‘Salman Rushdie’s assault tells critics of Islam they won’t be safe anywhere in the world’

Lhen I was still in Bangladesh, a predominantly Muslim country, a handful of writers, including myself, spoke out against the fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie. It was in 1989. At the time, it was not easy to support the author of the satanic verses, especially since, in most Muslim countries, people took to the streets in their thousands to defend the fatwa. Only a few of us braved the danger. Anyway, to fight for freedom of expression, you almost have to sacrifice your security.

Then, in 1993, my own head was put at a price because I had criticized Islam and defended the equality of women and men. The amount of the reward increased day by day.

Fatwas are truly contagious! When a radical group utters one, another radical group immediately follows suit. In Bangladesh and India, in total, at least ten fatwas have been issued against me so far. Although these are prohibited by law in both countries, the fundamentalists who launch them have such a large following that there is never a shortage of volunteers to carry them out. They do not care about the laws of the countries: they only follow the law of Allah. Anyone who criticizes Islam must first have their right arm and left leg cut off from behind, then their left arm and right leg. Even if we operate differently, critics of Islam are being killed today in various ways. They have been brutally murdered since the XII^e century. Till today.

Critically

Muhammad’s soldiers carry out the orders of Allah, Allah who is known as the almighty, the omniscient, the most beneficent, the most merciful and the most merciful! And they will continue to do so until Islam is reformed, until freedom of expression is allowed, until violence is denounced, until the breeding ground for extremism is destroyed.

Other religions have evolved; Islam, no. Islam has withdrawn from the critical work to which other religions have submitted. Also, unlike them, Islam has not progressed, it has not questioned the barbaric, inhuman, unequal and unscientific aspects of religion. Other religions have managed to rectify their errors, and this has been possible because these religions have been scrutinized with a critical eye.

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Islam must be very weak and very fragile for the Islamists to need all this blood to keep it alive. In France, this madness has taken the lives of many innocent people. Moderate and silent Muslims need to come out of their silence to protest against the jihadists, so that people know that there are moderate Muslims.

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