'New Islamist' Turkey Education Ministry guidelines: “death is a blessing according to our faith,”. (HD).
Turkey’s Education Ministry has issued the outline of a new moral education program to be given to public schools, encouraging students to take a more religious perspective and way of life.
The program includes advice such as “patience protects moral chastity” and “death is a blessing according to our faith,” daily Milliyet reported on Jan. 2, adding that the 39-page fascicles have been sent to the Governors’ Offices in all 81 provinces across the country.
The seminars are the fruit of an initiative included in a circular issued in 2010 recommending the “education of values” to teach students “how to be a role model,” “the principles of mutual trust, tolerance and honesty” and “the behavior expected in classes.” The program was later developed by commissions formed in each province, and as a result each province featured different content.
Last June, the Education Ministry sought to standardize the seminars by signing a protocol with the Service Foundation (Hizmet Vakfı), an Islamic association not to be confused with the “Hizmet” movement of the U.S.-based scholar Fethullah Gülen.
“Death is a blessing according to our faith. It means salvations from the heavy burden of living,” it also adds, while describing illnesses as a “gift of God” through which “sins and distress pour out.” Read the full story here.
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