We adopted the practice of outsourcing of religion 14 centuries ago, something that all other religions used to follow before us and Islam had come to finish off. Allah may have His own verdict on the demolition of a 464 year old deserted Mosque. But the so-called Muslim leaders immediately became hysterical after the launching of ramjanamsthan movement by the divisive, fascist forces in the country. They created a ruckus (hangama) by abandoning the lawful course and spreading a fuss by creating a Babri Masjid Action committee. They should have known that what they were doing was against the dictates of Islam and the Will of Allah. But they had made a mutual friendship society with the devious politicians of the country.
The Babri masjid demolition episode is inextricably linked with the Supreme Court judgment in the famous Shah Bano case. I sometimes wonder about the whole drama that started when the Supreme Court ordered her lawyer husband to pay a petty amount as alimony to a divorced Shah Bano, a woman in her Seventies, with no source of income. How many Mullahs, who claim to be the sole arbiters of Islam and Muslims in this country, had appreciated the Human Rights aspects of the judgment, notwithstanding the fact that giving this right to a woman was the duty of the Muslims themselves?
