New Delhi:
Kerala Muslim cleric Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musalyar who is the chief of All India Sunni Jamiyyathul Ulama has raked up controversy by saying that woman are only good to deliver babies and educating them is un-islamic.
The leader went ahead to say that women do not have mental strength and do not possess the power to control the universe, “which lies in the hands of men.”
The controversial statement by the spiritual leader is now drawing four corner criticism.
“Gender equality is something which is never going to be a reality. It is against Islam, humanity and was intellectually wrong,” he was quoted saying by PTI in a report.
“Women can never equal men. They are fit only to deliver children. Women cannot withstand crisis situations,” he said.
The 76-year-old Islamic scholar wondered if there was even a single woman among thousands of cardiac surgeons.
The statement which directly demeaning to the woman is not the first one by the leader. Earlier he had said that a 50 per cent of seats for women in civic polls was “too high” but retracted the statement later when it became controversial.
