Women should produce, groom children: Kalbe Jawwad
Lucknow: While a heated debate rages in Parliament over demand for quota within quota for Dalit, backward and Muslim women, renowned Shia cleric Kalbe Jawwad has stirred the proverbial hornets’ nest by saying that women should stay at home and should have no role to play in politics.
“Allah has sent women on earth to produce children… they should stay away from politics,” the Maulana declared at a meeting of clerics at Allahabad on Friday. “Women should produce good leaders, they should not become leaders themselves,” he said. “If women sit in Parliament, who will take care of their children,” he asked.
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“Women should become good mothers for that is the role God has assigned to them. They should become mothers of good leaders rather than try to be leaders themselves,” Jawwad said.
“Women are not born to do horse-riding or fire from guns. Women are not made for shoemaking, or working at liquor outlets or delivering speeches in public rallies like men. Who will take care of their children when they are sitting in Parliament? We can’t use these parameters to say women are making progress.”
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