Taslima Nasrin Quotes

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• Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs people with a fear of the supernatural. It bars people from laughing and never allows people to exercise their choice.

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  Exercise, People, Laughing

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• I don't find any difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalists. I believe religion is the root, and from the root fundamentalism grows as a poisonous stem. If we remove fundamentalism and keep religion, then one day or another fundamentalism will grow again. I need to say that because some liberals always defend Islam and blame fundamentalists for creating problems. But Islam itself oppresses women. Islam itself doesn't permit democracy and it violates human rights.

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  Believe, Islamic, Rights

  Interview with Matt Cherry and Warren Allen Smith, www.secularhumanism.org. December 31, 1998.

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• I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

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  Believe, Offended You, Expression

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• Every religion oppresses women. I talk about the Koran because I know this book best. It allows for torture and other mistreatment, especially for women. And I despise the Sharia laws. They cannot be changed. They must be thrown out, abolished.

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  Book, Law, Religion

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• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

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  Men, Being Me, Cry

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• I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

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  Atheist, Believe, Feminist

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• I support the rights of all people to practice their religious beliefs privately, but I oppose the idea of respecting religions. In truth, I have no respect for any religion. I believe religion is not compatible with human rights, women's rights, or freedom of expression.

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  Religious, Believe, Rights

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• I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.

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  Atheist, Prayer, Believe

  "One Brave Woman vs. Religious Fundamentalism: An Interview With Taslima Nasrin". Free Inquiry interview, www.secularhumanism.org. December 1, 1998.

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• It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

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  Atheist, Islam, Labels

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• Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

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  Moving, Teaching, Atheism

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• Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.

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  Men, Honor, Religion

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• Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

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  Home, East, West

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• It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.

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  Crush, Names, Flying

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• I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.

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  Believe, Innovation, Majority

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• In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

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  Motherhood, Men, Years

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• I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

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  Fighting, Rights, India

  "Exiled writer says: 'I am dying every day in the west'" by Taslima Nasrin, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I dont agree with those who think that the conflict is simply between two religions, namely Christianity and Islam... To me, the key conflict is between irrational blind faith and rational, logical minds.

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  Thinking, Keys, Two

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• The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

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  Moving, Issues, People

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• Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

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  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

  Interview with Kerry O'Brien on "Lateline", ABC TV, 1995.

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• There is no such thing as a 'superior' or 'inferior' culture, there are only various cultural patterns which make up this beautiful, multicolored mosaic.

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  Beautiful, Mosaics, Culture

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• If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.

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  Ignorance, People, Atheism

  "One Brave Woman vs. Religious Fundamentalism: An Interview With Taslima Nasrin". Interview with Matt Cherry and Warren Allen Smith, www.secularhumanism.org. December 31, 1998.

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• I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

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  Rights, Giving, Wish

  "Exiled writer says: 'I am dying every day in the west'". Interview with Anthony Dias, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

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  Book, Writing, Scared

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• When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.

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  Writing, Commitment, Past

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• I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

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  Islamic, Writing, Law

  "Film: Taslima Nasreen- One Woman Against Islam". www.journeyman.tv.

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