I remember Speaker’s Corner in London. The place became transformed after the Iranian revolution. After 1978 the Iranian exile community of anti-imperialists faded out, and many moslems would hold prayer services in the park adjacent to Speaker’s Corner. Mullahs seemed more popular than socialists and other leftists. The later success of the Afghan mujehaddin and the call for censorship following the Salman Rushdie fatwa showed that ‘the left’ had few constructive ideas to counter a political construct that was based on ideas of scholastic theology that we thought had been left behind by the French Revolution.
Speaker’s Corner in London still remains a place where beginners can learn to address crowds, and also a good meeting place for political dissenters. When people such as myself see all these moslems praying we think that many people are willing to co-operate in their own oppression. Religious people are often loyal recruits to the form of capitalism which seeks a war of extermination against leftists and communists because they interfere with profits.
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 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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bernardhurley
December 10, 2012 at 11:20 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
I’ve always wondered what roads are for! Presumably there were none before the prophet came to earth.
Francisco Bacopa
December 10, 2012 at 11:33 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
The “Butts” tag is perfect. It made my day.
Taslima Nasreen
December 10, 2012 at 11:39 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
; )
Sre md.ayan
December 10, 2012 at 11:47 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
may allah forgive u…i wish…apnar upor santi borseto hok.
antony goddard
December 10, 2012 at 11:59 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
I remember Speaker’s Corner in London. The place became transformed after the Iranian revolution. After 1978 the Iranian exile community of anti-imperialists faded out, and many moslems would hold prayer services in the park adjacent to Speaker’s Corner. Mullahs seemed more popular than socialists and other leftists. The later success of the Afghan mujehaddin and the call for censorship following the Salman Rushdie fatwa showed that ‘the left’ had few constructive ideas to counter a political construct that was based on ideas of scholastic theology that we thought had been left behind by the French Revolution.
Speaker’s Corner in London still remains a place where beginners can learn to address crowds, and also a good meeting place for political dissenters. When people such as myself see all these moslems praying we think that many people are willing to co-operate in their own oppression. Religious people are often loyal recruits to the form of capitalism which seeks a war of extermination against leftists and communists because they interfere with profits.
left0ver1under
December 11, 2012 at 2:04 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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From France:
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Taslima Nasreen
December 11, 2012 at 2:20 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
That’s nice.
deera
December 12, 2012 at 2:31 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Those pics look a little homoerotic to me!!!
nantu
February 22, 2013 at 2:11 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
May Allah give you the Ray of Light…