Kanthapuram Samastha Circular on Women at Public Events in Keralam Draws Criticism

“Women Among Unrelated Men Not Appropriate, Un-Islamic”, Kerala Sunni Body Restricts Muslim Women’s Public Participation. Will Rahul Gandhi Dare To Smash This Patriarchy?

A circular issued by the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, led by Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliar, has directed mahals and madrasas to ensure that women are not present among unrelated men at religious programmes, as reported in The Hindu. In a joint statement, Samastha president E. Sulaiman Musliar and general secretary A.P. Aboobacker instructed mahal and […] The post “Women Among Unrelated Men Not Appropriate, Un-Islamic”, Kerala Sunni B…

Kanthapuram Samastha circular on women at public events in Keralam draws criticism

It asks mahal and madrasa officials not to let women be present among unrelated men at religious events, and to ensure that programmes follow Islamic norms

Rahul’s ‘Smash Patriarchy’ Dies at Kanthapuram’s ‘No Women’: Islamic Samastha Faction’s Fatwa in Congress-Ruled Keralam

When national politics demands it, Rahul Gandhi is quick to pick up the megaphone, rallying the youth to tear down regressive norms and “smash the patriarchy.” But progressive slogans have a habit of losing their voice the moment they cross the Western Ghats into Kerala. At the gates of Kozhikode, the rhetoric hits a wall of cold political reality. The Kanthapuram faction of Samastha—a hardline Sunni body whose orthodoxy runs deep—has handed dow…