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From: bhatnaga@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Bhatnaga)
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Subject: Re: Supreme Court Judgement
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Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 18:50:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 13 18:50:30 1985
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> >	One only hopes that some sort of 'religious pressure' did not lead to 
> >her decision.
> >-rao
> 
> 
> If not 'pressure' from religious Bosses then  why  else
> do you think she changed her mind ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?



If recent reports in India Abroad and India Today are any indication then 
she was 'visited' by numerous religious leaders after the supreme court 
judgment. She also faced ostracism from 'neighborhood' and family members
(two of her sons were appreciated as 'ideal muslims' by the people who 
were not on her side of the fence). Quite interestingly only ten days before 
taking her case back, she filed another suit in the local court of 
Indore (she belongs to Indore) against her husband to take actions towards 
implementing the supreme court judgment.

One should not expect a 70 year old lady to win a war against the rest of the 
world and against the laws of religion in practice for hundreds of years.
Most likely her decision was not so much because of 'sudden realization 
of religion' as much of the pressure from the 'bosses'. Still, in my opinion 
she deserves all the praise. Before  yielding she started and fought a war 
which can be termed to be the first of its kind in India or possibly in the 
world- a woman's fight against fundamentalism. I sizable percent of moderate 
muslims, big percentage of muslim and non-muslim Indian women a significant
percentage of all men had their sympathies with her. It must also have 
forced some people to do some soul-searching.

Neeraj Bhatnagar
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