Comic books, Islam, and Voltaire.

• Author: Schaeffer, Daniel G.
• Position: Letters to the Editor - Letter to the editor

Am I the only person who noticed the irony? On the back cover of your April issue there's a picture of Taslima Nasrin,

who, as everyone should know by now, is under a formal death sentence by Bangladeshi extremists for denouncing Islam.

Yet inside the magazine there's an article by Meher Ahmad praising the comic book industry for giving teenage Muslim American girls a superhero of their own: one who "questions her faith," no doubt, but probably not deeply enough to recognize the full moral implications of Islam's death for apostasy tradition.

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