'Deoband fatwa binding if you want to be bound by it'

January 30, 2012 11:17

It's very likely that l'affaire Salman Rushdie will continue to play itself out in the media for some time to come. While reading up various points and counter-points on the issue, we came across this interview with historian Mushurul Hasan in the Indian Express. Hasan, currently director of the National Archives of India, says of the Deoband fatwa that set the ball rolling this time round:

'One should also accept the fact that, just like with the Pope, whose diktat is not accepted by the entire Roman Catholic world, similarly, the fatwa of Deoband is not binding on everybody. It is binding on those who want to be bound by it. So, how does the fatwa of Deoband reflect the Indian Muslim communitys opinion on these matters? We are creating in our imaginations, centres of bigotry and imagination, which are actually not there.'

Read the full interview here.

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