It all started with a book.
A national book fair (popularly known as Ekushey Book Fair) is held every February in Bangladesh. Newly published books are displayed in more than five hundred stalls. Literally thousands of people come to the fair every day and enjoy buying new books. Publishers target this month quite early as they try to get their books ready for the frenzy of the fair. One of my recent publishers Jagriti Prakashani published my book Biswasher Virus (Bengali for The Virus of Faith) [FB Page | Blog] during the Book Fair of 2014.
As soon as the book was released, it rose to the Book Fair's bestseller list. At the same time, it hit the cranial nerve of fundamentalists. The death threats started flowing to my inbox on a regular basis. I suddenly found myself to be a target of militant Islamists and terrorists. A well-known extremist by the name of Farabi Shafiur Rahman (to know about this crazy guy read this Bangla piece) openly issued death threats to me through his numerous Facebook statuses. ...
You can read the rest from here:
From Farabi to ISIS: The Virus of Faith is Indeed Real!
http://mukto-mona.com/wordpress/?p=3167
Regards
Avijit
You can read the rest from here:
From Farabi to ISIS: The Virus of Faith is Indeed Real!
http://mukto-mona.com/wordpress/?p=3167
Regards
Avijit
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