Islam and Pluralism
2 Bengal madrasas turn a chapter, more Hindus than Muslims on rolls
Kolkata: Madrasas across the country may be under the scanner for imparting
Islamic fundamentalist teachings and accused of being factories of narrow
orthodoxy, but in West Bengal, there are at least two where Hindu students
outnumber Muslims. Located about 110 km from Kolkata, the Orgram Chatuspalli
High Madrasa in Burdwan district and Kasba MM High Madrasa in Uttar Dinajpur
district are known for their academic excellence and secular credentials.
While at Orgram, 64 per cent — 555 of the 883 students — are Hindus, at
Kasba, 647 of 1,069 students, or 60 per cent, are Hindus. -- Shiv Sahay
Singh
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There are some pre-requisites for the policy of equivalence to succeed.
First of all there has to be an all India madrasa Board. All madrasas,
including the independent ones, have to be compulsorily part of this board.
This Board should adopt a common curriculum for all madrasas, which would
include modern subjects and English. Sufficient numbers of trained teachers
for this purpose should be provided for the Board. -- Arshad Alam
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Radical Islamism & Jihad
Demanding fairplay is fine, but Azamgarh Muslims need to introspect too
Muslims from Azamgarh were merely exercising their democratic right to
peacefully protest a perceived discrimination and voice their demands for
justice and fair treatment.
There is a general feeling in the Muslim community, and not only in
Azamgarh, that after every terrorist act the police pick up innocent Muslim
youth at random and even if they let them go after interrogation, their
lives are already destroyed. They lose their jobs, marriages break down,
their Muslim relatives and friends too start avoiding them, not to speak of
their Hindu friends or employers. This has already happened to several
Muslim youths in different parts of the country. ….
It is easy to blame the police and the government. Not that they do not
deserve that blame sometimes. But while we have to try and keep them on
their toes, through peaceful protests, through political mobilisation, and
so on, that is not going to solve our problems in the long run. Even the
denunciations of terrorism, that some of our ulema are organising in city
after city, while useful, are not going to solve our problems. We need to
introspect deeply, if there is something that could be wrong with us, with
our understanding of our scriptures, and if there is something we can
ourselves do to ameliorate our conditions instead of merely hoping and
waiting for others to pull our chestnuts out of fire.
Sultan Shahin, editor, New Age Islam
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Islam,Terrorism and Jihad
War is not the answer; peace is not possible with Pakistan
If Pakistan is sincere, if it really does have no control over terrorists,
then it should do for India what it did for the United States. We should be
allowed to interrogate terror suspects. Intelligence should be shared with
us. And those terrorists who are wanted for acts of violence in India should
be handed over to us. -- Vir Sanghvi
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