HYDERABAD, 11 August 2007 — The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), whose legislators and cadres attacked Taslima Nasreen here, yesterday threatened to behead the Bangladeshi author if she ever sets foot in the city again. MIM leader in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly Akbaruddin Owaisi said that anyone who commits blasphemy deserved to be beheaded.
“Muslims are proud of what our legislators and workers have done because we can never tolerate any insult to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh),” Akbaruddin, whose party has five legislators in the 294-member assembly, told reporters.
“If she comes to the city again we will kill her,” added Muqtada Afasr Khan, one of the three MIM legislators who attacked the writer at a book release function at the Press Club.
Nasreen, who lives in exile in Kolkata following death threats from Muslim extremist groups in Bangladesh, was saved by journalists and organizers of the event who later escorted her to the airport.
