last month I attended a training session on gender-equality as a teacher of a remote-area school. there I voiced for the equality of education & social right of both genders. that project is really a good step, and after two days orientation programme we learnt a lot. from the very beginning I catched evryone's attention as a speaker on this topic & as I belong from Muslim family, an otherwise backward class! My point of view was -
1. social barriers on female children , viz, family's unconciousness, parents indifference towards her education, considering girl-child as a burden of a family as well as society!
2. to solve this we can help a bit as a social worker, as we are the teacher - the maker of generations! To aware them we have to organise some campaign on the issue of education of girls, not only that we may arrenge a camp for the pregnant women & their in-laws to aware them about need of the birth of a girl child, b'coz at present India's gender-ratio is in demoralising state.
the next day our team raised voice on the implimentation of Women-laws regarding domestic violence, both physically & mentally.
1. we know the matter & fatal fate of Shahabanu Verdict. where inspite of law she had to suffer & accept the loopholes of Indian-judiciary system.
2. many of Shahabanu are exploited daily, how many of us have a knowldge about them? As a backward class the women exploitation is shocking in male dominating muslim society. Every muslim women is a victim of Shariyat Law, no matter whether she is from upper-middle class- an urban lady, or from a working class - a rustic lady, somewhere more; somewhere less but they are oppressed everywhere in the name of religion , gender or an imaginery inferiority, comparing the opposite sex!
3. the implimentation of law against polygamy of a govt-servc holder is still now a rediculous drama! How many of us have a knowledge that, a Man can have another marriage even after his retirement, at the age of 62 ! there can't be any wayout to check those womeniser bastards from taking 2-3 wives before their death,unless they check themselves from carnal desires. They are simply Puppet of Libido !
thats why a man of 63yrs can demand a wife although he has a young daughter of 24yrs!... he simply says that the Profet himself had 13 wives, so why not me!!
4. When I questioned about the Shariyat law & the inequal distribution of property among sons, daughters & their mother, 2 teachers(better to call them Fanatics!) from Urdu-School opposed me . they continuously claimed thet Islam permits women to take a share of paternal property, I raised my voiced "Howmuch?" "whats the percentage of sharing?" they became violent and refused to answer me, saying "Whatever the percentage is, no matter, but muslim women get some property & they must be happy with that half of sharing!!" I was shocked to find that the person who violently opposed me & arguing for the Shariyati law, was none but a Woman ! she was totally in a mood of defending her Allah & His laws- an ultimate Blasphemy!
one of my team teachers checked me to caught in a communal debate, otherwise what would happen, ..no idea!
Hope a sunshine will soon come for the real welfare of women, otherwise I cant imagine howlong we have to stay in utter darkness of oppression, ignorance & homicide !
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