Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Female Muslim Author Beaten, Sent to Mental Hospital After Praising Rushdie

Female Muslim Author Beaten, Sent to Mental Hospital After Praising Rushdie

by Phyllis Chesler
Breitbart
April 14, 2015

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Zainub Priya Dala, a South African Muslim author and psychologist, was "violently attacked for expressing admiration for Salman Rushdie" the day after praising the author. After countless phoned-in threats to recant, Dala was placed under psychiatric care in which she was "drugged until I could not walk" and advised to adopt a proper Muslim lifestyle.
Dala recently published her first novel, What About Meera. Last month, at a literary festival in Durban, she said she "admired the writing of Arundhati Roy and Rushdie."
Three days later, three men forced her car off the road, held a knife to her throat, banged her face with a brick and broke her cheekbone. They called her "Rushdie's bitch." Had a taxi not passed by, she is sure she "would've been stabbed."


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