AZIZ A.MUBARAKI

Kolkata-based Aziz Mubarki, national secretary of South Asia Ulama Council - a body of muslim religious leaders - says that madrasas are being converted into regular schools and soon the Muslim pupils could become a minority in all modern madrasas.

“Islam is not against modern education or moderization of education. But can we call these institution madrasas when students cannot offer namaaz or prayer inside these institutions? Do you think it can be called a madrasa when the Muslim children cannot offer namaaz or prayer inside the madrasa? This is practically what is happening inside these so-called modern madrasas. They are turning the madrasas into ordinary schools, in the name of modernization. We completely disagree with such modernization.”


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