Several madrasas and Islamic organisations are planning to implement anti-militant programmes following the recent spate of militant attacks in the country. The authorities of Government Madrasa-e-Alia, Dhaka, have asked its teachers to impart anti-militancy lectures in their classes. They also plan to hold a seminar to create awareness against militancy among students.
The madrasa’s principal, Prof. Siraj Uddin Ahmad, said the government has directed them to create awareness against militancy among the students. “As part of the  government directives, we have already organised anti-militancy seminars comprising students and teachers of our madrasa and we will again hold such meetings after all the students return from holidays,” he said.
“We will also give anti-militancy speeches to the students during daily assembly,” he added.
The principal said the perpetrators were carrying out “heinous attacks” in the name of Islam to create instability in the country by pushing the society and economy on the brink.
Calling upon the ulemas to be alert against such atrocities, Prof. Ahmad asserted that Islam did not believe in carrying out secret attacks, saying that there was no such situation in the country that warranted jihad.
He said no student of the madrasa was missing, adding that many of them had gone home for holidays after their Fazil and Kamil exams.
Meanwhile, Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, a quami-madrasa based organisation, is also planning to organise mass contact programmes across the country when madrasas open after the Eid vacation.
Maulana Azizul Haque, central organising secretary of Hefazat-e-Islam, said they would organise an ulema convention to chart different programmes against militancy and terrorism.
“It is our moral obligation of faith to create awareness against militancy and terrorism,” he said, adding that Hefazat may launch massive mass contact programmes at division, district and city levels.
Maulana Haque mentioned that they had made their anti-militancy position clear through a press conference on June 14, and issued separate statements after the Gulshan and Sholakia attacks.
He said terrorism and militancy were created by hegemonists and they have found currency around the globe only after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.