Very interesting. Thanks for the article.

Kind of scary.

Muslims are graetest threat to Indian security. The socalled moderates also are apologists not really mindful of the violence by the militants. Except in FFI I have not come across any muslim who unapologitically found fault with the violent attitudes of muslims in sttling things

SP, obviously India has suffered terribly from her Muslim problem, especially over Kashmir, since its birth. The worst days are still to come from wider Muslim community.

We hear Bangladesh is going to go under water in 4-5 decades. If India is to bear the burden, that's going to add to India's troubles big time.

Indian Hindus almost universally condemn the British Raj for dividing India; not so much for the economic exploitation. In reality, the Partition was the biggest gift from the British -- although not many would buy it.

Everyone in this planet has an explicit right to criticize his or her own religion and express views on any subject except the use of violent and profane language. If Islam or any religion for that matter is great, then it should be able to withstand any criticism from its followers. That could not be construed as insult. The problem is Islam is religion that is extremely derogatory to women like covering them with burqa, four wives per man, and no rights for women etc. like no other religion in this planet. What Taslima did is to speak against the evils of Islam and the atrocities of the Moslems in Bangladesh against Hindu minorities like force to marry one daughter to a Moslem for Islamification of the Hindu families in Bangladesh. Taslima, being an elite intellectual of Bangladesh, spoke against the evils of her own religion, own society, and own country. Being a woman of Islam is a crime in itself.

Being a woman in Bangladesh and India is no easy picnic either. In Bangladesh and India particularly West Bengal, women including female children, have no more rights than family pets. Scores of girls, women, and even female fetus are abused or tortured, or killed every single day under a variety of pretexts in these regions every single day. In Bangladesh, under the Law of Sharia and in West Bengal under the communist rule, the funeral of Democracy has been over a long long time ago. Thus, pushing for democratic rights or talking about that is nothing more than intellectual mumbo jumbo. Under these poisonous conditions of these societies, women are expected to be tortured and suffer in quiet pain and not expected to oppose or speak against let alone write about it.

Taslima Nasrin dared to write and chronicle them in magnificent eloquence that should be must reading for all high school students in all societies. That is not to put any religion on the spot but to start a Jihad against the abuse of women in this planet start a movement fro true equal rights fro men and women.