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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

[ALOCHONA] Hawa Bhaban's Thug Police is Finally Under Investigation





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[ALOCHONA] Re: [Sonar Bangladesh] Bangladeshi Women Laborers in Saudi Kingdom:Story of Abuse, Torture & Deprivation



Whats new? It is an old proven story that girls & women who works in house as a maid must rape or sexually abuse (not less than 80%) both in Bangladesh and Abroad.

 

Shahid Sadik



--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com>
Subject: [Sonar Bangladesh] Bangladeshi Women Laborers in Saudi Kingdom:Story of Abuse, Torture & Deprivation
To: "Khobor" <khabor@yahoogroups.com>, "notun Bangladesh" <notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com>, "Amra Bangladesi" <amra-bangladesi@yahoogroups.com>, chottala@yahoogroups.com, "Sonar Bangladesh" <SonarBangladesh@yahoogroups.com>, "reformbd Reform_bd_YG" <reform-bd@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 10:30 AM

 

Bangladeshi women Laborers in Saudi Kingdom: Story of Abuse, Torture & Deprivation
 
Poignant Story in  Daily Jugantor dated July 28,2009:
 
 [Corrected link]
 
 
Background
Dr. Abdul Momen's Article:
 
Plight of Bangladeshi Labor:
Expressing sympathy for the Bangladeshi labor, a senior Saudi official ... There are nearly 900000 Bangladeshi labor working in the Kingdom. .... Dr. Abdul Momen, formerly Professor of Economics and Management is President of the Women ...
www.drishtipat. org/appeal/ slavery.htm - Cached - Similar -
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Dr. Abdul Momen  is the Bangladesh's Ambassador designate to United Nations.
His appointment has recently been rejected by Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where
he was initially designated as the Bangladesh's Ambassador by the present
Hasina Government !
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Saudi Arabia

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Children are also trafficked from Afghanistan and Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia. .... Many women trafficked to Saudi Arabia from Sri Lanka work as maids,5 and Nepali ... The labor law does not apply to domestic service. The Saudi Arabian ...
www.protectionproje ct.org/human_ rights_reports/ .../saudi.doc

Saudi Arabia

Trafficking Routes

Saudi Arabia is a destination country for trafficking in persons. Women from Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Nigeria, Russia, Sri Lanka, and other East African countries are trafficked into Saudi Arabia. Children are also trafficked from Afghanistan and Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia.

Factors That Contribute to the Trafficking Infrastructure

Saudis rely heavily on migrant workers in all sectors of the job market. Some 5.5 million foreigners are employed in Saudi Arabia, accounting for one-third of the total population. Documented migrants can easily slip into illegal status. Employers and sponsors sometimes deliberately let residence permits expire or sell workers to other employers, thereby invalidating work permits. Migrants working in such undocumented or "irregular" situations are among the most vulnerable to exploitation.

Court cases are not published in Saudi Arabia, making it difficult to uncover unfair trials and the lack of due process.

 Forms of Trafficking

At least 1 million women from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka work legally in Saudi Arabia. The overwhelming majority work as domestic help in private households, but others work as hairdressers, beauticians, and seamstresses and in other positions. Many of these female migrants suffer from long working hours, unpaid salaries, and threats of intimidation and confinement. Many have their passports confiscated and are not provided with an official residence permit, the only valid document in Saudi Arabia for identification purposes. Without a permit, the women are unable to move freely without fear of arrest.

There are reports that victims of trafficking are exploited for commercial sex or are forced into domestic service. Many women trafficked to Saudi Arabia from Sri Lanka work as maids, and Nepali girls from low castes and rural poverty are trafficked for prostitution.

Indonesian girls are forced into prostitution and domestic labor. In May 2003, 118 Indonesian women were jailed for prostitution in Saudi Arabia. Some of the women may have gone to Saudi Arabia initially as legal migrants but were then forced into prostitution. Authorities also arrested three Indonesian pimps. Reportedly, hundreds of thousands of Indonesian workers in Saudi Arabia are employed as maids, small traders, and construction workers.

Boys have been trafficked to Saudi Arabia to work as camel jockeys. For example, in 2002, Indian immigration officials rescued nine Bangladeshi boys, between 4 and 8 years old, from traffickers who were taking the boys to Saudi Arabia to work as camel jockeys. The children were accompanied by eight adults, who were posing as their parents. Some of the adults admitted that they worked as agents for a camel-racing racket based in Saudi Arabia.

Afghan children have reportedly been abducted from Afghanistan, especially from the northern region, and smuggled to Saudi Arabia. Some of the children have claimed, upon repatriation to Afghanistan, that they were living as slaves to Arab sheikhs. One Afghan woman claimed she witnessed the sexual abuse of girls by Arab buyers.

 Government Responses

Islamic law prohibits any sexual relationship outside of marriage. Prostitution constitutes adultery, which is punishable by 100 lashes if the perpetrator of the crime is unmarried and by death from stoning in cases involving married persons.

A 1962 royal decree abolished slavery. Forced or compulsory labor is prohibited. The labor law does not apply to domestic service. The Saudi Arabian grand mufti, the highest Islamic authority in the country, issued a fatwa on 3 September 2002, against abuse of foreign laborers by Saudi employers. The fatwa stated that "blackmailing and threatening [foreign] laborers with deportation if they refuse the employers' terms, which breach the contract, is not allowed."

Foreign workers traditionally were under the control of a Saudi sponsor. The sponsorship rule was recently abolished in Saudi Arabia in accordance with the new Foreign Investment Act, but that act applies only to employees who work for a foreign investor doing business in Saudi Arabia. A recent Saudi Counsel of Ministers decree (Decree No. 166) explicitly provides that alien employees are entitled to keep their travel documents and the travel documents of their family. The employees also are permitted to travel anywhere in Saudi Arabia without showing documentation, which was previously required. The decree also requires that the relationship between the employer and alien employees be regulated in accordance with the employment contract and not the sponsorship rules. Under the decree, alien employees no longer require the prior approval of their employer to execute transactions such as obtaining a driver's license, obtaining a telephone line, or buying or renting a residence.

The government has had some success in prosecuting persons who exploit others in commercial sex. In August 2002, the Saudi Arabian government broke up a prostitution ring in Medina and sentenced the woman operating it to 15 years in prison and 5,000 lashes. In October 2003, Saudi Arabia repatriated 42 Afghan children who were reportedly deported by the Saudi government because they were living illegally in the Muslim holy city of Mecca. Human rights activists, however, claimed the children were trafficked to Saudi Arabia for abuse. Another 208 children were expected to be returned to Afghanistan in the days following.

In February 2004, Saudi authorities arrested a couple from Myanmar who had allegedly sold their son, together with an undisclosed number of children, for the equivalent of US$2,600. The couple was offering both Saudi and foreign children for sale.

In early 2003, Saudi Arabia began forming a national human rights institution that would be responsible for implementing the government's human rights decisions and making local laws consistent with the country's system of governance, which is based primarily on human rights.

The Saudi government announced in February 2004 that it was building a "security wall" on its southern border with the Republic of Yemen to curb illegal immigration and trafficking of drugs and weapons. According to several Yemeni newspapers, Yemen has complained that a 20-kilometer stretch of the wall is in what is supposed to be a neutral zone, as stipulated in border agreements signed in 2000. Saudi officials claimed the wall was being constructed only on Saudi territory.Nongovern mental and International Organization Responses

In addition to forming a national human rights institution, a May 2003 royal decree approved the establishment of Saudi Arabia's first nongovernmental human rights organization. The organization is to be completely independent; however, more information on the organization' s activities is not available.

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[ALOCHONA] Sheikh Hasina’s claim regarding her killing by Notorious Moeen Gong



Dear Brothers & Sisters,

 

Greetings from the heart of Bangladesh. Be a Patriotic Bangladeshi.

 

Sheikh Hasina claimed in the BAL Council that the notorious Moeen Gong had threatened & tried to oust her (even by killing her at Airport) & Khaleda Zia illegally from the politics during the Emergency Government (EG). Not only that Shajeda Chowdhury (Right Hand of Sheikh Hasina) & Dr. Modasser (Health Advisor & Personal Dr.) also had claimed few days ago that Sheikh Hasina was given poison in jail to kill her.

 

For detail, please follow the link below,

 

http://www.amardeshbd.com/dailynews/detail_news_index.php?NewsID=231316&NewsType=bistarito&SectionID=home

 

http://www.prothom-alo.net/V1/archive/news_details_home.php?dt=2009-07-25&issue_id=1353&nid=MjUxNDg=

 

http://www.amardeshbd.com/dailynews/detail_news_index.php?NewsID=229013&NewsType=bistarito&SectionID=home&oldIssueID=2009/06/28

http://www.amardeshbd.com/dailynews/detail_news_index.php?NewsID=229131&NewsType=bistarito&SectionID=home&oldIssueID=2009/06/29

 

Should we believe their claims? If really their claims are true, I think it is a heinous crime for capital punishment (life time imprisonment or death penalty) of them who are responsible? The Moeen Gong should open their mouth now & the Government must take legal action against the culprit.

 

 

Thanks & regards,


Engr M H Khan




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[ALOCHONA] Liberation War Museum conference on Genocide, July 30, 31, 9:30am



See the whole conference online... http://www.liberationwarmuseum.org/genocide

Shumon
From: Liberation War Museum LWM <mukti.jadughar@gmail.com>
Subject: Liberation War Museum conference on Genocide, July 30, 31, 9:30am

Dear Member,

Please share the following message with your networks. Thank you.

Board of Trustees
Liberation War Museum

The Liberation War Museum has organized the Second International Conference on Genocide, Truth and Justice, which will be held at the CIRDAP Auditorium, Dhaka, Bangladesh on July 30 and 31, 2009. This conference has been organized at a time when Bangladesh is actively pursuing the trial of the perpetrators of murder, rape and arson during the nine months of 1971 which led to the emergence of Bangladesh as a sovereign nation. The Conference is expected to bring to focus the multifarious legal, interpretational and implementation issues which are likely to come our way while the trials are being held.

The Conference will be available in streaming video via the Liberation War Museum website. Viewers are welcome to send in comments/questions for consideration at the event or to be posted on the website. Please find more details at the following URL.
http://www.liberationwarmuseum.org/genocide



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[ALOCHONA] BD Govt starts 'biggest army pullout' from CHT



BD Govt starts 'biggest army pullout' from CHT

Dhaka, July 29 (bdnews24.com) – The government has announced the "biggest withdrawal" of army troops from the Chittagong Hill Tracts since a peace accord was signed over a decade ago in an attempt to bring stability to the long-troubled region.

The withdrawal of a complete brigade, including three infantry battalions and 35 security camps, will start immediately, an ISPR press release said Wednesday. The withdrawal will be completed by September, it added.

"Mentionable that this will the biggest army withdrawal from the area after the [accord was] signed," said the statement. "The government is expecting that this army withdrawal would be considered as a milestone by the hill people to implement the pledges given by the government."

Since the CHT peace treaty was signed 12 years ago, a total of 200 security camps have been withdrawn from the tracts in different phases, according to the statement. "In order to end insurgency and establish permanent peace in Chittagong Hill Tracts, a historical peace treaty was signed in 1997 which was [the] demand of hill people for almost two decades.

"The Bangladesh government is very sincere and committed to fully realise the treaty," it said. "To implement the treaty Bangladesh has taken some steps of which the highlights are (a) To form Peace Treaty Implementation Committee in national level to observe the Peace Treaty Implementation procedure. (b) To reform Parliamentary Standing Committee on Chittagong Hilltracts Affairs and arrange continuous meeting to resolve multifaceted problems of Chittagong Hill Districts, (c) To start reform process of land commission," said the statement.

"The government is seeking all out co-operation and support of hill people and other population to ensure co-existence of all the people irrespective of religion and caste and to restore law and order situation and development activities to continue in the area," it said.

'Trouble-spot

The army was deployed in the troubled area after indigenous communities, led by Chakma leaders, took up arms in the 1970s in protest at the newly independent Bangladesh government's "inaction" over their various demands. These included decommissioning the Kaptai hydroelectric project and restoration of traditional land rights.

The Kaptai Lake, built in the 1960s, inundated the empire of the Chakma King, inundating vast tracts of land and displacing thousands of people. Many fled across the border to India to wage a campaign of insurgency against the Bangladesh army.

According to the peace deal signed with Pabatya Chattagram Janasanghati Saminit (PCJSS) in 1997, the government pledged to pull out all army troops from the CHT in phases. But no tangible measures were taken for wholesale withdrawal of troops from the troubled area.

The Awami League government, which signed the original deal, began implementing the peace accord to change the lot of the indigenous people.




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[ALOCHONA] Dhaka sets single-day rainfall record in 53 years



Dhaka sets single-day rainfall record in 53 years
Shakhawat Hossain

Courtesy New Age 29/7/09

 

Dhaka experienced 333 mm shower in last 24 hours between Monday 7:00am and Tuesday 7:00am setting a record of single-day highest rainfall in 53 years, weathermen said.
   The torrential downpour after an unusually long spell of dry monsoon eclipsed the previous high of 326mm rain recorded in the capital city on July 13, 1956, said assistant meteorologist of Dhaka met office Rashiduzzaman.
   Until the rainy Monday night, Dhaka experienced only 293 mm rain in 27 days of July. Low rainfall throughout Ashar and half of Shraban pushed the mercury up, hot and humid temperature made life uncomfortable in the capital city as elsewhere in the country.
   Delayed monsoon has already hit the aus paddy hard and disrupted plantation of aman, the second largest rice crop, prompting the government to offer free electricity for irrigation.
   The main part of the record breaking rainfall continued marathon for eight hours from 1:00 am to 7:00 am Tuesday, when total 290 mm rain was recorded, added Rashiduzzaman.
   The 8-hour continuous rain that submerged most parts of Dhaka, however, could not shatter the country’s single-day highest rainfall of 425 mm which the port city Chittagong experienced on June 11, 2007.
   Compared to downpour in Dhaka, rainfall in other five divisional cities of the country in the last 24 hours was lower and did not cross 100mm, although most of the regions saw their biggest rainfall in this monsoon on Monday.
   Met offices recorded 90mm in Chittagong, 1mm in Rajshahi, 64mm in Barisal, 43mm in Khulna and 79mm in Sylhet during the period.
   The main reason for Dhaka division having so much rain was the ‘cloud burst’ caused by combined influence of delayed arrival of monsoon and a low over the Bay of Bengal, said weather forecasters.
   The met office forecast massive rainfall in most parts of the county in the next 48 hours before the monsoon overcomes its long dry spell.
    Monsoon starts from June and runs up to September, but this year’s monsoon was unusually delayed and until July 13, met offices recorded 44 per cent less rain compared to the same period of last year.

 



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[ALOCHONA] 10 killed as heavy rains flood Dhaka



10 killed as heavy rains flood Dhaka
Drainage, public transport collapse;PM orders city agencies for urgent steps

Courtesy New Age 29/7/09

Staff Correspondent

Overnight torrential rains submerged the capital leaving at least 10 people, including a child, electrocuted on Tuesday and leading to a complete collapse of the city’s drainage and transport systems.
   Life and businesses came to a halt in the waterlogged city as most people were confined indoors and shops and schools were closed. Presence at public and private offices remained extremely thin.
   Rickshaws and vans overtook the flooded city roads as public transport services collapsed. Motor vehicles were seen stuck and commuters waded knee-deep waters on the city’s main thoroughfares. In some parts, boats were plying alongside rickshaws.
    Slum dwellers lost most of their belongings, and families took refuge on the road or in nearby under-construction buildings as rainwater started flooding their homes when they were asleep Tuesday night.
   However, it was a long-awaited rain in an unusually delayed monsoon and came mostly as blessings in the dried up areas of the country, but brought immense sufferings to the people in cities including the port city of Chittagong.
   While Comilla district town went under three feet of water, there was no rainfall in Rajshahi and Naogaon in the north, the worst sufferers of unusual drought this year, New Age correspondents reported.
   The met office recorded 333mm rainfall in Dhaka, the highest single-day rain in 53 years, between 12:00am and 7:00am on Tuesday. Almost the whole city, including Mohammadpur, Mirpur, Kalyanpur, Shyamoli, Azimpur, Dhanmondi, Indira Road, Kathalbagan, Paribagh, Minto Road, Rampura, Kakrail, Mouchak, Fakirerpool, Shantinagar, Basabo, Goran, Ghulshan, Uttara, Hatkhola, Jatrabari and many parts of Old Dhaka were inundated.
   Rainwater inundated the country’s administrative headquarters — Bangladesh Secretariat — and commercial hub of Motijheel, affecting both administrative and business activities and exposing vulnerability of the capital city to calamities like rainfall. Services in the hospitals and clinics were also affected as ambulance could not move.
   Two airliners — one flight from Kula Lumpur and the other from Hong Kong — failed to land at Zia International Airport due to soggy conditions of the runway as a result of the torrential rains.
   Business establishments and kitchen markets either remained closed throughout the day or resumed business in the afternoon. Authorities declared most of city schools, colleges and universities closed for the day.
   Ground floors of houses, including underground water tanks and basements and garages, in many places were flooded with rainwater taking hours to recede. ‘There is no cooking arrangement at our home today as we have no utility connections now,’ Afsar-ul Alam, an inhabitant of West Rajabazar, told New Age.
   The rain played havoc in the electricity supply system, creating power outage in different parts for hours. Panicky people in some places also disconnected electronic lines while some others met with accidents.
   At least 10 people were killed in ‘electrocution’ in the capital. However, the media cell at the Dhaka Metropolitan Police confirmed eight deaths so far, including three factory workers.
   The dead were identified as Shafiqul Islam, 35, and Saiful Islam, 30, of Kafrul, Bristi, 6, of Bhasantek, Kabir Hossain, 30, and Hridoy, 28, of Lalbagh, Abdul Kader, 28, of Fakirerpul, Jannatul Mawa, 35, of Demra, Shahin, 28 of Mohammadpur, Abdul Qader, 25 of Arambagh, Delwar Hossain, 30, of Daniabazar in Demra.
   State minister for LGRED and Cooperatives Jahangir Kabir Nanak, who rushed to the Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority office in the morning and stayed there for hours overseeing the WASA’s emergency response, regretted the city dwellers’ sufferings.
   Locals alleged most of the WASA pumps did not start operating until noon Tuesday.
   Prime minister Sheikh Hasina directed Dhaka City Corporation, WASA and all agencies concerned to take immediate steps to salvage the capital from water-logging during the rainy season. She held an emergency meeting with Nanak, city mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka and officials concerned at the prime minister’s office.
   While the blame primarily goes to the Dhaka WASA for its failed drainage systems, other city agencies resorted to blame game for the overall utility service failures leading to public sufferings.
   The city corporation’s chief engineer Abdul Quadir held Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha responsible for not enforcing building code properly as ‘most of the buildings did not keep open space for absorption of rain water increasing the amount of run off water putting pressure on surface drains.’
   ‘Unless the canals are cleared of encroachers or re-excavated, the natural drainage system the city had in the past is not going to be revived any more,’ Ainun Nishat, an expert, was quoted by a news agency to have said.
   Amid sufferings of many, some people joined fun of fishing. Some people went down the roads with fishing nets and tried to catch fish on the streets and lanes in areas like Mirpur, Ramna and Mahakhali, said witnesses.
   ‘It is interesting. I have never enjoyed fishing earlier,’ said Abir Ahmed, a junior class student of an English medium school.

 



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RE: [ALOCHONA] A news item on BDR massacre



An open Q to Farida Majid

Who killed officers in B D R?








To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: farida_majid@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:00:41 -0400
Subject: [ALOCHONA] A news item on BDR massacre



 
         Ever since the first shots were heard coming out from the direction of Peelkhana this forum was abuzz with Munshi, Bahar, Isha Khan and their ilk with anti-India propaganda and conspiracy theories involving imagined fingerworks of RAW/MOSAD/CIA. Munshi was then exposed quite convincingly by Shamim Chowdhury as one having cuddly connections with Pakistan Defense Forum and ISI.
 
         Here is another take on the BDR massacre.
 
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/9369
 
         I have no high hope of competing with the Munshi-Bahar liemongering machine in this or any other forum. The machine has a feral power that is hard to match. All I ask the moderator is to have a modicum of decency in allowing a small percentage of space for those conscientious voices that protest against the vicious lies.
 
         Thank you.
 
          Farida Majid


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RE: [ALOCHONA] When Khaleda Zia ceded to the 'abdar' of madrassahs



it is true that lot of madrassa administrators have not provided adequate educationsal / recreational/ health opportunities
to their residents.

Equally is it not true, that it is the university educated, greedy , selfish Bdeshis --- who have looted the country in the past years?

1. what is the total amount of money looted by university-educated Bdeshis.

2. How many university-educated politicians have proved to be thugs, thieves and corrupt.

3. How many university-educated morons have fooled the Bdeshi citizens and maintain high
quality of like by sucking the blood of 95% ordinary Bangladeshis.

Best wishes.

Khoda hafez.

dr. maqsud omar







To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: farida_majid@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:21:02 -0400
Subject: [ALOCHONA] When Khaleda Zia ceded to the 'abdar' of madrassahs




          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?
 
               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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