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MS.
TASLIMA NASREEN AND OTHERS ON THE ISLAMIC CODE
Colonel Govind Y. Sowany (Retd) |
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Ms Nasreen is a 32-year-old Bangladeshi woman, who,
without the authority of either age or scholarship,
persists in making one insensible statement after
another. In a recent interview with the Australian
radio she has stated that the Islamic code means women
and seeks to enslave them. This is absurd.
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Below are my observations on this issue, which I have
made from the study of the Qur'an and Hadis, the two
authentic sources of Sharia Law.
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ANTI
FEMININE BIAS
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Gender
discrimination is even much more practiced now a days
in our own country. Recent reports in the press and
on the electronic media have confirmed and brought
to light the evil practice of female infanticide in
Tamil Nadu. Baby girls are being choked with rice
gruel regularly and on a massive scale. During Jahliyat,
- the pre-Islamic era of ignorance - Arabs had similar
proclivities and used to bury their little girls alive
till Islam condemned the practice as a grave sin and
ordered the believers to reject and abhor women who
sinned like this. (Surah
Al-Isra 17:31
and
Al-Mumtahana 60:12)
The injunction is repeated in Surah
Al-Takwir. The lines read: -
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