The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

Religious leaders yesterday strongly warned the government against allowing women equal right to property, which is repugnant to the holy Quoran.

"It will be a clear violation of the holy Quoran if the women are given equal right to property," Mufti Fazlul Haq Amini, secretary general of Islamic Law Implementation Committee, told a press conference in his office.

He added, "Not only the government but the entire country will go into flame if the authority moves ahead with such a provision under the National Women Development Policy."

IOJ leader announced that all devotees after the Juma prayer on Friday (March 14) would bring out procession across the country to protest the government move.

Mufti Amini, also secretary general of Islami Oikya Jote, a component of the previous BNP led alliance government, asked the caretaker government to refrain from taking anti-Islamic law. "Otherwise, you will not escape the wrath of the people. Even the conservative women will come out to the street in protest."

He thought that alien force not friendly to Bangladesh is behind the move.

He urged the Imams and Khatibs of all mosques to make the people aware of the heinous anti-Islamic move of the government at the Juma prayer on Friday.

Maulana Mohiuddin, editor of monthly magazine Madina, also speaking at the press conference observed that Bangladesh would be isolated from the Muslim Ummah if the government implement the anti-Islamic law.

"Nowhere in the world, even in Europe, such law was imposed. The Muslim world will not tolerate such law," he said.