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‘’It was affecting our business. The child’s lungi-clad grandfather would eat paan outside the playgroup. This affected other parents and they had a problem allowing their children to be in a school that admits such people. I have nothing against the Muslims nor did I discriminate against them. I liked this family and was only trying to find a middle ground for them,’’ she said.

Sounds remarkably like, "I have nothing against the Jews, I had a jewish friend, even".

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Al Salamu 'Alaykum.

Borivali is a suburb of Bombay. It is primarily a ghetto of Gujarati and Marathi middle and lower middle class people with their own prejudices and hatreds. The Gujaratis and Jains in particular have an inveterate hatred for the Muslims, as those who followed the Gujarat pogrom of Mahatma Modi must be knowing.

Brother Muhammad Nawaz Doli is a Muslim who lives in Borivali. Like a simple, straightforward Muslim he decided to put his little daughter in a local playgroup that was close to his house. Little did he know that the Gujarati & Jain parents of other children would close ranks to exclude his 2 year old daughter from the group and its activities. Not only that but he and his wife were also not invited to Parent-Teacher meetings because other parents objected to "such people" in the group.

Apparently the girl's grandpa used to be lungi-clad and eat pan outside the playgroup. But the Gujaratis are forever chewing pan and gutka and mawa and tobacco in their own local dress. Is it any less kosher if done by a Muslim?

I can't find it in my heart to blame the spineless owner of the playgroup for her behavior. After all, she is in it for the money, not for the principle of the thing. The brother has withdrawn his daughter from the group that treated her like an achoot (untouchable) and filed a police complaint. More strength to him.

But the dagger in my heart is because of my own community.

Why do we expose our young children and their souls to such scarring?

Why do we stand and beg in front of schools run by Christians and Jews and Marwaris and Hindus for seats for our kids?

When are we going to have our own playgroups and KG schools?

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

We don't expect Christians to give us our Dar ul 'Ulum Deoband.

We don't expect Marathis to give us Nadwatul 'Ulama.

We don't expect Jains to give us our Mosques and Maktabs.

Then why do we expect the Kuffar to give us our secular educational institutes?

Why not set them up ourselves and then say, "To hell with you! We don't need you!"

May Allah protect the Muslims of India and their sons and daughters and may we never forget,

"Kafir La Aytebaar".

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y Mohd Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,

Hyderabad: Urdu-medium educational institutions in the state are facing extreme threat of getting extinct in the very near future, as nearly 50 Urdu medium residential schools in Andhra Pradesh are now chosen to be converted into English medium schools.

Government of Andhra Pradesh [AP] had started a plan called “Successes”, by which it intends to start around 6500 CBSE English medium schools, to facilitate the growing number of student ratio in the state. But the government seems like not having any infrastructure facility to carry out such a huge blueprint, so they have now started converting already fragile Urdu medium institutions into English medium. Within the past 10 years, government has closed down about 40 per cent of such schools/colleges and now approximately only around 1,000 such institutions remain in AP.

The explanation provided by the government for converting these schools to English medium is that, the students are least willing to join such schools. But the fact is that the government is showing huge impartiality in providing assistance to the Urdu medium schools and so the dwindling popularity of the medium as alleged by the government is the result of lack of proper attention paid to the Urdu educational sector. The lapse from the part of government is well evident as there were many instances of the Urdu medium schools being shifted to just a four room house.

The governmental axe is all set to fall on three Urdu-medium colleges as well - the Residential Junior College, Barkas (Hyderabad) and the AP Residential Junior Colleges at Guntur and Kurnool.

The explanation given as usual is that there are only a fewer percentage of students attending this colleges. But the often neglected fact is that, the state government had increased the bar level requirements for entry in to these Urdu-medium residential colleges. They introduced entrance tests in 2006 and from then on the number of students kept descending. People have shared their opinion that, the solution indeed was to provide further assistance and support rather than closing down such already fragile institutions.

Government of Andhra Pradesh had issued a Governmental Order [GO] MS76 for right to education; its 21st section insists on not shutting down the government schools. But with this the government seems like violating its own orders.

Chanchalguda High School built during the time of the Nizam, is symbolic of the pathetic condition of eminent schools of the past era. The nearly century-old aesthetically built structure’s façade has been badly damaged due to lack of attention and adequate support from the government.

Schools like Urdu Shareef School, City High School and Chaderghat High School had enjoyed a period of glory until 1960s and are now lying in ruins. The Urdu Shareef School which was earlier spread over an area of two acres has now been shifted to a four room house near Fateh Darwaza. The student strength is down to a meagre 150 odd from 700.

Hyderabad had the history of being the centre of Urdu education in Andhra Pradesh, but at present there is not even a single school with adequate infrastructure facilities. The Government is actually trying to shrug off from its constitutional responsibility by not taking care of this public institutions and instead moving forward with steps to wipe off the Urdu Educational sector. The state government is thus violating article 29 and 30 of the constitution, under which minorities are given special rights regarding their education.

http://twocircles.net/2011dec02/conv...ion_phase.html

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New Delhi: Muslims have fallen off the education map. And in campuses of higher institutes of learning like the IITs and the IIMs, Muslim presence is minimal.
For the Sachar panel, which has been sounding the warning bells time and again, this trend in Muslim education is worrying.
Independent India has not seen Muslims do well in higher education. In fact, statistics with the Sachar Panel show that percentage of Muslim students doing undergraduation courses is less about nine per cent.
Much worse, in post graduation courses only one out of 20 students is a Muslim. For women the situation is rather appaling — only five per cent Muslim women manage higher education.
The status of admission of Muslims to the country's top medical and engineering colleges is horrifying. And the panel says a lot needs to be done to provide the Muslims with quality higher education.
In medical colleges, only six per cent of Muslim men take up undergraduate courses in Medicine. It is a disapppointing less than four per cent for Muslim men at the post graduate level.
Muslim women have it worse. With only four per cent taking up medicine at the undergraduate level and just 1.5 per cent for Muslim women at the postgraduate level.
At the IITs, only 1.5 per cent of Muslims make it to undergraduate courses. It is a dismal 3.5 per cent at the postgraduate level and 4.5 per cent at the research level.
These figures call for desperate measures according to panelists. "They give a kind of preferential access in a time-bound manner. Special classes and special coaching can be given," says Member Secretary of Sachar Panel, Dr Abu Saleh Sherriff.
And there are problems at the basic primary level as well. Only three per cent of the Muslim children in urban areas go to school. In rural India, only three per cent Muslim boys and 2.5 per cent Muslim girls get school education.
"Where Muslim concentration is high in villages, my guess is that in urban areas the situation is similar — schools are less. Also, when the Muslim childer get enrolled, there is a high dropout," says Dr Sherriff.
The Sachar panel says — spend as much as possible on running good government schools in Muslim areas. This is one suggestion which the Government can hardly ignore.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/the-truth...n/27064-3.html