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Stop saying Islam is a religion of peace: Taslima Nasreen

Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has claimed that all terrorists involved in the recent attack at Dhaka restaurant, in which 20 people were killed, were highly educated and belonged to rich families and rubbished the arguments that poverty makes somebody a terrorist.She also said it’s time people should stop saying Islam is a religion of peace.

Taslima holds strong feminist and human rights views and has not been able to return to Bangladesh, her native country that she left in 1994. The author has received death threats from extremist groups linked to al-Qaeda.