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TASLEEMA_NASREEN

KOLKATA, December 6:  “I am shocked to hear this… What wrong have I done?” asked Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen on Thursday when asked for her comments on reports of a complaint lodged against her by a prominent Muslim cleric at a police station in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly hurting religious sentiments in micro-blogging site Twitter last month.

“It has never been my intention to hurt the sentiments of any religious community. All I am against is any sort of religious fundamentalism, whatever the shade,” she told The Hindu over phone from New Delhi.

Ms. Nasreen said her struggle, as a writer, has “not been against any single individual but against fundamentalism.”

“For over 30 years, through my books, my struggle has been against this disturbing trend of religious fundamentalism that appears in different parts of the world… This force has also been assailing the rights of women and is one of the factors for social backwardness among sections of the Muslim community,” she said.

“Fundamentalists are not for human rights so there is this attempt to stop me from coming out with the truth… I have also been thrown out of my country for this,” Ms. Nasreen asserted.

“Struggle will continue”

“My struggle will carry on, through my writings. I shall keep on dreaming of a society free from religious fundamentalism,” said the author..

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