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Article: The Rushdie Specter; For Muslim Intellectuals, the Danger Deepens
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- August 14, 1994
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THE REWARD for killing Taslima Nasrin now stands at $10,000.
She has blasphemed against Islam, her religious accusers say, and
the Bangladesh government appears to side with her critics. Nasrin,
a medical doctor and feminist writer, has been in hiding, in her
country, since June. But Tuesday night she sneaked out of Bangladesh
and showed up in Sweden where authorities have promised her safety.
The bounty on her head is sadly neither unique nor bizarre. It is
only the latest in a series of threats on secular artists and
writers in the Muslim world.
Such threats explain the recent behavior of a young Iraqi
filmmaker, who filmed a peaceful scene of a mosque at dawn with the
soothing ...