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 03:27:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Her book so angered Muslim leaders that a fatwa or holy judgment was invoked, offering thousands of dollars to anyone who would kill her.
The Soldiers of Islam accused her of 'blasphemy and conspiracy against Islam,"- while the Bengali government charged her with sacrilege merely for saying that the Koran should be revised. After months in hiding, Dr. Nasrin escaped to Sweden with the aid of American, French, and European Union authorities.
Her commitment to eliminating religious extremism worldwide is stated in her preface to Shame: "The disease of religious fundamentalism. .. must be fought at every turn. . .. I will continue to write and protest persecution and discrimination. . .. I am convinced that the only way the fundamentalist forces can be stopped is if all of us. . . join together to fight their malignant influence. I, for one, will not be silenced."
MORE POWER TO HER ELBOW !!!!!!!
2006-10-25 03:30:12 · update #1
Sorry. Thanks to:-
http://www.hutch.demon.co.uk/prom/shame.htm
2006-10-25 03:33:21 · update #2
350 pp ISBN 1-57392-165-3 Cloth
2006-10-25 06:44:51 · update #3
'hoho-haha-hehe' maa chood? yourself whatever that means to you.
REPORTED
2006-10-25 06:48:12 · update #4
Sounds like it should be compulsory reading in schools then, just as "To kill a mockingbird" is, it challenges thinking (in mockingbird the automatic assumption that the black man must be the rapist), it is time the moderate muslim community did re-evaluate behaviours from the extremists and actually do something about it instead of the current "don't blame us" attitude. Perhaps it is just me, but if there were people who were bringing my faith into disrepute, I think I would want something done about it. I WOULD turn in family members who were extremist, I WOULD protest at what these people were doing, and I WOULD co-operate with society to bring about a peaceful solution. If faith is everything, then why allow others to corrupt that faith? If they are un-islamic then why are they still protecting them?
2006-10-25 03:44:12 · answer #1 · answered by Lynn S 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
We live in the day of the coward, the weak-minded, those who would wish to destroy that which stands in the way of progress.
God, for those who believe in Him, created the seasons to be different from one another, offering renewal to the passage of the year, and filling the earth with its different fruits.
Religion is all too often self-serving, holding its believers to ransom through varying interpretations of its particular message.
We can see, all too painfully, this is often the message of hatred and death, of the exercise of power over the many, even by force.
Good can turn to evil in the twinkling of an eye.
I have yet to read SHAME, the Novel Taslima Nasrin, and shall hasten to do so, in order to form my own opinion. I have the freedom to do this, a freedom I shall exercise.
2006-10-25 03:58:25 · answer #2 · answered by lordofthetarot 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Look, Islam is not an institution that can go through a reform, is a life style and feith is everyone´s responsability. Islam is a personal matter coz Quran commands it this way. No human being can judge other human being.
So I think it takes more commitment for muslims to study more Quran and dont let theirselves to be manipulated by people, and to act according to Islam.
And its a pitty this kind of books come to light coz they can be good in appropiate hands (people with knowledge and wisdom and good will) but for the masses, most of the time, this kind of books means only one thing: division and hatred.
2006-10-25 03:36:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Any reformer has to face the cruelties of the touts of religion
Dr.Taslima is hiding in India to save herself from mulsim fanatics...till Govt of India hands her over to them...Because we are secular :(
2006-10-25 04:30:44 · answer #4 · answered by ۞Aum۞ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Can I get it from the library? I want to read this book now that you have mentioned it.
2006-10-25 04:23:17 · answer #5 · answered by Sandy 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's really an awesome book (I had to support it as soon as I heard about this), but it sounds like you're c/ping off of Amazon's reviews or something.
2006-10-25 03:29:31 · answer #6 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
this hindu is upto his usual muslim and islam bashing. maa chood
2006-10-25 06:29:59 · answer #7 · answered by idol pujari 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Try asking a Question next time
2006-10-25 03:30:20 · answer #8 · answered by ash 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What you People did to the Native American's
What's a Real Shame!!!
Hokahe
2006-10-25 03:30:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Was that a question, or a rant?
2006-10-25 03:29:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋