Sir — This refer to the article, “Spooked clerics cry vendetta” (October 18) by Shreya Kedia. The real temper of the country is that people want triple talaq to end. People do not want discrimination on the basis of any religious faith against women. Divorce laws in India are such that there are cases of harassment of women by men by not giving divorce and by limiting opportunities for remarriage and vice versa.
Islam allows a wife the right of khulah, in which a woman can divorce her husband by giving up her rights — that is, to claim her mehr which the husband is duty-bound to give his wife, or even by disclaiming the dowry given to the man.
India is a patriarchal society and women have to wait for many years in courts to resolve problems relating to divorce. Our marriages, in whatever religion, has got sanctity. Just because of a barbaric rule like triple talaq, the relationship cannot be broken.
Muslims should encourage their community to follow Indian law and order and keep religion out of it, like they expect Hindu religion influence in the name of secularism. Does triple talaq offer any mechanism to review the intent to separate, as do the courts todayIJ
All Muslim women must come out against polygamy and triple talaq practised by Muslim men in the name of Islam. The only civilised way is a uniform civil code to ensure that every man and woman is treated equally according to the Constitution of India.