Questions You Cannot Ask after the Religious Unity Regulation.

What if a woman wants someone other than her husband in heaven?

Why do Rabbis wear those funny hats?

Whats the deal with the twirling among Sufis?

Why do radical Muslims, Jews, Hindus and Christians all yell the same rhetoric?

Why does the Pope (zzp! colour bar)

Isn't it selfish for men to marry more than one woman in a country that has less women than men?

Are Christians ticklish?

Why is it that men go to heaven if they obey God and women go to heaven if they obey their husbands?

Are Shi'a Muslims smellier than Sunni Muslims?

Why is the sky blue?

Why don't preachers talk about male responsibility in curbing harassment, assault and fornication?

If you prick Jews will they bleed?

Are Christian women as evil as Muslim women?

Does Hindu babies take 9 months to grow in the womb as well?

Why do we get enraged when Muslims cannot display religious symbols in a secular country while we are content not allowing foreigners to express their faiths?

Does Shi'a children hate doing homework as well?

How does the Pope (zzp! colour bar)

Does our Bangladeshi brothers have lesser Net Muslim Value than our Palestinian brothers?

If you twirl a Jew round and round and round will he get dizzy?

Why is Vishnu blue?

How can a government regulate personal beliefs....?

Take that Aspiring Women Leaders!

The nerve!! When the Bill on Decentralisation was sent to the Parliament there was a clause that said both men and women should have a minimum 30% representation in the local councils. This gave WOMEN leeway to acrobatically twist and turn their way into our sacred local councils. Again, the nerve!!! Luckily this monstrosity of a clause was removed by our very able Parliamentarians of the opposition coalition persons. Well done we say!

People are not aware of the disaster that has been averted, for undoubtedly disaster has been averted. Thankfully, you people have the ever knowledgeable and all illuminating XResistance team to enlighten you. Yes we know, thank God for us! Pat on the back for us!

Let us go back a little bit in time and imagine if there was such a frightful clause in the Parliamentary elections bill! Oh the horror! The Parliament would've been infiltrated by halfwits and incapables. The legislating would've been unimaginably slow, people would address each other by titles to their faces and by profanity to their backs. Parliamentarians will be overly emotional, sulky and threaten to walk out at every other meeting. Heck, they might even change the colour of the Constitution to shocking pink!!! Unfortunately even now we have not rid ourselves of the pesky women in our Parliament. We are watching you Women Parliamentarians, and we are tolerating you as an undesirable element we cannot change, like those ads we had to put up with during the telecasts of Kiyunki Saas Bi Kabhi Bahu Thi. (Did you have Tulsi wanting to run for local councils?? We think not!!)

So, really, take that Aspiring Women Leaders! Dont give us this 50% of the population should have an opportunity to have a say on decisions that affect their lives crap. Tough! So what if you are structurally and financially disadvantaged to get an even field to contest in elections. Boo frikkin hoo! Do we care that community norms and practices and radical religious yellings make it difficult for women to be active in the public domain? Not a bit. And don't give us examples of those women who were given an opportunity to get their foot in the door (like some women who were among those appointed Parliamentarians we used to have) who are now active leaders in their field. They don't count. Plus we don't like acknowledging evidence contrary to our beliefs.

And anyway, the most important thing about the decentralisation bill was not ensuring the participation of the people in decision making, or strengthening the participatory and consultative principles of democracy, or increasing accountability to the people and transparency in governance or even giving special opportunities for disadvantaged groups to have their say. No indeedy! It was about whether the government should be allowed to group administration into Provinces or not, because God forbid that even one letter in our set-in-stone brought-down-from-a-mountain Commandments.. excuse us, Constitution should be disregarded! And that matter has been finally settled. Phew!

So take a bow Parliament! (Or whats was left of it after the walkout). You can take a rest now, you have earned it!