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Self-confession of AIMPLB

Kashmir Times. Dated: 5/25/2017 12:14:24 AM

Dear Editor,
It refers to funny arguments given on 16.05.2017 at Supreme Court on behalf of All India Muslim Personal Law Board-AIMPLB wherein Ram was equated with triple talaq in terms of faith. Significantly argument will be of much more importance and relevance in other case presently pending at Supreme Court in favour of Ram birth-place at Ayodhya, because AIMPLB has now confessed in judicial records that Ram is a matter of faith for majority community of the country. Otherwise also scientific research not only by Indian authorities but even by Srilankan government has established existence of Ram much-much before Islam got in existence just about 1400 years back.
There is a total lack of sense in taking triple talaq as some matter of faith. Issue could be discussed better through background on which triple talaq was incorporated in Islam. For example, several Muslim friends suggest that aspect of multiple-marriages in Islam was incorporated for re-marriage and thus re-settlement of women widowed in war-time. But with change in time, all such aspects even including multiple-marriages have become irrelevant and need reforms to prevent as some religious privilege. Many religious rituals in Hinduism based on scientific and practical aspects became social evils because of misuse, and as such reforms were legislated. When even Islamic countries have gone for reforms to remove social evils as some religious privilege, central government should firmly go ahead with its duty to protect human rights of Indian Muslim women who are also citizens of this great nation.
—Subhash Chandra Agrawal,
1775 Kucha Lattushah
Dariba, Chandni Chowk Delhi.