Fatwa against Muslim woman in Aligarh for installing Ganpati idol at her home

Fatwa was issued against Ruby Khan from Aligarh for worshipping and establishing an idol of Lord Ganesha in her house on Ganesh Chaturthi.

A Muslim woman, Ruby Khan, in Aligarh installed a Ganpati idol at her home on Ganesh Chaturthi. Infuriated with this act, Islamic fundamentalists raised this issue before the religious leaders at the Darul Uloom (Islamic Court) at Deoband. The Muslim clerics issued a 'fatwa' against the woman.

Consequently, today the Fatwa Mobile Service chairman of Deoband, Maulana Arshad Farooqi released a video, threatening that anyone who acts against the religion, will face the same punishment that is written in Islam for such a person.

Reacting to the Maulana's statement, social activist Ruby Khan told India Today that she considers such Fatwa-toting Maulanas as 'jehadis' and 'terrorists'.

Aligarh Muslim University's former head of the Sunni Theology department said that Ruby Khan could not be a Muslim if she doesn't know that by worshipping a statue, she has committed 'shirk' in the eyes of Allah.

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All India Quomi Tanzeem state vice-president M Jamal Khan said that Ruby Khan claims to be a social activist, but she is a BJP leader and she does what the BJP wants her to do. Right now, Ruby wanted to remain in the media highlights to please her political masters, so she placed a Ganpati idol at her home.

Rashtriya Muslim Vikas Parishad chairman Sami Aghai ridiculed Ruby Khan's attempt to make a place for herself in the BJP by establishing a statue of Ganpati at her home. He said that Ruby Khan may go up to any extent, including denouncing her own religion to please the BJP, but the BJP will never give importance to a Muslim in its organization. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Shahnawaz Hussain, and other Muslim BJP leaders are prime examples of this.