DHAKA: A hardline Islamic college in Bangladesh stated on Tuesday it had confiscated hundreds of mobile phones and torched them in a bonfire because they were distracting students from their learning.
Pupils on the seminary in southeast Bangladesh were ordered to hand over their cell phones on Sunday to school directors who then tossed the devices en masse into a hearth in a close-by field.
"These devices are ruining their character," stated Azizul Hoque, a spokesman for the Darul Ulum Moinul Islam madrassa, or Islamic seminary.
"The students use internet (on their phones) throughout the night and then doze during classes the next morning. Their parents are concerned."
Hoque stated the seminary, a 123-year-old institution with 14,000 registered students, was once no longer against technology "but the negative results of mobile phones far outweigh its positives".
"We are flooded with letters seeking fatwas (Islamic edicts) from Muslims against the use of mobile phones, as many complained that the gadgets were frequently used for extramarital affairs."
Muslim-majority Bangladesh is formally secular but Muslim clerics are hugely influential, particularly in the extra socially conservative rural spaces of the rustic.
The madrassa in Hathazari, outside the port town of Chittagong, is headed by means of Ahmad Shafi, the pinnacle of hardline Islamist team Hefazat-e-Islam.
The movement has evolved into a political pressure in recent times agitating for Islamic rule in the nation of 160 million. The marketing campaign has introduced it into warfare with Bangladesh's secular government.
Hundreds of 1000's of Hefazat supporters marched to the capital Dhaka in 2013 not easy implementation of non secular rules including criminalising blasphemy and segregating genders in the place of job.
The protests precipitated popular violence and left just about 50 people lifeless as police evicted demonstrators from Dhaka's industrial centre.
The movement has extra recently struck an accord with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which has agreed to recognise instructional qualifications from hardline seminaries, permitting their students to use for presidency jobs.
Pupils on the seminary in southeast Bangladesh were ordered to hand over their cell phones on Sunday to school directors who then tossed the devices en masse into a hearth in a close-by field.
"These devices are ruining their character," stated Azizul Hoque, a spokesman for the Darul Ulum Moinul Islam madrassa, or Islamic seminary.
"The students use internet (on their phones) throughout the night and then doze during classes the next morning. Their parents are concerned."
Hoque stated the seminary, a 123-year-old institution with 14,000 registered students, was once no longer against technology "but the negative results of mobile phones far outweigh its positives".
"We are flooded with letters seeking fatwas (Islamic edicts) from Muslims against the use of mobile phones, as many complained that the gadgets were frequently used for extramarital affairs."
Muslim-majority Bangladesh is formally secular but Muslim clerics are hugely influential, particularly in the extra socially conservative rural spaces of the rustic.
The madrassa in Hathazari, outside the port town of Chittagong, is headed by means of Ahmad Shafi, the pinnacle of hardline Islamist team Hefazat-e-Islam.
The movement has evolved into a political pressure in recent times agitating for Islamic rule in the nation of 160 million. The marketing campaign has introduced it into warfare with Bangladesh's secular government.
Hundreds of 1000's of Hefazat supporters marched to the capital Dhaka in 2013 not easy implementation of non secular rules including criminalising blasphemy and segregating genders in the place of job.
The protests precipitated popular violence and left just about 50 people lifeless as police evicted demonstrators from Dhaka's industrial centre.
The movement has extra recently struck an accord with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which has agreed to recognise instructional qualifications from hardline seminaries, permitting their students to use for presidency jobs.
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