West Bengal government made a grave mistake by sending Taslima out. They failed in upholding one of the values that make a country great and unique, the "freedom on expression". As a muslim or hindu or christian believer has the right to question the thoughts of non-believer, a non-believer has the right to question the tenets of religion. If a believer thinks that making a derogatory comment make their religion loose its esteem, then what kind of religion is it? By bending their knees to the religious group (religious people are fundamentalist to a certain extent) as a country, we are making a grave mistake, similar to a mistake we did in the begining of Kashmir terrorism, letting terrorists free in exchange of the daugther of a cabinet minister..Now, we know how much we payed the price for it..
RE:its a matter of values
by Krishnan on Nov 24, 2007 08:10 PM Permalink
i am not a supporter of CPI(M) but i think they were surprised by the turn of events. if you read the papers, you will note that the protests against taslima took them by surprise. as it is they are getting hit over the nandigram issue, so probably they hesitated in crushing the protests. also, they though that issue will die down and she ill come back. dont blame everything on them. i am just offering a theory. but what i cannot understand is why the protests took this turn. Special Vranch has no clue that ths would happen. could be bcops outsiders came in at the last moment.
RE:its a matter of values
by ajit achuthan on Nov 24, 2007 08:29 PM Permalink
i am not blaming a party here..A government should act wisely, not a knee jerk action even for a unexpected turn of event..
