Taslima Nasrin

* The plight of writer Taslima Nasrin (June 11) should raise the conscience of all who support the Bill of Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The arrest warrant and other reported demands to kill her are appalling in this day and age. Similar threats and a “death warrant” were issued against author Salman Rushdie. These are symptoms of the rise of religious right groups and obscure fundamentalism all over South Asia from Afghanistan to Bangladesh. India, which proclaims itself to be a “secular” state, has not been able to combat the rise of Hindu fundamentalism and its aspiration to bring fascism in the name of nationalism.

NIRMAL K. MISHRA

Northridge

* How about one of your writers doing a story on the effects of “Christianization” of America through stealth candidates, etc.? Your article, “Bangladesh Writer Hides to Avoid Arrest Over Her Quoted Remarks on Koran,” ought to be an eye-opener for those who lust mightily to turn the U.S. into one giant Christian-dominated penal colony. I’m an old-time Orange County Republican conservative and this push to Christianize America through politics scares me!

I’d be interested in reading what your writers could come up with regarding the potential for our U.S. brand of Christian fundamentalism someday mimicking Islam’s outrages. As a Christian, I’m fully aware that a lot of my fellows would be more than happy to sell their freedoms down the river if they thought, by doing so, they could control or eliminate liberals.

FRED HERMON

Santa Ana