Hifazat demands end of music teacher recruitment, calls for hiring religion teachers instead

Hifazat-e Islam has branded the government’s decision to recruit music teachers at the primary level as part of an “anti-Islam agenda” and demanded that the gazette be scrapped in favour of appointing religious studies teachers. The Qawmi madrasa-based group argued that such a policy would create employment opportunities for madrasa-educated individuals. In a joint statement, Hifazat chief Allama Muhibbullah Babunagari and Secretary General Allama Sajedur Rahman warned of a mass movement if the government failed to revoke the gazette and introduce one recruiting religion teachers. “The recently published gazette by the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, which recruits music teachers instead of religion teachers, promotes an anti-Islam agenda. We will not accept any such agenda in the education system,”...