While calling upon Muslim women to come forward to effectively utilize the 50% reservation in local self government institutions, the women’s wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) today demanded re-codification of Muslim Personal Laws such that they cannot be misused.

“Women should come forward to effectively utilize the 50% reservation in local self government institutions,” said KK Fathima Suhra, state president of JIH’s women’s wing while presiding over the state Women’s Conference organized by JIH at Kuttippuram in Malappuram district of Kerala. “Muslim scholars should re-codify the personal laws such that they cannot be misused. The Muslim community should be ready to provide women their real space in Islam,” she added.
Earlier inaugurating the Women’s Conference Yvonne Ridley, famous British journalist and human rights activist, said: Muslim women are showing their strength in spirituality and worldly matters and nobody can now avoid their unique collective force.
Miss Ridley said that the new world order created by imperialism and Zionism has become a global threat. The existence of the world will be stable only by recognizing and defeating it. The backwardness of women will adversely affect social development. Ridley recollected the experience that peace activists faced in Cairo when they tried to express solidarity with the suffering people of Gaza. The activists followed the Gandhian strategy of peaceful protest but were beaten up and harassed.
Jamaa't-e-Islami Kerala President Mr. T. Arifali also expressed his opinion on this occasion. The conference which raised the slogan 'Women power for social revolution' passed four resolutions which demanded to make modifications in reservation and women’s reservation, to be in the forefront against dowry, to codify the Muslim Personal Laws and to reclaim ethical and moral values.

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