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Jamaat-e-Islami-owned MediaOne and Madhyamam recently published a story claiming that Principal Blessy George of Dr. C.T. Eapen Memorial High School, a government-aided institution in Kollam, Kerala, denied admission to 30 students simply because they were Muslim.
The reality: The story was scripted by Jamaat-e-Islami and their media apparatus, using a temporary teacher at the school as a pawn. To secure a permanent appointment, this teacher needed to maintain the required minimum student strength. Backed by an Islamic organization, she brought over 30 students from local residential Islamic study centers (Dars), including children from North India. They attempted to enroll them forcibly without mandatory documentation. These children arrived wearing Kanduras (traditional Arab-Islamic attire) with caps and headgear. The group refused to follow the school’s uniform regulations and attend regular classes on Fridays, declaring they would go to the mosque instead. The principal apparently denied admission on this basis.
What did the Department of Education under General Education Minister N. Samsudheen of the Muslim League do? They succumbed to Jamaat-e-Islami’s pressure and suspended the principal. Her only “crime” was upholding government-prescribed uniform guidelines.
Imagine a reverse scenario: If a group of Hindu students wearing saffron dhotis and saffron headgear from an ashram marched into an aided school run by the Muslim Educational Society or Jamiyyathul Ulama, demanding admission while declaring they would boycott classes every Monday to visit a temple, would these Muslim managements accept them?
Would the Muslim League-led Education Ministry tolerate such a blatant violation of uniform guidelines for Hindu students?