It is now the turn of the Students Islamic Organisation of India to tighten the screws on whosoever talks about sex education. The organisation does not have even 10,000 members across the country, but is big enough to be a mischief-monger. Its activists have already staged demonstrations in a number of cities/towns.
Listen to (I mean, read) these quotable quotes:
- Sex education is teaching pornography and instigating. free sex. When the Indian Constitution declares that a person is an adult only at age 18, then why should an adult subject like sex be taught to 11 and 12-year-olds.
- Sex should be permissible only after marriage. If you teach it in schools it will be akin to making them hungry and taking away the food.
Those were from some SIO activists who, you aill agree, are in dire need of some sex education classes.
The Daily News & Analysis (DNA) reported: [Link]
Interestingly, none of them have any information on the proposed study material for these special lectures. While some say that nude models will be used to teach the subject, others felt that a UNICEF handbook – facilitator’s Handbook of Peer Educators — endorsed by the National Aids Control Organisation will be the last word on the subject.
Why am I not surprised?
But then the SIO is not the only Muslim organisation to cry foul. The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) is already planning to intensify protests across the country by mobilising Muslims organisations.
Some more quotable quotes, this time from JIH:
- Uncontrolled sexual anarchy is the reason for AIDS. It is a Western illness. Why should our children be taught about sex?
- On the one hand, schools will teach children everything about sex. On the other, they will caution them against indulging in sex. When they are asked to hold off, they will become more curious and try to experiment with many partners. We will not allow such moral corruption.
Well, I do not have figures about the prevalence of AIDS in the Muslim community in India, but family planning sure is a problem. No?
And guess who they are planing to rope in to add weight to their campaign? No, it is not some anti-obesity crusader (excuse the lightweight pun on the weight bit), but anti-obscenity crusading storym petrel, Pratibha Naitthani. Yes, the same Naitthani who would like a film to be made about Sherlock Holmes minus his pipe.
