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Taslima Nasrin is a renowned Bangladeshi writer, physician, feminist, and activist who has faced controversy and exile due to her outspoken criticism of religion and support for women’s rights. Her writings have gained global attention, leading to bans and death threats, but she continues to advocate for secular humanism and social justice.
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About the Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrinis a Bangladeshi writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist, and activist. She is known for her writing on women’s oppression and criticism of religion; some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. She has also been blacklisted and banished from the Bengal region, both from Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
She gained global attention by the beginning of 1990s owing to her essays and novels with feminist views and criticism of what she characterizes as all “misogynistic” religions. Nasrin has been living in exile since 1994, with multiple fatwas calling for her death. After living more than a decade in Europe and the United States, she moved to India in 2004 and has been staying there on a resident permit long-term, multiple-entry or ‘X’ visa since.
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Taslima Nasrin is a Bangladeshi writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist, and activist known for her writings on women’s oppression and criticism of religion.
Taslima Nasrin has been blacklisted and banished from Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal due to her outspoken criticism of religion, particularly what she characterizes as ,misogynistic, religions.
Taslima Nasrin is known for her essays and novels with feminist views and criticism of religion, which have gained her global attention since the early 1990s.
Taslima Nasrin has been living in exile since 1994, after facing multiple fatwas calling for her death due to her controversial writings.
After living more than a decade in Europe and the United States, Taslima Nasrin moved to India in 2004 and has been staying there on a resident permit long-term, multiple-entry or ‘X’ visa since.
Taslima Nasrin is also a physician, in addition to her work as a writer, feminist, and activist.
Taslima Nasrin is a secular humanist and is known for her criticism of what she characterizes as ,misogynistic, religions.
6 Quotes by Taslima Nasrin
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
Taslima NasrinAuthor, secular humanist, feminist
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
Taslima NasrinAuthor, secular humanist, feminist
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
Taslima NasrinAuthor, secular humanist, feminist
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
Taslima NasrinAuthor, secular humanist, feminist
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
Taslima NasrinAuthor, secular humanist, feminist
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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
Taslima NasrinAuthor, secular humanist, feminist