The present government has a feeling of hatred towards Muslims within and wants to seize their identities. Our identity is not in our name but in our Shari’ah.” The statement was made by Barrister Asaduddin Owaisi, Member of Parliament and President of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen while addressing a jam-packed gathering at Aiwan-e-Ghalib auditorium during Tahaffuz-e-Shariat Conference organised by Limra Foundation on 3 December.
On the recent expression of care and concern by our Prime Minister towards Muslim women, Owaisi said if our Prime Minister is really concerned about Muslim women, why he has not said anything on JNU student Najeeb’s missing case even after the passage of more than one month and a half. The ailing mother of Najeeb is pleading everyone, running from pillar to post, to find out her son. Owaisi, on the sidelines of the programme, also assured all possible help to the mother of Najeeb.
And why is it so that till date our Prime Minister has not provided justice for Zakia Jafri, widow of slain parliamentarian Ehsan Jafri if he is true to his words?
The MIM President also argued, if the Prime Minister is talking about triple talaq and justice to Muslim women then will he show courage to abolish the law in Goa which says that after 25 years a man can remarry if his wife is unable to produce any child? And also a man can remarry if they don’t have a boy after thirty years there. He asked, will the government, whose famous slogan Beti Bachao Beti Padhao doing the round in every nook and corner, abrogate such discriminatory laws against the girl child.
Senior Supreme Court lawyer, Shahid Azad said in the last line in our Preamble there is the word ‘Nation’ and the very word nation has been described by the Supreme Court on many occasions as nation building. And whenever the definition of nation is described, it talks about uniformity of culture, language and religion. And on the pretext of the word nation and its description, efforts are being made to seize our fundamental rights and it is a very serious issue.
On distortion and intervention in Shari’ah, Maulana Yaseen Akhtar Misbahi said that we have to fight the internal and external forces who are deliberately trying to harm us through their nefarious designs by raising controversial issues.
While presiding over the programme, Maulana Mufti Mukarram Ahmed, Shahi Imam, Masjid Fatehpuri, said that deliberate intervention by the government in Shari’ah is a conspiracy and attempt to demoralise Muslims and involve Muslims by creating an unnecessary issue so that they remain second class citizens. Mere seminars and conferences may not suffice unless and until there is full-fledged national campaign aimed to protect, preserve and educate the Muslim community, he suggested.