DHAKA: A
school in
Bangladesh said Tuesday it had confiscated hundreds of
mobile phones and torched them in a bonfire because they were distracting students from their learning.
Pupils at the seminary in southeast
Bangladesh were ordered to hand over their cellphones to
school administrators who then tossed the devices en masse into a fire in a nearby field.?These devices are ruining their character,? said Azizul Hoque, a spokesman for the Darul Ulum Moinul Islam madrassa.
?The students use internet (on their phones) throughout the night and then doze during classes the next morning. Their parents are concerned.? Hoque said the seminary ? a 123-year-old institution with 14,000 registered students ? was not against technology ?but the negative results of
mobile phones far outweigh its positives?.?We are flooded with letters seeking fatwas (Islamic edicts) from Muslims against the use of
mobile phones, as many complained that the gadgets were frequently used for extramarital affairs.? The madrassa in Hathazari, outside the port city of Chittagong, is headed by Ahmad Shafi, the head of hardline Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam.
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