A small minority of fanatics within a much larger global religion of peace are sending free-thinking women into hiding all over the planet. In India, a feminist wrote an autobiography that got banned and sent her into hiding. She was eventually forced to cave in just to keep not being dead. Check out what was so wildly offensive to Islam that she was threatened. You'll never guess:

Controversial Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen has said she will withdraw some "controversial" lines from one of her books. The lines are from Dwikhondito (Split into two) which, some Muslim groups say, are derogatory to Islam. The book was banned by the government in India's West Bengal state where a quarter of the population is Muslim. There have been violent protests against Ms Nasreen by Muslims in West Bengal's capital, Calcutta, recently. She has been moved from one city to another in the last few days for her own safety after these protests and is now lodged in a safe house in the capital, Delhi... Ms Nasreen told TV channels on Friday that she would be dropping some lines from Dwikhondito, her 2003 autobiography... Critics have accused the writer of calling for the Koran to be changed to give women greater rights, something she denies. Ms Nasreen fled Bangladesh in the early 1990s after death threats and has spent the last three years in Calcutta after a long stay in Europe.

So she allegedly attempted to tweak Islam to modernize it and lessen the pathological sexism rampant across the Muslim world. And she's spent decades in hiding because of it. Doesn't this kind of bode ill for the people who insist that, er, we can tweak Islam to modernize it and lessen the pathological sexism rampant across the Muslim world? (Via JammieWearingFool)

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* Taslima Nasreen removes comment

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