Unfortunately I do not have much personal time to
devote writing a letter to Mr Singh. And applause thee
- Gopal, a Taslima lover!
Ah, since you have so much heartfelt feelings about
Taslima and her 'karma'; perhaps you can sponsor her
to Canada as a spouse. If Taslima dislike Quran,
that's her prerogative; but she can help herself by
choosing Hinduism for her own solace.
As I said, I do not have problem critiquing Muslims,
most of us are really disguise in Islamist cloak!
Growing up as a believer, we do not really learn
Islam, rather than conforming with quid quo pro. I
give credit to Taslima for that. What I really despise
her falsification & ignorance of Quranic learning.
Gopal, enjoy the ride, Gopal.
--- gopalsengupta@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 11/28/2007 12:51:07 AM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> GopalSengupta writes:
>
> Hon'ble Dr. Manmohan Singh
> Prime Minister
> Government of India
> South Block, Raisina Hill,
> New Delhi,
> India-110 011.
> Telephone: 91-11-23012312.
> Fax: 91-11-23019545 / 91-11-23016857.
>
>
> Hon'ble Prime Minister,
> The recent agitation in Kolkata demanding that the
> visa of Taslima Nasreen
> should be invoked and that she should be asked to
> leave the country is most
> unfortunate. Ms. Nasreen has applied for Indian
> citizenship, and in accordance
> with the ruling of the Supreme Court, no person can
> be denied permission to
> reside while the application for citizenship is
> pending. Ms. Nasreen has been
> residing in Kolkata for sometime and felt at home.
> Ms. Nasreen is a South
> Asian. Universal Brotherhood and Human rights being
> India's civilizational
> values, Government of India should allow Ms. Nasreen
> to permanently reside in
> India in accordance with Indian law.
>
> A small section of Muslims is agitated that
> Ms.Nasreen has authored books
> with text derogatory to Islam while she was in
> Bangladesh. We recall the story
> of a Jewish woman who always threw rubbish on
> Prophet Mohammed whenever he
> passed her house. When she didn't one day, Prophet
> Mohammed inquired why she
> didn't and learnt that she was not well. Prophet
> went to inquire about her
> health and wish her well. We note that many Muslim
> religious leaders had
> condemned the attack on Ms. Nasreen in Hyderabad.
>
> I call upon the West Bengal Government to do
> everything to see that Ms.
> Nasreen can reside peacefully. The statement of the
> Chairperson of the Left Front
> in West Bengal stating that if there was any law
> and order problem,
> Ms.Nasreen could be asked to leave her residence in
> Kolkata is also very unfortunate.
> I also appeal to the Prime Minister of India to
> take speedy steps to grant
> her Overseas Citizenship by virtue of which she
> will have life time Indian
> Visa.
>
> With warmest regards,
>
> Yours truly,
> Gopal Sengupta
> Canada
> _gopalsengupta@aol.com_
> (mailto:gopalsengupta@aol.com)
>
>
> CC:
> Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
> Chief Minister, West Bengal
>
>
>
> Pages
>
>
> Editorial
> Govt should clarify its
> position on Taslima
> Taslima Nasreen, one of Bangladesh's most
> controversial writers, has
> reportedly been on the run in India after extremist
> Muslims of West Bengal demanded
> her expulsion from their country. She initially
> left Bangladesh in 1994
> after huge street protests by Islamist extremists
> who decried her writings as
> blasphemous and demanded that she be punished for
> hurting religious sentiments.
> Originally making her way to India, she then spent
> a few years in different
> Western countries until she chose a couple of years
> back to return to the
> Indian state of West Bengal â€" a place she
> describes as 'closest to what I know
> as home'.
> However, as it appears from the recent protests
> against her in Kolkata, the
> capital of the communist-run state, the government
> of the officially
> proclaimed secular India has been exposed to
> difficulties as regards providing her
> with a safe home. 'Mentally distressed', she is now
> reportedly hiding at a
> government residence in New Delhi under tight
> security. The union cabinet of
> India has reportedly reached a consensus to ensure
> her safety, while in
> parliament the Communist Party of India argued for
> granting her Indian citizenship
> and the Bhartiya Janata Party demanded that Taslima
> be granted permanent visa
> and asylum in the country. But we wonder what the
> government of Bangladesh,
> of which Taslima is a citizen by birth, is going to
> do about the issue.
> Otherwise critical of the past administrations of
> Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina,
> the government of Fakhruddin Ahmed in this case has
> so far followed in the
> footsteps of its predecessors: maintaining complete
> silence â€" an opportunist
> position indeed â€" about an issue causing enormous
> embarrassment to the country
> across the world.
> Taslima, an overtly atheist writer, proclaims
> herself to be a 'humanist',
> while boldly expressing her views about religions,
> particularly from the
> perspectives of women's rights, which many a
> faithful does not feel comfortable
> with. We believe many of her interpretations of
> religious propositions
> seriously lack sound political, philosophical and
> historical understanding of the
> religious texts concerned, while we have doubts
> about her contributions in
> advancing the feminist cause of the women she is
> apparently writing for, but we
> have no doubt about her democratic right, the
> inalienable right that is, to
> put forward her views on issues of public
> importance. In this regard, we also
> believe that it is the responsibility of a
> government in a democratic
> dispensation to protect the rights of every citizen
> in expressing their views â€" a
> responsibility the subsequent governments of
> Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina
> failed to discharge, particularly in the case of
> Taslima Nasreen.
> The non-partisan incumbents of the day, who made a
> pledge to us to work to
> improve on whatever democratic norms that political
> governments had
> practiced, should come forward to pave the way for
> Taslima to return home safely and
> provide adequate security to her here in
> Bangladesh. Most importantly, the
> government should make its position clear to the
> public, at home and abroad, on
> whether there is any official bar on her return to
> Bangladesh in the first
> place and whether the government is ready to
> provide her with adequate
> security if she returns home. If the government
> fails to do so, it will fail us, the
> citizens of the country, in our attempts to tell
> the world that we are not
> a moribund society incapable of accommodating
> dissenting views. This is a
> real test for a government, apparently comprising
> some highly educated
> individuals, in proving that they are capable of
> standing up to the basic democratic
> spirit of accommodating opposing views,
> particularly when they are tolerating
> many an obscurantist interpretation of religion by
> the obscurantist
> Islamists who oppose Taslima's right to put forward
> her interpretations of
> religion/s.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Taslima Nasreen controversy
>
> I am perplexed that the Islamic organisations are
> so sensitive and swift in
> taking action against any religious intruder who
> hurts Islamic ideology.
>
=== message truncated ===> From: GopalSengupta@aol.com
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:51:07 EST
> Subject: An Appeal
> To: pmosb@pmo.nic.in
> CC: cm@wb.gov.in
>
> Hon'ble Dr. Manmohan Singh
> Prime Minister
> Government of India
> South Block, Raisina Hill,
> New Delhi,
> India-110 011.
> Telephone: 91-11-23012312.
> Fax: 91-11-23019545 / 91-11-23016857.
>
>
> Hon'ble Prime Minister,
> The recent agitation in Kolkata demanding that the
> visa of Taslima Nasreen
> should be invoked and that she should be asked to
> leave the country is most
> unfortunate. Ms. Nasreen has applied for Indian
> citizenship, and in accordance
> with the ruling of the Supreme Court, no person can
> be denied permission to
> reside while the application for citizenship is
> pending. Ms. Nasreen has been
> residing in Kolkata for sometime and felt at home.
> Ms. Nasreen is a South
> Asian. Universal Brotherhood and Human rights being
> India's civilizational
> values, Government of India should allow Ms.
> Nasreen to permanently reside in India
> in accordance with Indian law.
>
> A small section of Muslims is agitated that
> Ms.Nasreen has authored books
> with text derogatory to Islam while she was in
> Bangladesh. We recall the story
> of a Jewish woman who always threw rubbish on
> Prophet Mohammed whenever he
> passed her house. When she didn't one day, Prophet
> Mohammed inquired why she
> didn't and learnt that she was not well. Prophet
> went to inquire about her
> health and wish her well. We note that many Muslim
> religious leaders had
> condemned the attack on Ms. Nasreen in Hyderabad.
>
> I call upon the West Bengal Government to do
> everything to see that Ms.
> Nasreen can reside peacefully. The statement of the
> Chairperson of the Left Front
> in West Bengal stating that if there was any law and
> order problem,
> Ms.Nasreen could be asked to leave her residence in
> Kolkata is also very unfortunate.
> I also appeal to the Prime Minister of India to take
> speedy steps to grant
> her Overseas Citizenship by virtue of which she will
> have life time Indian
> Visa.
>
> With warmest regards,
>
> Yours truly,
> Gopal Sengupta
> Canada
> _gopalsengupta@aol.com_
> (mailto:gopalsengupta@aol.com)
>
>
> CC:
> Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
> Chief Minister, West Bengal
>
>
>
> Pages
>
>
> Editorial
> Govt should clarify its
> position on Taslima
> Taslima Nasreen, one of Bangladesh's most
> controversial writers, has
> reportedly been on the run in India after extremist
> Muslims of West Bengal demanded
> her expulsion from their country. She initially
> left Bangladesh in 1994
> after huge street protests by Islamist extremists
> who decried her writings as
> blasphemous and demanded that she be punished for
> hurting religious sentiments.
> Originally making her way to India, she then spent
> a few years in different
> Western countries until she chose a couple of years
> back to return to the
> Indian state of West Bengal â€" a place she
> describes as 'closest to what I know
> as home'.
> However, as it appears from the recent protests
> against her in Kolkata, the
> capital of the communist-run state, the government
> of the officially
> proclaimed secular India has been exposed to
> difficulties as regards providing her
> with a safe home. 'Mentally distressed', she is now
> reportedly hiding at a
> government residence in New Delhi under tight
> security. The union cabinet of
> India has reportedly reached a consensus to ensure
> her safety, while in
> parliament the Communist Party of India argued for
> granting her Indian citizenship
> and the Bhartiya Janata Party demanded that Taslima
> be granted permanent visa
> and asylum in the country. But we wonder what the
> government of Bangladesh,
> of which Taslima is a citizen by birth, is going to
> do about the issue.
> Otherwise critical of the past administrations of
> Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina,
> the government of Fakhruddin Ahmed in this case has
> so far followed in the
> footsteps of its predecessors: maintaining complete
> silence â€" an opportunist
> position indeed â€" about an issue causing enormous
> embarrassment to the country
> across the world.
> Taslima, an overtly atheist writer, proclaims
> herself to be a 'humanist',
> while boldly expressing her views about religions,
> particularly from the
> perspectives of women's rights, which many a
> faithful does not feel comfortable
> with. We believe many of her interpretations of
> religious propositions
> seriously lack sound political, philosophical and
> historical understanding of the
> religious texts concerned, while we have doubts
> about her contributions in
> advancing the feminist cause of the women she is
> apparently writing for, but we
> have no doubt about her democratic right, the
> inalienable right that is, to
> put forward her views on issues of public
> importance. In this regard, we also
> believe that it is the responsibility of a
> government in a democratic
> dispensation to protect the rights of every citizen
> in expressing their views â€" a
> responsibility the subsequent governments of
> Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina
> failed to discharge, particularly in the case of
> Taslima Nasreen.
> The non-partisan incumbents of the day, who made a
> pledge to us to work to
> improve on whatever democratic norms that political
> governments had practiced,
> should come forward to pave the way for Taslima to
> return home safely and
> provide adequate security to her here in
> Bangladesh. Most importantly, the
> government should make its position clear to the
> public, at home and abroad, on
> whether there is any official bar on her return to
> Bangladesh in the first
> place and whether the government is ready to provide
> her with adequate
> security if she returns home. If the government
> fails to do so, it will fail us, the
> citizens of the country, in our attempts to tell
> the world that we are not a
> moribund society incapable of accommodating
> dissenting views. This is a
> real test for a government, apparently comprising
> some highly educated
> individuals, in proving that they are capable of
> standing up to the basic democratic
> spirit of accommodating opposing views,
> particularly when they are tolerating
> many an obscurantist interpretation of religion by
> the obscurantist
> Islamists who oppose Taslima's right to put forward
> her interpretations of
> religion/s.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Taslima Nasreen controversy
>
> I am perplexed that the Islamic organisations are
> so sensitive and swift in
> taking action against any religious intruder who
> hurts Islamic ideology.
> Ironically, they are not sensitive at all to other
> religions. Are Indians
> bending their knees to these organisations who
> issue fatwas? I think the government
> should handle these organisations with a firm hand.
> Otherwise
=== message truncated ===
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