[Reader-list] A Step Towards Progress...why do Muslims need a separate law.... because US and UK...

[Rahul Asthana]

(This topic was started by Ms Jogi last year as well(I
think) and people had provided responses to her.This
is  mine, which I reproduce from my mail archives.)

Questions on a better line would be
1)Why is it not the whole country's responsibility
that Muslims have come to be represented by
organizations like AIMPLB? Historically it was
congress who sought the alliance of hardline muslim
parties at the time of partition.
2)Now since the issue of UCC has been hijacked by the
likes of RSS and BJP(because of the communal politics
of Congress,in my opinion) who talk of Hindu
Nationalism, are the muslims to be blamed for feeling
like playing into their hands  if they concede to this
demand? 
3)Are the muslims a monolithic entity so that they can
be collectively blamed for Muslim personal law? Can
the same criteria be applied on every other citizen
for every other law?

Finally, this is notwithstanding the importance of the
debate that should take place on how and why all the
muslims can be represented by archaic and undemocratic
organizations like the MPLB.Even going ahead with the
existing laws but having their interpretation done in
regular courts by scholars of Islamic law, would be a
great step ahead.
--- gowhar fazli <gowharfazili at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Why would you not let them (believers) make that
> choice for themselves?  Why do you have a problem if
> Muslims choose to maintain a separate personal law? 
> Rules of the land are made by people and people make
> choices about what law they should adopt... 'land'
> by
> itself makes no law!  What do you want the
> secularists
> to do?  Be more vocal in defense of freedom of
> choosing personal law or to oppose it?  I personally
> feel that we should collectively negotiate the law
> we
> want for ourselves but would like to respect the
> choice of  certain religious people to continue with
> their differences if they choose to do so as long as
> they please... It does not trouble me like you...
> only
> as long as they do not oppress their own members
> through that difference.... or prevent individual
> members from opting out or opting in.
> 
> Why do you think the law of the 'land' is so
> sacrosanct? And why do you think all secularists
> have
> to believe that only one kind of law for all kinds
> of
> people is the right thing to do?  Why do you want
> every one to be the same and think the same?  Do you
> want the world to be simpler for you to comprehend? 
> 
> 
> Genetics suggests that diversity is the very
> mechanism
> by which species evolves and has better chances to
> survive in a dynamic world.  Perhaps extending that
> logic to the notion to truth... in wake of the
> collapse of all absolutes... it is better not to
> modernise all or convert everyone to the same faith.
> 
> Have i off-shot? Do you have specific problems with
> non-uniform (customised!) personal laws? 
> 
> 
> Why do you suppose uk and usa are divine examples???
> We are no longer colonies... and can differ.
> 
> "why can't it happen in 'secular india'?" Heard that
> song "It only happens in India"!!   :)
>  
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a
> super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing
> potential for nightmares.   
>       
> Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look
> which becomes a habit. 
> 
> Peter Ustinov
> 
> 
>  
>
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