Taslima Nasreen is a symbol of hate: Owaisi

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi called Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen a "symbol of hate" while reacting to her recent comments over the raging hijab row.

In a TV interview on Thursday, Asaduddin Owaisi said, "...I will not sit here and answer to a person who has become a symbol of hate. I will not sit here and answer to a person who had been given refuge and who's lying on the crumbs of India because she could not save her skin in her own country, so I will not sit here and talk about that person."

Asaduddin Owaisi's comments came a day after Taslima Nasreen spoke about hijab,



burqa, or niqab being "symbols of oppression".

Asaduddin Owaisi criticised Taslima Nasreen for her remarks and said, "Liberals are only happy in their freedom of choice...The liberals want every Muslim to behave like them. The right-wing fundamentalists want us to leave our religious identity which the Constitution guarantees me."

"I will sit here and talk about the Constitution of India which has given me the freedom of choice, freedom of conscience and it has given me the freedom to carry on with my religious identity," Asaduddin Owaisi said.