Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General and former MP Professor Mia Golam Parwar issued a statement on September 22 calling for the inclusion of at least two eminent scholars in the National Textbook Revision and Revision Committee notified by the Ministry of Education.
In the statement, he said, “Recently, the National Textbook Revision and Revision Committee has been announced in a notification of the Ministry of Education. We have noticed that no scholar has been included in the National Textbook Revision and Revision Committee notified by the Ministry of Education. No Islamic thinker or learned scholar has been placed in such an important committee in a 92 percent Muslim-dominated country. The previous anti-Islamic government included many anti-Islamic Tahzeeb-Tamaddun subjects in the textbooks during its nearly 17-year rule, which is in no way acceptable in a 92 percent Muslim-dominated country.
In the statement, he further said that many anti-Muslim and anti-atheist topics have been included in the national textbook as part of a far-reaching conspiracy. At various times, learned scholars and Islamic thinkers of the country have expressed their views on this issue and protested through speeches and statements. But the fascist government paid no heed to it.
On behalf of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, we call for the inclusion of at least two learned scholars, including one Aliya and one educated scholar in national education, in the National Textbook Revision and Revision Committee. “