Exiled Muslim writer Taslima Nasreen always courts controversy due to her outrageous comments. From fatwa’s to burning effigies, she has taken everything in her stride.



A staunch feminist by nature, Taslima has been receiving threatening calls for her daring remarks against the radical groups and off late while attending a conference with the reporters in Kerela she threw this line, ‘Islam is history because we live in the 21st century now‘.



She said:

The Islam religion and their scriptures are out of place and out of time. It still follows the 7th century laws and is hopeless. The need of the hour is not reformation but revolution.

I fear that she will be in a soup eventually, because the powerful groups of clerics are as always after her life, and this time she has directly hurt the religious sentiments of the Islam community.



The author of the widely read book ‘Lajja’ very strongly opposed the idea of a secular state where everything is determined by the religion. Taslima said that it is equality, and not religion, that determines the way of life.



While interacting with the press she also said that:

I don’t go to the streets, instead I write and that is my way of protest. I was born in a Muslim family and Muslim women suffer under Islam. None told me to fight against oppression. It was inside me. Women are treated as slaves, sexual objects and childbearing machines.

Even the noted Indian writer, Madhavi Kutty alias Kamala Das who had converted into Muslim all of a sudden, is believed to have reportedly said to Taslima that she greatly regrets her conversion to Islam religion as it does not give her equality.



Via: IBNLIVE