7-Point demand including compulsory ‘Islamic education’ at all levels of education

Sarwar Jahan Jewel, Mymensingh : A human chain program was held in Mymensingh with a 7-point demand including the demand to make Islamic education compulsory at all levels of education. On Wednesday (October 30) in front of the city’s town hall and divisional commissioner’s office, a memorandum was handed over to the chief adviser at the divisional commissioner’s office of Mymensingh after the 2-hour human chain program organized under the banner of Islamic Studies Forum Mymensingh division. Their demands are- 1) Making Islam and religious education compulsory in all classes from primary to higher secondary level 2) Providing opportunities for students to study Islamic education subjects in science, business education and humanities at the higher secondary level as in the past 3) Islamic education in newly affiliated degree colleges. Authorizing the opening of studies department 4) Authorizing the opening of honors courses on Islamic studies in all public and private colleges 5) Authorizing the opening of honors courses on Islamic studies in all public universities 6) Appointing subject-based religious teachers on Islamic education in all primary schools as in the past 7) To introduce the subject of Arabic education as before from class VI to class X. Islamic Studies Forum Mymensingh Division President Prof. Mufti Muhibbullah and moderated by Prof. Md. Mahbubul Alam, General Secretary, Md. Kazim Uddin, Vice President of Secondary Islamic Education Council, Mymensingh District Branch, Md. Rafiqul Islam, General Secretary of Secondary Islamic Teachers Council, Mymensingh District Branch spoke at Manabbandhan. Principal of Muslim Girls School and College Mohammad Alauddin, Head of Department of Anand Mohan College Professor Abu Yusuf Mohammad Shahidullah, Professor Khairul Islam of Jamalpur Mirza Kashem Government College, Principal of Sherpur Nalitabari Najmul Smriti Government College Zahidul Hasan, Professor Obaidullah of Susong Durgapur Government College, Professor Ruhul Quddus, Professor Enamul Haque. The speakers said that in the past 15 years, the anti-Islamic fascist Hasina government has systematically completed all the activities to exclude Islam from the education system with the aim of transforming this nation into the pagan ideals of India, as a result of which, in 1996, the subject of Islamic education was excluded from the science and business education section of the eleventh class. is Later, the Awami League government came to power for the second time and left the subject of Islamic education from the compulsory stage even from the humanities section and left it as the fourth subject. In this context, millions of students of the country are denied the opportunity to study Islamic education despite their desire. Due to the lack of Islamic education, the student-youth society has reached the extreme level of moral degradation. As a result, the problem of drug theft, extortion, theft, rape, terrorism and corruption has become serious in the society. The speakers requested the intervention of the Chief Adviser for the speedy implementation of the 7-point demands, including compulsory Islamic education at all levels of education, with the aim of reforming education in the situation after the August revolution, which was achieved in return for the sacrifices of the students.