12-10-2006, 11:13 AM
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Pioneer.com
Kanchan Gupta | New Delhi
Six decades after India's blood-soaked partition on the basis of the Muslim League's two-nation theory, passionately espoused by Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has ordered the revision of textbooks to bring them in conformity with his thesis of "enlightened moderation".
If carried through, the reason for Pakistan's creation - Muslims cannot live with Hindus - and why lakhs of Muslim families, including that of Gen Musharraf, migrated to the League's 'promised land', will be made to stand on its head.
Pakistani media reports suggest that the Education Ministry, headed by Gen Javed Ashraf Qazi, has brought about "drastic changes" in the national curriculum for 'Pakistan Studies', which will be incorporated in textbooks beginning 2007. The new curriculum will have to be followed by all provinces.
The changes, aimed at promoting "enlightened moderation" as opposed to Islamisation that formed the basis of the national curriculum till now, will lead to the inclusion of at least three new chapters seeking to halt Pakistan's spiralling descent into radical Islamism.
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These efforts are useless though. So long there are Islamic theological schools, called madarsas, all these things will remain a big naught.
Just look at what is happening in India. Sachar report is used as a weapon by PM/Sonia etc to say "Muslims should have access to India's resources first". What they do not want to say is that Muslims are below in education because most parents send there kids to Madarsa.
Even the most important madarsa in the world i.e Deoband started teaching english few years back.
A very interesting write up on this madarsa by Edna Fernandes (Forget the name of her book).
-Digvijay
Pioneer.com
Kanchan Gupta | New Delhi
Six decades after India's blood-soaked partition on the basis of the Muslim League's two-nation theory, passionately espoused by Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has ordered the revision of textbooks to bring them in conformity with his thesis of "enlightened moderation".
If carried through, the reason for Pakistan's creation - Muslims cannot live with Hindus - and why lakhs of Muslim families, including that of Gen Musharraf, migrated to the League's 'promised land', will be made to stand on its head.
Pakistani media reports suggest that the Education Ministry, headed by Gen Javed Ashraf Qazi, has brought about "drastic changes" in the national curriculum for 'Pakistan Studies', which will be incorporated in textbooks beginning 2007. The new curriculum will have to be followed by all provinces.
The changes, aimed at promoting "enlightened moderation" as opposed to Islamisation that formed the basis of the national curriculum till now, will lead to the inclusion of at least three new chapters seeking to halt Pakistan's spiralling descent into radical Islamism.
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These efforts are useless though. So long there are Islamic theological schools, called madarsas, all these things will remain a big naught.
Just look at what is happening in India. Sachar report is used as a weapon by PM/Sonia etc to say "Muslims should have access to India's resources first". What they do not want to say is that Muslims are below in education because most parents send there kids to Madarsa.
Even the most important madarsa in the world i.e Deoband started teaching english few years back.
A very interesting write up on this madarsa by Edna Fernandes (Forget the name of her book).
-Digvijay