Author Taslima Nasreen Assaulted by Muslim Lawmakers

Published: August 10, 2007, 2:20 pm

Tags: taslim nasreen, taslima nasreen, islamists, censorship, censored

Fatwas and death threats aren't just for bestselling author Salman Rushdie. Feminist and Muslim author Taslima Nasreen was attacked by Muslim protesters at a book launch in Hyderabad Thursday. The protesters despise Taslima for daring to say the Islam represses the rights of women. Muslim protesters assaulted the exiled Bangladeshi author and feminist Taslima Nasreen at a book launch in Hyderabad on Thursday, incensed by her repeated criticism of Islam and religion in general. Some radical Muslims hate Nasreen for saying Islam and other religions oppress women. On Thursday, lawmakers and members of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party attacked her at the press club in Hyderabad at the launch of a Telugu translation of one of her novels. An uneasy-looking Nasreen backed into a corner as several middle-aged men threw a leather case, bunches of flowers and other objects at her head and threatened her with a chair, according to a Reuters witness and television

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