After all the Royal Commissions of Inquiry (RCI), special task forces, and “in-depth study”, what’s one more, right?
The secretary of the Kedah chapter of the Majis Ummah Ahli Sunnah (People’s Council of Sunni Adherents) Muhamad Fazilul Helmi Raidzan has called for a special committee to be set up to monitor and clamp down on the spread of extremist Islamist ideas in Malaysian religious schools, especially madrasahs and sekolah pondok in Kedah’s rural areas.
Muhamad Fazilul urged the state government to station members of this proposed committee in all state religious department offices to receive and act on any and al reports of extrmist behaviour.
“There must be a special committee on the matter, can detect and take immediate action if there were reports of teachers teaching anything that was not within the Ahli Sunnah Wal Jamaah (orthodox Sunni Muslims),” he said in an exclusive interview with Bernama, writes Hasnah Jusid.
Muhamad Fazilul stressed that students attending religious Islamic schools should not be corrupted by ideologies that deviate from true Islamic teachings, and also urged for proper vetting be in place for teaching positions in these institutions.
He also insisted that the concept of ‘jihad’, or holy struggle, did not merely mean militant actions, but also applied to acquiring knowledge and bettering one’s self and community economically.
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