Do 'blasphemous' writers impact Islamic thought in anyway?
POLITICS.
Ravinder Makhaik.
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# Islam has not been kind to writers who have differed with their own religion. Fundamentalists have hounded them.
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# Taslima, persecuted for her musings, is homeless again.
# Rushdie's controversial book 'Satanic Verses' published in 1988 caused a furor in the Muslim world.
# A common thread running in writings of such authors is that they have questioned the tenets of Islam over women's rights, secularism and fundamentalism, and the conflict between modernity and anti-modernism.
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