About 100 protesters, including three lawmakers, from the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party burst in, shouting that the author was "anti-Islam". Ms Nasreen backed into a corner as objects rained down and she was threatened with a chair, witnesses said. One witness said Ms Nasreen was slapped. She was protected by others at the meeting and was later taken to safety by police. Officers detained the three lawmakers and a number of other protesters. Ahmad Pasha Quadri, one of the lawmakers, said: "Our protest is against Taslima Nasreen because of her writings ridiculing Islam. We want the Indian government to send her back to Bangladesh." [link]This was actually far more serious than it reads. Tasleema later said "they [the Muslim mob] wanted to kill me".
Only headlines from western news sources such as Reuters, Voice of America, Washington Post etc. (and surpsigingly some from Malaysia and Gulf too) had the word "Muslims" in them. Most Indian headlines read: Tasleema heckled, Tasleema roughed up etc. In the aftermath of the attack Tasleema was packed off back to Calcutta. She is not entirely safe over there, see this flashback from a while ago. It is not clear if the PM will be able to sleep tonight. Let us remind our readers that Tasleema's repeated appeals for an Indian citizenship are ignored by our Government (the same Government which was demanding an Australian visa for alleged terrorist Haneef merely a week ago).
Tasleema also said that, "Such people [meaning the attackers] people are a minority in India."
Think she was being facetious?
7 comments:
I operate this blog. Till today I have been too scared to use my real name. But now I have worked up the courage to declare my identity to the world. I am Shuvro Aikath and I am proud of it.
Someone's definitely kidding!
Looks like "Shuvro" got into a brawl with barbarindian on Sandeep's blog.
Shuvro's comment:
http://www.sandeepweb.com/2007/07/02/two-questions-answered/#comment-184332
BArbarindian's comment
http://www.sandeepweb.com/2007/07/02/two-questions-answered/#comment-184545
You don't go around fighting with yourself on someone else's blog,do you?
You know what Shuvro,you're not proud,you're mental.
Hey barb,
What's our typist Dilip ducbed dumbo D'Souza take on this? Haven't checked his blog yet.
He could be:
i) devasted at this and blogging as we speak or
ii) ignoring this or
iii) finding a way to link this to pin it on Modi
Yes, I got into a brawl with myself. I was afraid to blog using my real name, all these months. But now I am afraid no longer. I am Shuvro Aikath, the owner of this blog, and I have been posing all along as "barbarindian".
barb,
Abi has a new twist to the story - this time bashing barkha dutt.
Funny, it's like a competition now, my fundamentalists are better than your fundamentalists.
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