New religious threats - Worth Noting - Brief Article

* Taslima Nasrin is the focus of new religious threats in India. A reward of 20,000 rupees has been offered to anyone who blackens the face of the exiled Bangladeshi author, whose writings some Muslims consider blasphemous. Considered a major insult, blackening her face isn't nearly as extreme as the call for her death by hardliners in 1994. Just days after the latest edict, Muslim groups in Bombay offered a reward of 100,000 rupees to anyone succeeding in blackening the face of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.) And in December the West Bengal government banned Nasrin's latest book, Dwikhandito for fear it would "disturb religious peace."

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