www.BPODigest.com i-Vortal

They did it again.. Issues Fatwa against Sania

Newindpress.com reports that some cleric issued:'Fatwa' against Sania, the jewel of India.

A religious scholar reportedly issued a ‘fatwa’ about her dress code saying that Islam does not permit a woman to wear skirts, shorts and sleeveless tops.

“Veil can be dropped on certain occasions but not the way the girl is going about and playing in all those countries,” the scholar told a private news channel on Wednesday.

The comments of the scholar were extensively aired by the private television channel that also sought the views of women’s organisations on the subject, stirring a major controversy.

Maintaining stoic silence on the issue, Sania, who comes from a devout Muslim family, passed the query off saying that she has nothing to say about it.

I think this is totally outrageous. I just can't believe that some crack pot cleric issues a fatwa against Sania and the news are aired in TV channels and newspapers. I think the cleric must be jailed for trying to insult the girl who is a huge inspiration to millions of youth. The media also must do some responsible journalism.

Pioneer reports No, Mr Theologian, you can't play tennis in a burqa:

Aslam Razvi, advisory member of Jamaat-e-Islami, had taken umbrage over the clothes Sania Mirza wears on court. "We can't understand why she should be wearing the kind of dress she wears on court. Why can't she wear long skirts and full sleeve shirts?" Mr Razvi could try swimming in a mullah's robe to find out why.

Who's to tell these custodians of codes that it's not for them to lay down the line? That the country is immensely proud of this young girl who has made it to the list of top 50 tennis players? That she is a role model for kids her age and younger?

We should go the Singapore route as described by Atanu

Freedom of religion is guaranteed in Singapore but freedom to proselytize is not. Proselytizing essentially says that my religion is better than your religion and that if you don’t accept my god as the One True Savior(TM), you will rot in hell that my god has specially prepared for you. This sows seeds of discord in society and soon the newly converted start asking for special treatment and handouts and in the limiting case, when the bunch grows sufficiently large, ask for a separate state of their own because they cannot bear to live with the other people who are destined to go to hell.

So Singapore is strict about proselytizing. In keeping with their policy of discouraging that anti-social behavior, they caught a meek little Catholic lady who was going door to door peddling her religion and threw her into jail after she was found guilty by the courts. Then they publicized the event. This sent the message to all religious bigots who follow the dictates of their own hearts that bigotry is not ok.

They took care of the mullahs as well. Got them together and told them that if they even make a peep in their weekly religious sermons promoting killing and terrorism, they will have their butts in the sling. Live and let live was the message they got and as rational humans, the mullahs got in line. The last time they had communal unrest was sometime in the late 1960s.