New religious threats.* Taslima Nasrin Taslima Nasrin (Bengali: তসলিমা নাসরিন), also spelled Taslima Nasreen is the focus of new religious threats in India. A reward of 20,000 rupees has been offered to anyone who blackens the face of the exiled Bangladeshi author, whose writings some Muslims consider blasphemous blas·phe·mous adj. Impiously irreverent. [Middle English blasfemous, from Late Latin blasph . Considered a major insult, blackening black·en v. black·ened, black·en·ing, black·ens v.tr. 1. To make black. 2. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name. 3. her face isn't nearly as extreme as the call for her death by hardliners in 1994. Just days after the latest edict A decree or law of major import promulgated by a king, queen, or other sovereign of a government. An edict can be distinguished from a public proclamation in that an edict puts a new statute into effect whereas a public proclamation is no more than a declaration of a law , Muslim groups in Bombay offered a reward of 100,000 rupees to anyone succeeding in blackening the face of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.) And in December the West Bengal government banned Nasrin's latest book, Dwikhandito for fear it would "disturb religious peace." |
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