First there is no "freedom of expression" unless there is "freedom to say something that someone disagrees". If you want to say something where you do not disagree or that does not hurt anyone why do you need the "freedom of expression".
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The book (Lajja or Shame) basically deals with atrocities committed against women by men in the name of Allah, Muhammed and Koran. The book is fictional and at no time (unlike Rushdie's Verses) does it have a direct, indirect, allegorical or metaphorical attack on Islam or its prophet in an insulting manner.
The thin skin of these guys surprises me taken the fact that even killing people (including their prophet) is not beyond them.
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Thanks to Vijay. Actually forgot periyar and his scathing criticism of hinduism, its gods and its practices. If a muslim turned hindu would read it I fear his mental state.
You should have that tolerance from your childhood to accept something that periyar had written. Hinduism did accept it.
Or there is a writer called Chalam in Telugu whose criticism is equally scath.
Periyar and Chalam would make Rushdie and Taslima look like Disney characters.
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How different is (Taslima) this from what the Prophet himself did a couple of hundred years ago when he broke statues of other religions.
This looks like insecurity of a gang of people who do not want to be done unto themselves what they have done to others.
Of course all you need to assume that Taslima is the new Prophet. Peace be upon her.
