Not since Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses has the publication of a book, SHAME a Novel Taslima Nasrin, provoked such mob violence, public outcries for the arrest and death of the author, and international efforts to secure her safety.
The animosity and bloodletting between Muslim and Hindu extremists on the Indian subcontinent is centuries old. When the Barbri Mosque at Ayodhya, India, was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalists on December 6 1992, fierce mob reprisals took place against the Hindu minority in Muslim Bangladesh.
These incidents form the backdrop for Dr Taslima Nasrin's explosive and courageous book describing the nightmarish fate of one family within her country's small Hindu community.
Shame (or Laija in Bengali) demonstrates Dr. Nasrin's determination to speak out in favor of Islamic reform, religious tolerance and freedom of expression, and against Muslim extremism and other forms of fundamentalism.
2006-10-25
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