09-04-2006, 01:51 AM
<!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> <b>To sing or not to sing Vande Mataram</b>
[ 3 Sep, 2006 2313hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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However, spokesperson of Gujarat chapter of All India Milli Council and member of the Muslim Personal Law Board Munir Kheruwalla in Vadodara says that they agree with Deoband's appeal that Muslims should keep their children away from schools on September 7.
"Our stand is clear that Vande Mataram should not be made compulsory and we don't need any certificates that we are loyal to the nation." Kheruwalla also took a dig at the BJP stating "those who considered 'madarasas' as terrorist camps are now stating that madarasas are educational institutes!"
As far as Surat is concerned a large number of minority run schools are clear about what they are going to do on September 7.
Mohammed Suleiman Michla, principal of MMP high school in Rander told TOI that they have no problems in Vande Matram being sung in the school.
Other minority run schools and institutions that have expressed their consent are MA Mullah Pipardiwala school, MA girls high school, MTB technical education school, Rampura physiotherapy college, Surat Muslim Young Graduate society and Begumpura MTB girls school.
On the other hand administrators of most of the Madrassas claim that most of the Madrassas would be operational fully after Ramzaan and refrained from commenting on the issue.
Bharuch ex-MLA Mohammed Fansiwala told TOI that he supports the Deoband appeal because it is better for minority run school children to remain absent than get involved in a controversy.
[ 3 Sep, 2006 2313hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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However, spokesperson of Gujarat chapter of All India Milli Council and member of the Muslim Personal Law Board Munir Kheruwalla in Vadodara says that they agree with Deoband's appeal that Muslims should keep their children away from schools on September 7.
"Our stand is clear that Vande Mataram should not be made compulsory and we don't need any certificates that we are loyal to the nation." Kheruwalla also took a dig at the BJP stating "those who considered 'madarasas' as terrorist camps are now stating that madarasas are educational institutes!"
As far as Surat is concerned a large number of minority run schools are clear about what they are going to do on September 7.
Mohammed Suleiman Michla, principal of MMP high school in Rander told TOI that they have no problems in Vande Matram being sung in the school.
Other minority run schools and institutions that have expressed their consent are MA Mullah Pipardiwala school, MA girls high school, MTB technical education school, Rampura physiotherapy college, Surat Muslim Young Graduate society and Begumpura MTB girls school.
On the other hand administrators of most of the Madrassas claim that most of the Madrassas would be operational fully after Ramzaan and refrained from commenting on the issue.
Bharuch ex-MLA Mohammed Fansiwala told TOI that he supports the Deoband appeal because it is better for minority run school children to remain absent than get involved in a controversy.