Aljazair bikin kemajuan: tidak ada pelajaran agama disekolah
negeri...
Ini sesuai dengan prinsip pemisahan urusan agama dari urusan
negara.
Dan kita di Indonesia lebih Arab dari Arab...
Di sekolah ada pelajaran agama sejak tahun 1956 (atau 1957?)
dan
baru- baru ini juga disekolah swasta yagn tidak dikelola orang
islam...
Walaupun dulu kita mewarisi dari pemerintah Hindia Belanda
pemisahan urusan agama dari urusan urusan negara..
Orang Arab maju, kita mundur...
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Algerians Furious at Shari`ah-Free Curricula
"It is a crime against the Algerian people, their unity," said
Shaiban.
Additional Reporting by Waleed Tulmasani, IOL Correspondent
ALGIERS, May 22, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) � The
Algerian Ministry of Education's decision to remove the Shari`ah and
Islamic studies subjects from the high-school curriculum has
sparked
a backlash from both scholars and students alike, who accused the
government of bowing to foreign pressures.
"It is a crime against the Algerian people, their unity at a time
when we are really in a dire need to learn more about Islam and its
virtues," Sheikh Abdul Rahman Shaiban, chief of Algeria 's Muslim
Scholars Association, told IslamOnline.net.
He warned that the government move is a preliminary step toward
removing the Islamic studies subject from the university syllabus.
"In three years' time, the tributary that provides Islamic
institutions and mosques with religious cadres will be cut off
despite the fact that the government is fully aware of the key role
played by qualified imams," Shaiban said.
He criticized the ministry's justification that the cancellation
would help push forward the progress wheel.
"In their own point of view, progress and modernity mean rebelling
against our [Islamic] identity and past glories," said the scholar.
Minister of National Education Boubekeur Benbouzid argued last
week
that the move was part of "modernizing and upgrading Algeria's
education system," which is a mixture of French and Arabic-style
teaching.
He said the decision is targeting seven other subjects, denying it
would have a domino effect on the university education.
Sources close to the government told IOL that the move was driven
by "influential" officials, who believed that teaching Shari`ah and
Islamic studies proved a fertile ground for graduating extremist
youths.
"Unconstitutional"
A library photo of a demonstration by Algerian students against the
decision.
The move further drew flack from the powerful General Union of
Free
Students (UGEL), which described it as "unconstitutional" because
Islam is the religion of state.
"This is a decision we won't accept and will do all we can to change
it. Teaching Islamic sciences should be promoted not cancelled,"
UGEL
Secretary General Nabil Yahyaoui told Reuters Saturday, May 21.
He warned of unprecedented protests, unseen since the height of
the
conflict in the mid-1990s after the army scraped the results of the
1992 legislative elections which the now-banned Islamic Salvation
Front party was believed to have won.
University students and professors have for many days staged sit-
ins
across the country's universities to protest the decision.
They charged that the move was based on an overhaul education
plan
drawn up by secularists over the past four years at the request of
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who frequently called for upgrading
the country's education system.
Prominent scholar Mohamed Chemsedine expected the government
to back
down.
"The education ministry's decision is a provocation to all Algerian
Muslims, and I have no doubt that President Bouteflika will do the
right thing," he told Reuters.
Algerian scholars welcomed in February a government decision to
backtrack on scrapping the role of a wali (a woman's guardian) in
concluding marriage contracts under the new amendments to the
1984
family code.
Parliamentary Debate
Last week, Harakat Moudjtamaa As-Silm (HMS) party, which is
represented in the government by five ministers, denounced the
curriculum-trimming move.
The party's MPs submitted an interpellation to the parliament,
asking
the education minister to explain his decision.
The interpellation, a copy of which was seen by IOL, said the
decision contradicts the presidential oath taken by Bouteflika to
respect and glorify Islam.
HMS further condemned in a statement the ministry's cancellation of
this year exams in the subjects of history, Islamic education and
Shari`ah at the sixth and ninth grades without consulting the
government first.
It said that the move came to win favor with "external parties and
powers that work on obliterating the Algerian identity."
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