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Law alone can't curb rapes: Jamaat-e-Islami chief
Says co-education
giving rise to obscenity; girls should have separate schools
Monday January 21, 2013 08:50:22 AM,
Mohammed Shafeeq,
IANS
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Hyderabad:
It is good to educate girls, but they should be educated
separately, suggests Jamaat-e-Islami Hind chief Moulana Jalaluddin
Umri, asserting that the "problem starts with co-education." He
also favours death for rapists.
According to him, law alone cannot curb rapes. It was important
for the government to change the social environment too.
"Obscenity is common in society," Umri told IANS in an interview.
"The problem starts with co-education. We are saying educate the
girls as much as you want, but give the education separately."
He said Islam had created an environment that does not tolerate
sexual assaults.
"Today our society is tolerating and even accepting live-in
relationships. This is opening the doors to evil. Why will (such a
man) marry?"
Jamaat was formed in 1941 as an Islamic reformist movement. After
partition, the organisation in India became Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
and is engaged in spreading the message of Islam among the people
irrespective of their religion and caste. With over 8,000 members
and hundreds of thousands of workers, it has a good following
among the Muslim community, especially in states like Kerala,
Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and West Bengal.
Umri wanted the government to recognise only marriages performed
according to religious rites.
"Hindus, Muslims and Christians marry according to their customs.
Only such marriages should be legally recognised," he said.
"Others are living together for years and then going to court to
get that registered. Such relations are not good for society."
Death sentence for rapists and a ban on co-education and live-in
relations were among the 11 suggestions submitted by the Jamaat
last week to the J.S. Verma Committee on ensuring women's safety.
He favoured capital punishment for rapists as it instills fear and
acts as a deterrent.
"Islam says that such punishment should be meted out publicly so
that people witness it and know that this will be the fate if they
commit this crime," Umri told IANS.
Umri said that after the Dec 16 gang-rape of a young woman who
died 13 days later in Singapore, many favoured emulating Islamic
law to deal with rapists.
On the Welfare Party of India, he said it was not the political
arm of Jamaat. He said they were supporting the party as it wanted
to bring moral values to national politics.
"We have not yet decided to directly take part in politics and
there is no possibility of this happening in coming days," he
said.
Ameer-e-Jamaat, as he is called, said members of Jamaat can join
the Welfare Party with Jamaat's permission. Such members will also
have to take Jamaat's permission for contesting elections.
"We will see if (a person's) entry into assembly or parliament
will be good or not.
"Some people thought there should be such a party and Jamaat was
the first to support it. We never said we are forming the party."
(Mohammed Shafeeq can be contacted at m.shafeeq@ians.in)
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