Welcome to FTB!
I saw you speak at Reason Rally, and I was moved to tears. I look forward to reading your blog. You are such an insightful woman, and you have so much to contribute to the secular community and world.
Dear Ms Nasreen,
You were my favorite speaker at the Reason Rally. Your pronouncement, which touched my heart, was “I am at home wherever I am among atheists”. Having been born in Iran and left due to harassment by islamists, I felt no one ever spoke better for me. I remember vividly that back in the 1990s Iran’s state run media often ranted against you, condemning you for “heresy”. I think you and Maryam Namazie are going to be a tremendous contribution to FTB.
Welcome to Free thought blogs. I am really looking forward to reading your posts. I hope you will be able to come to Canada and give a talk here. I would love to attend.
Thrilled to see you blogging here, you quickly became one of my favorite speakers for your ability to convey both emotion and information with equally passionate intensity. Very much looking forward to reading the blog.
I heard you speak at the reason rally, you were awesome !
I am so ashamed that after living in India all my life, I had to hear you out in Washington DC !
Hope I can meet you someday
Hello, Taslim! You are a hero for women’s rights and human rights. I salute your courage and hope to see you some day. In the meantime, I look forward to reading your article here and learning from them.
Hello, Taslima! Keep thinking, and talking, and writing, and hoping. And know that there are many millions of us silently working to support your and our ideals.
I was quite taken by the first post I read, and I look forward to reading your blog in the future. I hope you have a long and enjoyable association with the Free Thought Blogs.
Welcome, Taslima! I’m sure Freethought blogs will be much richer for having you here. I found your first few posts challenging and disturbing reading. Just what the world needs!
Hello! I don’t know if you recognize my name, but I was the guy who introduced you at the American Atheist convention. I’m looking forward to reading you on FTB.
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. 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 35 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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Friendly
April 6, 2012 at 3:44 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome, Taslima. May you have a long and illustrious future at FtB! Good luck ironing out the technical side of posting.
N. Nescio
April 6, 2012 at 6:06 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome to FTB.
Konradius
April 6, 2012 at 9:04 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Hi Welcome!
I look forward to your speech in Cologne in a couple of weeks
F
April 6, 2012 at 10:22 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
I’m just going to yell “Hello!” into this currently empty room.
Welcome to FTB.
Badland, delurking for a bit
April 6, 2012 at 12:31 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Wait, whut? Taslima? Here?
*pops bubbles*
Wilkommen!
Aliasalpha
April 6, 2012 at 1:04 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
This is also a comment, just not an automated one
Graham Martin-Royle
April 6, 2012 at 1:12 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Hallo Taslima.
The Lorax
April 6, 2012 at 2:15 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Ooo a newbie! Welcome welcome to the herd!
noastronomer
April 6, 2012 at 3:36 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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Responder
April 6, 2012 at 3:53 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Be sure to include a link.
procrastinator will get an avatar real soon now
April 7, 2012 at 2:47 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Looking forward to reading your posts here. I enjoyed your talk at the American Atheist’s convention. Welcome.
taslima
April 7, 2012 at 7:15 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Thank you so much.
Art
April 7, 2012 at 2:50 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome.
Jasmyn
April 7, 2012 at 10:39 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome to FTB!
I saw you speak at Reason Rally, and I was moved to tears. I look forward to reading your blog. You are such an insightful woman, and you have so much to contribute to the secular community and world.
Upright Ape
April 7, 2012 at 11:08 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Dear Ms Nasreen,
You were my favorite speaker at the Reason Rally. Your pronouncement, which touched my heart, was “I am at home wherever I am among atheists”. Having been born in Iran and left due to harassment by islamists, I felt no one ever spoke better for me. I remember vividly that back in the 1990s Iran’s state run media often ranted against you, condemning you for “heresy”. I think you and Maryam Namazie are going to be a tremendous contribution to FTB.
Ophelia Benson
April 8, 2012 at 4:27 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
I second that.
The Doubter
April 7, 2012 at 2:49 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
And the world say’s Hello back!!
Keep standing up for women’s rights!!
HerbieTheBeagle
April 7, 2012 at 4:54 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Fantastic that you have joined FtB! Your speech at the 2010 GAC was a huge highlight and very much looking forward to your blogs.
'Tis Himself
April 7, 2012 at 7:24 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome.
You need to let Ed know your blog is not on the list of FtB blogs on the right sidebar.
lordshipmayhem
April 7, 2012 at 9:17 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome to FtB, Taslima. I hope you have a long and happy time here.
And no, I won’t call you the female Rushdie. You are you, unique and special, with something important to say. I look forward to hearing your voice.
Tim Groc
April 7, 2012 at 11:29 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
I look forward to reading your articles, Taslima. You’re one of the most important voices FTB now has.
Welcome aboard.
Talia
April 8, 2012 at 12:24 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
I AM PRETTY EXCITED TO SEE YOU HERE, NOT GONNA LIE
uberd00b
April 8, 2012 at 12:44 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Hello Taslima, wonderful to have you.
Louis
April 8, 2012 at 1:25 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome!
I’m incredibly happy to have you here and am a long time reader of your work. I’m all excited now!
Louis
rajeshshenoy
April 8, 2012 at 1:25 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
A big “Hellllooooooooooo” from the sub-continent of your birth! Looking forward to your posts with bated breath!
sprocket
April 8, 2012 at 1:35 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome to Free thought blogs. I am really looking forward to reading your posts. I hope you will be able to come to Canada and give a talk here. I would love to attend.
DaisiesAndShit
April 8, 2012 at 1:47 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Thrilled to see you blogging here, you quickly became one of my favorite speakers for your ability to convey both emotion and information with equally passionate intensity. Very much looking forward to reading the blog.
madbull
April 8, 2012 at 2:04 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Hello Taslima,
I heard you speak at the reason rally, you were awesome !
I am so ashamed that after living in India all my life, I had to hear you out in Washington DC !
Hope I can meet you someday
Markita Lynda
April 8, 2012 at 3:43 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Hello, Taslim! You are a hero for women’s rights and human rights. I salute your courage and hope to see you some day. In the meantime, I look forward to reading your article here and learning from them.
Arakiba
April 8, 2012 at 3:59 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Hello!
MPR
April 8, 2012 at 6:44 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Greetings and welcome!
I am always glad to see more women speak up and defy millennia of cultural oppression.
thewhollynone
April 8, 2012 at 7:28 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Hello, Taslima! Keep thinking, and talking, and writing, and hoping. And know that there are many millions of us silently working to support your and our ideals.
WhiteHatLurker
April 8, 2012 at 8:45 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
I was quite taken by the first post I read, and I look forward to reading your blog in the future. I hope you have a long and enjoyable association with the Free Thought Blogs.
unbound
April 8, 2012 at 9:08 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome! Enjoy your stay.
Korou
April 8, 2012 at 10:18 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome, Taslima! I’m sure Freethought blogs will be much richer for having you here. I found your first few posts challenging and disturbing reading. Just what the world needs!
Musical Atheist
April 8, 2012 at 7:47 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome! I’m really looking forward to reading your work regularly!
StevoR
April 9, 2012 at 6:15 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome Taslima Nasreen. (Belated)
I recall hearing about you years – yikes! – decades ago now at uni & look forward to reading your blog.
mynameischeese
April 10, 2012 at 3:00 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Ha, I always disliked Yeats’s sexism, so I love the name of your blog. Looks interesting from what I’ve read so far.
Dennis Paul Himes
April 10, 2012 at 10:00 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Hello! I don’t know if you recognize my name, but I was the guy who introduced you at the American Atheist convention. I’m looking forward to reading you on FTB.
taslima
April 10, 2012 at 12:06 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Thank you so much Dennis! Regards.
seditiosus
April 10, 2012 at 12:22 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Hello Taslima! It’s good to have you here at FTB.