Taslima Nasreen is a third rated writer and all her writings were aimed at gaining cheap popularity. She has now withdrawing the sensitive lines from her memoir. It shows that these type of writers will wake up only when there were protest on their writings. Freedom of expression does not mean they are free to hurt others feelings. If M.F. Hussein has done something wrong or hurt the sentiments of Hindus, it should be condemned in the same vein as we have been condemning the likes of Nasreen and Rushdie. But then there is always a decent way of expressing anger and not the holiganism practised by Bal Thackery and his party Shive Sena in burning out the milestone paintings of the world famour painer MF Hussain. There was not decency shown by BJP and Hindutva protagonists. See the Muslim reaction. It will be fatwa or protest in the public. The attack on Tasleema by some at Hydrabad recently was condemned and the muslims were first to condem such attacks. If Taslima is a literary genius, she can do a literature good by writing some sensible matter of larger interest instead of whipping up passions on public or religious sensisve matters. There are more than 1000 ways of expressing anguish at the system without hurting the sentiments of the sensitive communities inthe world. The literature and its contribution is welcomed, and it is duly rewarded by the world. No saner person will ever accept the way Taslima was behaved and wrote about Islam. Its double whether she is muslim.
