A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Muslim Peace Network has trained Arabic and Islamic teachers in Kaduna state on the need to promote peaceful co-existence in their respective schools.
The one-day training which was held in Kaduna under the NGO’s Community Initiatives to Promote Peace, (CIPP) was sponsored by Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace (COFP).
According to the Executive Director (ED) of the NGO, Imam Hussain Makanjuola, the training was aimed at promoting peace building and the need to drop religious extremism which is sometimes conceived by students from school.
Defining religious extremism as ideologies and teachings that oppose fundamental values of the society, Makanjuola noted the importance of checkmating Arabic and Islamic teachers on how they teach their students regarding religion.
He lamented that religious extremism had generated so much violence resulting to damage and chaos in many societies in the state and the Nation at large.
The ED further mentioned that religious extremism would continue to be a problem in the society if people fail to take responsibility of curbing the menace.
Makanjuola disclosed that the NGO will ensure the teachers extend the knowledge gained to their students by inculcating discipline and imbibing peace while associating with people of divergent religion in their various communities and schools.
He called on government through the appropriate agencies to check the academic curriculum of Arabic and Islamic schools.
