Mr. Tahir Aslam Gora, driven out of Pakistan for his critical-of-Islam writings, wrote in The Hamilton Spectator December 13 that the freedom of expression has deteriorated even in the liberal West from what it was in Mecca during Prophet Muhammad's time 15 centuries ago. Referring to the example of hounding of Bangladeshi humanist author Taslima Nasrin by an unruly Muslim mob and an Islamic death-fatwa on her head, in Hindu-majority secular India, he wrote:
