A sunni muslim religious scholar from Kerala, India, recently made this statement. According to this guy, gender equality is un-Islamic and that women can never equal men since they are fit only to have children.
The statement was made at a gathering of Muslim Students Federation and surprisingly not a single student objected to the remark or protested against it.
This 'muslim scholar' has demonstrated his regressive and backward mindset and ideology by earlier making statements against reservation for women (which he subsequently retracted as it threatened to snowball into a major controversy) and saying that co-education was a conspiracy to destroy islam.
What can you say about such a person and the religion? Are their thoughts and ideologies in harmony with a modern, civilised and progressive society?
What is worse is that there has been no uproar over this statement in the media or by 'secular' hindus or the so called liberals and self proclaimed intellectuals. Imagine any hindu leader making a statement even a fraction as outrageous as this and think of the furore and denunciations that would have followed, with all the blame being heaped on the BJP and Narendra Modi, besides generalising this and using this as an excuse to deride all hindus and Hinduism.
We need to beware of such regressive elements and the media which overlooks their acts, all in the name of 'secularism'.
Link to the article - http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-kerala-sunni-leader-says-women-only-fit-to-deliver-children-calls-gender-equality-un-islamic-2149865
The statement was made at a gathering of Muslim Students Federation and surprisingly not a single student objected to the remark or protested against it.
This 'muslim scholar' has demonstrated his regressive and backward mindset and ideology by earlier making statements against reservation for women (which he subsequently retracted as it threatened to snowball into a major controversy) and saying that co-education was a conspiracy to destroy islam.
What can you say about such a person and the religion? Are their thoughts and ideologies in harmony with a modern, civilised and progressive society?
What is worse is that there has been no uproar over this statement in the media or by 'secular' hindus or the so called liberals and self proclaimed intellectuals. Imagine any hindu leader making a statement even a fraction as outrageous as this and think of the furore and denunciations that would have followed, with all the blame being heaped on the BJP and Narendra Modi, besides generalising this and using this as an excuse to deride all hindus and Hinduism.
We need to beware of such regressive elements and the media which overlooks their acts, all in the name of 'secularism'.
Link to the article - http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-kerala-sunni-leader-says-women-only-fit-to-deliver-children-calls-gender-equality-un-islamic-2149865
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