Taslima Nasreen, an award-winning writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, is known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. In India, Bangladesh and abroad, Nasreen’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry and memoir have topped the best-seller’s list.

Taslima Nasreen was born in Bangladesh. She started writing when she was 13. Her writings won the hearts of people across the border and she landed with the prestigious literary award Ananda from India in 1992. Taslima won The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 1994. She received the Kurt Tucholsky Award from Swedish PEN, the Simone de Beauvoir Award and Human Rights Award from Government of France, Le Prix de l' Edit de Nantes from the city of Nantes, France, Academy prize from the Royal Academy of arts, science and literature from Belgium. She is a Humanist Laureate in The International Academy for Humanism,USA. She won Distinguished Humanist Award from International Humanist and Ethical Union, Free-thought Heroine award from Freedom From Religion foundation, USA., IBKA award, Germany,and Feminist Press Award, USA . She got the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh prize for Promotion of the Tolerance and Non-violence in 2005. She received the Medal of honor of Lyon. She got honorary citizenship from Paris, Nantes, Lyon, Metz, Thionville, Esch etc. Taslima was awarded the Condorcet-Aron Prize at the “Parliament of the French Community of Belgium” in Brussels and Ananda literary award again in 2000.

Bestowed with honorary doctorates from Gent University and UCL in Belgium, and American University of Paris and Paris Diderot University in France, she has addressed gatherings in major venues of the world like the European Parliament, National Assembly of France, Universities of Sorbonne, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, etc. She got fellowships as a research scholar at Harvard and New York Universities. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the USA in 2009.

Taslima has written 40 books in Bengali, which includes poetry, essays, novels and autobiography series. Her works have been translated in thirty different languages. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Bangladesh and West Bengal part of India. She has been prevented by the authorities from returning to her country since 1994, and to West Bengal since 2007.

Fatwa issued against music » « Islamic preacher raped and killed his daughter but hardly got punishment under Islamic laws.

Burqas for babies

To protect baby girls from being sexually exploited, the Saudi cleric, Sheikh Abdullah Daoud, has called parents to make their female children wear burqas.
Sheikh Abdullah Daoud believes burqas will protect baby girls because men can not control their sexual urges for babies who do not wear burqas. He asks parents to force their children to wear burqas. He definitely thinks it is better to torture babies with burqas than to control men’s desire to molest children.

Women have no right to live as human beings under Islam. Even a female baby does not have the right to enjoy her childhood. She has to hide her little body from fellow humans and have a constant fear of being molested.

Time for animals to feel sorry for humans.

Fatwa issued against music » « Islamic preacher raped and killed his daughter but hardly got punishment under Islamic laws.

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Rodney Nelson says

February 3, 2013 at 6:24 pm

men can not control their sexual urges

It seems to be that certain Muslim men need to learn how to control themselves. If large numbers of other men can control their sexual urges on beaches with adult women in bikinis, then this lack of control Sheikh Daoud talks can be overcome.

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Sarmistha says

February 3, 2013 at 7:41 pm

sick…

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deera says

February 3, 2013 at 8:48 pm

Do they have to cover the male babies as well? Many times it is hard to tell if an infant is male or female if they are wearing androgynous clothing.

All religions are so destructive to the well-being of the planet.

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Ophelia Benson says

February 4, 2013 at 7:19 am

How to turn girl children into mushrooms.

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sourav says

February 4, 2013 at 8:49 pm

Does these men have no other emotion than sexual urges?

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steve oberski says

February 5, 2013 at 1:50 am

Don’t these guys every talk to each other ? According to the Ayatollah Khomeini:

A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate. If he penetrates and the child is harmed then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however would not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl’s sister.

Sophisticated Muslim theologians have already solved this problem.

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smrnda says

February 5, 2013 at 8:13 am

People who are sexually aroused by babies are probably very rare, and probably very troubled individuals. Wouldn’t a better policy be to quarantine people with uncontrollable sexual desires than demand the babies cover up?

Also, this is a pretty big slam against men – not only can they not control their sexual desires, but apparently, we should consider sexual desire for babies to be normal in adult men. People say feminism is anti-male; patriarchal religions take a much more dismal view of male nature.

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A Muslim says

February 14, 2013 at 7:44 am

This fatwa has nothing to do with Islam. These Saudi clerics have no sense. How can you argue with the law that lets a molester go free only by paying a fine and force kids to cover up?

Such nonsense has no precedence in history of humanity as a whole let alone Islam.

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