[Reader-list] No Burqa, No teaching in West bengal

[TaraPrakash]

Okay, looks like I missed the original mail that evoked this response. 
Rakesh, can you please send the mail you were responding to. A lot of mails 
these days get filtered out of my mail box.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rakesh Iyer" <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com>
To: "Pawan Durani" <pawan.durani at gmail.com>
Cc: "reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 5:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] No Burqa, No teaching in West bengal


> This is dubious. The university should be stripped of its legitimacy if 
> they
> continue with this dubious aspect. Nobody anywhere in India should have 
> the
> right to determine this dress code for teachers. If teachers feel any 
> dress
> code should be maintained, it should be out of their own individual
> convictions and shouldn't be enforced by them on others.
>
> As for the Left front, it should be congratulated for spectacularly
> promoting fundamentalism and conservatism among the Muslim community to 
> seek
> votes. While the BJP and the RSS indulge in feeding off the fear of the
> Muslims to seek votes (through demonizing Muslims), the Congress and the
> other 'secular' parties just feed off this fear of Muslims and let them
> remain in bad economic conditions in perpetuity to get their votes.
>
> Left is the third factor which people don't talk about. I as a Hindu don't
> have to refer to the Gita, Mahabharata, Ramayana or other religious texts 
> to
> prove that women deserve equal rights as men or that untouchability is 
> wrong
> or that women should also have the right to ask for divorce like men
> equally. I just have to refer to the Constitution. But a Muslim has to 
> prove
> this using the Koran. And some fools are making the wrong use of it. 
> Anybody
> misusing religious texts for such purposes should be put behind bars and
> they should get life term straightaway.
>
> And the disaster is for our people, including the Muslims.
>
> Rakesh
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