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Another threat to life of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, this time issued by Syed Barkati, imam of Tipu Sultan mosque and some other leaders, including Majidulla Khan Farhad of the Majlis Bachaho Tehriq does not come as any surprise. Had the Hyderabad police taken prompt action against Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen’s culprit MLAs when they beat her up and issued a ‘beheading threat’, the fanatics in Kolkata would have got the message and refrained from violating all norms of decency. They would not have dared to issue threats to the life of a woman in democratic India, if the Hyderabad police had not encouraged such elements by registering an FIR against Taslima Nasreen when media reports of her manhandling first appeared.
As long as the law and order machinery of the state continues to be influenced by narrow political considerations and those elected remain fixated to vote bank politics, such fanatical elements will remain at large. The criminal act of Syed Barkati and Majidulla Khan Farhad is an affront to secular India and an open challenge to state authority. The Govts, at the centre as well as the state, must take notice and, for once, forge a joint response to these culprits. Jagdishmadan.blogspot.com
Another threat to life of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, this time issued by Syed Barkati, imam of Tipu Sultan mosque and some other leaders, including Majidulla Khan Farhad of the Majlis Bachaho Tehriq does not come as any surprise. Had the Hyderabad police taken prompt action against Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen’s culprit MLAs when they beat her up and issued a ‘beheading threat’, the fanatics in Kolkata would have got the message and refrained from violating all norms of decency. They would not have dared to issue threats to the life of a woman in democratic India, if the Hyderabad police had not encouraged such elements by registering an FIR against Taslima Nasreen when media reports of her manhandling first appeared.
As long as the law and order machinery of the state continues to be influenced by narrow political considerations and those elected remain fixated to vote bank politics, such fanatical elements will remain at large. The criminal act of Syed Barkati and Majidulla Khan Farhad is an affront to secular India and an open challenge to state authority. The Govts, at the centre as well as the state, must take notice and, for once, forge a joint response to these culprits. Jagdishmadan.blogspot.com
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