The Unitary Framework of Islam in Senegal (CUNIS) chaired by Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Sy Al Amine, in a dynamic to reassure the population in the face of the controversies surrounding the inclusion of sex education in the Senegalese education system, was pronounced this December 30 through a press release.
As a reminder, this controversy was born following a UNESCO workshop, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education within the framework of the integration of Health and Reproduction in the educational component.
According to CUNIS, this activity carried out within the framework of the Solidarity Fund for UNESCO’s Innovative Projects (FSP-I) serves as an envelope and a gateway to the promotion of comprehensive sexuality education (ECS ) which undoubtedly constitutes a strategic option of this organization of which Senegal is a member.
The CUDIS, which works for the overhaul of the educational system around our cultural and religious values, welcomes the vigilance and firmness of the teachers’ unions, welcomes the rapid and blunt rejection by the Minister of National Education of this fatal project.
But it invites the State through the said press release to be lucid and to preserve our sovereignty in the definition of educational content which is the subject of implicit control through projects and programs financed by technical partners and financial.
He also reminds the Senegalese authorities of the need to continue to redress the structural injustices of the education system and to integrate into the curricula the teachings of peace, peaceful cohabitation, transparency and good governance from our great religious figures.
According to CUDIS, this fact feeds and justifies discourse of revenge, stigmatization of some by the others, own diplomas, conflicting ways of thinking, outlets impossible to organize and masses of frustrated people for life. All the members of the Cadre believe that there are several types of Senegalese who face each other in debates on human rights, women’s rights, sex education, the family code, who consider ‘State and its rules in a divergent way. The lines of fracture for the future are already established and pose great threats to national cohesion.
The Unitarian Framework of Islam in Senegal (CUDIS) ends by calling on the Minister of National Education to encourage discussions on notions of high societal sensitivity such as “gender” and ‘Sex education’ which cannot oppose our singular values and virtues of ‘kersa’ and ‘sutura’.
The said press release also invites the Ministry of National Education to a partnership approach on the mechanisms of better integration into the official curricula of religious education, in order to meet the general demand of a more rooted Senegalese school and more favorable to living together.
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