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| Another train of Fatwas, decrees against Girls' rock band | | | early times report
Srinagar, Feb 4: The latest Fatwa by Valley's Grand Mufti, Mufti Bashiruddin has added a new dimension to the plight of three minor Kashmiri girls who set up the only girls' rock band in Kashmir.
"Pragaash' was set up by three Kashmiri girls out of whom two are aged 15 and the third is aged 16 years. This band also won the third prize in a band competition called the 'Battle of Bands' held in Srinagar in December 2012.
The Fatwa against the three minor girls was also joined by the separatist Hurriyat group headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani. All the fundamentalist forces have now ganged up against the poor girls who were trying to exploit their talent for music and rock singing. Since 1990 the Valley has lived under the all pervading threat of fundamentalist groups to women. First it was against beauty parlours. Then there were diktats for Purdah and all other restrictions on the life and movements of the fair sex whose fundamental rights have been undermined constantly in the Valley because of the terror unleashed against them by hardliners and religious bigots.
While the country is this time busy protecting the dignity of women and trying to prevent crimes against them, the Valley seems to be an exception to this general trend in the rest of the country. It is the duty of the state to confront such fundamentalist forces so that women feel secure and safe from the vagaries and anger of those who believe it to be their basic right to enforce decrees and Fatwas on women.
It is not sufficient that the Chief Minister should take on these fundamentalist forces just on his twitter site. His position and responsibilities as the head of the State demand that the government must do much more than merely respond to these forces on the social media.
The police have confirmed that they are investigating the threats issued against the girls' rock band. Reports in the summer capital suggest the frightened girls and their families are living under threat and uncertainty. The first and the foremost step that now needs to be taken is to legally and officially confront such forces responsible for throwing the lives of the families haywire.
Why cannot stringent laws be invoked to ensure that such occurrences do not recur in the Valley where peace has always been fragile and brittle? Why cannot the recent controversy been seen as a sinister scheme to derail the prevailing peace in the Valley?
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