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According to the biography at Taslima Nasrin's website, an organization called Soldiers of Islam issued a death fatwa against her in 1993 for criticising Islam, after which, as the article notes, she fled Bangladesh for India. "Throw Taslima out of India: Muslim law board," from Rediff:
Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen's article in a weekly criticising the wearing of the veil by women has drawn the ire of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, which on Thursday said that she should be thrown out of the country.
"The article written by Taslima in Outlook magazine was derogatory and outrageous." AIMPLB member Kamal Farooqi said, adding: "She should be thrown out of the country."
Farooqi said the AIMPLB will soon approach the external affairs ministry to seek Taslima's expulsion from the country where she has been living since she fled Bangladesh in 1994 after receiving death threats for her novel Lajja.
Taslima, in her article titled 'Let's Burn The Burqa,' criticised the wearing of veils and asked Muslim women to 'throw away the apparel of discrimination and burn their burqas.'
Farooqi said Taslima's article was written with the intention of hurting Muslim sentiments and was 'highly objectionable.' Taslima currently lives in Kolkata.
That "objectionable" article can be found here, and includes these observations:
Why are women covered? Because they are sex objects. Because when men see them, they are roused. Why should women have to be penalised for men's sexual problems? Even women have sexual urges. But men are not covered for that. In no religion formulated by men are women considered to have a separate existence, or as human beings having desires and opinions separate from men's. The purdah rules humiliate not only women but men too. If women walk about without purdah, it's as if men will look at them with lustful eyes, or pounce on them, or rape them. Do they lose all their senses when they see any woman without burqa?
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Some 1,500 years ago, it was decided for an individual's personal reasons that women should have purdah and since then millions of Muslim women all over the world have had to suffer it. So many old customs have died a natural death, but not purdah. Instead, of late, there has been a mad craze to revive it. Covering a woman's head means covering her brain and ensuring that it doesn't work. If women's brains worked properly, they'd have long ago thrown off these veils and burqas imposed on them by a religious and patriarchal regime.
What should women do? They should protest against this discrimination. They should proclaim a war against the wrongs and ill-treatment meted out to them for hundreds of years. They should snatch from the men their freedom and their rights. They should throw away this apparel of discrimination and burn their burqas.
Posted by Marisol at January 20, 2007 8:14 AM
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The dhimmi leaders are between a rock and a hard place. If they don't throw tasleema nasreen out, they might lose muslim votes. If they try to throw her out, the arundhati roys and the medha patkars along with the loony left will sue the government. LOL.
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at January 20, 2007 9:30 AM
Goes to show that some people cannot let go of an instrument of oppression.
Posted by: bigcatgirl13106 at January 20, 2007 10:17 AM
She is India's answer to Irishad Majid, Wafa Sufa and the lady that just wrote the book that she is a non-Muslim.
Posted by: bigcatgirl13106 at January 20, 2007 10:19 AM
Kamal Farooqi and AIMPLB are forgetting that India is still Dar al Harab and not Dar al Islam. Taslima Nasrin has got right to express her views. If Kamal Farooqi disagrees,he is allowed to express himself in a peaceful manner. Mr. Kamal Farooqi and his fellows are welcome to leave for Dar al Islam like Iran,KSA etc. and cry in full throat a nonsense like this.
Posted by: iqbal at January 20, 2007 10:24 AM
"The purdah rules humiliate not only women but men too. If women walk about without purdah, it's as if men will look at them with lustful eyes, or pounce on them, or rape them. Do they lose all their senses when they see any woman without burqa?"
Damn good point.
Any thought-system that calls women "uncovered meat" is calling men flies.
at January 20, 2007 10:34 AM
"Do a Lysistrata..."
-- from a posting above
Or possibly "perform in "Lysistrata""? Or even, perhaps, making the play's title into part of a fixed phrase: "perform a Lysistrata"?
A new concept for conceptual artists tired of Karen Finley's chocolatey appearances, and even of Cindy Sherman's child-like make-believes for her self-aimed camera: Non-performance Art.
Posted by: Hugh at January 20, 2007 10:35 AM
"Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen".-------------- I really wonder what controversy she has created by writing truth? Any truth is one and one there is no second truth,therefore there is no scope for "controversy". She should be called a true person at JW and DW and not a cotroversial one.
Posted by: iqbal at January 20, 2007 10:40 AM
'Performing as in Lysistrata' is an option for humans. Not so for "tilths'.
Posted by: Infidel33 at January 20, 2007 11:27 AM
"Throw Taslima out of India: Muslim law board,*"
*“All India Muslim Personal Law Board”
--quotes from the article above.
'It's only Personal and Family Law for Muslims,' the apologists and the handlers for Islam said when they tried to introduce it into Britain, Quebec, and Ontario. Yeah, right.
at January 20, 2007 11:58 AM
The first time I ever heard of Bangladesh was an urgent appeal for help to save the starving people.
Looks like it is still going on.
http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/72150/1/
If you will notice wherever islam goes, the land tries to vomit them out. "Palestine" is a good example.
http://hedgehogcentral.blogspot.com/2006/11/whatever-happened-to-those-gaza.html
at January 20, 2007 12:22 PM
I wrote and recorded a song about Taslima Nasrin. For anyone interested in having it emailed to them, request it from me at Oriana_tribute@yahoo.com.
Posted by: Cornelius at January 20, 2007 1:32 PM
Whenever I hear or read Muslims and their apologists insist that Islam is not a monolith, I'm reminded of that day in 1993, when 350,000 screaming Bangladeshis filled the streets of Dacca...demanding Taslima's head. This is the result of the fatwah. On that day in Bangladesh, Islam was indeed a monolith.
Can you imagine the stress she must have been under? The poor thing was abandoned by most of her friends and colleagues. She fled her home and went into hiding until she was able to sneak out of her country.
She's a remarkable and courageous woman.
Posted by: Cornelius at January 20, 2007 1:47 PM
Here is another brave woman who went on stage and told the muslims straight to there faces
Expatriate pop singer Anggun visited Jakarta recently and left us with her opinions on the anti-pornography bill.
Anggun Cipta Sasmi, who lives in France now, re-visited Jakarta for a special concert at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) recently and, after belting out a few songs from her albums “Luminescence” and “Snow on the Sahara”, including the hits “Saviour” and “In Your Mind”, she offered her view, in a roundabout way, on the public morality debate over the anti pornography bill.
She accomplished this by telling a story about some women who had inspired the lyrics to be found in the “In Your Mind” song. She told of women who had suffered in societies that restricted the freedom of women generally. She then said:
I was born in a Muslim country. I am Muslim. But I’m very concerned that my country is becoming backward in this way. Because Islam is known as a tolerant religion. I don’t support countries that frustrate the young generation.
lyrics here
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/01/in-your-mind.html
at January 20, 2007 2:46 PM
"Farooqi said Taslima's article was written with the intention of hurting Muslim sentiments and was 'highly objectionable.'"
Islamists repeatedly twist the truth into full blown distortion .. and the distortion repeatedly tells the story of Islamist's ignorant and self-absorbed shame and rampant denial.
Posted by: Daisytoo at January 20, 2007 5:59 PM
If they try to throw her out, the arundhati roys and the medha patkars along with the loony left will sue the government. LOL.
Posted by: arjun.sevak
I thought A. Roy was pro-islamic. I read something where she labeled Hindus as "fascist". I couldn't believe my eyes seeing she wrote that!
I'd actually be happy if she got pro-active when islamists threaten a fellow woman author! For someone on the loony left that's progress right there.
Posted by: MeanieMo at January 20, 2007 6:49 PM
Off topic from the UK:
I cannot shake your hand, sir. I'm a Muslim and you're a man
Posted by: ummahnewslinks at January 20, 2007 7:45 PM
FAO Mother Ecclesiastica
'If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.'
'Humankind is facing an uncertain future. The probability of new kinds of rivalry and conflict looms large. In particular, the conflict is between two different ideas, secularism and fundamentalism. I don't agree with those who think the conflict is between two religions, namely Christianity and Islam, or Judaism and Islam. After all there are fundamentalists in every religious community. I don't agree with those people who think that the crusades of the Middle Ages are going to be repeated soon. Nor do I think that this is a conflict between the East and the West. To me, this conflict is basically between modern, rational, logical thinking and irrational, blind faith. To me, this is a conflict between modernity and anti-modernism. While some strive to go forward, others strive to go backward. It is a conflict between the future and the past, between innovation and tradition, between those who value freedom and those who do not.'
Taslima Nasrin, a physician, a writer, a radical feminist, human rights activist and a secular humanist.
at January 21, 2007 12:17 AM
I admire her courage and willingness to speak.
How many others would speak if
* they weren't kept home away from *gasp* computers
* they weren't kept uneducated
* they weren't intimidated/repressed?
If someone likes wearing it and being covered, fine, I have no problem with that. But I don't think anyone should be FORCED to do so.
Posted by: Luap777 at January 21, 2007 3:33 AM
Burn the burqa, what next, burn the bra's, do muslim women really wear bra's, only their hair dresser knows for sure!!!
Posted by: OLD SARGE at January 21, 2007 11:45 AM
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