Monday, August 13, 2007

India Charges Anti-Islam Author

A hate crime mentality on steroids.

HYDERABAD, India — HYDERABAD, India — Indian police charged Monday, August 13, a Bangladeshi writer known for her frequent attacks on Islam with offending Muslims after a complaint from a leading Muslim party in this southern city.

"A case was booked against Taslima Nasreen that her anti-Islamic views and writings hurt Muslim sentiments," Hyderabad police official L.K. Shinde told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Under the Indian penal code, promoting "disharmony or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill-will" between groups on the basis of religion is punishable by up to three years in jail.

Freedom of speech is the first casualty of a Democracy that preoccupies itself with NOT offending the sensibilities of it's minorities.

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