NEW DELHI: Author-activist Taslima Nasreen stated on Thursday that “Islamic radicals” are attempting to make Bangladesh one other Afghanistan with their “anti-India, anit-Hindu and pro-Pakistan” propaganda within the nation that witnessed violent protests just lately.
“While you brainwash youths like this, they’d develop into a technology who’re in opposition to Hindus, in opposition to India, in opposition to girls and are pro-Pakistan, pro-jihad, professional fanatics,” she stated.
The author who needed to flee Bangladesh in 1994 after receiving loss of life threats for her banned ebook stated that she had initially supported the coed protests in opposition to the preferential quota system.
“When college students protested in opposition to the quota system in July, we supported them… individuals who consider in girls’s rights, human rights and freedom of expression,” in an interview to PTI.
“However afterwards we realised that it was not a college students’ motion. It was deliberate and funded by Islamist jihadis and banned terrorist organisation,” she added.
Voicing issues that Bangladesh would possibly observe the same path as Afghanistan or Iran, Nasreen stated, “Yunus says that they’re celebrating their victory. Persons are burning homes of Hindus. What sort of celebration is that this? They’re destroying every part. All of the statues of freedom fighters have been demolished together with that of the daddy of the nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.”
“However the Pakistan Military’s statues are intact – (the military) which killed 30 million individuals through the warfare and raped thousands and thousands of ladies,” she added.
The ‘Lajja’ creator who has been dwelling in India stated that referred to as Sheikh Hasina an autocrat. “Sheikh Hasina was an autocrat who all the time inspired fundamentalists and curbed freedom of expression. Individuals had been offended along with her,” she stated.
Speaking about returning to the south Asian nation, Nasreen stated, “I can’t return to my nation. Khalida and Hasina by no means allowed me and now it’s unattainable to think about on this jihadi rule.”
“I really feel India is like dwelling and I’ve been dwelling right here since 2005. Very surprisingly my resident allow has not been renewed and there’s no info. It expired on July 27. I do not know anybody within the authorities and really feel clueless. Usually it will get renewed earlier than the expiry date,” she stated.
“While you brainwash youths like this, they’d develop into a technology who’re in opposition to Hindus, in opposition to India, in opposition to girls and are pro-Pakistan, pro-jihad, professional fanatics,” she stated.
The author who needed to flee Bangladesh in 1994 after receiving loss of life threats for her banned ebook stated that she had initially supported the coed protests in opposition to the preferential quota system.
“When college students protested in opposition to the quota system in July, we supported them… individuals who consider in girls’s rights, human rights and freedom of expression,” in an interview to PTI.
“However afterwards we realised that it was not a college students’ motion. It was deliberate and funded by Islamist jihadis and banned terrorist organisation,” she added.
Voicing issues that Bangladesh would possibly observe the same path as Afghanistan or Iran, Nasreen stated, “Yunus says that they’re celebrating their victory. Persons are burning homes of Hindus. What sort of celebration is that this? They’re destroying every part. All of the statues of freedom fighters have been demolished together with that of the daddy of the nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.”
“However the Pakistan Military’s statues are intact – (the military) which killed 30 million individuals through the warfare and raped thousands and thousands of ladies,” she added.
The ‘Lajja’ creator who has been dwelling in India stated that referred to as Sheikh Hasina an autocrat. “Sheikh Hasina was an autocrat who all the time inspired fundamentalists and curbed freedom of expression. Individuals had been offended along with her,” she stated.
Speaking about returning to the south Asian nation, Nasreen stated, “I can’t return to my nation. Khalida and Hasina by no means allowed me and now it’s unattainable to think about on this jihadi rule.”
“I really feel India is like dwelling and I’ve been dwelling right here since 2005. Very surprisingly my resident allow has not been renewed and there’s no info. It expired on July 27. I do not know anybody within the authorities and really feel clueless. Usually it will get renewed earlier than the expiry date,” she stated.