Taslima Nasrin-- Muslim Women's Right

                                                                      Taslima Nasrin

 Taslima Nasrin was born into a middle-class Muslim family in the town of Mymensingh in north Bangladesh in 1962. She studied Medicine to become a doctor at the age of 23, when she became a doctor she worked in Bangladesh. As she was working as a doctor, she started writing newspaper column in 1989, which was about the difficulty of women being harassed in the male-dominated society of Bangladesh.  An article called Taslima Nasrin: “They Wanted to Kill me”, she states “. I defended the rights of women against religion and patriarchy, which I see as the causes of women's suffering. In particular, I wrote about the role of religion in this ill-treatment of women” (Middle East Quarterly). When Nasrin’s article was published, the whole country went against her they didn’t agree with what she wrote about. People burn down the newspaper office that published her books in public, and then they filed a case against her.  She writes her book based on what she thinks is necessary to speak up for women’s right. She wants to knowledge people how women are being treated unfairly and they do not have any freedoms because of the way Muslim religion puts restriction on women. When Nasrin went to a national book fair in Bangladesh, the fundamentalist attacked her physically, “I was knocked to the ground and had my clothes torn. At Nottingham in England some Muslim students tried to attack me physically but the police saved me” ( Middle East Quarterly). So, people just didn’t hate her, they desperately wanted to kill her.  People approaches her as Muslim hater because she of her writings, but she is not a anti-Islamist .

Taslima Nasrin was thrown out of Bangladesh 16 years ago. When she left Bangladesh she went to India. Eventually she was thrown out of  West Bangle as well because she spoke out writing about women’s right. Her writings became threats to the countries that men were dominating, the government and men in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan do not want women to be influenced by Nasrin, therefore everywhere she was going she was getting thrown out. Narsin was also banned from these countries and black listed, her books were not being published and the editors do not accept her writings because of the public reaction.  

Although she was facing hate she never stopped fighting for women’s right, she kept writing books, article and magazine about women. She is a very strong woman who never gives up; she wants people to hear what she has to say. Six of her written books were banned and all those books were about how women are being treated and how men approach women. Taslima  quoted, “Come what may, I will continue my fight for equality and justice without any compromise until my death. Come what may, I will never be silenced.'' One of the books she wrote it called Amar Meyebela, the Prime Minister in Bangladesh named Sheikh Hasina declared it was a pornography book, just because she wrote about women’s sexual desires.

Articles

http://www.meforum.org/73/taslima-nasrin-they-wanted-to-kill-me
http://taslimanasrin.com/tn_bannedbooks.html