05-18-2006, 06:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-18-2006, 06:57 AM by Bharatvarsh.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The very basis for the demand for a UCC by Hindus is the Sharia law. And the most objectionable part of that is polygamy. I am from Kerala where 28% of polpulation are Muslims. Believe me. present generation of Muslims in Kerala do not marry more than once. Even if Sharia allows that, they do not do it. Why? <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It does not matter whether the present generation does not marry once or not, the law still officially allows them to do so & in a really secular country that would never happen and the demand for UCC is not just made by Hindus but even some really secular & self declared atheists.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->There is only one reason, education. Educated Muslims are aware of the stupidity of polygamy. I think, the backwardness of Muslims, is to do with that, by and large,
And Mr. Khan's rejoinder of polygamy in Hindusim is utterly ridiculous. At least the law does not allow polygamy in any other religion except Islam.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Actually Osama Bin Laden is pretty educated & so are many of the Islamic terrorists but almost all of them have multiple wives, so education by itself is not really a great antidote against Polygamy, even in the birth rate debate we see this standard secular arguement that lack of education and poverty are responsible for the high birth rate among Muslims but Kerala provides a wonderful contrast of these claims. The literacy rate in Kerala is almost the same for both Muslims and Hindus, even in terms of wealth Muslims are almost on par with Hindus in Kerala but their birth rate is almost double that of the state's average, interestingly Christians only have a slightly higher birth rate than Hindus in Kerala unlike Muslims.
It does not matter whether the present generation does not marry once or not, the law still officially allows them to do so & in a really secular country that would never happen and the demand for UCC is not just made by Hindus but even some really secular & self declared atheists.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->There is only one reason, education. Educated Muslims are aware of the stupidity of polygamy. I think, the backwardness of Muslims, is to do with that, by and large,
And Mr. Khan's rejoinder of polygamy in Hindusim is utterly ridiculous. At least the law does not allow polygamy in any other religion except Islam.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Actually Osama Bin Laden is pretty educated & so are many of the Islamic terrorists but almost all of them have multiple wives, so education by itself is not really a great antidote against Polygamy, even in the birth rate debate we see this standard secular arguement that lack of education and poverty are responsible for the high birth rate among Muslims but Kerala provides a wonderful contrast of these claims. The literacy rate in Kerala is almost the same for both Muslims and Hindus, even in terms of wealth Muslims are almost on par with Hindus in Kerala but their birth rate is almost double that of the state's average, interestingly Christians only have a slightly higher birth rate than Hindus in Kerala unlike Muslims.