Muslims lagged behind because they kept women enslaved: AMU V-C

October 05, 2015 09:41

Lt Gen (retd) Zameer Uddin Shah, vice-chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, said Muslims lagged behind in the development race because they kept their women enslaved.

"You have not utilised half of your population. Women remained enslaved. They remained inside home. Muslims have no one else to blame. You enslaved women and the result is you are enslaved," Shah said during a felicitation function of AMU Old Boys at Lucknow on Sunday.

"I stayed in Saudi Arabia, the situation remains the same. Women are confined. Except Turkey and Iran, women remained enslaved in all Muslim world. That is the reason they are backward," he added.

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