I came from a country where religious fundamentalists, including governmental authorities, denied my freedom to have thoughts that are different from their own. As a punishment, they demanded my execution by hanging. I was forced to leave my own country. I had to pay heavily for the sole reason that I believe in human rights and freedom of expression. -Taslima Nasrin

 

I came from a country where religious fundamentalists, including governmental authorities, denied my freedom to have thoughts that are different from their own. As a punishment, they demanded my execution by hanging. I was forced to leave my own country. I had to pay heavily for the sole reason that I believe in human rights and freedom of expression.


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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? -Taslima Nasrin
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

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I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.

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I don't believe in God. The religion mongers segregate women from the human race, I too am divided, I too am defrauded of my human rights. -Taslima Nasrin
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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

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