Despite the havoc that BJP and Modi have caused to the Muslim community in India in the last 3 years, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has shown much reluctance, when it comes to suggesting any reform in the Muslim community’s personal laws. Even when large number of Muslim women complained loudly, they refused to hear their voices and continued to impose their very regressive dictates that are in violation of Quran. They refused to look at the possibility of reform in the laws that have already been made in most Muslim countries.
1-In 1986 AIMPLB forced the Muslim community leaders to force then PM Rajiv Gandhi and Congress party to pass the “Shah Bano” legislation that denies divorced Muslim women any right of alimony compensation from the husbands who divorce them. This has continued to render a large number of Muslim women to become destitute and lead miserable lives.
2-In the last 10 years despite many appeals from the Muslim community to reform the personal law to ban instant Triple Talaq (TT); AIMPLB refused to take any action. They came up with lame excuses like new nikahnamas that condemn TT. But they continued to defend TT itself as an inherent pat of Islamic law, despite the fact that there is no mention of that in Quran, which recommends a method to implement divorce over a period of 3 months and allows for reconciliation.
3-Even as the BJP/Modi govt prepared to introduce a deeply flawed law to ban TT in parliament, and the Muslim community was being shamed and Muslim women were being incited against their own community, AIMPLB has kept on defending the draconian and illegal law, and have asked all political parties to let the current TT law stay. The BJP law criminalizing TT is a monstrosity in itself, besides its many other flaws. At this time several ulema who are members of parliament or Muslim leaders are playing hide and seek and finding creative reasons to stay away from Delhi while the legislation is being discussed, so that they may not be asked to comment on it.
4-By its monstrous disregard for the welfare of Muslim women, AIMPLB has forfeited their right to address this subject on behalf of the Muslim community. The admirers of AIMPLB should try to understand this bare fact.
5-Now it is the responsibility of well-educated Muslims especially legal luminaries (eg Prof Faizan Mustafa, Prof Mustafa Sherwani, Prof Soz, Prof Tahir Mahmood and others) who are very knowledgeable in this matter, including the Islamic and legal perspective, to form a team of Muslim community stakeholders. They should start a campaign to reform the current TT to make it meet the needs of Muslim women, men, community and Quran/Sunnah. They should meet heads of all political parties, major Muslim organizations etal. They should present a sensible and unified approach to various organs of the parliament on crafting a sensible legislation on this subject. If the govt and political parties do not pay attention to them they should launch large scale peaceful public rallies in a few major cities to make them pay attention.
A few RSS – BJP adopted Muslim Women can became the voice and the representation for the whole Muslim community ? A Law will effect the Muslim Men in particular be made without Consultation or consideration of Muslim representation. Is this the Democratic way of functioning or the Tuqlaqi Farman from BJP Government.
I tweeted before. To reiterate, Modi and Company have nothing to show what they did for the down-trodden Hindus and Muslims, alike. Recent Mumbai riots near Pune whose loss was that? Not Modi’s, not Jammu’s Pandit, not RSS/BJP/VHP, the list continues. It was a stupidity. The ” STUPID” should not only punished but also oblige to pay the families who suffered and pay reparation to the nation for the National loss in these goods and services. Do you think Modi and/or RSS stooges will ever say “sorry” and gurantee, “it will not be repeated”. Instead these liers will come up with another “deflection” which s trategically hurt worse/more its poor minority, aka, D&M. I believe “Triple talaq” is another shameful “DEFLECTION” from BJP, tacitly nodded (maybe bought) by Congress (famous since Babri Masjid) but executed uder a South Indian PM (Mr. Rao). Maulanas might have absented for the fear of housing (or God knows what). I boldly d eclare , “Modi bragged about it w/o thinking that others are not as dumb a s he think. They have also some brain. It was for “deflection”, Sir, rather , Mr. PMNDM (long acronym, short on performance, both in Gujarat and New Delhi. For the world, 2002 earned Mr. Modi visa denial. Triple Talaq is deflection, Sir, no matter how you claim your innocence in 2002 and “the hypocrisy of helping sister”. The 56-inch chest-cum-breast that encages “your heart”: is merciless to the woman who gave birth to you. You spoiled the life of a chaste woman by not consummating her only marriage. You will love “muslim sisters”. Whom are you kidding?. Don’t forget the fact that even as a minority (20/80) they ran India much better for 800 years that you misderably failed both in Gujarat and New Delhi. Yoy have spoiled the ambience in India that BJP will still win 2019, Aditya UP in 2022 (which you are depicting as a promise, there also, it is just deflection). Not only that, if majority thinks that TT is a good thing for India. They should explain why Germany united in < 70 years. India may further be divided. Don't try to deflect my point, I am sharo enough to cvonterquestion, China is ahead of you but for the same smartness as the longest lasting CVhancellor of Germany is a former Head of East Germany tyo lead whole Germany as leading capitalism-based enterprise. If you delude MR. RSS-stooge, aka, PMO, aka, PMNDM that Hindutv RSS will bring back new D elhi to pre-1857. No , it will not happen because majotrity will outnumber cool-headed thinkers of India who always task themselves to be TASKED (do some ome work on the ground, don't take another flight to Riyadh or Dubai, to find out the sugnificance of the 6-ltr acronym.