'Protect Nasreen'.NEW DELHI New Delhi (dĕl`ē), city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. : India's opposition Hindu nationalists yesterday pressed New Delhi to provide security to Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, who faces death threats from Muslim groups at home and in India. The demand came with Nasreen in hiding Adv. 1. in hiding - quietly in concealment; "he lay doggo" doggo, out of sight in the Indian capital after being escorted out of the eastern city of Kolkata and then Jaipur in the north following protests by thousands of Muslims demanding her expulsion. "It is shameful and disgraceful, the manner in which Nasreen is being made to run for her life," Ram Jethmalani Ram Jethmalani (born September 10, 1923) is an Indian politician and a famous and controversial criminal lawyer. He was born at Shikharpur in Sind (now in Pakistan), in 1923. Jethmalani is considered a maverick, and has many distinctions to his credit. , a senior MP from the right-wing nationalist BJP BJP Bharatiya Janata Party (India) BJP British Journal of Psychiatry BJP British Journal of Photography BJP Bubble Jet Printer (Canon) BJP Bence Jones Protein BJP Boston Jolly Pirates party, told parliament's upper house. Extremists accuse Nasreen of blasphemy blasphemy, in religion, words or actions that display irreverence toward or contempt for God or that which is held sacred. Blasphemy is regarded as an offense against the community to varying degrees, depending on the extent of the identification of a religion with over her 1994 novel Lajja and have called for her execution for her works. The 45-year-old author was flown to Rajasthan from Kolkata and then driven on to New Delhi on Friday. Jethmalani said Nasreen, who fled her Muslim-majority homeland of Bangladesh in 1994, must be allowed to live in security in India. The BJP also urged the government to accord her the status of a political refugee, saying she was subject to persecution. "She must be given complete security and the right to live in India," the MP said amid reports the government was planning to shift the doctor-turned-author to a fortified fortified (fôrt  ´fīd),adj containing additives more potent than the principal ingredient. guest house in Noida, an industrial suburb of New Delhi. Nasreen has become a victim of political ping-pong in India, bundled from one city to another in a controversy critics say has shamed the secular state. Copyright [c] 2008 Gulf Daily News Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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