Rokeya is an apostate and an infidel like Taslima!

 

Bengali Muslims have seen Begum Rokeya's picture for a long time. Wearing a full-sleeved blouse, not sleeveless, not short-sleeved, with a headscarf on top. Like conservative grandmothers. Bengali Muslims thought Begum Rokeya was in favor of the veil, in favor of Islam, in favor of patriarchy. Because that's what veiled women usually do.

Recently, some curious jihadis have started reading Begum Rokeya's book. Look, Oma, the Taslima they hate, whose head they have been sharpening their knives to cut off for 35 years, Rokeya spoke just like that Taslima! Rokeya also wrote against religion and patriarchy!! So she is not an inner-city resident who prays, fasts, and recites tasbeeh while covering her mouth!! So what will happen to the head that Muslims are dancing with!

A jihadi professor at Rajshahi University has now declared Rokeya an apostate.

Wow, the Mullah caste has been shaken by this. Rokeya is also an apostate and an infidel like Taslima! I said long ago, if today's jihadis had been around in Begum Rokeya's time, they would have buried her alive.

Jihadists are now saying in unison that Rokeya was the Taslima of that era! Rokeya was the first Taslima of the country! There is nothing wrong with that. But it took them a long time to discover this truth. Or they knew the truth, but they thought the best time to abolish Rokeya was the era of the jihadi militant-backed government.

It's not that the fundamentalists didn't know about Rokeya's fight against religion and patriarchy when she was alive. They did, and in Kolkata, the city where Rokeya died, they didn't allow her to be buried in the cemetery of the city, they didn't allow her to be buried or have her funeral held. Rokeya's body was buried by some of her relatives in the dark of night on the banks of the Ganges in a place called Panihati near Sodepur outside Kolkata, so that the crows would not know about it.

Jihadists, mullahs, and fundamentalist patriarchalists do not tolerate Taslima. There is no reason to tolerate Rokeya either. They know that wearing a veil and a full-sleeved blouse was the custom of Muslim society at that time. Rokeya's dress is as much the dress of a believer in patriarchy as it is the dress of an irreligious feminist.

In short, Taslima is an enlightened feminist of this era, Rokeya was an enlightened feminist in Rokeya's era. Taslima fought against patriarchy and religion, and Rokeya did the same. I knew that just as misogynistic religious merchants have thrown Taslima out, they will one day throw Rokeya out too. However, the negative publicity against Taslima has not been the same against Rokeya. Because the semi-educated pseudo-modern Muslim society wanted a Muslim feminist to wear the mask of modernity, they have used Rokeya for so long, not allowing any negative publicity against Rokeya. The semi-educated pseudo-modern Muslim society has done a lot of publicity for Rokeya to wear the mask of modernity, saying that Rokeya wanted to open a school for Muslim girls and spread the light of knowledge among girls. Because of this publicity, ordinary middle-class Muslims have supported Rokeya. Among these supporters are those who think that girls should get married after passing five or eight. They believe that a school is needed for that little bit of literacy, and that school was organized by Rokeya. The semi-educated pseudo-modern Muslim society has deleted Rokeya's anti-religious statements and published Rokeya's writings. But the jihadists have finally discovered or decided to open their mouths to the truth that there is no difference in the beliefs of Taslima and Rokeya.

The jihadists have given Rokeya the title of apostate, a title that was given to her 93 years ago, and that is why she has no place in the Muslim graveyard! Will Rokeya's Muslim fans try to erase the newly acquired title or will they say yes, Rokeya is an apostate, we will respect this apostate Rokeya? Then of course, Rokeya's Muslim fans will have a little difficulty, because then they will have to say, Taslima is an apostate, we will respect this apostate Taslima! How can they say that? They have been saying for so long, Taslima is bad, Rokeya is good. Taslima is an apostate, Rokeya opened a school, Taslima is an atheist, Rokeya is a Muslim!

Taslima Nasrin