Fresh Fatwa Watch
Charles Johnson
Sat Aug 18, 2007 at 1:42 pm PDT • Views: 340
Yes, there’s a brand new, sparkling fresh fatwa against Bangladeshi women’s rights activist Taslima Nareen. The fatwa mills are running overtime on this one.
Kolkata, August 17: The Imam of Kolkata’s Tipu Sultan Masjid of Kolkata has provided Taslima Nasrin a month’s time to leave the country. A fatwa to that effect was pronounced after the Friday prayers before an assembly of about 700 people this afternoon.
“We will not let her live in this country. We are providing the government just a month from today. If the government fails to oust her from the country in that time, we will take recourse to other methods. We will not support her stay in this country,” said Syed Mohammad Noorur Rahman Barkati, Shahi Imam of Tipu Sultan Masjid.
“If the Imam gives us an order, we will surround her house in Kalighat and force her to leave the country. We wholeheartedly support the action of our men in Hyderabad,” said Samir Mobaraki, Secretary of the masjid.
He was supported by a member of Masjid Bachao Tehrik (MBT), Majidullah Farhad Khan, who had come to the city from Hyderabad to address the gathering.
The MBT member, who claimed to be present at the press conference where Taslima Nasrin was heckled, said : “I request the Muslims of Kolkata to join us in ousting the possessed writer from the country.”
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