A different World!!

Was struck by today's headlines in a newspaper here in Hyderabad.

Hyderabad teens elope to escape Arab husband

I started reading and the details of the story quickly unfolded....its a story that is often repeated, a story that leaves me shocked each time but doesn't stir any response from the people that matter...

This is what has allegedly transpired:

"...Two teenaged Hyderabad girls married off to an Arab, one 45-year-old Al Rahama Ismail Mirza Abdul Jabbar of the UAE, in a combined ceremony on August 1 under the fatwa approved by the Hyderabad-based Jamia Nizamia allowing a Muslim man to marry as many as four women in one sitting."

Now how unbelievable is that?? Not much if you ask the victims of the whole episode. Isn't this also a case of a girl child being sold for a few thousand rupees...(apparently the families got Rs 10,000) ?

Another fatwa issued, another woman's rights denied...another case of inaction from a soul less state...

Hail India!!!!