Posted on 11/29/2015 6:49:37 PM PST by Jyotishi
Sunni leader Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musliar's controversial remarks against gender equality have triggered a strong reaction from parties and activists who demanded that he withdraw them and apologise.
Opposition Communist Party of India-Marxist and ruling Congress lashed out at the Islamic scholar over his "anti-women" remarks.
Marxist veteran and state Opposition leader V S Achuthanandan alleged that Musliar's remarks were equal to the "anti-democratic" stand of Sangh Parivar and they should be withdrawn.
"His remarks amount to insulting even his (Kanthapuram's) own mother. The statements were equal to the anti-democratic stand of Sangh Parivar. He should withdraw it and tender an apology to women community," Achuthanandan told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram.
Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president V M Sudheeran termed Musliar's statements as "unwarranted" and "anti-women" and said he should withdraw them.
Lashing out at Kanthapuram, the chief of All India Sunni Jamiyyathul Ulama, Mahila Congress state president Bindu Krishna said such remarks were a challenge to the Constitution of the country.
"His remarks are a challenge to the Constitution, which prophesies no discrimination in the name of caste, creed, religion or sex. When he says women and men are never equal, he is actually questioning the integrity of the Constitution," Bindu Krishna told PTI.
She also urged women community, including Muslim women, to stand up and raise their voice against such anti-women remarks.
Naxal-turned activist Ajitha alleged that it was not for the first time that the Sunni leader was making anti-women comments.
"What he said was not only anti-women, but utterly communal. He had insulted all women in the world. What right does he have to make such venomous comments again and again?" Ajitha told PTI.
Muslim Educational Society president Dr P A Fazal Gafoor said such statements were actually giving weapons to Sangh Parivar forces to attack the community.
Triggering controversy, 76-year-old Aboobacker Musliar had yesterday described as "un-Islamic" the concept of gender equality and said that women could never equal men as "they are fit only to deliver children".
He said women had no mental strength and the power to control the universe, "which lies in the hands of men." He also said "gender equality is against Islam, humanity and was intellectually wrong.
The scholar's remarks against reservation for women in elections had set off another controversy recently.
He had said 50 per cent reservation of seats for women in civic polls was "too high" but retracted the statement later.
I was going to post this earlier, but I was afraid a bunch of FReeper boys would agree with him.
If he said that “Only women are fit to bear children,” he’d be miles ahead of a fair chunk of the brain trust in the west. Of course, that isn’t much of a challenge any more.
Sunni leader Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musliar …It’s all in the name.
Well, he is right about this part. Islam is misogynist. It's in their book. Mad Mo made it so.
NOW and other feminzies aren’t speaking out against this message, so apparently they agree.
/just pointing out their hypocrisy
Islam and marxism are the greatest threats to liberty and freedom in the world. Both should be eradicated.
Islamics only understand hate, so they are incapable of appreciating women. They have given their souls over to evil and see no beauty in the world. Islam is it’s own punishment.
Islam needs a reformation and it most likely will be led by muslim women.
Yes indeed!....
Another cleric said the only way the West can beat out Islam now is if they have four wives and they all have children, but that even if they do so it’s too late.
Islamic Jihad via childbearing and immigration
P.S. She has borne two daughters, and they will be just as “helpless” as she is.
Sounds like them Muzlim women really gird their loins with strength....
7th century Islam is incompatible with the 21st century.
Liberals meeting islam is going to be explosive!
I have thought about this hypocrisy for years...it has only made me conclude that feminists secretly desire to be dominated by Islam. Freedom is intolerable, and anything is better than the moral shackles of Christianity, to an unsaved, unrepentant woman.
I had a dream that Palin might become commander-in-chief and be the one to send in the US Marines to knock these knuckle-draggers dicks in the dirt. It would really upend their world ;-)
Any civilization that demeans women is doomed to failure and madness.... you can see the proof in the ME!
I don't think these backward savages care much for their own mothers.
Yes, it would be great. On the other hand, they love Merkel and Hillary.
He’s wrong, the Islamic scholars over at Salon swear Islam in 600AD was far ahead of Christianity and today’s West in the realm of women’s rights.
Then that means the 72 virgins are young boys.
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