[Reader-list] Fatwa issued against 'Vande Mataram'

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Javed
 
Damn the 'saffronwadis". What do they have to do with 'VANDE MATARAM'. And damn the 'deobandi maulvis' too. Who are they to tell anyone in India what to sing or not to sing.
 
"Vande Mataram" is the National Song of India. It has been so accepted by the "People of India" in the Constituent Assembly. It would be nice if everyone sung it at appropriate occassions.
 
It has been in cognisance of one stanza of "Vande Mataram" containing references to Hindu dieties Durga and Lakshmi that it has been excluded and only two stanzas of the original have been retained as India's National Song.
 
Kshmendra
 


--- On Wed, 11/4/09, Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Fatwa issued against 'Vande Mataram'
To: "A.K. Malik" <akmalik45 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Sarai List" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:27 PM


Dear Malik
Why do you have a problem with my additional comments in the bracket.
One extremism begets another extremism. That's why I am as much
against the saffronwadis forcing Vande Matram on us as I am on the
maulviwadis stopping us from it.

J

On 11/3/09, A.K. Malik <akmalik45 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>        Our friends always blame the BJP/VHP or such other formations if they
> speak anything right or wrong.By the way I couldn't get "What was the
> trigger" for adopting such a resolution/fatwa and strangely it has taken
> more than 60 years for the so called Maulvis to now know that it is against
> Islam.Cheers for their intellect level.
> If someone doesn't want to sing the National Song,let him/her not sing.There
> is no Constitutional duty on anyone to do so. But issuing a fatwa to others
> not to do so is definitely  a divisive one.Javed has very commendably given
> his observations but it would have been more welcome if he had not written
> the addl comments in brackets.
>
> (A.K.MALIK)
>
>
> --- On Tue, 11/3/09, Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Reader-list] Fatwa issued against 'Vande Mataram'
>> To: reader-list at sarai.net
>> Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 9:08 PM
>> Why should we listen to such a fatwa.
>> All Muslims should condemn such
>> a fatwa and ask these maulvis to mind their own business.
>> We cannot
>> allow them to be the spokespersons of all Muslims.
>>
>> (This is not to say that the Muslims should listen to the
>> saffron
>> brigade to sing Vande Matram necessarily). We have to
>> oppose both the
>> extremes.
>>
>> =======
>>
>> Fatwa issued against 'Vande Mataram'
>> Times Now 3 November 2009, 11:41am IST
>>
>> Jamait-e-Ulema Hind or the JEU on Tuesday issued a fatwa
>> against
>> singing national song 'Vande Mataram'. According to a
>> resolution,
>> Muslims should not sing 'Vande Mataram' as its reciting is
>> against the
>> Islam.
>>
>> The resolution, which was passed at the Deoband national
>> convention
>> meet, says that Muslims should not sing 'Vande Mataram' as
>> some verses
>> of the patriotic song are against the tenets of Islam. The
>> JEU leader
>> said that the some of the line in the song is against
>> Islam.
>>
>> Meanwhile, home minister P Chidambaram addressed a
>> Jamait-e-Ulema Hind
>> conference in Deoband today.
>>
>> Meanwhile, the Muslim Law Board justified the decision
>> saying that
>> (Muslims) can’t offer prayers to anyone but Allah. Kamal
>> Farooqui, a
>> prominent leader of the Board said, "We love the nation but
>> can't
>> worship it."
>>
>> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Fatwa-issued-against-Vande-Mataram/articleshow/5191847.cms
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