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Need to boycott Malaysia Tourism

Was reading the following link sometime ago to know more about Malaysia before deciding to make it my Honeymoon destination. I was shocked to read the following line. "all Malays are required to be Muslim as defined by the Malaysian Constitution." Even though Malaysia has near to about 48% non-Muslim population, it has made Islam the official religion of Malaysia. Non Muslims are treated as second grade citizens in that country. I later realized any country that has a little over than 50% Muslim population ill treats the other part of the population. There is absolutely no human rights for other religion people in that country. Why do we have to bother about the treatment there? Because most of the population are migrants from India and are Hindus. What can we do? Don't go to Malaysia for tourism. Tourism is the main source of income for Malaysia. If we start to boycott Malaysia, they will be under pressure to change their discriminating government policies.

Lajja - The Shame

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The Duttas - Sudhamoy, Kironmoyee, and their two children, Suranjan and Maya - have lived in Bangladesh all their lives. Despite being part of the country's small Hindu community, that is terrorized at every opportunity by Muslim fundamentalists, they refuse to leave their country, as most of their friends and relatives have done. And then, on 6 December 1992, the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in India is demolished Lajja (Bengali: লজ্জা Lôjja) is a novel in Bengali by Taslima Nasrin, a writer of Bangladesh. The word lajja/lôjja means "shame" in Bengali and many other Indian languages. The book was first published in 1993 in the Bengali language, and was subsequently banned in Bangladesh, and a few states of India. Taslima Nasrin, the writer of the book, has dedicated the book "to the people of the Indian subcontinent", and has announced the beginning of the book with these words: "let another name for religion be humanism." The novel is preceded by a prefac...