Deoband madrasas become center of child abuse, Special Report

Shiite News: Just pick up the newspapers of the last few months and see this fact, once can find such sad news about religious madrasas one after another, like: A female student studying in a religious madrasa has gone missing in Ramna area of Islamabad police station.

Meanwhile, a case has been registered by the reader of a madrassa in Naibadi Alipur for indecent with children.

Nasir filed a case in Shehzad Town police station that Qari Abdul Rehman had committed immoral acts with his son, two other students of the madrassa also said that Qari had committed immoral acts with them too.

A sad incident of rape of students came to light in a madrasa of religious education in Chakwal.

The father of a student who was raped filed an application against two madrassa teachers in the police station in Chakwal, 14 students were raped by madrassa teachers.

All the affected students are between the ages of 12 and 14. The accused used to threaten the children with knives and make Z marks on their bodies.

The situation is so serious that a student in the North Cantt Lahore police station told the police that a Mufti Sahib, a resident of Lahore, has been sexually assaulting her for three years.

This is about a well known mufti. He was working as a teacher in Madrasah Manzoorul Islamia for the last 25 years. Along with this, he was also a member of Jamiat Ulema Islam from Lahore.

The student said that when he reached the fourth grade, during the exams, the then supervising Mufti accused him of cheating in the exams along with another student, and suspended him for three years for the exams of the federal schools.

The student further told the police that the Mufti told him that if “he makes him happy, I will also remove the ban from Madrasas and pass the exams.”

The student told the police that after that Mufti used to call him every Friday around 10 or 11 am and abuse him.

After being blackmailed for three years, the student, fed up, decided to inform the madrassa administration and filed a complaint against the Mufti.

The management of the seminary said that Mufti Sahib is an elderly and good man, he cannot do such an act.

According to the student, “in frustration, he started making videos of the incident himself.”

The student told the police that he also presented this evidence to Maulana Hafeez Jalandhri, the director of Al-Madaris al-Arabiya.

He also provided the police with the recording of some audio calls as evidence, which proved how Mufti repeatedly sexually assaulted him.

The purpose of explaining all this is that in our country, religious schools have a central position in the education of the society.

Be it extremism or sexual immorality, its roots are found only in some religious schools. Madrasahs inspire people.

Sahil, a non-profit organization working for children’s rights, has stated in its report that from January to June 2023, an average of 12 children were sexually abused in Pakistan every day.