{"id":88566,"date":"2019-05-11T14:28:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88566"},"modified":"2019-05-11T14:28:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:28:07","slug":"education-ministry-must-monitor-madrasas-non-cabinet-minister-of-economic-reforms-and-public-distribution-harsha-de-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/11\/education-ministry-must-monitor-madrasas-non-cabinet-minister-of-economic-reforms-and-public-distribution-harsha-de-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Ministry must monitor Madrasas: Non-Cabinet Minister of Economic Reforms and Public Distribution, Harsha de Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana <\/strong>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Non-Cabinet Minister of Economic Reforms and Public Distribution, Harsha de Silva said yesterday Madrasas or Muslim religious schools should be monitored by the Ministry of Education like what happens with Pirivenas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the newly formulated Madrasa Schools Regulation Bill stipulates that it should be handled by the Muslim Religious Affairs Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even Pirivanas are regulated by the Education Ministry. As such Madrasas should also be brought under the purview of the Ministry Education. Law should be applied equally to everyone,\u201d the minister said adding that laws should be introduced to make it compulsory for Muslim Women to expose their ears when required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current gazette technically bans even the wearing of a hijab, a headscarf, unless the eras are exposed. I have suggested to let Muslim women continue to wear the hijab as they have always done, but if required by authorities expose the ears for identification purposes,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the claim made by some that swords were kept in houses for the householders&#8217; safety is unacceptable as such a thing is practised only in countries such as Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said he was ashamed as a member of the government that it was not able to save the country from the Easter Sunday carnage despite the prior warnings given by the intelligence units. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Non-Cabinet Minister of Economic Reforms and Public Distribution, Harsha de Silva said yesterday Madrasas or Muslim religious schools should be monitored by the Ministry of Education like what happens with Pirivenas. However, the newly formulated Madrasa Schools Regulation Bill stipulates that it should be handled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}