A week ago Taslima Nasreen was moved to a safe house in Inda - following threats from fundamentalist groups - and promised to remove controversial passages from her autobiography Dikhandito (Split Into Two). But this isn’t enough for some people (via).

Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the chief cleric of New Delhi’s Jama Masjid mosque, demanded on Monday that Indian Muslims should “not tolerate the infamous authoress Taslima Nasrin on the Indian soil” unless she offered a written apology for what he called her “anti-Islamic publications”.

“The apology must bear her assurance that in future she will desist from repeating such venomous writing that may have any inkling of blasphemy,” he said in a statement.

“India is a democratic nation and the constitution here neither does permit any citizen nor allow any foreign national to be irreverent to the tenets of any religion,” the cleric continued.

“The entire responsibility of the consequences shall rest upon the government of India,” Bukhari warned.

Interesting definition of democracy, and suggesting that the “consequences shall rest upon the government” sounds suspiciously like a threat

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