I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.

I don't find any difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalists. I believe religion is the root, and from the root fundamentalism grows as a poisonous stem. If we remove fundamentalism and keep religion, then one day or another fundamentalism will grow again. I need to say that because some liberals always defend Islam and blame fundamentalists for creating problems. But Islam itself oppresses women. Islam itself doesn't permit democracy and it violates human rights.

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

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

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.