The insistence of
fundamentalists on divine justification for human laws.
Their insistence
on the superior authority of faith as opposed to reason.
Their insistence
that individual is immaterial.
She says that
fundamentalists wants to put everybody in their straight jacketed code and
dictate what an individual should eat, wear and live.
They do not believe in liberty of personal choice or
plurality of thought.
They believe in propagating only their own ideas.
They deny others the right to express their views freely and
can not tolerate ant thing which they perceive as going against their faith.
They proclaim themselves as a moral force but their language is of hatred &
violence.
Human kind is facing an uncertain future, the possibility of
one kind of rivalry and conflict looms large in particular, the conflict
between two different ideas- Secularism and fundamentalism.
She do not agree that conflict is between two religion
Christianity & Islam or Hinduism & Islam or Judaism or Islam. There are
fundamentalists in every religious community.
Taslima Nasreen, a writer, a physician, a blogger and a hardcore atheist against the followers of fundamentalism and religion, is a woman who had the courage to stand by what she says and follows. She has genuinely believed in the freedom of speech which is not just something scribbled in our preamble but something that has a meaning and it can be used to portray what you feel about the society, its people, their thinking and their doings. She has always believed and followed secularism which says that a state and its people should be free from the religious rule and teachings, and the right to freedom from governmental imposition of religion upon the people within a state that is neutral on matters of belief. Being a Bangladeshi which is predominately a Muslim country, she had come across various autocracies and atrocities. she was against the rules that were imposed on the female folks in a Muslim country. She has always opposed and asked for reasons for any rule that says that a woman should be in "pardah". Actually she never understood the meaning of "pardah". Her life and what she has seen is beautifully described in her novel "Meyebela" which got banned in Bangladesh the book is frank about her parents and her father being tyrannical. She was also sexually exploited by two of her family elders.
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