YOu have spent so much 'effort' in writing an article but what is the use as in which way does Muslim personal law apply to you and for that matter to me??? Muslim law applies only when both parties in dispute are muslims and therefore are willing to submit to Shariah law. How can it affect Secular India and what is there to laugh? If a muslim does not have faith in his own law and wishes to say get wedded also in accordance with the law of the land can you - in all your intelllgence tell us that Shariah only will still apply? That a divorce ruled by Talaq will be final without due processes of law as exist in our Nation??
Why go around like a bag of hot air on matters that the muslims could best sort out among themselves. They can and they will do so without any of our help. If you are really so interested in sorting out the matter convert to Islam and then speak about something that affects your life directly. Till then look out for some areas of your personal concern to write ahout or have you like the Sangh parivar run out of ideas and gimmicks and persecution mania to talk about?
oh please
by manofsan on May 13, 2005 03:12 AM Permalink
Your response was ridiculous. "does muslim law apply to you" oh please. The fact is that muslims are not some separate sovereign state within India. All inhabitants of India share the same space, and therefore should share a common system of law. When everyone is driving together on the same road, each one can't be following a different traffic law as they see fit. All developed countries have separation of Church and State -- this is of fundamental importance. If you can't understand the meaning of Separation of Church and State, then you are an irrational fundamentalist. Having a Uniform Civil Code doesn't mean that it will be some Hindu Code imposed on everyone else. It means separation of church and state, and it means laws should be based on reason, instead of on the arbitrariness of scripture.
