Dec 01: Taslima Nasrin trying to find the middle ground amidst the hullabaloo following her asked her publisher to delete three pages which are derogatory to Islam and withdraw all copies of Dwikhandita in circulations.
She said, “I hope that my decision will settle the controversy raging over my book and I will be able to live in India and in West Bengal.”
Justifying her intention she said, “I had no intention to hurt anybody’s sentiments but yet, some people in India, I believe, feel aggrieved. If that is so, I am deeply sorry.”
“The book was written in 2002 based on my memories of Bangladesh during the 1980s when secular values were removed from that country’s Constitution. Because I believe in secularism I wanted it to remain in the Constitution but that was not to be,” she said.
Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind General Secretary Mahmood A. Madani asked the followers of Islam to forgive her after she withdrew her content against the same religion.
This Rajya Sabha member of Rashtriya Lok Dal said that Prophet had always forgiven his enemies and its time to follow the same by Muslims.
The feminist writer is living amidst the death threats since she wrote Lajja a chronicler of event that took in Bangladesh, the suffering of Hindu minority aftermath of Babri Masjid demolition.
This is the burden and blindness of our religion which weigh it in two different dimensions of Hindus killing innocent Muslims and Muslim killing innocent Hindus, both is as bad as other.
Accused of blasphemy, this exiled writer has bore the burnt of her freedom of speech, running one state to other for her life.
The vandalism showed its deep rooted presence where the focus changed from Rizwanur to Nandigram to Taslima, the pain of Nandigram which is much more intense has died in subdued tone.
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