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alleged that Musliar's remarks were equal to the "anti-democratic" stand of Sangh Parivar and they should be withdrawn.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.
Liberals meeting islam is going to be explosive!
Is going to be a blood bath- liberals are not going to enjoy
Re-arrange the word order to; only women are fit to deliver (give birth) to children, and the guy would have had it right.
I suppose it should be acknowledged at the same time that only men are capable of siring children?
Where does that leave everyone? Woman as more important in role of motherhood ---since men are entirely incapable of bearing children bodily within themselves. Right?
Now go make me a sandwich. And while you're up...
NOT POSSIBLE. Islam can not be reformed without changing the koran and surahs....people who are killing and enslaving women are following the supposed words and wishes of their god.
Christianity went through a reformation when the common man was able to read the Bible in their own language taking the control and power out of the hands of just a few who could read Latin and were not following what was really said in the Bible.
Islam needs destroying....it is pure evil.
Seriously? We are talking slavery here.
Churchill from The River War:
“The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.”
The extended passage by Churchill on Islam is here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1592070/posts
He was only about 24 when he wrote it; he had more wisdom at that age than most of our political class today. I highly recommend The River War and With the Malakand Field Force. They should have been required reading for the entire officer and NCO corps, as well as the State Department, in the wake of 9/11.
On that note, see my previous.
I'll get my own sandwich.
Happy now?
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