Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Education Council Chairman Iftikhar Ahmed Javed on Saturday urged the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to reconsider their letter, urging states and UTs to inspect the recognized madrasas admitting non-Muslim children.
Uttar Pradesh Board of Madrasas has started preparations to provide modern education along with religious instruction, said Iftikhar Ahmed Javed, Madrasa Education Council Chairman on Monday.
National Convenor of Muslim Rashtriya Manch Maulana Suhaib Qasmi on Saturday alleged that Popular Front of India (PFI) is targeting educated Muslims in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh & Telangana and wants to misguide youth in schools and Madrasas.
Cracking down on 'fake madrasas' in Uttar Pradesh, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) submitted its report to the government citing 219 'fake madrasas' in Azamgarh some of which had allegedly received state grants in the name of modernisation.
Masood on Monday told reporters, "The government should clarify which literature has been found wrong and where. Earlier also they targeted madrasas and got it investigated. Do they find anything in it? Get it done again but also investigate the Saraswati Shishu Mandir."
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Thursday wrote to the Chief Secretaries of all states and Union Territories and directed them to conduct a detailed inquiry of all the recognized Madrasas admitting non-Muslim students.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said that the government wants students of the migrant muslims to become doctors, and engineers instead of becoming Junab, Imam "by studying in Madrasas".
Taking a suo moto cognizance of a media report of 12 Bihar-based orphan children rescued from a Madrasa in Tamil Nadu, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Saturday issued a notice to the said governments.
Under the auspices of All India Muslim Jamaat, an organization associated with Dargah Ala Hazrat Bareilly Sharif, a meeting was held at Madrasa Gasul Vara of Jama Masjid Shahjahanpur. The theme of this meeting was "Islam and peace."