I am reluctant to knock Deoband as if it had an unvaried track record over its existence and influence in the history and development of many types of Indian Muslim movements.
Its seminaries have produced some enlightened Islamic scholars the likes of whom would not be seen or tolerated in the Land of the Jahiliya, otherwise known as the Kingdom Saudi Arabia.
In my opinion the madrassah system in the subcontinent, as we know it, would not have survived without the meddling of the white British colonizer sahib Education Reformers of 19th century. It was T. B. Macaulay's "Minutes on Indian Education (1835)" that brought English learning to the central Metropolitan stage, shoving madrassas in the shadowy margin where it carried on its intellectually impoverished but tenacious life.
However, Dar-ul Ulum Deoband today is an important seat of Islamic learning in South Asia. It made news last year, in February 2008, by gathering some 10,000 learned Muslims representing all Muslim schools of thought at an All India Anti-Terrorism Conference where it made a clear declaration denouncing all acts of terrorism injuring innocent people as un-Islamic.
Try telling that to our own Jamaati leader S. A. Hannan who tries to lie his way around the atrocities occuring in Swat Valley in Pakistan saying that the pictures of the girl flogging are 'doctored." What atrocious act is he hatching and helping to finance behind our back with his inside knowledge of Islami Bank of Bangladesh?
Farida Majid
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I believe all of you already know that there is no madrasa in the middle eastern countries, even though they are muslim countries for long time. Even Saudi has no madrsa system of education. Earlier all they had moktoba like morning/evening quran study sessions in the mosques. Later only Egypt started an University. Then came colonizations to middle eastern countries having no educational facilities. After liberations, each country started school, college anbd university systems like ours and western countries. Madras system started in Deobond, India.
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Govt tightens noose round qoumi madrassahs
Courtesy New Age 15/4/09
DCs asked to collect info
Siddiqur Rahman Khan
The education ministry on Monday issued a directive to all deputy commissioners asking them to collect information about qoumi madrassahs as part of a government move to establish control over them.
The ministry in its letter said that the government wanted to exert some control over all the qoumi, nurani, forkania, hafizia and ahle hadith madrassahs and mosque-based religious institutions.
'At present such religious institutions are running without the control of the Bangladesh Madrassah Education Board,' said the letter.
'You [DCs] are asked to gather information about the source of funds, number of madrassahs and their students and teachers, date of their establishment and syllabus and send it [data] to the ministry by April 23,' said the letter signed by a deputy-secretary (madrassah section) of the ministry.
On April 1, law minister Shafique Ahmed told reporters that the government wanted to bring all madrassahs in the country under a policy guideline by registering them.
Shafique termed the qoumi madrassahs as the breeding grounds for militancy. He said that the present activities of the militants using religion were against religion and Islam as well. 'Islam never and cannot allow such militancy.'
The law minister's announcement came after a huge cache of arms and ammunition was seized from a Bhola madrassah, funded by Green Crescent , a UK-based charity, on Mach 24.
Following Shafique's announcement a number of religious leaders and associations of quomi madrassah teachers demanded his resignation.
Different intelligence agencies launched investigations into the activities of the qoumi madrassahs after the countrywide series of blasts on August 17, 2005, based on the information that these institutions provided guerrilla training to the students with a view to establishing Islamic rule in Bangladesh .
The investigation substantiated the information and the intelligence agencies marked 323 qoumi madrassahs, where militant training was taking place. The intelligence agencies also suggested that the government should monitor the activities of the madrassahs and trace the source of their funding.
Since there is no government control over qoumi madrassahs, anybody can set up such madrassahs anywhere in the country.
The first-ever survey conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics in December 2008 said that there were 5,230 quomi madrassahs with about 14 lakh students.
The majority of the qoumi madrassahs are located in Sylhet, Barisal Chittagong and greater Mymensingh.
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