Hyderabad: Calling Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen a “symbol of hate”, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi refused to comment on former’s unfounded remarks against hijab.
During an interview with India Today TV on Thursday, Asaduddin Owaisi said, “…I will not sit here and answer to a person who has become a symbol of hate. I will not sit here and answer to a person who had been given refuge and who’s lying on the crumbs of India because she could not save her skin in her own country, so I will not sit here and talk about that person.”
Coming down heavily on Taslima Nasreen for calling hijab, burqa or niqab as the ‘symbols of oppression’, Asaduddin Owaisi said, “Liberals are only happy in their freedom of choice…The liberals want every Muslim to behave like them. The right-wing fundamentalists want us to leave our religious identity which the Constitution guarantees me.”
Mr Owaisi asserted that Constitution of India has given the freedom of choice, freedom of conscience and to carry on one’s religious identity. He added that India is a secular country and that no one can tell him to “leave [his] religion”.
