No Respite for Taslima
Jun 16, 2006
Western Resistance has a post about Taslima Nasreem:
On September 12, 1994 she gave an interview to the New Yorker, in which she said: "Why shouldn't I write about what I've seen? I'm a doctor, remember! Do you know what's it like to see a woman crying out in the delivery room when she gives birth to a girl, terrified that her husband will divorce her? To see the ruptured vaginas of women who've been raped? The six and seven year olds who have been violated by their fathers, brothers and uncles - by their own families? No, I will not keep quiet. I will continue to speak out about these women's wretched lives."
Of course, this courageous Bangladeshi author has a bounty on her head.
Taslima fled to Sweden in 1994, after a state court ordered that she should be detained for writing the "anti-Islamic" statements contained in her work, where she discussed the plight of Hindus and women and even argued that sex outside of marriage was defensible.
Shudder the thought.
Taslima is one of the twelve signers of the Manifesto Against Islamist Totalitarianism. She is currently in India where she is being harassed by Muslims who want her deported.
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