Key point is that its not in our nature/ culture/ tradition not even in our CONSTITUTION to preach hate!!
He said it must be noted that hate material taught in schools was against Article 22 of the Constitution.
religion had been strongly promoted through politics and this was dangerous because whoever met a certain set criteria was considered a Muslim while anyone outside that circle was in danger today.
Politicizing and bigotry 2 evil mixed together can be toxic to any society!
“Schools have become factories where children are being churned out with warped mindsets,”
AND this was furthered:
most of the teachers taught religion in class rather than their own subjects.
Now that is not part of the curriculum so you cant really directly blame the system if it is taught but not found in the curriculum!
He said the institutions which taught religion solely should be separated from formal education so that religion had no space in other subjects like science.
That is his opinion he is free to offer and say what he wills!
He said Supreme Court’s decision to revise the curriculum should be taken very seriously.
Why didnt you highlight this? Is SC decision not serious?
Selective highlighting?
1) Who is he?
2) What excerpts? Which textbooks? each province has their own system ....so one needs to be more specific!
highlighting some of the “shameful and intolerant perspectives being drilled into the minds of children”. Those excerpts portrayed non-Muslims as negative, preached open hatred, and declared the Muslims more superior. In some places even eminent figures of other religions were regarded as inferior.
The problem with not providing the source is he could be making a mountain of an ant hill!
Each country has their own standards of tolerance and intolerance...Like in France it is not tolerant of something as innocent as a headscarf or a long skirt but will cry rivers for cartoons offending another religion calling it tolerance for freedom of expression!
So what is the deciding factor for what Peter here is using as a measuring stick? Words such as preached open hatred: how is it not open hatred when you allow bashing of another religion through freedom of expression even after knowing what the outcome would be?
- THESE are just examples of hypocrisy and also to question what is tolerant and not and who is to decide?
As for this superior BS....I am under the opinion these were the first that got taken out or at least should be!
Well, until and unless these people are further educated - I have few threads on education and how ignorance shouldnt be tolerated...
He said too many publishers had made it difficult to monitor such issues
Why didnt you highlight this? THIS is an issue!
Amarnath Randhawa said his mathematics teacher would ask him to read Islamiyat in math periods.
This falls under the previously discussed portion of the article:
most of the teachers taught religion in class rather than their own subjects.
said hate material affected mostly those people, who considered themselves to be “nice people”. But these people were the same who believe that Muslims were the most persecuted in the world, and never took into account any reasons as to why non-Muslims would ever form a mob. They would never even think if it was the responsibility of the majority Muslims not to set a trend of violence.
THIS I seriously didnt understand what she meant to highlight!
I have mentioned this in too many threads.....
Its possibly the root cause of the whole population not even thinking when voting!
“We have entire generations who only repeat, who cannot think for themselves, whose language skills are poor, and all this suits an authoritarian regime so basically none of this points to any failure by the government,”
This is a problem why didnt you highlight it? I thought this was a discussion!
agreed upon certain basic facts regarding religious discrimination and the violation of the Constitution.
Highlighting this as though it is important!
They agreed but it is not mentioned in the article what those points are...Highlighting it was to......fill in the blanks! So it shows religious discrimination is violation of the constitution! That is good they agreed!
MPA Qamarul Islam Raja the government had made a Publishers’ Regulation Committee which would consider laws for publishers and that no books would be printed without the permission of the textbook board. He said an authority on curriculum was also recently formed to discuss and eliminate hate material from text books.
THIS was a proposed solution and in effect but not deserving a highlighting I see
How are you supposed to discuss when you are selectively reading and highlighting throwing out the points raised, the issues taken into account and the changes proposed?
IA Rehman said that radicalism had come into the system since the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir.
So its an old thing! Would mean also exists in india! Less to do with the "system" and more to do with.......................answered here:
first religious discrimination must end in society in order to be cleared from textbooks and for this society must pressures the government and State to ensure tolerance.
Correctly said, now the question comes how to end it in society? What steps to take and then what are the ways to throw it out of the textbooks...1 way is to have a single publisher but that would also mean state will monitor/ limit education! Well in 1 way it is cool! But in the other it may lead to bigots getting position and doing BS!
Sorry kid, world is not black or white with true and false only...You want a discussion learn to do it properly and professionally not rush things with 1 word answers because that would be building a lie in the long run!
