Following the publication of Lajja, Nasrin suffered a number of physical and other attacks. She wrote against Islamic philosophy and the people of Bangladesh took it angrily. Many Muslims became angry about her and called to ban her novel. In October 1993, an Islamic fundamentalist group called the Council of Islamic Soldiers offered a bounty for her death. In May 1994 she was interviewed by the Kolkata edition of The Statesman, which quoted her as calling for a revision of the Quran; she claims she only called for revision of the Sharia, the Islamic religious law. In August 1994 she was brought up on “charges of making inflammatory statements,” and faced death threats from Islamic fundamentalists and religious Muslims. A hundred thousand demonstrators called her “an apostate appointed by imperial forces to vilify Islam”; a “militant faction threatened to loose thousands of poisonous snakes in the capital unless she was executed.” [Read More]

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Source: Weekly Blitz :: Writings