Dear Pavel Saheb,
Do you consider yourself sufficiently endowed with the "religious education" that you so passionately want the children of today's Bangladesh to have? If the anwer to the question is 'yes' then my riposte would be: This is the pathetic level of ignorance we should conscientiously avoid in the name of "religious education."
My own religious education was received at home, not at school, and one of the fundamentals taught by my family was not to resort to lies for selfish gains, or to malign other persons. Pavel Saheb, you are lying about American and British people not having any family life. It is gross, mischievous, and so far from truth that one should doubt your sanity for saying those lies. Moreover, United States is considered the most religious-minded of all the developed Western countries.
Madrassahs should be abolished as a system of education in Bangladesh. For religious studies there should be seminary-type of institutions where serious and sophisticated studies are undertaken, not just the silly brainwashing kind.
When Pakitani and Indian Muslim scholars, both Deobandi and Barlevi Ulemas of well-known madrassahs in their countries, are openly admitting about the weakness of the madrassah syllabi, saying that they do not provide students with adequate understanding of today's conditions and demands, should Bangladesh produce lakhs and lakhs of madrassah educated lads?
Below us a news item from Asia News which gives a good picture of the unnatural and totally politicized installation of the madrassah system in Bangladesh.
Farida Majid
08/29/2006 11:07
BANGLADESH
"Carte blanche" for madrassahs of extremism
Contrary to advice that calls for more checks and modernization of the curricula of Koranic schools, sometimes breeding ground for Islamic militants, Dhaka will confer diplomas equal to those of other private and state schools.
Dhaka (AsiaNews) – The government of Bangladesh continues to cede to pressure exerted by Islamic extremism that is becoming increasingly heavy in the lead-up to elections next year. The political alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party of the controversial the Minister Khaleda Zia, has now decided to give official recognition to the Qawami Madrassah (Koranic school) certificate.
It was the prime minister herself who made the announcement at a meeting with leaders of different Islamist organisations. "After an overall review, the government has decided to offer equivalent status of MA degree (Islamic Studies/Arabic Literature) to the 'Dawra' degree of Qawami Madrassahs."
Zia said she hoped students of these madrassahs would soon obtain deserved recognition of their studies with the cooperation of all and make the desired contribution to building the country. The premier said the final step would be recognition of the "Fazil" diploma as a graduate course and the "Kamil" courses of the Alia Madrassah as a Masters degree.
Islamic radicals have long been demanding official recognition of age-old religious schools known as Qawami, but intelligence agencies claim they have been used to recruit and train new conscripts for terrorism and extremism.
The government decision follows agitation by several Islamic parties like the Islami Oikya Jote, a member of the government coalition. In all likelihood, the aim is to garner consensus in view of the general elections slated for next year.
Fundamentalists are cranking up pressure exerted on the central power base – a trend already noted by AsiaNews last year – in several civil sectors, chief among them that of education. The trend hides dangerous implications. Local analysts say the Qawami need legal recognition but "they refuse all administrative checks and monitoring of the curricula taught to students. Dhaka is thus giving these schools carte blanche to teach whatever they like how they like, and then they confer degrees exactly like those of state schools or private universities, which are subject to government controls!"
The provision goes in the opposite direction to that suggested by security experts, who called for more control over the activities and funds of the Qawami madrassahs after a wave of coordinated bomb blasts went off across Bangladesh on 17 August 2005. The most radical Koranic schools are funded by Saudi Arabia and conservative Islamic governments that want to lead Bengalese Islam back to orthodoxy.
Although analysts cannot give precise time frames, they say when the fruit of this education surfaces, the world could be faced with around 20 million youth formed in the fundamentalism of Koranic schools.
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=7058#
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From: kazimohammadismail@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:58:15 -0700
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Please comment against educaion policy
From: Belal Beg <begbelal@hotmail.
To: kazimohammadismail@
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 2:40:06 AM
Subject: RE: Please comment against educaion policy
Dear Kazi sb,
It is obvious you do not know me or my mission in life. If you did, you could never include me in your mailing list. Actually, I stand diametrically opposed to you in all respects. your idea of religion or the need of religious education is no different than half informed village Moulavi who is happily blind about the advancement of human civilization and the needs of a modern State. The education policy which has been prepared by some of the topmost scholars of the country seems to be able to foster a purposeful productive people and develop a standard of life which will be modern at the same time based on our heritage. Unfortunately,
I will request you to review your own thought process which I am afraid is stunted over a long time.
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:33:44 -0700
From: kazimohammadismail@
Subject: Please comment against educaion policy
To: abuilla@yahoo.
Dear sir
assalamu alaikum
The proposed education policy is not fruitful for our country. Please reject the policy. Your policy is to reduce religious knowledge but everyone of world knows that its a fundamental subject for teaching of a human being. Without any religious knowledge there is no difference between man and wilds beasts. So you should emphasize on relious based education system instead of secular concept. Now you should rejecet/cancel the following line/para/words from your proposed policy:-
1. Secular based educational system.
2. Lalitakala as a subject for primary level
3. Supervision of local people for madhrashas
4. More general subjects in madhrashas instead of arabic language. On the other side there is no more option for taking relious subjects for general sides.
5. Amalgamation of Madhrasha system into the general system.
6. No more interruption in A level or O level or in kindergarten system.
You should also adopt the following:-
1. Compulsory Religious subjects up to intermediate level.
2. Upper level should have option for taking religious subject as subsidiary syllabus.
3. Religious Practicing students should have get extra marks for public examination and appointment in any job.
Yours faithfully,
Kazi Mohammad Ismail Pavel
Mirpur Dhaka
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