Jailing Victims of Fatwas – For Their Own Good

December 29, 2007

In an attempt to protect high-profile Muslim and ex-Muslim dissidents who have had fatwas issued against them – Taslima Nasreen or Ayaan Hirsi Ali, for example – the “good” people have at times been forced to jail them, not their attackers. Phyllis Chesler asks: “Where will this end? With all the ‘moderate’ and dissident Muslims and ex-Muslims in jail?”

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