Posted on 10/25/2015 1:18:31 PM PDT by Jyotishi
Kochi - In Kerala, where 50 per cent of the seats and positions in local self-Government institutions are reserved for women and where hundreds of Muslim women are contesting in the current civic poll, a prominent
Sunni scholar-orator has pushed Muslim outfits into confusion by issuing a 'reprimand' that women's entry into politics and election battles is "Haram before Allah" according to Islam.
The 'reprimand' has caused a huge headache for outfits like the Muslim League, second biggest constituent of the Congress-led ruling UDF for which Sunni Muslims are a major vote-bank. But the speech of the scholar of Samastha, a prominent scholars' outfit of the Sunnis in Kerala, has triggered rage and protest among activists of several Muslim women's organisations.
"Please don't send Muslim women to become public servants. That is Allah's law," Samastha scholar-orator Ustad Simsarul Haq Hudavi says in a speech which has gone viral on social
networking sites. Hudavi's speech has come at a time when hundreds of Muslim women are contesting the local elections for which polling is to be held in the State on November 2 and 5.
Stating that women contesting elections is against the religion, Hudavi says, "It is Haram before Allah. Women are loving Ummas (mothers) who are to create a new generation. They should stay at home, look after the children and take care of their husbands." He advises the faithful not to lend ears to "everything" that is happening in the society.
"Man, you shouldn't make your wife a member (of a local body). That is Haram (sinful act). Don't allow her to start working in politics. You should understand things (in the right Islamic perspective)," says the Samastha scholar by supporting his arguments with quotes from the Quran and details of discussions held earlier among Muslim councils.
In an indirect but obvious reference to the Muslim League which has fielded woman candidates in hundreds of local bodies in the current election, Hudavi says, "You can indulge in such things. But don't do it while you are in Islam, while you are a Muslim. Non-Muslims have several programmes. There is nothing wrong in it. But don't emulate it when you are a Muslim."
The Muslim League leadership is yet to issue a formal response to the Sunni scholar's 'reprimand" but a senior leader based in Kozhikode said the party was most likely to avoid it. He said discussions in this direction had surfaced among the Sunni scholars several times before "but there are divergent opinions on this matter".
These "divergent opinions" and other factors had caused serious difficulties for the Muslim League in finding women to contest the local bodies election. The situation had forced several leaders to opine that the system of reserving 50 per cent seats and positions in the three-tier local bodies was perhaps not scientific in a State like Kerala.
However, leaders of several women's Muslim organizations refused to view Hudavi's argument seriously. "Priests have issued such reprimands from time to time. The Muslim community won't accept such viewpoints," said P Ruksana, State president of the Girls' Islamic Organisation, adding that scholars who put forward such perspectives were outdated.
A functionary of the Ithihadushabanil Mujahideen, the youth wing of Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen, a Muslim outfit with progressive outlook which advocates women's empowerment, said "reprimands" like that of the Samastha scholar could pose problems for even progressive Muslim elements if repeated frequently.
Complaints had come up at the start of the campaigning for the current local bodies poll that many woman candidates nominated by different parties were merely shadows of their husbands or other relatives. "This may be true in the case of other parties. But we have enough woman leaders at every level," said the Muslim League leader.
Won’t stop the brainwashed feminists from suicidaly walking off the cliff for any pro-islam democrap.
Yawn. Let me know when they start killing each other over it. I’ll make popcorn.
People need to start knocking off these knuckle draggers. They are way too bossy and nosey about women having rights. Take out enough and suddenly, they will shut their pie holes.
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