Dear Gunnar,

yes, I wish your friend, Taslima Nasrin, well too. I also hope that
religious extremists and fundies in the world, across the spectrum,
realise that their ideological views and messages of hatred only bring
more suffering upon themselves.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Gunnar Gällmo wrote:

I must ask you all to include in your mettaa- and karu.naabhaavanaa a
fellow writer and acquaintance of mine, not a Buddhist (and for
heaven's sake, don't try to convert her!) but actually motivated by
love and compassion, a person I've found to be not only
extraordinarily honest and courageous, but also deeply kind-hearted;
nevertheless a person whom hundreds of thousands want to see hanged,
for "apostacy" from Islam and for having criticized religions in
general and Islam in particular; a person just now in house arrest, if
not de jure at least de facto, somewhere in the Delhi area - not being
accused for any crime, but for being the victim of one - and who had
to "celebrate" new year quite alone:

Taslima Nasrin.