22) Rahim gave -
eating meat
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4. You while being a Minister got some Muslims of village Utawad arrested on allegations of cow slaughter and made them to eat meat of the pig.Do you want to be elected again so that you may be able to make all Muslims eat the meat of the pig ?
Khurshid Sahib public wants to tell you that you yourself have become a 'Kafir' by eating the meat of the pig. but the remaining muslims do not want to become 'Kafirs' at your hands. Public should pay attention and should give crushing defeat to such a 'Kafir'. I am rightly entitled to your vote.
Rahim Khan."
Appeal to religion, in this context, is influencing Muslim voters to prefer the appellant for his authentic Islamic way of life and to repel the 1st respondent for his heathen habits. A plate for pork is the main un-Islamic conduct imputed to the 1st respondent. Is it appeal to religion if voters are told that a candidate consumes unorthodox food ? That a brahmin eats beef, that a muslim eats pork, that a Jain eats at night ? Should the law lend itself, in a secular State, to the little susceptibilities of orthodox tenets ? If we push it for, particularly in religions like Hinduism and Islam which contain prescriptions regarding dress, bath, shave, ablutions and diet, many difficulties will arise. Eating garlic, radish and uncooked onions and even the flesh of cattle killed without invocation of Allah is un-Islamic (See "Who is a Muslim" by G. Ghous Ansari, pp. 39-42). Can you set aside an election because the losing candidate was described as eating raw onion ? This situation becomes worse in the Hindu fold. It is strange law that does not quarrel with an appeal not to vote for a man because he does not eat vitamins but nullifies the election for appeal based on radish or pig's flesh. True, the vice is injection of religion into politics and playing up fanaticism to distract franchise. But the back lash of this provision is a legal enquiry into what is the basic faith, not its frills and filigrees. it has been held by the Madras and the Kerala High Courts (71 I.C. 65 and 1971 K.L.T. 68- Imbichi Koya Thangal v. Ahamed Koya) that the credal core to identify a Muslim as Muslim is not food and dress but the triune items of One God, Universal Brotherhood and the Great Prophet Mahomet, being the last of the Prophets (although on this last limb there is some dispute). No charge on these three aspects has been made in the handbills. Thus apostasy has not been alleged. Nevertheless, having regard to the ruling in Kultar Singh v. Mukhtiar Singh(1) and the popular sentiment tied up rightly or wrongly with Muslim religion, we do not disagree with the view of the High Court and the stand of both counsel. The secular texture of the law is primarily the legislator's responsibility although Caesar and God should (1) [1964] 7 S.C.R. 790.