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The service, which began over a month ago at the Gurdwara Behala, reached the Sola Ana Masjid in Ekbalpore and Sacred Heart Church in Esplanade over a fortnight ago
From criticism to bigotry: Author Taslima Nasreen’s hate for Muslims
By News Desk| Updated: 8th April 2021 4:46 pm IST Taslima Nasreen
Hyderabad: Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen is someone who often comes under fire for her controversial statements against Muslims. Nasreen, who currently lives in India, was once again in the news for her
offensive tweets against England cricketer Moeen Ali, who she said would have joined the global terrorist group ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) if he wasn’t playing cricket.
Even though she deleted her tweet after facing flak, this was however not the first time that she passed crass comments, especially against Muslims. The writer who is currently living in exile in India has a history of passing offensive and even borderline bigoted comments against Muslims, indirectly supporting the right-wing politics of the BJP.
UPDATED: January 17, 2021 09:53 IST
Shaky vote bank: File picture of Mamata Banerjee at an Id rally in Kolkata(Photo: Debajyoti Chakraborty/Getty Images)
It was the end of May 2019. The BJP s aggressive campaign against Mamata Banerjee s appeasement politics bore fruit as the Trinamool Congress (TMC) lost 12 seats in the parliamentary election to wind up with a reduced tally of just 22 of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state. Hardly had the West Bengal chief minister got time to adjust to the new reality of the BJP becoming her chief challenger than a seemingly innocuous question at a post-results press conference on whether she ll attend Iftaar parties threw her into a temper. I appease Muslims, no? she said. I ll go there a hundred times. Je goru doodh dei tar lathi-o khete hoi (I am willing to be kicked by a cow that gives milk). Nothing, she made it clear, would stop her from changing her stance towards a community that had fetched her rich political dividend. Of