How Education Ministry Plans To Use Classrooms To Fight Terrorism In Malaysia

Malaysia believes education has the power to curb the dangerous growth and influence of terrorism.

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With acts of terrorism rampant and creeping into our daily lives at a worrying level, the Malaysian Education ministry has informed of plans to incorporate anti-terrorism teachings into the education system

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While it is difficult to pin the reason on why a person decides to join heinous terrorist groups, it is most often the young, impressionable ones that fall prey to the lure of these terrorists and their cruel ideas

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Hence, in their efforts to put an end to the spread of terrorism in Malaysia, deputy education minister, Chong Sin Woon, explained that they will be collaborating with security forces and the police to start educational talks in school about the dangers of terrorism

Deputy Education Minister Chong Sin Woon

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According to Chong, parents of school-going children are more than accepting of this new idea, with most asking the authorities to specifically educate the students on what these terrorists, especially members of the ISIS do

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According to Catholic Online, ISIS uses images like this to instill fear in people

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Meanwhile, Paimuzi Yahya, director of the Federal Territory Islamic Religious Department thinks that proper Islamic religious teachings could help the young students stay on the right moral pathway

Paimuzi Yahya, director of the Federal Territory Islamic Religious Department

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