“Question for UCC critics—Why don’t you want Sharia law for Muslim criminals?”, The Print, July 10, 2023:
“The Muslim Personal Law is the substitute for separate electorate. Therefore, the two-nation theory will remain alive and kicking until Uniform Civil Code is brought to bury it. No wonder, the zealots of identity politics have been opposing it with extreme religious fanaticism. And their liberal mentors have been forwarding a plethora of constitutional reasoning to create a haze of secular nuance.
But it is clear that their fancy theorisations about relativism, pluralism, multiculturalism, and postmodernism are in the service of Islamic fundamentalism. Uniformity is anathema to identity, and national unity is the very opposite of identity politics.
It valorises diversity at the expense of unity, and ignores the common thread running through regional and cultural variations. Instead, it highlights the dissimilar between the similars, accentuates the fault lines, and gives a fillip to fissiparous tendencies. The motivated overemphasis on diversity has practically nullified our old nationalist maxim, Unity in Diversity…..”
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