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.

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‘I am proud to be an atheist’

Free Arabs says, In the Islamic kingdom of Morocco, atheism itself is not a criminal offense. “Shaking the Muslim’s faith” is.

Police is looking for Imad Iddine Habib for saying, “there is no God but Mickey Mouse”. Habib is now in hiding.

I congratulate Habib for declaring he is an atheist. Atheists should come out of the closet and speak up. If they do not do it now, it would be too late to save humanity. The authorities will imprison you when you are a few in number, they will be scared when you are a million.

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No One says

May 12, 2013 at 5:35 am

What can one say? Live free brother.

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Milon Ahmed. says

May 13, 2013 at 12:07 am

Is it easy in Bangladesh?

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smrnda says

May 13, 2013 at 1:44 am

I haven’t been following news too well lately; is there any impending punishment or petition out there to sign in support?

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James Solomon says

May 13, 2013 at 8:51 am

I’m a black atheist but I wish I wasn’t. It’s just so mentally draining to be constantly explaining or defending yourself to ignorant and hateful people, especially if those people are your family. Life is short and I don’t want to spend the rest of my days constantly arguing with people.

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Crunchy Renee says

May 13, 2013 at 11:52 am

How scary that you can be killed, jailed, hunted by police for saying “there is no god but Mickey mouse”. How pitiful is your god to think that he is bothered by this. WTF is wrong w Muslims that want to kill over Islam?

Is there a group to help Hess brave people, those that come out as atheist or criticize Islam? they need funds and safe housing. I would donate to such a cause.

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Crunchy Renee says

May 13, 2013 at 11:54 am

Helps, not Hess, sorry for typo

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Nemo says

May 15, 2013 at 4:55 am

…and Donald Duck is his prophet.

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andywatson says

May 20, 2013 at 1:54 pm

I wish that guy well,

On a similar issue, how scary that you can be killed, jailed, hunted by police for saying “I despise Skepchick, but I am no MRA or misogynist”. How pitiful is your god Rebcca Watson. WTF is wrong w Radical Feminists that all men are the ‘enemy’.

Is there a group to help brave people, those that come out as atheist but who also criticize Skepchick? they need funds and safe housing. I would donate to such a cause.

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Adam Heart says

May 28, 2013 at 11:03 am

Dear Ms. Nasreen, I just discovered your blog today, when I somehow landed on “I’m proud to be an atheist”. The question of how accommodating one should be of people who live within religious delusions is a difficult one. I admire the polite way you handle the people who are rude or thoughtless in their comments on the various issues you deal with. I wrote about your work in the little blog I maintain for the book I am publishing on my website at Witnofigo.com. The novel is an environmental horror comedy, and is disdainful of religious and political non-sense. As such it would offend right-wing billionaires, corrupt politicians, and religious believers of all stripes. Sadly, the level of logic in some of the comments I receive is occasionally disappointing. Perhaps religious magic thinking gives us an excuse to act based on non-sense rather than on evidence based sense. Please keep up your excellent commentaries, I shall be back to read more! Sincerely, Adam Heart

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And That Is The Truth says

April 25, 2017 at 7:18 pm

Well i certainly agree on that as well.

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