Uniform Civil Law
By Subramanian Swamy, former Union Law Minister Excerpts from an article written on 03 Dec, 2006 on http://www.organiser.org/ Full article here In a Hindu country why should there be a separate Law for non-Hindus? Hindus had been dhimmis for six hundred years in those parts of India despite being a bigger majority in the country than even today. Hence, a majority is not enough. Hindus need also a Hindu mindset to be free. Thousands of Muslims had demonstrated on the streets demanding that the government not bring legislation that would nullify the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Shah Bano case but in vain. Supreme Court v/s Shariat. Who is greater? Rajiv Gandhi, I learnt later, on counsel from his Italian Catholic family, had surrendered to the hard line clerics who protested that the Supreme Court had no right to interfere and to de facto amend the Shariat, the Islamic law code. These relatives on a directive from the Vatican thought that if secular law would be applied to Muslims, it...