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How Sharia intransigence causes a brain drain. "Govt looking into Taslima Nasreen's plea," from Rediff.com, with thanks to Fanabba:
Nasreen, who is facing death threat from radical Islamic groups in Bangladesh, has sought Indian citizenship saying her country of origin has 'slammed the doors' on her. Fundamentalist outfits in Bangladesh issued death threat against her in 1994 for her 'blasphemous' writings.
Posted by Robert at February 20, 2005 6:54 AM
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Doesn't she live in Sweden? Why doesn't she get citizenship there?
Posted by: Voltaire![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/nav-commenters.gif)
at February 20, 2005 7:02 AM
Well, Voltaire, I imagine that she still feels that the subcontinent is her home. If she cannot be allowed to live where she was born and brought up, India is surely the next best thing, since there is no real ethnic divide between it and Bangladesh.
During the Fascist period, democratic Italian refugees tended to cluster on the French Riviera, because it was so like home.
Posted by: Paolo at February 20, 2005 8:49 AM
"Doesn't she live in Sweden? Why doesn't she get citizenship there?"
Maybe she smells that Sweden will soon be just another Islamic dump?
Posted by: Ali Dashti at February 20, 2005 8:53 AM
Paolo-- yes, they did live in southern France, and look what Mussolini's agents did to the fratelli Rosselli of Giustizia e Liberta. Perhaps the best thing for Taslima Nasreen would be if the American Congress offered her, and other famous defectors from Islam, American citizenship. The only people who can claim to be persecuted in the Muslim world are non-Muslims or defectors from Islam; they deserve sympathetic hearings. Muslims, however, are the persecutors, and should not be admitted anywhere in the Western world.
Posted by: Hugh at February 20, 2005 10:20 AM
Paolo-- yes, they did live in southern France, and look what Mussolini's agents did to the fratelli Rosselli of Giustizia e Liberta. Perhaps the best thing for Taslima Nasreen would be if the American Congress offered her, and other famous defectors from Islam, American citizenship. The only people who can claim to be persecuted in the Muslim world are non-Muslims or defectors from Islam; they deserve sympathetic hearings. Muslims, however, are the persecutors, and should not be admitted anywhere in the Western world.
Posted by: Hugh at February 20, 2005 10:20 AM
Yes, I know about the Rosselli brothers. As an old supporter of Ugo La Malfa, I carry some Giustizia e Liberta' lore myself, although as a Catholic I don't know whether they would invite me in. I was also thinking, however, of Sandro Pertini, who survived exile, jail and the death sentence, to became a Partisan commander and eventually the greatest President Italy ever had. Incidentally, if he were alive, I rather think we would hear a few forthright things about jihadis and all their works.
Posted by: Paolo at February 20, 2005 10:53 AM
After the murder of the family of Coptic Christians in N.J.,
i'm not so sure the U.S. is at all a safe place for those who challenge islam.
And to know that, if one is killed by islamists in the U.S., the murder will be swept under the rug as if it counted for nothing !
I would have more faith in the Indian police than the N.J. Gilbert and Sullivan constabulary.
Posted by: dby at February 20, 2005 4:09 PM
Please read the story of the courageous Dr. Nasreen at
http://www.secularislam.org/skeptics/taslima.htm
...of particular note is the "reason" she was targetted with fatwa, namely that she DARED to write a book about the persucution of Hindus in Bangladesh.
Posted by: kj at February 21, 2005 9:15 AM
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