"Double Standards of Evidence"

Yet another journalist

This time brown girl, tells me

That my sauce is unreliable

The epistemic politics of which

I do not care to unwind

Because in this business

There is no humanity

Just secular commodity

We know

That its code

For not caring

Enough to risk failure

And marginalisation

Such moral capitulation
What did I hear you say?

"Lets get more Muslims in the media"

May the martyrs of Motijheel

Be granted high station

And spared the indignity 

Of being whitened up 

For the anglo-liberal gaze

Only to shift

When someone strips.

May they be spared

Political exploitation from home and abroad

From the frames of foolish friends and enemies.
Selling "Talibanisation or Secularization"
"We are the bulwarks against fundamentalism", or
Some teenager's notion of "BanglaSpring"

May the terrified

Reach safety

Wise counsel

And witness the facts

If they wish

Without intimidation, or

Fear of recrimination

As for those

Who cover up or dismiss

There is a word, in Arabic

Whose literal meaning

Has you down to a ك‍