Former Sultan Abdul Halim Teachers’ Training College lecturer Ravinder Singh said the facts presented in the slides were not only offensive, but also grossly inaccurate.
“Sikhism promotes kesopanan (obedience), honesty, sincerity, not cheating. It also teaches us to not insult other religions, let alone criticise them.
“With the slides out in public, one can only wonder what the academia is teaching our young in colleges and universities,” he said when met by reporters at the Jalan Patani police station here today.
Earlier, Ravinder, 73, lodged a police report on the matter, urging the men in blue to apprehend those who had authored the slides.
Recently, two PowerPoint slides saying Hindus preferred to be dirty to attain Nirvana and questions on Islam’s influence on Sikhism went viral. The slides were part of academic content used for the Islamic and Asian Civilisation Studies in public universities.
The particular leaked slides were from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, whose vice-chancellor Prof Wahid Omar said the university would fix the “mistake”.
Meanwhile, Ravinder hoped the Government would vet the content used in the National Civics Bureau (BTN) so that similar slides would not be used.
“I have just heard that 20,000 teachers will be summoned for a patriotism course by the BTN.
“It is imperative that authorities sieve through the syllabus that will be used to prevent a reoccurrence of insults to the minorities.”
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