What educated Muslim women say about women quota bill?
Submitted by admin4 on 17 March 2010 - 12:25pm
By TCN Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: While common Muslim is unaware of the debates around Women Reservation Bill, educated and active Muslim women are all for the passage of the bill in Lok Sabha. However, they want some concrete mechanism to ensure the political participation of Muslim women and other excluded groups.
Zakia Soman, founder member of Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, largest mass organization of Muslim women in India while talking to TwoCircles.net said, “We support the bill and consider it a forward step towards gender equality”. “Having said that, I must say that there must be certain intrinsic mechanism to ensure the participation of women of Muslim community and other marginalized groups. Otherwise, it would not help much,” she clarified.
Welcoming the bill, Prof. Hasina Hasia, member of All India Muslim Personal Law Board said, “Women will certainly benefit from the bill. However, to elevate the Muslim community, quota within quota should be provide”.
Prof. Azra Razzak, former Director of Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies and who was also part of Sachar Committee as Academic Consultant feels no need of quota within quota for Muslim women in the bill. “Muslim women are going to benefit from this bill as much as general women are. We have to change our mentality”, she told TCN.
Tahreek e Niswan’s UP state convener Tahira Hassan though not opposed to the idea of quota within quota for Muslim women and other excluded groups, she fears this might help the politicians to further delay the passage of the bill.
Meanwhile, Senior Journalist Arfa Khanum wants actions beyond reservation. “Only increasing the number of women parliamentarians is not going to empower women in real sense. We have to think and act beyond that,” she asserts.
One thing about which all are sure is that, the bill is pro-women and Muslim women are competent enough to participate in the electoral process if they are given fair chance.
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QUOTA BILL & MUSLIM WOMEN
TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, THERE IS NOT A SINGLE INDEPENDENT MUSLIM M.P EITHER IN THE LOWER OR IN THE UPPER HOUSE. ALL OF THEM ARE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT CONTESTING ON PREDOMINENTLY NON-MUSLIM POLITICAL PARTY TICKETS AND SO THEY ARE BOUND TO SING THE SONG THEIR POLITICAL MASTERS WANT THEM TO SING. CAN SUCH PERSONS BE TAKEN TO BE BONAFIDE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE INDIAN MUSLIM MINORITY COMMUNITY? SO WILL BE THE PLIGHT OF MUSLIM WOMEN IF THEY, PER CHANCE, ARE GIVEN TICKETS AND AGAIN IF PERCHANCE THEY ARE ELECTED. BUT IN THEIR CASE THEY HAVE TO PLEASE TWO MASTERS - ONE THEIR POLITICAL PARTY AND THE OTHER THE HEAD OF HER FAMILY VIZ., HER HUSBAND.
CAN ANY MUSLIM WOMAN COME FORWARD AND PUBLICLY & HONESTLY DECLARE THAT SHE CARES FOR HER COMMUNITY MORE THAN HER POLITICAL PARTY AS WELL AS MORE THAN HER HUBBY?
S.M.PASHA
CONVENER, SHARIATH PROTECTION COUNCIL. CHENNAI
Reservation for Muslims?
Reservation was given for SC/ST on the ground that they were exploited for centuries.
But far from being exploited, the Muslims were the rulers of India! They ruled for 800 years and are directly responsible for lack of scintifc devolopment and backwardness in India till the Phirangis came. Then why should resrvations be given to them? for ruling India? for deviding India? for looting Hindus?
An IAS officer said what Manik Prabhu says
Mr. Manik Prabhu - an IAS officer said the same thing, you mentioned in the LAST PARAGRAPH of your comment, under "Saree instead of Dhoti". An IAS Officer said verbatim: Who will do the menial / manual jobs, if there is technological development in India? I was amazed to hear this from an IAS officer, before 15-years.
You are also so true about Late Indira Gandhi's achievement(s), being a P.M. of India. Yes, I agree whatever GOOD was done / achieved under her father's tenure, was UNDONE by a woman Prime Minister. But, one thing I disagree is: Indira Gandhi did not prefer Sanjay Gandhi's wisdom - hence her own son died in a mysterious air-crash. It was not an accident, but intentional act by.......
BTW, every famous personality, throughout the world is "killed in accident" OR neatly assassinated. Actual culprits are rarely, IF EVER traced.
Examples are: Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Princess Diana of U.K., President Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan, Yitzhak Rabin, Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Rajiv Gandhi, Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon, Benazir Bhutto, Y.S.R. Reddy (Chief Minister of AP), ATS Chief Hemant Karkare, Advocate Shahid Azmi, etc. etc.
An Indian
Well informed Muslim Women Welcome the Bill!
Hats off to our well-informed Muslim sisters, they have come forward to say in unequivocal terms that the Bill is definitely going to empower the women folk held back by chauvinistic males all these years.Islam has made acquiring knowledge a "must" for both the sexes.In the early Islamic days, women stood shoulder to shoulder with menfolk in every Islamic venture. The first Muslim woman martyr was Sumaiya (RA), the "sahabia" (associate) of Prophet Muhamed(SAWS).
in almost every Muslim house, the lady of the house is the real administrator.Then, why can't they administer the national affairs?Islam has been the first religion to confer many rights to women for the first time in history.A new breed of cultured Muslim women are coming up and they could do well in the field of politics too.
Saree Instead of Dhoti
There will be no difference. Let the Govt. pass the 33% women's bill. women are as bad and corrupt as men., so the change that will be visible will only be symbolic. instead of dhoti., you will have saree.. and thats all. Indira Gandhi was a woman. What did she do ? Nothing but destroy the fine eddifice of democracy built by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. She preferred Sanjay Gandhi's wisdom to Nehru's and corrupted Indian bureaucracy. Since Indira, India has not recovered because she smashed the pillars of the steel frame.
eventually rss (congress and bjp's source spring of energy) wants to dis-enfranchise muslims. so what must muslims do now ? leave politics., and go for nation building. internalise the pain. concentrate on nation building... like the jews., build the community assets.. schools.. colleges.. thru the resources the community has.. if they cant do it., let muslims do the menial jobs... i.e. job left by Harijans.. as they climb the social ladder.
there has to be someone to do menial jobs... in the heirarchy of Manu-Vaad. as of now., that segment of menial jobs., is earmarked for Indian Muslims. That is the plainest truth. All else is eye-wash.
People like Manik Prabhu
There are people like you who can opt for menial jobs which is apt with the way your thinking goes. Are you a recent Dalit convert to islam? So are you a dalit muslim?
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