Action Quote by Taslima Nasrin

Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a long history…

— Peter Bergen

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats…

— Taslima Nasrin

I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little…

— Taslima Nasrin

“Sometimes waiting makes the culmination that much sweeter.”

— Lynn Raye Harris

“The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.”

— Idries Shah

I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My…

— Taslima Nasrin

When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

— Taslima Nasrin

“I believe he is attempting to pray,” said Sheikh Bilal. “But he isn’t clean. He hasn’t performed the ablution or checked the direction of…

— G. Willow Wilson

“My dear sir,” said the sheikh. “God likes catching His servants unprepared. The boy has set down what is obviously the first plate of…

— G. Willow Wilson

I do not have Sheikh in front of my name.

— John W. Henry

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

— Taslima Nasrin

“Part of him wanted to throw her down onto the straw and have done with it. For there was no surer way of losing…

— Sharon Kendrick

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

— Taslima Nasrin

Bin Laden was intelligent, well-informed, and low key. The people around him treated him with great deference, calling him 'sheikh,' a term of respect.

— Peter Bergen

I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in…

— Melinda Gates