Saturday, August 29, 2009

Ban on Burqa... here we go again!

Now they have banned burqa in a college in Hyderabad and have invited wrath of Muslim families... Phew! What the hell is wrong with these people? What the hell is wrong with us? Why are we constantly looking for something petty to do to cause someone some trouble, some anguish and... well, a lot of mayhem!

First of all, I wonder why nobody wants to know about the purdah system and only brands it as a practice which has to do with Islam... thank you, but no, thank you! It has nothing to do with being a Muslim. Read archives of this blog here to know more about the rights of women in general and the purdah system in particular.

Coming back to my initial point, why are we so dissatisfied with a normal life? Why do we constantly look for things to upset the normal scheme of things? Oh God! Why can't we have mutual respect and some tolerance?

Won't it be so much better if we spent all this time trying to cement the bond between communities and creating harmony for all to live without the fear of being killed or discriminated against, for some reason or the other.

It is so very unfortunate that we behave like animals... they have reasons to kill each other because they are all different. But what's our problem? We are all the same... the same species, the same structure, the same living pattern and well, the same race as created by the almighty - human beings. Why can't we take that one common link and build on that rather than take umpteen number of points to distinguish and divide the one race God created.

We are divided in countries, cities, castes, races, colour, class, and of course religion. What a misfortune... that it does not end there... Christians are divided as Catholics and Protestants, Muslims as Shia and Sunni, Hindus as various things actually... Brahman and Kayast and what-not. And to top it all, comes in the language divide... wow... are we gifted with Math or what! We don't know how to build bridges to walk up to each other and embrace the common link of humanity but we sure know how to disregard God's plan and walk all over each other to satisfy the egoistic urge to prove ourselves the better devotee... the better Muslim, the better Hindu and so on...

What exactly are we doing? Labelling each individual? Moving towards a day when each and every person will stand alone and say I'm right... with no one to second the opinion... or worse... no one to even hear him say that coz everyone will be busy saying their own thing. Better prepare for this eventuality... coz its not very far.

God help the burqa clad women and their cause in Hyderabad... but I wish, sincerely, that at least education institutes were removed from such petty politics.

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