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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

‘India Today’ has no sympathy for the pain Taslima Nasreen has to suffer due to our flawed secularism: Ashok Chowgule, Islam and Pluralism

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‘India Today’ has no sympathy for the pain Taslima Nasreen has to suffer due to our flawed secularism: Ashok Chowgule

Many of the questions asked of Taslimaji are really pathetic. It clearly shows that the interviewer has no sympathy for the pain that she has to suffer due to the practice of secularism in India.

Let me list out these pathetic questions:

Q. Why should everybody be scared of publishing Taslima Nasreen?

Q. But is the government that powerful?

Q. Why didn't you get the support of the people? Are they impotent?

Q. Why don't you compromise with the CPM?

Q. Do you think the CPM exchanged you for votes? It was a deal?

Q. Is the prime minister serious about your return?

Q. Why don't you suck up to the CPIM if you are so desperate to live in Kolkata? Just some mere kowtowing?

Q. But what do these people have against you? I just do not understand...

It is also a reflection of the policy of the publication to allow this interview to be published. What is all this about compromising with the CPM and sucking up to them? Is this how a democracy would work?

http://newageislam.com/%E2%80%98india-today%E2%80%99-has-no-sympathy-for-the-pain-taslima-nasreen-has-to-suffer-due-to-our-flawed-secularism--ashok-chowgule/islam-and-pluralism/d/1124


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