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Paperback Lajja =: Shame Book

ISBN: 0140240519

ISBN13: 9780140240511

Lajja (Shame)

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Not since Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses has the publication of a book provoked such mob violence, public outcries for the arrest and death of the author, and international efforts to secure her safety.The animosity and bloodletting between Muslim and Hindu extremists on the Indian subcontinent is centuries old. When the Barbri Mosque at Ayodhya, India, was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalists on December 6, 1992, fierce mob reprisals took place against the Hindu minority in Muslim Bangladesh. These incidents form the backdrop for Dr. Taslima Nasrin's explosive and courageous book, Shame, describing the nightmarish fate of one family within her country's small Hindu community.Her book so angered Muslim leaders that a fatwa, or holy judgment, was invoked, offering thousands of dollars to anyone who would kill her. The Soldiers of Islam accused her of "blasphemy and conspiracy against Islam," while the Bengali government charged her with sacrilege merely for saying that the Koran should be revised. After months in hiding, Dr. Nasrin escaped to Sweden with the aid of American, French, and European Union authorities. Her commitment to eliminating religious extremism worldwide is stated in her preface to Shame: "The disease of religious fundamentalism must be fought at every turn. I will continue to write and protest persecution and discrimination. I am convinced that the only way the fundamentalist forces can be stopped is if all of us join together to fight their malignant influence. I, for one, will not be silenced." This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
very nice

A beauty of a writer! for muslims - religion first and nationalism later be it whichever contry all such people will suffer one day at the knees of god there are tears rolling down when i just completed reading the book shame on you islamic fundamentalists

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Rated 4 stars
Religion??!!?

It is widely known that man was God's best creation and when man goes in search of their "own" Gods, all hell breaks loose. What an irony! It makes the reader wonder whether the people of the yesteryears were so out of work, that they actually had the time and nerve to battle over a mosque that was built upon a temple ages back. As for the style of writing, it is true that the author has put in too much of historical data...

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Rated 4 stars
shocking to know man can be so crual

I m thrilled to read this book . Its the first book that I have ever read and am thrilled to read a book on the cruelty of man in the name of religion. Hindu and Muslim, I accept that they are two different religion. but both the religion and there holy literature teach only love, peace, and harmony among not just there own religion but also among people of different sects and religion. The writer has written this book...

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Rated 5 stars
Chilling...very disturbing

While this book may not be great literature, it is a chilling indictment of Moslem persecution of the Hindu minority in Bangladesh following the destruction of the Babri Masjid in India.Taslima Nasrin has provided many factual accounts of desecration and destruction of Hindu temples and atrocities against the Hindu minority in her book. One reviewer likened the experience of Hindus in Bangladesh to Muslims in India. There...

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Rated 5 stars
A gripping, effectively written, novel.

This novel only became known in the West because of the fatwa on the author. Yet, because of this, all the attention has been on the author herself rather than the book. The few comments about the novel that have been published tend to be rather dismissive about it. People says its "hastily written" and "unimaginative". I bought the book just to see whether it was any good as a novel. I found that it certainly wasn't flawless...

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