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Trouble with Muslims in Kerala
By John Cheeran
What's wrong with Muslims in Kerala?
Muslims in India are considered to be a economically weaker section.
They are poor, and largely illiterate.
The leaders of Muslim community would like us to believe that a Hindu-majority state is responsible for the pathetic condition of Muslims, conveniently ignoring the past of Mughal emperors. Think Taj Mahal!
Arguments can go on and on this subject.
But let me quickly take you to Kerala where a lot had been done by the Left front governments to uplift Muslims. Communist Chief Minister EMS Namboothiripad was instrumental in carving up country's first Muslim majority district, Malappuram, in 1957 so that the community could gain from a sustained development programme.
And even now only two districts enjoy a Muslim majority in India, the other being Murshidabad.
Now Kerala is fearing that Malappuram is on the path to become an Afghanistan.
Why is it so?
Muslim League, a party led by a religious leader, owes its political existence to the simple fact that Malappuram has a Muslim majority. There are more Muslims in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal than in Kerala but Muslim League cannot win a single seat in those states.
In Kerala, Muslims have amassed considerable political and financial muscle thanks to its youth working in Gulf countries.
But this political and financial muscle have not forced Kerala Muslims to look forward and mesh with other sections of the society.
And fault for this squarely lies with Muslim community; not anyone else.
Muslims demand democracy when they are short in numbers; in such scenarios they fear they will be swamped by the majority. That's why Muslims want a democracy in India whereby they can still practice sharaiah laws.
Please look across the border to Pakistan. There is no democracy in Pakistan and the reason is clear to you.
In Malappuram, the sheer dominance in numbers game has empowered the Muslim community. To be specific, the male Muslim.
Also the money orders from Gulf countries add the financial muscle to Muslims there. Travel through Malappuram district and you will likely to get a sneak peek into what life could be in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Young Muslim women are walking the streets, clad in burqas.
It was an uncommon sight in the Kerala of 60s and 70s and 80s.
What's so special about Muslim women that they have to be converted into mobile tents? What do they have which Hindu and Christian women haven't got?
The idea is to show how we (Muslims) are different from others. There is no zeal to let the girl child pursue her talents, follow the path of education.
For the surge in burqa-clad women in Malappuram there is an element of neurosis too. Most of the young Muslim men from Malappuram are doing menial jobs in Saudi Arabia, UAE and other Gulf countries. These guys go to Kerala, marry teenage girls and spend a few months with them, teaching them life's lessons and return to their thraldom in Gulf countries.
Leaving wives alone at home lead to anxiety of all sorts in such men.
Then, the solution to keep these young Gulf widows away from vice is to cover them in burqas..And it is Islamic too. A practical solution perfected by the religion..
I consider this, keeping women as chattel, as one of the key factors of Malappuram's descent into Afghanistan.
Only in August and September I travelled through Malappuram and the Muslim anger was visible very much in the district's street corners.
Stop, the Muslim man hunt, some of the posters screamed out... I was surprised to see such posters in Kerala. But then it is Malappuram. I came to know that they were protesting against the arrest of a few Muslim youth, SIMI activists, by Kerala Police as part of combating terrorist activities in the state.
So what do Muslims in Malappuram expect? Can't Kerala Police arrest Muslim youth, if they are acting against the state?
Is being a Muslim a license to do anything, or dirty tricks, you please?
There are people getting arrested everyday by police in Kerala, across all religious sections. I haven't so far come across from Hindus and Christians that they are being hunted by Police.
I remember reading a news story in The Indian Express in Kerala early this year.
A tailor's shop was vandalized by enraged Muslim mob. After reading the headline, first I thought the incident would have happened in Kashmir.
I was shocked to read the dateline of that story. It happened in Kozhikode district.
Muslims were enraged because the non-Muslim tailor was taking measurements of the Muslim women who approached him for stitching blouses and other dress materials. His customers, Muslim women themselves, did not have any problems with tailor taking their measurements. They never once complained that tailor was misbehaving with them. But the Muslim men cannot stomach this in Kerala, in 21st century...
How can a kafir touch a Muslim woman?
So what do they do? flex their muscles..
I could not believe that this was happening in Kerala!
Is the problem, then with Muslims themselves or rest of the society?
The third example I would like to present is this...
The Left Front government in Kerala sacked its chief secretary. Muslims protested against the move, initiated by none other than CPI (M) stalwart V.S. Achuthanandan.
Why did Muslims protest against removing the chief secretary? Because he (Mohammad Riazuddin) was a Muslim. Comrade Achuthanandan says Riazuddin was thoroughly incompetent and an embarrassment to the government. And interestingly it was Achuthanandan himself who suggested in the past that Riazuddin should be made the chief secretary simply because no Muslim had reached thus far.
Little did Achuthanandan care then for the competence of the man.
Now I want to bring to your attention two important aspects of Kerala's social life where Muslims' regressive attitude comes to fore.
If you look at Kerala's sports and arts scene, you would be tempted to believe that there are no Muslim women in the state..
In the land of P T Ushas, Shiny Wilsons and Anju Georges, why there are no Muslim women athletes?
Yes, there was a Mujitha Begum (hardly a success story) , years ago but that was a remarkable exception than a trend.
Christian girls from a poor background (Rosakutty, Bijimol, Princy and a legion of them) have won over their hardships to bring international glory to India where as young Muslim girls end up as brides for senile Arabs.
Who is to be blamed? Muslim men or rest of the society?
Take the case of Malayalam movie industry...We have a trend of young actresses--Meera Jasmine, Kaavya Madhavan, Gopika (Girly), Bhavana, Manju Warrier, Nayantara and Asin...Unfortunately I can't find a single Muslim girl among the starlets...
Why it is so?
Is acting a sin?
Yes, there is Shakeela, but again she is a rebel...
And the tragedy of the situation is exacerbated by the fact this is happening in a state that worshipped Prem Nazir and now deify Mammooty..
Who is to be blamed? Muslim men or rest of the society?
If that is the case of sport and art in Kerala what about service-oriented professions?
A quick look reveals that it is Christian and Hindu girls who become the lifeline of their families these days by becoming qualified nurses.
Why there are a very, very few numbers of nurses from Muslim background in Kerala?
Women are there to give birth, and nothing else, is it?
No what do all these examples show?
It shows that Muslims in Kerala (well, the majority of them) do not want to accept realities and are not ready to assimilate with the mainstream.
The truth about Kerala is what director T. V. Chandran portrayed in his classic "Padam Onnu Oru Vilapam."
The opening and final scenes of that movie shows how backward and reactionary Muslims in Kerala are.
No amount of attars from Arabia can conceal that stench.
No tall concrete towers can conceal that hideous reality.
Afghanistan is not just a geographical reality.
Afghanistan is a state of mind..
http://johncheeran.blogspot.com/2006/09/tr...-in-kerala.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Trouble with Muslims in Kerala
By John Cheeran
What's wrong with Muslims in Kerala?
Muslims in India are considered to be a economically weaker section.
They are poor, and largely illiterate.
The leaders of Muslim community would like us to believe that a Hindu-majority state is responsible for the pathetic condition of Muslims, conveniently ignoring the past of Mughal emperors. Think Taj Mahal!
Arguments can go on and on this subject.
But let me quickly take you to Kerala where a lot had been done by the Left front governments to uplift Muslims. Communist Chief Minister EMS Namboothiripad was instrumental in carving up country's first Muslim majority district, Malappuram, in 1957 so that the community could gain from a sustained development programme.
And even now only two districts enjoy a Muslim majority in India, the other being Murshidabad.
Now Kerala is fearing that Malappuram is on the path to become an Afghanistan.
Why is it so?
Muslim League, a party led by a religious leader, owes its political existence to the simple fact that Malappuram has a Muslim majority. There are more Muslims in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal than in Kerala but Muslim League cannot win a single seat in those states.
In Kerala, Muslims have amassed considerable political and financial muscle thanks to its youth working in Gulf countries.
But this political and financial muscle have not forced Kerala Muslims to look forward and mesh with other sections of the society.
And fault for this squarely lies with Muslim community; not anyone else.
Muslims demand democracy when they are short in numbers; in such scenarios they fear they will be swamped by the majority. That's why Muslims want a democracy in India whereby they can still practice sharaiah laws.
Please look across the border to Pakistan. There is no democracy in Pakistan and the reason is clear to you.
In Malappuram, the sheer dominance in numbers game has empowered the Muslim community. To be specific, the male Muslim.
Also the money orders from Gulf countries add the financial muscle to Muslims there. Travel through Malappuram district and you will likely to get a sneak peek into what life could be in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Young Muslim women are walking the streets, clad in burqas.
It was an uncommon sight in the Kerala of 60s and 70s and 80s.
What's so special about Muslim women that they have to be converted into mobile tents? What do they have which Hindu and Christian women haven't got?
The idea is to show how we (Muslims) are different from others. There is no zeal to let the girl child pursue her talents, follow the path of education.
For the surge in burqa-clad women in Malappuram there is an element of neurosis too. Most of the young Muslim men from Malappuram are doing menial jobs in Saudi Arabia, UAE and other Gulf countries. These guys go to Kerala, marry teenage girls and spend a few months with them, teaching them life's lessons and return to their thraldom in Gulf countries.
Leaving wives alone at home lead to anxiety of all sorts in such men.
Then, the solution to keep these young Gulf widows away from vice is to cover them in burqas..And it is Islamic too. A practical solution perfected by the religion..
I consider this, keeping women as chattel, as one of the key factors of Malappuram's descent into Afghanistan.
Only in August and September I travelled through Malappuram and the Muslim anger was visible very much in the district's street corners.
Stop, the Muslim man hunt, some of the posters screamed out... I was surprised to see such posters in Kerala. But then it is Malappuram. I came to know that they were protesting against the arrest of a few Muslim youth, SIMI activists, by Kerala Police as part of combating terrorist activities in the state.
So what do Muslims in Malappuram expect? Can't Kerala Police arrest Muslim youth, if they are acting against the state?
Is being a Muslim a license to do anything, or dirty tricks, you please?
There are people getting arrested everyday by police in Kerala, across all religious sections. I haven't so far come across from Hindus and Christians that they are being hunted by Police.
I remember reading a news story in The Indian Express in Kerala early this year.
A tailor's shop was vandalized by enraged Muslim mob. After reading the headline, first I thought the incident would have happened in Kashmir.
I was shocked to read the dateline of that story. It happened in Kozhikode district.
Muslims were enraged because the non-Muslim tailor was taking measurements of the Muslim women who approached him for stitching blouses and other dress materials. His customers, Muslim women themselves, did not have any problems with tailor taking their measurements. They never once complained that tailor was misbehaving with them. But the Muslim men cannot stomach this in Kerala, in 21st century...
How can a kafir touch a Muslim woman?
So what do they do? flex their muscles..
I could not believe that this was happening in Kerala!
Is the problem, then with Muslims themselves or rest of the society?
The third example I would like to present is this...
The Left Front government in Kerala sacked its chief secretary. Muslims protested against the move, initiated by none other than CPI (M) stalwart V.S. Achuthanandan.
Why did Muslims protest against removing the chief secretary? Because he (Mohammad Riazuddin) was a Muslim. Comrade Achuthanandan says Riazuddin was thoroughly incompetent and an embarrassment to the government. And interestingly it was Achuthanandan himself who suggested in the past that Riazuddin should be made the chief secretary simply because no Muslim had reached thus far.
Little did Achuthanandan care then for the competence of the man.
Now I want to bring to your attention two important aspects of Kerala's social life where Muslims' regressive attitude comes to fore.
If you look at Kerala's sports and arts scene, you would be tempted to believe that there are no Muslim women in the state..
In the land of P T Ushas, Shiny Wilsons and Anju Georges, why there are no Muslim women athletes?
Yes, there was a Mujitha Begum (hardly a success story) , years ago but that was a remarkable exception than a trend.
Christian girls from a poor background (Rosakutty, Bijimol, Princy and a legion of them) have won over their hardships to bring international glory to India where as young Muslim girls end up as brides for senile Arabs.
Who is to be blamed? Muslim men or rest of the society?
Take the case of Malayalam movie industry...We have a trend of young actresses--Meera Jasmine, Kaavya Madhavan, Gopika (Girly), Bhavana, Manju Warrier, Nayantara and Asin...Unfortunately I can't find a single Muslim girl among the starlets...
Why it is so?
Is acting a sin?
Yes, there is Shakeela, but again she is a rebel...
And the tragedy of the situation is exacerbated by the fact this is happening in a state that worshipped Prem Nazir and now deify Mammooty..
Who is to be blamed? Muslim men or rest of the society?
If that is the case of sport and art in Kerala what about service-oriented professions?
A quick look reveals that it is Christian and Hindu girls who become the lifeline of their families these days by becoming qualified nurses.
Why there are a very, very few numbers of nurses from Muslim background in Kerala?
Women are there to give birth, and nothing else, is it?
No what do all these examples show?
It shows that Muslims in Kerala (well, the majority of them) do not want to accept realities and are not ready to assimilate with the mainstream.
The truth about Kerala is what director T. V. Chandran portrayed in his classic "Padam Onnu Oru Vilapam."
The opening and final scenes of that movie shows how backward and reactionary Muslims in Kerala are.
No amount of attars from Arabia can conceal that stench.
No tall concrete towers can conceal that hideous reality.
Afghanistan is not just a geographical reality.
Afghanistan is a state of mind..
http://johncheeran.blogspot.com/2006/09/tr...-in-kerala.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->