Adopt The Customary Practices
2020年12月10日 日常The issue, which is undoubtedly a delicate one, has quickly taken on political overtones since Abhishek Singhvi, the advocate arguing in favour of the practice on behalf of the Dawoodi Bohra Women’s Association for Religious Freedom, is also a spokesperson of the Congress. “Religious freedom does not mean unlimited or unqualified freedom. Manu Singhvi belongs to the Congress. “As a lawyer, youHigh Purity Targets manufacturers appearing for someone else case.(With inputs from Ashhar Khan, Sanjay Basak and Oishani Mojumder).
It has happened to me and as a survivor, I definitely feel that my body was violated.Masooma RanalviThe SC needs to intervene in matters that contradict constitutional morality,” says Harsh. He is not justified in taking cases like this. “If any lawyer is affiliated with a political party, his profession reflects the ideology shown by his party. Chief of the All India Mahila Congress and Lok Sabha MP, Sushmita Dev distances the party’s beliefs from the advocate’s actions as she points out, “As always, I am against all practices that are inhuman. Given the fact that the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been considered to be a human rights violation by both, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO), and has been outlawed in most developed countries, those in favour of a law banning the practice find Singhvi’s argument absurd at best and rabble-rousing at worst.
Hence, this is a customary practice and has nothing to do with religion,” insists Masooma and drives home her point with the question ‘If it was an essential practice to Islam, why do 169 million Muslims not practice it and it is only practiced by 1 million Bohras?’Confict of interestsThe sensitive angle of religious freedoms isn’t the only obstacle in banning the practice. Senior Congress leader and lawyer Mr. Salman Khurshid gives voice to this view when he says, “As lawyers, we all take different briefs, but when a lawyer is in public life, one acts differently. Aarefa Johari, co-founder of Sahiyo, an organisation that has been working # towards ending the practice of FGC for the past three years says, “FGC is an invasive procedure. But not everyone in the lawyer’s party supports his thoughts. Female Genital Circumcision, also referred to as khatna or khafz has been practiced by the community for centuries, and while some women from the community have raised their voices against the brutality of this practice, there are many who continue to defend its existence.
”Apart from testimonies like this that point towards the abiding harmful impacts created by the custom, there are also those who question the relevance of the arguments surrounding religious freedoms. When new religions are formed, they adopt the customary practices of that time. Many a times, a lawyer accepts a brief for a fee even when he does not agree with a brief that he is arguing, but he does it as a professional lawyer. A lawyer accepts briefs but that does not mean that it is the view of the party. The text being referred to is the Da’im al-Islam, and it was written a long time back in Egypt, when these practices were prevalent.
It has happened to me and as a survivor, I definitely feel that my body was violated.Masooma RanalviThe SC needs to intervene in matters that contradict constitutional morality,” says Harsh. He is not justified in taking cases like this. “If any lawyer is affiliated with a political party, his profession reflects the ideology shown by his party. Chief of the All India Mahila Congress and Lok Sabha MP, Sushmita Dev distances the party’s beliefs from the advocate’s actions as she points out, “As always, I am against all practices that are inhuman. Given the fact that the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been considered to be a human rights violation by both, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO), and has been outlawed in most developed countries, those in favour of a law banning the practice find Singhvi’s argument absurd at best and rabble-rousing at worst.
Hence, this is a customary practice and has nothing to do with religion,” insists Masooma and drives home her point with the question ‘If it was an essential practice to Islam, why do 169 million Muslims not practice it and it is only practiced by 1 million Bohras?’Confict of interestsThe sensitive angle of religious freedoms isn’t the only obstacle in banning the practice. Senior Congress leader and lawyer Mr. Salman Khurshid gives voice to this view when he says, “As lawyers, we all take different briefs, but when a lawyer is in public life, one acts differently. Aarefa Johari, co-founder of Sahiyo, an organisation that has been working # towards ending the practice of FGC for the past three years says, “FGC is an invasive procedure. But not everyone in the lawyer’s party supports his thoughts. Female Genital Circumcision, also referred to as khatna or khafz has been practiced by the community for centuries, and while some women from the community have raised their voices against the brutality of this practice, there are many who continue to defend its existence.
”Apart from testimonies like this that point towards the abiding harmful impacts created by the custom, there are also those who question the relevance of the arguments surrounding religious freedoms. When new religions are formed, they adopt the customary practices of that time. Many a times, a lawyer accepts a brief for a fee even when he does not agree with a brief that he is arguing, but he does it as a professional lawyer. A lawyer accepts briefs but that does not mean that it is the view of the party. The text being referred to is the Da’im al-Islam, and it was written a long time back in Egypt, when these practices were prevalent.
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