I agree with this. Though militancy is a symptom and not a cause.
What kind of people are we when we take two five year olds who are playing together and separate them systematically for the rest of their lives?
We are deliberately segregating our children and tearing the very heart of our country in two.
And AL is the answer? It has the imagination, conviction and integrity needed to solve this most critical of issues?
Yeah man. They live and let live to save their own skin - just like BNP.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Muhammad Ali <manik195709@...> wrote:
>
> Outdated Madrasa Curriculum- Unemployment forced graduates into militancy Says Prof Abul Barkat
> Sunday, October 2, 2011
> Star Correspondent
> The outdated madrasa curriculum should be reformed as it forces 75
> percent graduates to remain unemployed, providing them the scope to get
> involved with extremism and militancy, said noted academician Prof Abul
> Barkat yesterday.
> Annually at least five lakh madrasa graduates, mostly from Qawmi
> madrasas, fail to get a job. A portion of them can get easily involved
> with militancy, a proven fact of an analysis on the background of
> militants arrested in the last five years, he said.
> The new education policy does not say anything to modernise the Qawmi curriculum. The government should seriously think about the reform,
> especially of Qawmi madrasa, for human development and establishing a
> secular state, he viewed.
> Prof Barkat was speaking at an unveiling ceremony of his book titled
> “Political Economy of Madrassa Education in Bangladesh†at Cirdap
> auditorium in the city. The data used in the research-based book were
> collected in 2008.
> Non-government organisations Nijera Kori and Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD) organised the function.
> Talking about the growth of madrasas, he said there were 4,330
> madrasas in 1950 in the country, which jumped to 54,130, both Qawmi and
> Alia, at present. The annual growth is 4.65 percent, while that of
> mainstream educational institutions is 3.04 percent.
> At present there are around 1 crore madrasa students, of whom 67
> percent have a background of extreme poverty, while the number of
> teachers is over 3.64 lakh, he said.
> Around 40 percent of madrasa managing committee members are involved
> with religion-based political parties, 27 percent are with BNP and 22
> percent are with Awami league, the research finding said.
> Over 50 percent of madrasa students consider religion-based political party leaders as a role model while 70 percent of Qawmi and 60 percent
> of Alia madrasa students think madrasa is the easy way to reach heaven.
> Speaking as the chief guest, noted historian Prof AF Salahuddin Ahmed stressed the need to create mass opinion for reform in madrasa
> curriculum.
> Dhaka University international relations department Prof Amena Mohsin and Nijera Kori Coordinator Khusi Kabir also spoke at the function.
> Â
> www.thedailystar.net
>
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