Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Coming Out of Cocoon

For far too long Muslims have abstained from speaking for themselves. Longer still for Islam. But the things are changing now. Slowly but surely. A decade ago no mainstream journalist, jurist or a civil servant will utter the phrase reservation for Muslims. Last year M.J.Akbar did precisely did that, that is, advocate reservation for Muslims. He did that in Kennedy Auditorium-during Sir Syed Memorial Lecture. Some time before that Justics A.M.Ahmadi had done the same in public function-as reported in Urdu Roznama Rashtriya Sahara. Now even politicians, tribe of statesmen belongs to the class of dodo and dinosaur, are opening their lips. But there still is a class that is unable to see the writing on the wall. May be in immediate past they rationalized their silence too strongly. A journalist has given the name Muslibs, acronym for Muslim Liberals, to these people. Coming back to those who have put their finger on the real crux, it is heart warming to see the pieces by Muhammad Tariq Ghazi. We have used one here and another one is there.