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Aug 15, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
This is my final emanation on the disagreement with Abu Bakr on my theory that his lack of knowledge of what goes on in Guyana because of his distance result in faulty presentations. I will not reply to Mr. Bakr on this topic in the future because with graphic evidence in his responses, he demonstrates that he will stick with the methodology he uses despite its inherent flaws.
First, I resent Mr. Bakr’s putting down my exposure of Mr. Vishnu Bisram as “the mutual aversion of the two men.” The word is not aversion but exposure and that has been done over the years by others. To use an adjective Abu likes, “respected” people like Drs. Anand Daljeet and Seelochan Beharry, Barrington Braithwaite, Malcolm Harripaul among others have exposed Mr. Bisram as a person who is not a professional pollster. By the way, two months ago, Mr. Bisram replied to Mike Persaud of Richmiond Hill New York, in a letter in the Kaieteur News and told him that he, Bisram has several doctorates and Masters.
Do these people have an aversion to Bisram? I repeat – Mr. Bakr should consult a long editorial note of the Stabroek News attached to a published letter of Bisram dated Dec 10, 2010. Abu will find it insightful. I close this topic on Bisram by offering honest advice to Mr. Bakr – stay a million miles away from defending Vishnu Bisram. Given the integrity I know you possess, I strongly suggest you do so.
Secondly, Abu shouts “eureka” because he has found out that though I live in Guyana I could get faulty information. And how he knows this? Because Fazeel Ferouz denies that the CIOG was a founding member of the Indian Arrival Committee. I am wrong because Feroze told Bakr this. What if I insist that my information is factual? Well I am insisting. But does it matter to Abu. He believes Ferouz and that is his right. As for me, I don’t believe Feroze.
Thirdly, Abu is bound to get into sociological hot water by asserting that there is nothing in the Muslim faith that allows for racism. I was tempted to use raging language against this incredibly naïve statement but out of respect for the character and knowledge of Abu Bakr I restrained myself. If there isn’t such then how come Muslims world wide have succumbed to the racist temptations of other mortals. Some of the 21st century’s indescribable bestialities have been committed in the name of Islam.
Muslims, especially the Arab race, are racist like any other ethnic community. Muslims are prone to white-skin preference like any other disturbed colonial mind. In my experience, the Jewish people are far, far less racist than Arab Muslims. Which country Abu Bakr lived in during the seventies and eighties? That country is Guyana because Abu and I were friends at UG when we were students.
Abu knows that the race problematic in Guyana during the fifties onwards right up to August 2014 was not underpinned by religious difference. Both Indian Hindus and Indian Muslims saw themselves as Indians. Both Hindus and Muslim like African Guyanese are living in the race vortex in Guyana. And the Indian thing also takes in the Christian Indians too but I believe less so than the Muslims and Hindus.
I don’t care if Abu believes me but I have seen and heard the most racist miasma come out of the mouth of Guyanese Muslims just as it has from Hindus and African Guyanese for all my life that I have lived in Guyana. And it goes on at this very moment.
This is the problem with Mr. Bakr. His methodology and premises are religious driven, religious based. In such a situation subjectivity kills off objective analysis. Finally, please Mr. Bakr spare me the utter naivety by saying that the CIOG isn’t racist because it accommodated you and a few other African Muslims. Please Mr. Bakr, don’t let me reply to that. I like and respect you too much to want to criticize you on that extremely faulty polemic. Surely Abu, that is such a theoretical non-starter that it is bound to cause people to raise their eyebrows not to mention the naivety in the belief
Frederick Kissoon
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