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 | Govt appeasing mullahs on Taslima Our Correspondent Islamic fundamentalists are once again getting active to enforce their retrograde agenda. Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has become their favorite whipping girl. The latest is the campaign to oust the author who is already in exile; they want her visa to be canceled and she thrown out of India. Now they have linked Taslima with the preservation of the Muslim personal law. "There have been several attacks against the Muslim personal law which is not desirable. Muslims in this country have their own identity and that can only be preserved by the law framed according to holy Koran," assistant general secretary of All India Muslim Personal Law Board , Mohammad Abdur Raheem Quraishi told a rally organized recently by the Board in Kolkata; it was attended by 1.5 lakh people. All India Minority Forum president Idris Ali has accused the Government of trying to protect her. "Taslima has not only hurt the sentiments of Muslims, but she has defamed the Indian Constitution. The Government should not extend her visa and she should move out of this country immediately." It may be recalled that Idris Ali was alleged to be the mastermind behind the large-scale violence during a strike in Kolkata demanding revocation of Taslima's visa in November last year. He was charged with rioting, causing injury to police and public, and damaging public property. The recent statements by these fanatics could have been dismissed as the rants of the lunatic fringe were it not for the influence they exert on mainstream politicians. For instance, West Bengal Congress president Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi echoes the views of fundamentalists. He said, "I have already listened to the representatives of the minority communities in the state over the last few days. I must convey their sentiments on the issues to the party high command in Delhi soon." Worse, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government is promoting tendencies and sections that are essentially fissiparous in nature. In his Budget speech, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said, "Government has taken up the report of the Justice Rajindar Sachar Committee for speedy implementation." It is well known that of all the government committees set up in India after Independence, the one headed by Sachar was the most divisive and communal, save the Mandal Commission. Yet, the UPA regime is determined to embrace Sachar, despite what the first of its six basic principles of governance says—that is, "to preserve, protect and promote social harmony and to enforce the law without fear or favor to deal with all obscurantist and fundamentalist elements who seek to disturb social amity and peace." The UPA is doing the opposite. Posted on : 3/17/2008 Mail this article to your friend |