The pseudo intellectuals and so called secularists tend to bring in the point of Durga as an objection to the acceptance of the song by the muslims. This is not valid as the version of the song we are speaking of is the truncated one with out those lines on Durga.
The next objection would be to the very words ‘Vande Mataram’ which translates to ‘Salute to Mother’. Even this is not acceptable to our spiritual muslim brothers, and the entire nation is expected to give them concessions again on this.
This shows how ossified the psyche of the community has become to the text of their religion. This shows that they are more passionate about the nitty gritty of religion than about bettering their community by taking to modern education and lifestyle. This attitude of muslims is encouraged by the visionless politicians who attach the tags of ‘sensitive issue’ and ‘religious sentiment’ to it and baulk from taking a tough stand. To cap it there are these writers who for the sake of appearing all ‘secular’, ‘intellectual’, ‘minority caring’ write to get printed in the biased section of the print media. All their ‘intellect’ and ‘secular thought’ is but a big nonsense. They blithely ignore what harm their nonsense can do to the future of this country.
The fatwas issued by the congregation are more in the talibanization trend than progressive. The real fatwas are covered in the most acceptable fatwa of “Call against terrorism”. Can anyone object to this call against terrorism and what significance does that have? What effect have such diktats issued in earlier congregations made? It just doesn’t mean anything, but acts as a sweet coating to all other abominable stances they clergy takes. These include ‘No tv and cinema’, ‘No womens education/reservation’ etc..
Such thoughts are the breeding ground for more radical and fundamental interpretations of the book and which would finally lead to the demand for the implementation of the Sharia in their regions.
The idea of Pakistan had received immense support from these ‘devout’ muslims of UP. Sixty years later, do we see something brewing here again?
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i agree with your article. but what really unfortunate is that in the very preamble of democracy we declare india is for EQUALITY of status and of opportunity. if india is equal for status what is that making muslims reject uniform civil code and issue fatwas? by their conservative ideas already the long natioanl song has been trimmed down to paras. and still they are not happy about this. and i have a doubt... what does they mean by not singing vandemataram? so if at all they happened to attend a assembly where the people happen to sing vandemataram ... will they move out of that place till that song gets over? what about muslim children studying in schools? will they move out of assembly when vandemataram is being sung? what kind of differences are being created with their conservative attitudes among the young minds? and look at this government even agrees to their fatwas. how unfortunate was that? i am not being too conservative by asking these questions. but what bothers me most country is getting divided on many lines. why cant the people think of this?
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