Irony of our society is not able to distinguish between the
difference between patriarchal and male chauvinism of society with religious
beliefs, like burkha or Purdah.
We talk about banning burkha for
Muslim women, but we never talk about doing away with Purdah system in Hindu
women, very much prevalent in hinterland of our country. I fail to understand
how both are different. In a TV show, discussion on Burkha or no Burkha, there’s
a mullah who says “Women” are “Mohtaram” and very second moment he threatens to
straighten up one of “Mohtaram” using staff and other two women remains silent.
This shows very much about the instinctive reaction of women, (intellectual
reaction could be different). It is because of the societal upbringing that has
caused damage to the inner strength, which can resist such bully and not give a
befitting reply.
The truth is such Mullahs and Baba's are very much part of same society, which (society) has provided them with the
privilege of being religious dictators. And we succumb to their religious
dictates.
Being part of such society, where being
argumentative is very basic nature of us, I cannot resist thinking, why these
distinctions are even there? Why our religions, which I strongly think is out
come of our argumentative nature, has placed some section of society as
privileged on basis of gender. How can even we consider women as weaker section
of society, as our existence is because of them? Some one who can give birth of
whole society can be weak, really?
The fact is, gender ratio of world
is ~1:1 but there is no religion in the world whose messenger is a Female.
Hindus do worship goddess. Even Greeks had Female gods. In Hinduism, we
celebrate Kali Puja or Durga Pooja. But no one celebrates birth of Radha or
Sita.
As per Darwinism the strongest
survives. I think societal conditioning will always be guided by those “who has
survived”. Not sure, if radical and
fundamentalist mind set is part of same survival for fittest.
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Will any religion exist, if there is no human
existence? Lets fight and destroy, till
single human soul exists.