New Delhi, July 24: The national secretariat of Communist Party of India (CPI) on Monday condemned the fatwa issued against Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly-based two women, Nida Khan and Farhat Naqvi for speaking out against the ‘inhuman Islamic practices’.
“A statement from the All India Faizan-e-Madina Council, which issued the fatwa on July 20, signed by its chief Moin Siddiqui Noori, offered a reward to anyone who would stone and cut the hair of two women, who recently spoke out against triple talaq and nikah halala practices” the CPI said in a press release.
Nida Khan and Farhat Naqvi claimed they were ‘divorced’ through triple talaq, the Left party pointed out and added that “in a recent press conference, Khan had come out in support of a woman who had claimed she was divorced this way twice and forced to marry her father-in-law in the name of nikah halala, a law that requires a woman to marry and sleep with another man in order to return to her first husband”, the CPI added.
The Left party said that it is extending full support to the fighting duo and appealed to all women in general and Muslim women in particular to oppose vehemently any move to deny them their just and genuine rights.
Fatwa cannot infringe on Muslim women’s rights: C P I
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