Friday Bulletin—Establishing community based schools will go to a great length in inculcating Islamic moral values and also safeguard the learners from corrupt societal behaviors.
Sheikh AbdullatifAbdulkarim a member of the Kenya Council of Imams and Ulamaa (KCIU) decried the increased moral decadence in the society which he said have permeated into educational institutions and called for the establishment of more community based schools to provide a conducive environment to nurture students and protect them from moral corruption.
“There is an appalling rot in the society which has found its way in schools. It is important that we establish our own schools that will provide a suitable environment to safeguard children from immoral influence,” he said during his weekly lecture at Park Road Mosque in Nairobi.
His comments were in reference to the move by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to ban 126 teachers from teaching in any school in the country for involving in sexual relations with their students. “This is the tip of the iceberg but the rot is prevalent in schools where teachers who are supposed to be providing guidance to children are turning into sexual perverts preying into the minds of the innocent children,” he said.
“These are the symptoms of moral decay in the society where pornography, sexual lewdness and prostitution is being glorified and unfortunately vulnerable children particularly the girls are the main victims,” he added.
Sheikh Abdulaltif who is also the director of Al Muntada Development project criticized a plan to introduce condoms to primary school pupils under the pretext of sexual education saying that this was a recipe to further corrupt societal moral values. “Without condoms teachers are preying on children, what do you expect if they will be the ones to distribute the condoms to the children?” he asked as he called on religious leaders to rise up to the occasion and voice its stand against the increasing decadence in the society “It is a worrying situation, we cannot look the other way while the moral values which threaten the future of our children is constantly under threat,” he said.
