Reduce Islamic Madrasas and Control Existing Islamic Madrasa Education

As a Bangladeshi secular Muslim, I would like to request all peace loving citizens of south Asia irrespective of their religion, to voice their opinion on this topic. Our so called fruitless Islamic Madrasa education is getting out of hand. Instead of producing Islamic scholars with empathy towards the broader humanity; we have produced some hate filled poorly educated Maulanas’. Some of these Maulana’s are Taliban sympathizer’s of the sub-continent. Yes and yes this is the reality. You can say I am wrong; but if you keep your eyes closed then it’s not my fault.

In Bangladesh, it is now essential to register and control the curriculum of every single Madrasas of the country. I hope our government will do this ASAP!! Unfortunately, these Madrasas are the birth places all the misdeeds, where a lot of young boys & girls get abused by their so called Maulana teachers and also get brain washed at the same time.

Some of the Madrasas openly confirmed that they do not want to sing our national anthem – “Amar shonar bangla….”. To us Bangladeshis, amar shonar bangla is one of the best song ever as it beautifully describes the abundant beauty of the Greater Bangla Region.

Few years back when I saw the DW documentary, I was shocked to see how some of my country man going backward due to lack of government control on our education. For my readers – please follow this youtube video URL link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6DxXI6wD8U&ab_channel=DWDocumentary

As a devoted Muslim, I feel humanity, peace and my faith towards a kind Allah; is the key message of Islam. Allowing educational institute to brain wash its students in the name of Islam, at an early age is a fraud and will make any country go backward. Pakistan and Afghanistan have allowed this trend to grow and happen for a long time and now look at these two failed countries.

There is a deep lesson to be learnt by the government of India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka from all this. Lesson is DO NOT ALLOW UNREGISTERED AND UNCONTROLLED MADRASAS TO BE FLOURISHED. If you do then you will allow Taliban pockets to be produced and developed in your country. While we have time, we must do our best to stop Islamic radicalization flourishing from the Madrasas.

Reality of our sub-continent is that, a lot of our citizens are still poor. Government must educate all its citizens with a certain standard so that they can become better citizens. Unregistered and uncontrolled Madrasas will cause further harm and it will make our societies go backward further; if we are not careful now. Lack of rights of woman and children in Afghanistan, is the best proof how Madrasas can take your country backward.

India being the largest and powerful country of the neighborhood, must make a firm commitment towards this and try its best to convey the message to other friendly south Asian countries.

So finally, the summary is, put our government and education ministries under pressure to control and where necessary to stop Madrasa education. I am a Muslim from the beautiful Bangladesh, and this is my opinion. I want better human being in my beloved Bangladesh; rather than the increase of some new backward minded Talibans or Islamist Terrorists. Amar shonar bangla ami tomai onek beshi valobashi.