Look what Taslima Nasreen wrote in Twitter about Bangladesh

[Michael Corleone]

I have read his books...he has not showed any hatred for Muslims in general in either text or speech...infact even with all the death threats he got you would expect him to hate the people who started it...he doesn't show any animosity towards the Ayatollahs either...he only mocks them.

Hen why has his books angered people so much? So there is no work against god etc?

 

[Anubis]

Hen why has his books angered people so much? So there is no work against god etc?

He is an atheist...and he does mock Islam in his writing....it could or could not anger muslims(based on the personal sensibility of the said muslim...whether he can take a joke or criticism or not)....but the majority of the angry muslims never read the book...never even read a summary....Mullahs said..Book Bad Must Kill....the sheeple reacted...got angry and protested against a guy that is not in their country for a book that was not even published in their country....things got heated...protests got intense and the whole world saw the idiocy of the general muslim population.

 

[thesolar65]

one is male another is female.

 

[livingdead]

He is an atheist...and he does mock Islam in his writing....it could or could not anger muslims(based on the personal sensibility of the said muslim...whether he can take a joke or criticism or not)....but the majority of the angry muslims never read the book...never even read a summary....Mullahs said..Book Bad Must Kill....the sheeple reacted...got angry and protested against a guy that is not in their country for a book that was not even published in their country....things got heated...protests got intense and the whole world saw the idiocy of the general muslim population.

I tried to read Rushdie.. did not understand a word... Taslima is much more easy to read and understand.

 

[Anubis]

I tried to read Rushdie.. did not understand a word... Taslima is much more easy to read and understand.

I googled my way through Rushdie...I will probably never try to go through his works again....his books are not meant for people with a general command over English...did you find any "substance" in Taslima's writing? What did you read?

 

[livingdead]

I googled my way through Rushdie...I will probably never try to go through his works again....his books are not meant for people with a general command over English...did you find any "substance" in Taslima's writing? What did you read?

Lajja/Shame ... I was not seeking any substance.. I was just interested in what the fuss is about...

 

[Anubis]

Lajja/Shame ... I was not seeking any substance.. I was just interested in what the fuss is about...

I have read that...the premise was commendable....but she twisted it to a level where the situation was escalated to direct action day type riots...and the unnecessary rape by the victim of a Muslim prostitute she brought at the end was disgusting....another one I read was Shodh...that sealed the deal for me....she seems confused between sexual freedom of woman and the situation of a sex-deprived middle aged woman who cheats on her husband(the husband isn't even cheating on her)...

 

[punit]

I googled my way through Rushdie...I will probably never try to go through his works again....his books are not meant for people with a general command over English...did you find any "substance" in Taslima's writing? What did you read?

Midnight's Children was not so tough ! Satanic Verses is his weakest book but gave him most fame !

 

[punit]

I have read that...the premise was commendable....but she twisted it to a level where the situation was escalated to direct action day type riots...and the unnecessary rape by the victim of a Muslim prostitute she brought at the end was disgusting....another one I read was Shodh...that sealed the deal for me....she seems confused between sexual freedom of woman and the situation of a sex-deprived middle aged woman who cheats on her husband(the husband isn't even cheating on her)...

i have read only lojaa. rape part was unnecessary. the glimpse of her psych which u mentioned from Shodh can be observed in lajja as well where the Lady Kiranmayee wishes for the shadow of male family friend falling on her to turn into real thing !!

I have read that...the premise was commendable....but she twisted it to a level where the situation was escalated to direct action day type riots...and the unnecessary rape by the victim of a Muslim prostitute she brought at the end was disgusting....another one I read was Shodh...that sealed the deal for me....she seems confused between sexual freedom of woman and the situation of a sex-deprived middle aged woman who cheats on her husband(the husband isn't even cheating on her)...

she is confused for sure ! i have many interation and conversdation with her on twitter . But she is strong headed and not much afraid in putting her point.

 

[Anubis]

Midnight's Children was not so tough ! Satanic Verses is his weakest book but gave him most fame !

I am not very literary minded...my knowledge of English vocabulary is aweful....I found Satanic Verses very interesting...because I doubt there is any other work like Satanic Verses(nobody had ever "took inspiration" from the prophet in this manner before.....this was basically a refined literary version of Python's Life of Brian in a weird way.

 

[livingdead]

I have read that...the premise was commendable....but she twisted it to a level where the situation was escalated to direct action day type riots...and the unnecessary rape by the victim of a Muslim prostitute she brought at the end was disgusting....another one I read was Shodh...that sealed the deal for me....she seems confused between sexual freedom of woman and the situation of a sex-deprived middle aged woman who cheats on her husband(the husband isn't even cheating on her)...

It was long time ago so I dont remember much except I was shocked by the openness about female sexuality by a desi female writer... may be she wanted to shock us...

 

[Anubis]

i have read only lojaa. rape part was unnecessary. the glimpse of her psych which u mentioned from Shodh can be observed in lajja as well where the Lady Kiranmayee wishes for the shadow of male family friend falling on her to turn into real thing !!


she is confused for sure ! i have many interation and conversdation with her on twitter . But she is strong headed and not much afraid in putting her point.

Like Hitchen's she is a contrarian..isn't afraid to take unpopular stances...but Hitchens took his stances based on logical justification(at least to himself) and those stances sometimes happened to be unpopular....I sometimes feel Nasrin takes unpopular stances because they are unpopular trying to create a stir.

 

[Taimoor Khan]

Amjad Sabri assassination is purely political not religious. It was an attempt to bring a bad name to ongoing Karachi operation.

 

[Anubis]

It was long time ago so I dont remember much except I was shocked by the openness about female sexuality by a desi female writer... may be she wanted to shock us...

I think her intention was to shock us...she was pretty open about sex in the other book I mentioned...it was written a year before Lajja....it wasn't much of a shocker for anyone in Bangladesh....but the emphasis on the gruesome details of the out-of-place rape leads me think it as done to some extent for shock-value.

 

[livingdead]

I think her intention was to shock us...she was pretty open about sex in the other book I mentioned...it was written a year before Lajja....it wasn't much of a shocker for anyone in Bangladesh....but the emphasis on the gruesome details of the out-of-place rape leads me think it as done to some extent for shock-value.

which one are you more upset about.. the lack of literary value or misrepresentation of bd society in her books...