Several speakers during an online protest held by the Women’s Department of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) pushed for the need for people from all communities and regions to speak up against the culture of hate prevailing in the country.
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NEW DELHI — Noted women personalities of India joined an online protest held by the Women’s Department of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) to denounce the politics of hate, sexual violence and misogyny, ‘peddled’ by apps like Sulli Deals and Bulli Bai.
Prominent women activists, lawyers, journalists, social, political and community leaders including Flavia Agnes a women’s rights lawyer, Advocate Maitreyi Krishnan co-convenor of All India Lawyers Association for Justice, Advocate Jaleesa Sultana a member of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), Khalida Parveen, an activist from Hyderabad who was also targeted on the app, Kavita Srivastava a human rights activist, Sheema Mohsin national general secretary of Welfare party of India, Afreen Fatima national secretary Fraternity Movement, Fatima Nafees mother of missing JNU student Najeeb, Shayma research scholar JNU and others spoke at the ‘National Online Protest Gathering’ titled “Nari ka Samman, Desh ka Abhiman. JIH Women’s Department secretaries Atiya Siddiqua and Rahamathunnisa and its central committee member Shaista Rafat also addressed the protest gathering.
The women activists reiterated their solidarity to the women who have been targeted in this condemnable and criminal activity of ‘auctioning’ Muslim women, particularly those who are actively participating in public life and are journalists, activists, movement leaders and academics.
They demanded to give compensation to those who were targeted.
The speakers raised many questions about the issue. They questioned the culture of sexual impunity that allows such incidents to repeatedly take place even as they are taken ‘cognizance’ of by the state and police authorities. They also raised questions on the heated debate around the age of the accused, and how this should not be treated as an excuse to allow them to go scot-free, and the need to fight for justice instead of putting the blame on the women who have been targeted.
The nature of gendered Islamophobia was highlighted as well in the protest gathering.
Several speakers pushed for the need for people from all communities and regions to speak up against the culture of hate.
The meeting’s welcome address was delivered by Fakhira Tabassum and anchored by Humera Koppal.