Banished

Pakistani starlet Veena Malik, who has stirred a storm in Pakistan by posing nude for a magazine cover, is now facing the whip of Indian Muslim bodies as well. The All India Muslim Tyohar (Festivals) Committee in Bhopal issued a ‘fatwa’ on Wednesday against the actress for showing disrespect towards the sacred institution of Nikaah (marriage) by singing a contract with a channel for a wedding on National TV.
Her nude photographs too have outraged the community that forced her father back home to disown her for shaming him. Majlis-e-Shura, a 70-member supreme body of the All India Muslim Tyohar Committee, in Bhopal, was receiving complaints from all corners and was urged to take stringent action against her.
Ausaf Shahmiri Khurram, chairman of the Majlis-e-Shura, said, “We were getting complaints from concerned community members who said that the activities of this Pakistani female actor was sending a wrong message to our teenagers, especially girls. The complaints said that there were offensive photographs of this woman all over the internet and that she was going to have a ‘Swayamvar’ on television. Islam has a certain procedure for a Nikaah. We do not have Swayamvar.”
The fatwa means that Veena will be socially boycotted. “She has been ex-communicated and no member of the community will entertain her from now onwards,” Khurram said.
Calling her a disgrace to Islam, Khurram said, “The extreme step has been taken because the woman has openly revolted against the tenets of Islam and Prophet Mohammad. You are a Muslim only if you follow the rules of the religion. She has made a laughing stock of the community. The social boycott became necessary to stop our community girls from following her example.”