneficial to our people."

"The BNP leader said we kept the people in the dark while signing the memoranda of understanding (MoUs). I have only one question to ask her: Whom did she consult when she signed the defence deal with China? No-one saw what was in it."

"No people in any region would remain neglected . . . development of each and every person is important for the real and balanced development of the country."

"As leaders and activists of Awami League, our responsibility is to fulfill the dream of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib so that every person in the country gets food, home, education, health care and prosperous life."

"I want work, I want work with honesty; corruption should be stopped, corruption shouldn't take place in any way."

"At such an age our sons and daughters mostly need a right guideline, their problems need to be realised and more time is needed to be spent with them."

"It is difficult to stem one’s tears when we see the situation. People deserve to live like human beings. Why should they suffer so?"

"For all this three counts, we have decided to inflict her with only one sentence, that is sentence of death."