Why Are You Quiet Now ?

In this article in DNA Minhaz Merchant poses some pointed questions to the Indian Muslim intelligentsia and celebrity. The article talks about the politics of fatwas in India in relation to the pre-marital sex controversy. The point the article makes is predominantly not about just that, but in the bigger picture about the freedom of speech and expression.

From the article:

It also raises the larger question — rarely debated in polite society — of why prominent Muslims, ranging from Shabana Azmi to Shah Rukh Khan, such voluble critics of Hindutva-inspired communalism (and rightly so), do not equally vociferously and publicly condemn fundamentalist Islamic communalism of the rabid sort that was directed against Sania Mirza when she first defended Khushboo's views on pre-marital sex.

And if I remember correctly, none of these ventured in support when the poor girl was tortured about her clothes on the tennis court either.