Sunday, March 30, 2008
ANOTHER VICTIM
You probably don't know who Taslim Nasrin is. That's a shame, because she is a perfect example of what we're up against. Born in 1962 in what was then East Pakistan, she became a medical doctor and a successful writer. Unfortunately, she wrote about how fundamentalist Islam made the lives of women in Bangladesh (the country East Pakistan became after Pakistan broke in two) miserable. Her life was threatened, and she was charged with the crime of "offending Islam." She had to leave Bangladesh, and has lived in exile ever since.
Nasrin lived in India for 14 years. But now she's had to leave, because Indian Muslims have stepped up their efforts to kill her, and this is trouble for the Indian government, which is sitting on a population of 150 million Muslims, and which therefore can't and won't protect her.
Nasrin now joins Ayan Hirsi Ali as yet another brave, brilliant woman without a country, and a walking time-bomb, living in constant threat for the simple act of expressing the basic concept of liberty.
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? These two women are known to us -- at least some of us -- because they are articulate and surpassingly courageous. But there are tens of millions of other women who suffer in silence in the Muslim world. Shouting their cause from the rooftops would be the sign of true liberalism and true feminism.
I'm listening ....
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 5:15 PM
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