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See Pakistani columnist, Irfan Hussain.
http://dawn.com/weekly/mazdak/20081129.htm
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In listing the ways Muslims regress to the sixth century, he notes the following (emphasis added):
In India, Muslim ulema have won the right to dominate women as a religious right. This exemption was granted to them by a secular Congress Party. In Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Taliban and their supporters want to ban music, movies and even kite-flying. When the Taliban were in power, they had banned education for girls, and had denied women medical care from male doctors. Where will this madness end?
Perhaps it will tell you a lot about Indian politics to note that making that assessment above in public (the emphasized sentence) will likely get you tarred as a "Hindu fundamentalist".
You should also note that in India the above is a creation of the Left (Congress + Marxists).
I point this out because you mentioned Mumbai in your previous article; and because you are a civil libertarian and not a leftist or a rightist.
Every Indian should be ashamed of being lumped together with the Taliban, and that too, by a Pakistani! (India by Constitution explicitly aims to be secular, and Pakistan explicitly aims to be Islamic.) Yet you will see a lot of the "secular" crowd out there (e.g., on Huffington Post) defending India's "secularism". Ask them - when will this madness end?
