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The followers of Islam go to mosques to pray.
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NO one who has followed Justice J.S. Verma’s pronouncement, on and off the bench, should be surprised at his sweeping and woefully ignorant remark in Ismail Faruqui’s case. “A mosque is not an essential part of the practice of religion in Islam and namaz (prayer) can be offered anywhere,
Do you expect any better from one who discusses what Hindutva is without the slightest note of its Bible, V.D. Savarkar’s essay Hindutva? It is like discussing Christianity without reference to the Bible, Judaism without reference to the Tora, Hinduism without reference to the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads and Islam without reference to the Quran.
What Justice Verma did instead would scare a schoolboy. He relied on Maulana Wahiduddin Khan’s book Indian Muslims: The Need for a Positive Outlook (1994)—only to misquote it and also the court’s earlier rulings. (For a detailed critique, vide the author’s article “The Supreme Court on Hindutva” in A.G. Noorani (2002): Citizens’ Rights, Judges and State Accountability, Oxford University Press, pages 76-83). There was good reason for this strange course. Savarkar’s Hindutva would not have helped Justice Verma in reaching his conclusion that Hindutva is but a way of life. The same disingenuous approach marks his remark on mosques.