India has evidently become misled by confused and politically motivated legal codes in the West punishing free speech with its law against promoting "disharmony or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill will" between religious groups. This kind of law is based on Stalin's criminal code 59-7, as we have stated elsewhere. Rather than suppress intellectual freedom and punish an honest person like author Taslima Nasreen, however [please see "India to charge writer Nasreen with 'hurting Muslim feelings'" -eds], who publishes facts, India should consider another course of action.
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