Resolution on
Secularization of Education

 

LAHORE, Jan 9: Jamaat-e-Islami Central Council (Shoora) has expressed grave concern over government’s measures taken in education sector particularly the changes in syllabus made last year on the behest of western lobbies in order to secularize the educational foundations of the country.
In a resolution the Shoora observed that millions of patriot and Islam loving countrymen are viewing government’s education policies with extreme displeasure because they feel that the vital and sensitive sector like education is being deprived of the Islamic ideology which was the foundation of the country under a western conspiracy. These countrymen feel their sentiments deeply hurt because of systematic promotion of secular elements and retrenchment of Islamic elements in the education sector.
The Shoora lodged strong protest with the government for its deliberate violations of Article 2-A and 31 of the constitution which demand that the government is bound to take measures to provide all facilities to the citizens to mould their lives collectively and individually according to the teachings of Islam, and to take steps for making compulsory education of Quran, Sunnah and the Arabic language.
It observed that the whole range of government measures in the education sector last year were an ample proof to expose the conspiracy of western lobby to secularize the education sector, in which contents promoting Islam and Pakistan ideology were excluded while provocative matter against the Islamic teachings was included in its place, publishing of syllabus was deregulated to allow private and foreign publishers free hand, allowing US investments and ‘academicians’ to influence all educational institutions in the country under the garb of Aga Khan Board, vicious propaganda against religious seminaries, and full fledged promotion of western culture is being made through electronic media.
The Shoora demanded the government that instead of violating the constitutional requirements and public aspirations it should announce following them in order to bring education system in harmony with the requirements of Islam and Pakistan ideology, and announce its outright rejection of the unjustified pressure of world powers in this regard. In order to take a just review of the primary and secondary syllabi a committee comprising patriotic experts from all walks of society should be constituted which should redefine the objectives of every subject at every level in the light of the scope of Quran and Sunnah by exercising our internationally acknowledged principles.
It also demands banning all foreign publishers so that syllabus books could be brought in line with the national objectives and ideology, and that all books should be published according to the old syllabus of 2003 while all changes made during 2004 which were rejected by the nation and the parliament must be removed from the syllabus books.