Taslima should come back and accept punishment
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Fahim, Dhaka: Feb 16 2008
Made Popular Feb 16 2008

taslimaThe recent visa episode of Bangladeshi writer in India once again showed the hypocritical attitude of Indians to the world, particularly to the Islamic world. I was just laughing when the Hindu nationalist organizations Bhartiya Janta Party and the Sangh Privar started creating uproar for Taslima Nasreen, the exiled Bangladeshi writer.

It is the clear picture of double standard of Indian leadership when it took so much time in extending visa to Nasreen. However, when the question comes to the migrant from Bangladesh living in India, they start singing different tune all of a sudden. The Hindu nationalists start talking about ‘operation push back’ for the poor and hungry people living in border areas. They think that these poor people would turn India into Muslim country but they don’t hesitate in accepting visa extension of Nasreen. Gujarat’s chief minister had even called Nasreen to stay in Gujarat but the Indian government can’t accept poor refugees.

They welcomed Taslima Nasreen with open hands to live anywhere in India, but showed their MF Hussein, the living Picasso of India, door without giving a second thought on their decision.

For me, MF Hussain, 90, is similar to Bahadur Shah Zafar and even Hussain won’t get two meters of land for his burial in his own motherland. Indians can’t accept Hussein because of his alleged painting of naked Hindu Goddesses but they accept Nasreen even when she has written against Islam several times.

Bangladesh is not an Islamic country but the majority of the population is Muslim. Taslima, three times married and divorced, no children, financially independent and living alone, started writing provocative novels against Islam and became antithesis of womanhood in Bangladesh. It was unacceptable.

Her novel “Lajja” was about the suffering faced by a minority Hindu family in Bangladesh. Here in Bangladesh, the book was banned but was declared bestseller in India. It forced Taslima to change of place of living from Bangladesh to India. She once said in an interview: “I’m not in favor of minor changes in Koran, it serves no purpose. The Koran should be revised thoroughly.”

She knows better the central belief of Islam says that the Koran is Allah’s word and it can’t be changed. However, she claimed later that the newspaper misquoted her statement when her statement set off an extraordinary chain of violence in the country. Several people even demanded to hang her and some issued Fatwa for her death.

She should come to Bangladesh and if she offers unconditional apology to the nation and Islam for the words she has written until now and accept the punishment for her wrongdoings. She has committed blunder by creating hatred against Bangladeshi Muslims by projecting them as fanatics. She even portrayed Bangladesh as a Muslim fundamentalist state and brought disrespect to Islamic values and culture. She even demanded to merge Bangladesh with India by giving the reason that Hindus, minority community, is not safe in Bangladesh.

She is responsible of promoting civil unrest by creating polarization in the society. She doesn’t favor the institution of marriage and displays contempt for social values and cultural traditions in the name of personal freedom. The government of India should cancel her visa extension and ask her to go back to Bangladesh and accept punishments for her offenses against Islam and her own nation.

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Ayfer
Berlin, Germany
oh yea? What wrong has she done?

Bangladesh should be bombed instead. She fled her own country and came to Germany.

it shows the barbarism of Bangladesh.
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Hiten
Ranchi, India
Just see how shamelessly these Bangladeshis are talking about their own people living India as refugees. They should call those thousands of poor refugees back to Bangladesh from India. Let Taslima Nasreen decide in which country she wants to live.
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MOhammad
Dhaka, Bangladesh
She wants Koran to be completely in new form. We Invite her to her motherland and give us tips. We are eagerly waiting for her.
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Dorothi
Dhaka, Bangladesh
She is champion of womanhood in Bangladesh. We support and praise her courage and will be with her in the fight against women exploitation in country.
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Milind
Thiruvananthapuram, India
She won't go back because she knows that Muslims kill anyone who says against Islam. She is living in India because India is the greatest secular country in the world.
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Manishkumar
Kottayam, India
Taslima has also hurt the sentiments of Indian Muslims. The government must deport her from India soon.
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Hiten
Ranchi, India
In Bangladesh, people have not so lucky to have parties like Congress and communist so Taslima can't go back to her own country.
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Tomas
Atlanta, United States
People even in Bangladesh do know that Hussain has painted Hindu Goddesses in nude and they can see the painting in search engines. Could you get what Taslima has written in her novels, said to be written against Islam. She has written how Muslims harassed and killed a Hindu family in Bangladesh and Muslims are feeling bad because Taslima depicted true picture.
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Habib
Tehran, Iran
She is a bad writer and Her novels are written poorly. It is good that many of her books have not been translated because Hindus won't feel good when they find out her writings against Hinduism as well.
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Sukhbahar
Ludhiana, India
Don't Blame COmmunists all the time. CPM government has also banned 'Dikhandita' Taslima's memoir.
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Halim
Jakarta, Indonesia
Fahim, first you do correct your country's judicial system and work hard for the welfare of women in country then ask her to come back. She will certainly go I guess.
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Haris
islamabad, Pakistan
She should leave India and go to France. Asian region is not good for the 'talented' writer.
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Gibson
Gwalior, India
Ihe Indian government shouldn't deport Taslima because it will diminish all Indians. Government should also ask MF Husain to live peacefully in India.
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Bin
Meerut, India
Nasrin is the single journalist in the list of journos, writers, scholars and artists who have been persecuted, banned, jailed, forced to leave her own country for so long.
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Azim
Dhaka, Bangladesh
She is anti-Islam and taking shelter in Hindu country. No need to come Bangladesh again. We don't need you.
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Swati S
Shimla, India
She is prolific writer and should be allowed to live wherever she wants...

She is doing nothing wrong in expressing her opinions against the exploitation of women and other issues...we support her and her cause...
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Charli
Oslo, Norway
It is disgraceful to that an author has to run helter and skelter from one place to another, one country to another chased by fanatical hounds. A country where there is no freedom of speech, where a dissenting voice is gagged goes on a long way to show the kind of society it is.

Ms. Nasreen's basic human rights is being violated here. Bangladesh government and Bengalis should not forget that Bangladesh is a signatory of the United Nations Human Rights Charter.
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Steven
Berlin, Germany
punishment for what? punishment for exercising her basic human rights? i can't believe i am reading this piece of shit on saturday evening. fahim is doing more harm than good to his cause by his ridiculous arguments.
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Marcos
Madrid, Spain
Dear Readers,

It is just not the opinion of Taslima Nasreen that the Koran should be thoroughly revised. This is the demand of an overwhelming majority of the world population. 1.7 billion Muslims are quoting the Koran out of context to validate the numerous fatwas, terrorism in the name of jihad, abuse of females and all sorts of violence. The call of the time now is to seriously consider editing of some portions of the Koran and purge and expunge a few verses and pages so that the next generation of Muslims do not find any excuse to carry out atrocities within and outside themselves.

This change of heart should come from within the general and intellectual followers of Islam because so far the moderate religious heads have been handed over defeats by the radical and hate preachers.

Thank you.
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Dan
Jerusalem, Israel
muslims from kosovo to kashmir, sudan to somalia, chechnya to chad, afghanistan to algeria, iraq to indonesia, palestine to pakistan and all over the world are the root cause of sectarian and religious violence.

now they are targeting a peace loving country european like denmark. we don't need to prove that followers of islam are the most intolerant human beings on this planet.

muhammad, if at all he had good intentions spreading the faith and dictating the koran to his disciples who wrote the verses for the benefit of mankind must be twisting and turning in his grave seeing the state of muslim mentality today.
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Chris
Toronto, Canada
THE PERSECUTION OF TASLEEMA NASREEN IS HIDEOUS. IT MUST BE CONDEMNED BY ONE AND ALL. BANGLADESHIS ARE LOOKING MORE LIKE TALIBAN BUCCANEERS THESE DAYS.
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Farshid
Tehran, Iran
She must be lashed in public and then stoned to death for immoral behavior and blasphemy and .......... My blood BOILS.

Poke her eyeballs out and cut her tongue and fry her in boiling oil...... SHE IS A BITCH.
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Johan
Jakarta, Indonesia
skin her alive and then live to death.
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Haris
islamabad, Pakistan
this is war between crusaders and jihadis and taslima is a spy like mata hari. she must be caught and immediately hanged.
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Minhaz
Dhaka, Bangladesh
to dorothy frm dhaka, bangladesh
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u can say this coz u look like a christian from bangladesh. ur name suggests so. u can go n stay in india or usa or denmark. just get lost frm bangladesh.
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Arefa
Kottayam, India
If Taslima Nasrin had sinned against god by her remarks about Allah's Quran, let Allah punish her then. Did he give you the right to carry out your so called justice on his behalf? If so where is the authorization letter? I want to verify Allah's signature. My advice to you Bangladeshis is please do not behave like idiots. By writing such absurd pieces you are making yourselves look like uneducated idiots in front of the world community.
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Lalit
Kanpur, India
The commies in USSR and China banned religion. Indian commies who call them Marxists are licking the bums of the Muslims and hounding the poor woman. They can show their strength to women like Mamata Banerjee and Taslima Nasrin. I can understand Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi to pressurize Taslima to take out a few things from her books. He is a Congress leader known for its minority appeasement and bum-licking policies.

Remember the Shah Bano case that unmasked Rajiv Gandhi's communal (pro-Muslim) face? The Congress and the commies are the worst communal parties in India.
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Prabhunarayan
Pondicherry, India
all those who are supporting taslima here and bashing muslims must remember that no one has the right to hurt religious sentiments of any community - muslim, hindu, christian, jew etc etc. if you don't want to follow or find anything bad, just turn your head and leave. but criticizing the manner nasrin has done knowing fully well that it will turn out to be major controversy is grossly criminal. she knew that she can escape to europe and india. she is actually making india's life harder. we have a large muslim population here that is gradually losing its sanity and turning radicals. presence of such authors will only accelerate the process and the muslims will start believing that the country is insensitive.
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Mohd
Al-Manamah, Bahrain
SHE DESERVES A THROUGH BEATING. I KNOW ISLAM DOES NOT ALLOW VIOLENCE AGAINST WEAK AND RESPECT WOMEN. BUT SHE IS A WOMAN WITHOUT ANY DIGNITY AND HONOR.
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Minhaz
Dhaka, Bangladesh
she must be getting a lot of creative and intellectual lovers in kolkata to keep her warmed up. so she wants to return there and doesn't want to stay in any other city. one day she will be shot dead.
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Kate
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasrin, Jyllands-Posten cartoonists... The list goes on and on and on... One day there will be a certain killing of a champion of free speech and then the Muslims will blacken their own faces...
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Betty
Amsterdam, Netherlands
this is barbaric! i can't believe that muslims will become like this one day. tehy are godless people. only satan preaches violence. please read satanic verses by salman rushdie.
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Pippo
Manila, Philippines
MY gf is muslim. she has no probs having sex or watching porn with me. I'm a Catholic. Muslims are gud ppl.
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Minhaz
Dhaka, Bangladesh
THe situation that Taslima is facing had to happen one day. She must say sorry to Bangladeshis. Then we can forgive him and she can return from Calcutta.
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Prabhunarayan
Pondicherry, India
She is not half as good a writer as Salman Rushdie. Her language is pedestrian and lacks depth. Lajja was a mere attempt to get attention. Before the book, did anyone know about her?
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Matt
Liverpool, United Kingdom
This is completely unacceptable for teh world to let Bangladesh citizens and government behave the way it is doing. India must protect the author at any cost and give her complete freedom to pursue her writing career.