Western outlook

Granting of asylum or any status of the kind to persons like Taslima Nasreen is nothing novel or new. The West does offer all these kinds of gratification for a few in whom they see some potential to carry out activities that are anti-state, anti-religion or anti-national values ( for the other countries) but supportive of western ideals and values.

Ms. Griswold is the latest western journalist to find things going awfully wrong in Bangladesh. It is sad that she has found some local takers of her theory of Islamic revolution.