Halloween celebrations in schools flayed

LAHORE

Religious leaders strongly condemned the celebrations of medieval Christian festival of Halloween in majority of private schools in the provincial metropolis, terming it a grave conspiracy to lead astray the younger generations from the very objectives for which the country was created through millions of sacrifices, and lamented that the rulers had turned a blind eye to poisoning of the country’s values.

Jamaat Islami Secretary General Liaqat Baloch while talking to The News said ignoring Islamic values and celebrating Pagan and Christian festivals in schools was an enemy conspiracy to poison the raw minds of young children so that they could be left unable to defend the country against systematic secularisation.

Baloch held the 18th Constitutional Amendment as the key tools of implementing this conspiracy which relegated the education from being a federal subject to the provincial subject, thus breaking the schools away from government’s policy control and monitoring, and allowing them to become an easy prey to the Western funded NGOs pumping in money and incentives for them.

Baloch said JI’s education committee was already monitoring the organised moves to spread secularism in the country through poisoning the minds of little schoolchildren by the chains of private schools known for teaching foreign syllabi and would soon call a meeting to chalk out a strategy to make the prime minister and Punjab chief minister realise their constitutional duty towards this vital issue. He said history would never spare the rulers for violating the constitution which bound them to promote Islamic ideology and values in the country in every sphere of life.  

JUP Vice-President Qari Zawwar Bahadur said the country’s education system was already broken down by the multi-tier education systems for different social classes, while the organised conspiracies to secularise the minds of schoolchildren amounted to adding insult to the injuries of the hapless nation.

He warned the rulers that they would have to be answerable for 'their criminal negligence' towards the vital duty of bringing up the generations in accordance with the Islamic ideology which was their constitutional obligation towards the nation. He lamented that the 18th Constitutional Amendment paved the way for unbridled implementation of the conspiracies to secularise society by targeting even the minor schoolchildren in order to digress them from their Islamic values of decency and justice. JUI-F leader Maulana Amjad Khan said people needed to raise strong voice against targeting the raw minds of small schoolchildren to subject them to systematic degeneration of their ideological values. He warned the rulers that future would not spare them from being accountable for leaving the country at the mercy of western funded NGOs to freely tamper with Islamic value system, and even their generations could be held accountable for that.