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Women policy not anti-Islam

Lalu aduiser reiterates

Staff Correspondent
Law and Religious Affairs Adviser AF Hassan Ariff reiterated yesterday that the recently announced national women development policy does not contain anything that goes against the rules and spirit of Islam.
Any vagueness in the policy, if found, will be cleared to prevent any misunderstanding, he told reporters at the Secretariat.
The adviser’s statement came in the wake of violent demonstrations by Islamist activists in Dhaka and Chinagong demanding scrapping of the policy.
“I don't see anything in the women development policy which is contradictory (to Islam). Still, it is now being looked into whether there is any such thing in it," Hassan Ariff, also a legal expert, said.
Asked whether there is any vagueness, he said, “I don’t see any. They (review committee members) can say if there is any. "
Although both the law adviser and Women and Children Affairs Adviser Rasheda K Choudhury made it clear on several occasions that the policy includes nothing against Islam, the Islamist leaders have been organising demonstrations accusing the government of trying to implement an antiShariah policy.
On Thursday, the surrounding areas of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque turned into a battlefield when activists of an Islamic organisation clashed with police as the latter resisted them from marching towards the chief adviser's office in defiance of the state of emergency to protest the policy.
The next day, hundreds of Islamist activists locked in clash with police for hours in the same area leaving over 200 people injured.
Explaining about the women development policy. Hassan Ariff on March II told the Ulema (Islamic scholars) at Islamic Foundation that the caretaker government has not passed any ’Taw" regarding inheritance and that thbre is no question of enacting a law about it
The next day, Rasheda Choudhury asked people to refrain from unnecessary criticism of a “progressive" document like the women development policy without going through it.
On March 27, Hassan Ariff and three other advisers held a meeting with the Ulema at Islamic Foundation and formed a review committee with Mufti Mohammad Nuruddin, acting Khatib of Baitul Mukarram, as the convenor to find in 21 days “inconsistencies in the policy as per Islamic rules and suggest steps.”
The committee will meet on April 16 at the Islamic Foundation. The committee convener and acting Khatib of the National Mosque Muhammad Nuruddin and 10 others are expected to attend the meeting, according to a government handout released yesterday.