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When A Human Rights Activist Makes a Racist Tweet
Everyone makes mistakes, but some just can’t be ignored
Taslima Nasreen, a Bangladeshi-Swedish human rights activist, and writer stirred up a storm a couple of days ago by making a tweet that would put most Trump tweets to shame.
First, some context.
Who Is Taslima Nasreen?
Taslima is a writer and activist — who often writes about and advocates for women’s rights and is also a self-proclaimed “secular humanist.” She has had her fair share of controversy after being forced out of her country for writings that many Muslims felt discredited Islam.
She has been living in exile since 1994. After living more than a decade in Europe and the United States, she moved to India in 2004 but was banished from the country in 2008, although she has been staying in India, and India is the country she also calls home.
A couple of years in her plea to the Indian government for renewing or extending her Visa she’d made the claim that “India is her only home.” After being granted permission to stay in India she had also said,
“Now I believe that I have a home, which consists of a family of people — men as well as women — who bravely oppose the forces of darkness and ignorance…
