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The Red Herring | Salma Sobhan

30 December 2013

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To paraphrase Voltaire: “If Taslima Nasreen did not exist, the Jamaat would have had to invent her.†The focus by the international media and national and international human rights and feminist activists on her plight – the threat to her life and the warrant for arrest for a statement which she denied having made – was very necessary and needs to continue despite her recent surrender to the court and release on bail. [. . .]

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