Fossilized, regressive Islamists and right-wing fanatics are at each other's throat on Vande Mataram
You know something? Jamait-e-Ulema Hind is a bunch of highly educated, progressive scholars who after several years of hair-splitting, back-breaking analysis found the most pressing problem Indian Muslims face: Vande Mataram!
Come on all ye those regressive mullahs; we are tired of your ridiculous fatwas. Let me ask this simple question: Is your faith so shaky singing an anthem will ruin your faith? There are several burning issues you can address before wasting time on trivial issues. Are you telling us that Indian Muslim wakes up every morning and worry about the horror of singing Vande Mataram? He's rather worried about other simple things in life like food, job, education, etc.
Nobody is forcing you; if you don't wanna sing it, you don't need to.
Are these mullahs aware that there once lived one Sayed Alavi Thangal, alias Mamburam Thangal, a few centuries back in the Malabar region of Kerala whose anti-British fatwas infuriated the British authorities to the point of deporting him back to his home country Yemen? In fact, much before Gandhiji's swaraj boycott call, the Thangal's lengthy fatwa had called for the boycott of British goods.
But today these good-for-nothing, gutless fatwas have come to mean ridiculous edicts from equally ridiculous mean guys.
On a different level, it appears to me, these mullahs are hand-in-glove with the Sangh Parivar. They emit such fatwas whenever the Sangh Parivar fellas are in real danger; sagging prospects with a serious dearth of issues.
Both the mullahs and the saffron brigade need some urgent therapy so that this country is saved.
Now, these right wing fanatics can go on beating Muslims with this Vande Mataram stick for some time and remain in the limelight. Now, they can profess for a while to Muslims about the virtues of being a patriot. The proverbial chastity speech of a whore.
Instead of pondering over Vande Mataram's Islamic traits, the mullahs should instead be talking about real un-Islamic practices like Haj subsidy. If you are baffled by this sudden disconnect between Vande Mataram and Haj, let me get an answer whether you have been told to perform Haj on state money. Never. I heard only wealthy people are supposed to perform Haj. It is not meant to be a state-sponsored jaunt.
That's a good one Firos. Mullahs and Sanghis are always hand-in-hand. Otherwise the nation would have been in a different level.
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