Why did people from far off places send their children to the school that recently made headlines in Pak?
a. Lack of primary education in their village/locality?
b. Lack of conservative/Islamic school in their village/locality?
[Note: If Pakistanis want “conservative/traditional” schooling for their children, it should be available.]
Please keep your venom and ire regarding the recent events in Isloo out of this thread. This is a genuine query and I would appreciate real facts and personal experiences.
Most send there kids to these schoolls as they cannot afford anything lese. And these Madrassah's give a much better education than local schools in remote villages, which has one or two teachers for 10 classes who is usually absent, coz the teacher was given the job as favour by corrupt government goons. Madrassahs also provide boarding.
Secondly, vast majority rather 90% of 16000 or so Madrassahs are not invlved in any sort of illegal activities. They keep these kids from being used as child labours and make them read, write, cloth and feed them.
Then there is a minority of people who purely go for religious reasons. They include professionals and well off people too.
If it was not for these Madrassahs scores of Pakistani children would have met the same fate as children of Brazil, who live in gutters. Its an irony that an isolated event is taken up by terrorrist pigs like MQM lovers to defame a social organization that has done a lot good for the country.
If it was not for these Madrassahs scores of Pakistani children would have met the same fate as children of Brazil, who live in gutters. Its an irony that an isolated event is taken up by terrorrist pigs like MQM lovers to defame a social organization that has done a lot good for the country.
Isn't western media extremely critical of these "schools" as well? Please don't respond with "oh jee they are kafir pigs".
The main reason is poverty, there are local Madrassahs available but there is some fee for that which may not be affordable for everyone. There are some renowned madrassahs in Pakistan, like Darul Aloom Haqqania and for female the one in Islamabad. Khafsa was particularly favourite for female education as there was no fee involve in this madrassah.
Unfortunately, madrassas in Pakistan are not supported as an institution in Pakistan - except few pet ones.. resulting in their dependence on charity and sadka money or grants fromm local influencials. This results in, bringing influence of narrow minded views in most cases. The society is polarized with already have and have-not problem.. As social justice is not present in our society this creats friction and lead to extremism..
As these madrassas are large in number - only solution lies is bringing a uniform education system where these madrasssas merging in that system.. only learned in religion could be apointed teachers here with full support of govt..
Suddenly after this issue I feel that whatever education reforms we keep talking about don't even reach the masses, nor do any reforms or lack of them, as per the govts' level and scale of planning, could matter to the poor masses in extremely low income groups and localities/villages.
They are all aware enough to want to educate their children in some way, but the economic aspect hits them hard when school education appear out of reach and luxurious. Wasting a child's capacity to earn in a day instead of going to a dilapidated govt school also must appear either a luxury or beyond reach. They still want their kids to become good humans and have some awareness and they head to the local mosque for religious education which too has lost the essence over the centuries. Unfortunately they end up with a label of being atleast religiously educated, those with greater zeal for some direction end up advancing to more serious and influential madressahs. Which are often sponsored by influentials for one agenda or another and unfortunately most of them now are politicized, but the poor go there because they find respect and identity in society atleast in some form, they are provided food, shelter, clothes and later even employment as tutors, trainers etc at the same or other similar madressahs. It’s a complete career path, a way of life. And unfortunately it’s the career path most accessible to Pakistani masses. It was supposed to be a good life, but only if it weren’t abused by political agendas, if the ‘taalibs’ were not exploited, misguided, brainwashed and used for political purposes over the past few decades. If they hadnt been turned into part time warriors too passionate for serious military action due to their professional training in combat and part played in Afghan war etc. Due to all this they consider themselves on a direct contract with God to ‘save’ Islam by the gun and have put their real role secondary. So we’re left with misguided religious non-scholars who are overzealous about gun fights.
Can the education system rectify this? Maybe if its identified by the authorities RIGHT NOW and some extreme measures taken, it might begin to settle down by the times our kids are as old as we are now…But meanwhile thinking about why it happened in the first place…? Perhaps economic misery is the answer to all mankind’s problems…had there been less poverty, things may have been somewhat different…?
That's inaccurate. Arab "doctors" (and their Indian Pakistani Lackeys) went mad due to poverty? OK how many poors can buy Mercedes cars and turn them into fire bombs? How many poors ram their burning Jeep Cherokee into an airport and run from it with their @r$es on fire?
None!
Terrorism is a disease that afflicts rich "Mad-Arab-Doctors (MADoos)". Our Mad-house-russahs get Riyals from MADoos and contract the same disease thanks to this tainted money.
At this stage our Mad-house-Russahs are the cesspools spreading germs of terrorism. The sooner we drain the cesspools the better.
As a first step, all these mudrassahs should be given to education department.
It is really important step as these mad-house-russhas cannot be fixed with band-aid "registration" with auqaf or some loony organization called "Madrissa-tul-Arabia".
Time to save the children from the MADoos and their dirty Riyals.