I am surprised that the slave mentality has been etched so deeply in their minds, that they are unwilling to get freedom themselves, they are actually protesting that they want to remain prisoners forever
surprising
I hope India succeeds in this endeavor and does not come under pressure
The Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act was passed on 7 October 1937 in British India to ensure that Indians following Islamic faith shall be ruled according to their cultural norms.[1] This Act gave strength to the pre-existing customary laws, although ---->it was in conflict with Islamic jurisprudence in several aspects<------.
First of all it was introduced by british in 1937 not independent India. Irony is that it in no way even complies with islamic sharia but only reinforces existing discriminatory cultural practices of the region against women. A good example is triple talaq which is nowhere followed as loosely as in India.
So called seculars and mullahs want to perpetually keep vote bank politics alive by raking up the issue. The muslim community improperly represented by a few rogues has worked hard to enact discriminatory laws to keep woman subjugated. The irony is that every act which is passed to discriminate is called a protection act!
Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum (1985 SCR (3) 844), commonly referred to as the Shah Bano case, was a controversial maintenance lawsuit in India, in which the supreme court delivered a judgment favoring maintenance given to an aggrieved divorced Muslim woman. Then the Congress government, panicky in an election year, gave into the pressure of Muslim orthodoxy and enacted a law with its most controversial aspect being the right to maintenance for the period of iddat after the divorce, and shifting the onus of maintaining her to her relatives or the Wakf Board. It was seen as discriminatory as it denied right to basic maintenance available to non-Muslim women under secular law.[1]
Shah Bano, a 62-year-old Muslim mother of five from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, was divorced by her husband in 1978.[1] She filed a criminal suit in the Supreme Court of India, in which she won the right to alimony from her husband. However, the Muslim politicians mounted a campaign for the verdict's nullification. The Indian Parliament reversed the judgement under pressure from Islamic orthodoxy and The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986