Who wants uniform civil code?
Why Muslims are vehemently opposing the Uniform Civil Code? Why don’t let their woman have equal rights? Why are they following outdated religious scripts? Why are they not joining with mainstream life? Why are they not accepting the law of the country? Don’t they know that the petition is filed by Muslim women only? Are they special in this country? And more and more questions are raised by Non Muslims. Well, not all the questions are relevant considering questioner’s lack of awareness about the petition sent to the Prime Minister by Bharathia Muslim Mahila Andolan and the concept of Uniform Civil Code. There won’t be such barrage of questions if they know the crux of the matter well. The letter sent by Bharathia Muslim Mahila Andolan to prime minister and posted on January 1, 2016 at their website clearly demands a codified personal law for Muslims. I repeat that they demand ‘a codified personal family law for Muslims’ and are ...