Mamdouh Bitar, Riba Mansour:
Religious thought in partnership with the Arab thought destroyed the homelands, so we see the need to cancel the subject of religious teaching in schools, and replace it with the subject of ethics determined by sociology, psychology, philosophy and other civil intellectual institutions capable of development and change, must also abolish the teaching of Arab nationalism Because it contributed to the failure of the societies of the region in the last century, and because societies are not of the same nationality, but of several nationalities such as the Kurdish nationalism or the Berber or others, the principle of equality between all imposes it, and there is no success for a state that does not respect the equality of all, the abolition of the teaching of Arab nationalist thought does not mean the teaching of another national thought, national thought is racist in general, and there are no schools in order to perpetuate racism, instead of teaching racism, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights must be taught.The demand to remove the subject of religious education from school education does not mean an attack on religion, but putting religion in its natural place, is the place that you see secularism, which wants to separate religion from the state, we will face the religion that wants to occupy the civil space, the place of religion in temples or the personal field in the house and not in schools, the expulsion of religious teaching from the school is a protection for school students from pollution by superstition such as the seventh heaven myth or the myth of the moving sun that prostrates in front of the Caliph and the like.
The demand to separate the subject of religious education from the school has nothing to do with any evaluation of religion and the values and concepts it promotes. We have nothing to do with religions that do not interfere in public or civil affairs, and since religion interferes with civil public affairs, so it must be expelled from school at least and put in its natural place. Religion is not physics, chemistry, philosophy, mathematics, etc., the school of education and not for ignorance! The state in its modern form is “civil” and not a religious entity or a place of worship.
The demand to separate religion from school 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 must be quickly repudiated, on the other hand, the Khang professes hostility to atheism and fight it, so why do some demand not to be opposed to religion, because anti-religion is a crime !!, But the anti-Atheist is not a crime, knowing that atheism is the religion of any religion of the religion of the religion, generally there is no more than criticism if it is a religion or religion We will criticize religion and to criticize the Atheist Brotherhood, it is a battle whose results we know but must be fought.
Belief is a private matter, whether a person believes in God or atheist, or follows a certain religion or not, belief is one of the rights affirmed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this means that those who demand religious teaching in schools should demand the teaching of atheism, the number of atheists in the world exceeded the number of believers of the followers of the true religion.
The abolition of religious teaching in schools is different from the subject of freedom of belief in private areas such as the house, the house is not a public school, but a private school for the people of this house, and they have the full right to any belief, but they do not have to practice criminals such as the slaughter of the daughter or the son because he / leaving the prayer or the limit, so that the beating of children is prohibited in societies committed to human rights, the abolition of religious education in schools does not mean the abolition of religion from the lives of human beings, and then those who demand the abolition of religious education in schools do not demand the teaching of atheism in those schools.
The demand to expel religious education from the school comes from several contexts, the first is that the secularists want to separate religion from the state, and the school is part of the state even if it is a private school, and the second is against what religion claims from the facts with the scientific reality, how will the student accept the statement of the surface of the earth, and in the second education class after half an hour it is said that the land is oval, and when he goes to the mosque it is said to be another superstitious thing, all of this means the rehabilitation of the student to develop schizophrenia, while the third context is due to the crisis of religion and its contradictions, which the copyist and the copyist tried to address ridiculously, to the crisis of religion relationship with several factors, including the increase of the accompanying of the increase of the age of the earthly.
We are aware that the removal of religious education from the school does not solve the problem, but alleviates it somewhat, for the leakage of myth and religious crisis to the minds of students other springs such as memorization schools and then the dire situation of educational schools to avoid their existence because of the destruction that has been inflicted on them, and then the impoverishment of the teacher, which turned to private teaching in the home, in general, the abolition of religious teaching in schools is a symbolic step in most of them, it is not expected in the near future that there will be a real improvement in schools, that is, on the educational-educational arena, theoretically we are waiting for some improvement in the future, and what does it mean in the future? When!