Review decision to let Taslima stay: Minority panel chief to govt

National Minorities Commission chairman has claimed that Taslima is in the 'chronic habit' of 'demonising' and 'cursing' Islam.

Claiming that controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen is in the chronic habit of demonising and cursing Islam,the chairman of the National Minorities Commission,Mohamed Shafi Qureshi,has asked the Centre to review its decision on allowing her to stay in India.

Referring to the recent violence in Karnataka over an article in a Kannada newspaper that was purportedly written by the exiled author,Qureshi,in a letter to Home Minister P Chidambaram and External Affairs Minister S M Krishna,has said that the contentions made in the article are derogatory,humiliating and insulting to the Prophet of Islam,women in Prophets family and his colleagues.

He has said that the verses from Quran and references from Hadith have been twisted and interpreted in a way that portray a savage and heinous image of Islam.

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Earlier,Nasreen had denied writing any article for the newspaper,and dubbed the controversy as a deliberate attempt to malign her and misuse her writings to create disturbance in the society.

However,Qureshi said it was needless to debate over whether the article was written by Nasreen,or if it

had been twisted to make it a spicy and blasphemous piece of prose. He claimed that the author is in the chronic habit of cursing,demonising and making a mockery of religion in general and Islam in particular,making a reference to her controversial novel Dwikhandita to buttress his charge.

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