Deputy Education Minister Dr Abdulla Nazeer has denied his department ordered the management of Arabiyya School to mix classes of male and female students in grade eight in an attempt to solve capacity issues at the site.
Daily newspaper Haveeru has reported that the Principal of Arabiyya School, Sheikh Mohamed Rasheed ibrahim Rasheed, had claimed that management at the site had been informed by the Education Ministry to mix females and males in grades eight and nine to try and solve the capacity issue.
”After the capacity issue of Arabiyya School came to light, outrage was sparked among parents, who then came out to protest,” said Dr Abdull Nazeer. ”Therefore, the ministry looked in to the matter and examined the registry of the school. We found out that there were classes conducted with only 14, 13 or 12 students.”
Dr Nazeer said that the ministry then advised the school management that if these classes were merged, the issue would be solved ”as the standard capacity for a classroom is 32 students.”
”If the school management wishes, they could still continue the classes with fewer students,” Dr Nazeer said. ”We never forced or ordered the school management to do so.” He added that most of the classes in Arabiyya School already had female and male pupils studying together.
However, Haveeru quoted Arabiyya’s principal as saying that he was not comfortable with allowing female and male students to receive mixed education in grade eight and nine due to religious and social concerns.
Sheikh Rasheed added that his concerns were shared by parents of the school’s students.
According to Haveeru, the decision to merge classes would allow 64 students to enrol in grade one of Arabiyya School. Sheikh Rasheed was not available for comment at the time of going to press when contacted by Minivan News.
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WHAT??? What is Ministry of Education telling?? Bunch of liers!!
Why should such a small number of students have to have a school on a prime land in Male' when the Male' student population enrolled is less than 50% of the school population? Arabic medium education on any island or any site is still Arabic Medium education. The whole issue is ridiculous to me.
Why should they be separated? Are these boys and girls ready to pounce on each other, at sight?
We should not check exactly what it is they are teaching there.
That it is acceptable to jump onto each other? That the girls are lesser that the boys?
O the tiresome harp again... boys and girls, cant mix, separation, point fingers at Education, pretense...For God-sake, spirituality does not lie in norms, traditions and rituals. It lies in faith and strengthening the minds above all materials and temptations and avoidance means that when you are confronted being strong to fore go it in the name of God. It is an inner path. The very nature of the behavior of the Islamic advocates in Maldives is based on suppression and not on building faith, belief in God's guidance and strength to face life's challenges
Does anybody know that Gayoom's Education Minister Dr Mahmoud Shauqi planned to move Arabiyya School to a different location? The education authorities then neglected the school so much that they even refused to allow any repair work on the building structure.
How is Arabiyya school so much higher and special compared to the rest of the schools in Male'? I'm sure schools like Majeediyya and Aminiya have produced much more capable Maldivians than Arabiyya, which some people are now claiming is like a school which came down from the heavens. Give me a break. If Arabiyya's parents are the ones who are to decide where the school should be, how much funds the school should get etc....then I don't see why we should have an Education Ministry. We might as well as give all the parents the highest decision making authority for all the schools in Maldives. This is just another political stunt, being played out by the comedians from the party which is also the Maldivian Political Whore, Adhaalath. Oh, and remember, all this when the Local Council Elections are so close.
Ismail,
Don't you realize?
According to the wahhabi world view, boys and girls sitting together in a classroom can instantly descend into a mass orgy.
Why should Arabiyya or any school should be located in a prime land of Male'. They can be located to any places convenient.Definitely not in Majeedee Magu. The land can be used to generate income to operate two or three school in Male including Arabiyya. But there should be more schools like Arabiyya all over the country to spread Islamic eduction in our country.
@ Mullah yaamyn
"According to the wahhabi world view, boys and girls sitting together in a classroom can instantly descend into a mass orgy."
No dumbo..it invites unwanted trouble and unwanted pregnancies among adolescents, while they experiment and share their different 'tools' after school!!
If it was for Secularists they would simply install clinics all over the country where girls could easily have an abortion to let the fun and experimenting to go on non-stop!
Your Secularists are so evil!
Maldivian Sheiks(most of them) are spoiling Islam by incorporating Thalaban ideology and this is causing damage to the Muslims. Many could do better by spreading religious knowledge than hatred. Politics and religion can't be mixed.
@Yaamyn,
According to the athesits and secularist this world is the end itself and thus Gay, Alcoholism, prositution, slavery all are permited and justified! Lets wait and see when you guys (atheists and secularist) die where you go and how the end is!! We all can wait till then...
safari,
Far as I know, slavery was actually forbidden by modern western culture - and continues to be abhorred by secular states of the world.
Islamists (and in fact, Islam) does not prohibit slavery.
Sure, you could try to argue that it is 'discouraged' or whatever, but the fact remains that slavery continues to exist in Saudi Arabia, even if not acknowledged in those terms. [Refer to the recent murder conviction in London of a gay sadomasochistic Saudi Prince, who killed his 'servant' slave after a lot of unmentionable abuse. Refer also to the Dubai sheikh who tortured what he considered a 'lowly' slave and ran over him repeatedly under his SUV, and caught this all on tape for entertainment]
Sorry, your premise is flawed. If the wikileaks revelations are to be believed, prositution and alcoholism is quite prevalent in Saudi Arabia (the sharia posterchild and center of wahhabism) as well.
As for homosexuality, the center for gay pedophilia is Afghanistan (baccha baazi, they love to call it.. in their 'qush khana's). Pedophilia is strictly rejected by all the secular countries that I'm aware of, but the practice thrives in self-professed Muslim communities.
Pedophilia is also a rising problem in the Maldives, and accelerated by the arrival of 'sheikhs' and their perverted preference for sex with underage children, and their concubines.
We had a Bilal Philips in town recommending pedophilia as 'justified' and 'permitted'; the organization that conducted the event has known pedophiles in its absolute top ranks.
In contrast, the secular, modern countries of the west, there are government funded teams even on the cyber space actively pursuing pedophiles, and convicting them.
You, safari, are in no position to condemn, criticize or comment on anyone else's moral values - especially not modern secular nations - not until you learn to condemn the medieval mullahs that you think are 'leaders'.
@ Mullah yaamyn
Pedophilia is an excuse for Atheists/Secularists to legalize adultery and fornication in societies.
For god forsaken people, every imaginable abomination including buggery is legal as far as you have reached the legal age? 12? 16? 18? That's pathetic.
The REAL sin is not Pedophilia but showing your privates to anyone except your legally wedded spouse (of the opposite sex).
So Pedophilia is irreverent as far as morality is concerned. The slip from morality is ignoring the boundaries
of Islam.
So get real, Mullah yaamyn. You can't spread your Atheist religion here in Maldives by which you can legalize any horrible act if you are over 18?
@ heck (the nut)
"No dumbo..it invites unwanted trouble and unwanted pregnancies among adolescents, while they experiment and share their different ‘tools’ after school!!"
The girls will be safe with their fellow male students. But need protection from your bearded Mullah friends who are child molesters.
Most of these Mullahs are perverted sex maniacs and are spoiling atmosphere of the country by bringing foreign "rigid" ideology and forcing us to comply with.
The only fit place for U and your kind are tora bora caves.
By the way, the maternity clinics in Kerala and Bombay are full with young Arabic girls who visit there to get clean.
This is for U and your Arabic-fixation bearded Mullahs. Get real.
@heck
Keep up the good work. Your comments are the best!
Arabiyya is a breeding ground for radicals extremists. I really feel pity for the Beardies, when it comes to protests they never mind forcing their wives to go out in the public. huh...How cheap those guyz.
Heck understands nothing of secularism, and life in general.
"For god forsaken people, every imaginable abomination including buggery is legal as far as you have reached the legal age? 12? 16? 18? That’s pathetic."
You did not define how consensual sex is an "abomination."
As far as I know every human and animal engages in sex. How is something so prevalent an abomination? What's next to become an abomination, eating?
"The REAL sin is not Pedophilia but showing your privates to anyone except your legally wedded spouse (of the opposite sex)."
Next time you get a physical examination from your doctor, you're going straight to hell.
Did you consider all the surgery patients lying naked in the operating room?
Sinning is a very relative, and such misleading words should not be brought into state matters.
One's music, is another's sin. And one's attire can also be another person's sin. it is not the government's duty to target people "guilty" of your definition of sinning.
"So Pedophilia is irreverent as far as morality is concerned. The slip from morality is ignoring the boundaries
of Islam."
What are these boundaries? that a girl must be atleast a year old before she is to wed somebody? By your logic, pedophilia is widespread because we forbid underage marriage. And that doesn't make any sense at all. (and that's not surprising coming from you)
"So get real, Mullah yaamyn. You can’t spread your Atheist religion here in Maldives by which you can legalize any horrible act if you are over 18?"
Again, for you people sex is only horrible when somebody else has it.
One day, you will look back at your ridiculous comments and be ashamed. you will realize all you were doing was parroting nonsense the mullahs taught you to say, for no particular reason, just because they said so. Their interest are in maintaining the status quo. But to become better, we must welcome change. And that's what you're working to stop. You're hindering progress in this little nation.....for WHAT? God? or your bearded boyfriends at the mosque?
@ Ismail Hassan
"(You did not define how consensual sex is an “abomination.”)"
If consensual sex out of wedlock is not an abomination why did the President of the 'most powerful and liberal nation on earth' get hammered for Monica Lewinsky?!
@ Ismail Hassan
"As far as I know every human and animal engages in sex. How is something so prevalent an abomination?"
Imagine corruption! Isn't it prevalent in Maldives?
It's like asking how is 'CORRUPTION' an abomination?
Prevalence or absence of a crime is not the criteria to qualify or disqualify the abhorrent nature of such perpetration.
Abominations cannot be measured without the Commandments of Allah.
For an Atheist who does not believe in Allah and his Commandments - the word abomination does not even make any sense!
Funny! What would you use as a measure?
@ @ Ismail Hassan
"Did you consider all the surgery patients lying naked in the operating room?"
They are well covered in the operating room. Only the part to be operated is left open.
Of all the doctors I know of you are the only one who leaves the patient stark naked while you 'operate' the patient.
Now I know what you will do to your patients in the operating room.
You will just discover the nakedness and discharge the patient?
That's how you operate your patients?
I hope you never progress in medical class. Only God knows what you will do to your anesthetized patients!
You you you cheap quack!
Well if Arabiyya School is teaching to students in the school, there is nothing wrong in having mixed gender. If they are doing something else god forbid, we may get another Tsunami soon.
There are so many Schools, right here in Male with mixed classrooms. Its a matter of good discipline and good behavior management.If the Mullahs in Arabiyya think they cant do this in a civilized manner its time they resign.
Even if you cage boys and keep them away from gals you cant guarantee unwanted pregnancies or illegal sex.
Think about the beardies abusing under aged children and making them their third or fourth wife for leisure. Get a life you beardies.Besides why would ALLAH bother so much about few hairs on ones face, you silly fools.
@ ibrahim Mohamed
"Think about the beardies abusing under aged children and making them their third or fourth wife for leisure."
When man and wife make merry during their leisure, there is nothing wrong about it. That's very legal.
Illegal would be like celibate Christian priests, who are 'filled with the holy spirit' abuse choir boys in the church. That I believe is Pedophilia.
You might also be filled with such a 'holy spirit' I guess?
@heck (the nut)
"Illegal would be like celibate Christian priests, who are ‘filled with the holy spirit’ abuse choir boys in the church. That I believe is Pedophilia."
And what about our Mullahs (Sheikhs) caught abusing under-age children? That is not pedophilia? I got it - that must be TORA-BORA love sermons.
@ Z-nut
"And what about our Mullahs (Sheikhs) caught abusing under-age children?"
Yes honey, but they don't claim to be filled with 'infallible holy spirit'!!
What dr Nazeer is telling is an outrageous lie. I've seen and heard what he and shifa told in raajje miadhu about arabiyya. Minivan news needs to get their facts straight.
president Nasheed brought more christian people to the maldives and the will never be good to muslims...thats why all bad things are happening here....
"Yes honey, but they don’t claim to be filled with ‘infallible holy spirit’!!"
So that makes it child rape ok. or just go to Hajj afterwards, that makes it ok too.
ladies and gentlemen, i present to you the mind of the maldivian taliban.
@ heck (the nut),
"but they don’t claim to be filled with ‘infallible holy spirit’!!
U are so right. They are filled with hatred and utter nothing but poison and nonsense.
@ soatu (bey) lee
"So that makes it child rape ok."
May be for you!
@ Z-nut
"They are filled with hatred and utter nothing but poison and nonsense."
A self-description of little nuts like you.
BTW I would like to ask you how did you know the maternity clinics of Kerala are filled with Arab ladies? Did you have to lie on the adjacent bed in the clinic after your abortion? This is how you spend your leisure while you are studying in India?
@heck
You are a failure. All you do is rant.
Rant at everything and nothing.
I bet you spend 22 hours every day on internet doing nothing else, but swinging machetes at everyone else.
Well I tell you. Your God is a fantasy. Your messiah is a child molester.
If you think I should be punished, ask your God to do so!
@ Ahmed
"You are a failure. All you do is rant.
Rant at everything and nothing."
I thought both of us were good at ranting. I will share this award with you or maybe let you have it all for yourself! Enjoy your rants.
@ Ahmed
"If you think I should be punished, ask your God to do so!"
Oh Allah. I pray thee to let Ahmed's have want he has called upon himself.
Amen!
@ Ahmed
"Your God is a fantasy. Your messiah is a child molester."
We will see!
But tell me one thing. If our Prophet (SAW) is supposed to be at the receiving end of this insult, how did he become a child molester? For marrying Aisha(RA) ?
@heck on Tue, 4th Jan 2011 8:49 PM
I am glad to let you know that God has not struck me down with lightening.
Its idiots like you who continue wringing both hands together salivating to enforce Gods punishment. I bet you now feel silly and stupid your request was not accepted by God, after years of slave-like subjugation
Got news for you. God does not care what a measly creation of him, thinks of him, let alone execute vindictive requests by a socially-starved, hate-filled, family-less fxxx face like you.
@ Ahmed
"I am glad to let you know that God has not struck me down with lightening"
Quran 3:178
"Let not the Unbelievers think that our respite to them is good for themselves: We grant them respite that they may grow in their iniquity: But they will have a shameful punishment."
@ Ahmed
You know Ahmed, if you were shirking in an office the boss does not immediately fire you.
The boss knowingly let's you violate the regulations and one fine morning sends you the letter or email with this.
Look I have been closely monitoring you and your work for the past one one or two months, and today is the day you will have to GET YOUR @$$ out of my office! Scram now! You are fired! Go to Hell!