DHAKA (PTI): “Unlike Salman Rushdie, I will not apologize for whatever I have written so far. I know the consequences I might have to face for that,” controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Narseen has said. On how she viewed the fundamentalist outfit, Sahaba Sainik Parishad’s threat to launch to a bigger movement in Dhaka if the government did not arrest and punish Narseen, the 31yrold writer said Oct.10, “Yam not like Rushdie who is getting but is government’s protection. The government in Bangladesh has not given me any protection so far.”
“Unlike Rushdie, I will not apologize for whatever I have written so far. It is now up to the people of Bangladesh to see what would happen to me,” she said a day after the Parishad organized a six hour strike that paralyzed life in Sylhet town in eastern Bangladesh, Another group of Muslim religious leaders demanded on Saturday the execution of Narseen and burning of all her writings, the “Bangla bazar Pawrika” newspaper reported. Narseen described as “very
dangers out” the call for burning her books which include her latest novel, “Lajia (shame) depicting atrocities on a Hindu family in Bangladesh in the wake of Ayodhya incidents in December last year, Meanwhile, “Sammilito Sangskirtik Jote” (combined cultural alliance), a leading cultural outfit of Bangladesh, has condemned the Sahaba Sainik Parishad’s threat to |Nasreen’s freedom of expression.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 15, 1993
