Marriage Act an attack on Indian family

The acquiescence of the UNC, and then having the gall to pretend to oppose it, is insulting to the intelligence and the spirit.

Imam Imran Hosein — for whom I have developed a great respect (watch his videos on YouTube) — is absolutely correct, and should be commended for supporting Sat Maharaj (while also being so outspoken against the Saudi family and critical of Wahhabism).

This Act is an attack on the family, and the Indian family in particular.

It is a reprehensible attack, a total non-issue, raised gratuitously, mischievously and maliciously by the PNM.

However, I am not a strong supporter of Maharaj’s Privy Council legal action.

But if he succeeds, more power to him.

No matter what happens in Maharaj’s case, I think it is imperative we remember and reassert our cultural, spiritual and religious authority over our own community.

Just as the pre-1946 non-recognition of Hindu marriages did not prevent Hindus from marrying “under the bamboo” (my Muslim mother, for example, was officially branded “illegitimate” by the colonial State on her birth certificate), Hindus should continue to marry their few troubled, strayed young pregnant girls religiously.

This is not against the law.

It just will not be recognised by the State. And to that we should say, who cares? At 18, the State could catch up to reality by recognising it. But we would have married them off already anyway.

The State is not God, and this State in particular has no authority to tell us about God.

FATIMAH MOHAMMED Cunupia