Religious thought, in partnership with Arab nationalist thought, has destroyed homelands, Therefore, we see the necessity of abolishing religious education in schools and replacing it with ethics, which is defined by sociology, psychology, philosophy, and other civil intellectual institutions that are capable of development and change, Arab nationalist teaching must also be abolished, because it has contributed to the failure of the region’s societies in the last century, Because multi-ethnic societies, such as Kurdish, Amazigh, or others, require equality for all, there can be no success for a state that does not respect equality for all and does not recognize all, Abolishing the teaching of Arab nationalist thought does not mean teaching another nationalist thought, Nationalist thought is generally racist, and schools were not established to teach and perpetuate racism, Instead of teaching racism, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights should be taught.
Demanding the removal of religious education from school education does not mean an attack on religion, but rather placing religion in its natural, personal place outside of politics, society, and schools, This is the place that secularism, which has succeeded in progress by separating religion from the state, sees, We will confront the religion that wants to occupy the civil space, The place of religion is in temples or the personal space in the home, not in schools, Expelling religious teaching from the school represents a protection for school students from contamination by superstitions such as the superstition of the seventh heaven, or the superstition of the moving sun that prostrates before the Caliph, then the superstition of secrets and ascension, and the like.
The demand to separate religious education from school has no relation to any evaluation of religion and the outdated values and concepts it promotes, We have no relation to religions that do not interfere in public or civil affairs, Since religion interferes in public civil affairs, it must be confronted and expelled from school, Religion is not physics, chemistry, philosophy, mathematics, etc. School is for education, not for ignorance! And the state in its modern form is “civil” and not a religious entity or a house of worship.
The demand to separate religion from schools is part of the demand to separate religion from the state as a whole, Separation is a secular demand, and secularism has not become a crime that must be denounced or fought, In contrast, the Muslim Brotherhood openly declares its hostility to atheism, even to secularism, and fights against it. So why do some demand that we not be hostile to religion? Is hostility to religion a crime?! Knowing that atheism is a religion, that is, the religion of non-religion. In general, nothing is above criticism, whether it is religion or non-religion, We will criticize religion, and let the Muslim Brotherhood criticize atheism, It is a battle whose results we know in advance, but it must be fought.
Belief is a private matter, whether a person believes in God or disbelieves in Him, or follows a particular religion or does not follow one, The matter of belief is a right that was confirmed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, This means that whoever demands religious instruction in schools should also demand the teaching of atheism, since the number of atheists in the world has exceeded the number of believers who follow the true religion.
The abolition of religious education in schools differs from the issue of freedom of belief in private spheres such as the home, The home is not a public school, but rather a private school for the people of this home, and they have the full right to any belief, but they do not have the right to commit crimes such as slaughtering the daughter or son because he abandoned prayer or the prescribed punishment, Even hitting children is prohibited in societies committed to human rights, Abolishing religious education in schools does not mean abolishing religion from people’s lives, Moreover, those who demand the abolition of religious education in schools do not demand the teaching of atheism in those schools.
The secular demand to expel religious education from schools comes from several contexts, The first is that secularists want to separate religion from the state because the secular experiment has been successful, and education is part of the state even if the school is private, The second is the contradiction between what religion claims as facts and scientific reality. How will the student accept the statement that the earth is flat, and then in the second lesson half an hour later he is told that the earth is an oblate spheroid, and when he goes to the mosque he is told that there is a celestial surface above the earth? All of this means preparing the student to suffer from schizophrenia,The third context is related to the crisis of religion and its contradictions, which are transmitted to the student and which the abrogating and abrogated verses and others have tried to address in a ridiculous way!
The crisis of religion is related to several factors, including the increasing alienation of religion that accompanies its increasing age, meaning that its alienation is constantly increasing because it is based on fixed and corrupt rulings because they are sacred and do not change or develop, while the conditions of life change, Then there is the tribal and clan stuffing of religion (the material of Quraish), then sanctification, rigidity, and mysticism, If the intervention of religion in worldly affairs were not obligatory, and if religion were limited to what is called spirituality, coexistence with it would be easier, As for the fourth context, it goes back to the duty of parents to protect their children from contamination by terrorist cultures such as jihad and degenerate cultures such as breastfeeding an adult and marrying an infant, and many criminal concepts such as revenge, retaliation, takfir, killing the apostate and the one who abandons prayer, cutting off the hand of the thief, etc.
We realize that removing religious education from the school does not solve the problem completely, but it alleviates it somewhat, Superstition and religious crisis seep into the minds of students from other sources such as memorization schools, and the deplorable state of educational schools in this region, indeed the absence of useful education in those dilapidated, poor schools, especially the poverty of the teacher, who has turned to private tutoring in homes, and thus the school has practically been abolished, Recently, it has been turned into a place of worship by the Al julanism,The abolition of the school, whether due to poverty or its transformation into a place of worship, does not bode well for the educational arena!
