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| Don't pay us to be patriotic: Muslims to Indian Government | |
| 2008-01-06 | |
New Delhi: A seemingly innocuous proposal from the Centre to offer incentives to madrassas so that they can celebrate National Holidays has the Muslim community up in arms.
In the National Development Council meeting last month the Government came under severe criticism from the BJP-ruled states for making special allocations for minority upliftment. Now the criticism is coming from within the community for what is being called interference in madrassa education. “This means you are trying to breed this thought and misgiving that people in madrassas are not patriotic. This certainly can not be supported,” Spokesperson, All India Muslim Personal Board, S Q R Illayas said. The Government has earlier faced stiff resistance in its bid to modernise madrassa education. A proposal to set up a central madrassa board was shelved under pressure from the clergy last year. Inadvertently or otherwise, policy makers seem to overlook the politics of education while drafting the 11th Five Year Plan. | |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #1 Notice there is no response to the call to fly the Indian flag and celebrate the Indian Independence Day and Republic Day. If they were so offended by filthy lucre, they could do so for free. The money is not the problem, it is acknowledging the Indian state that bothers them... |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-01-06 07:26 |