Twitter Campaign against Shutdown Of Madrasas 100 Tweets with hashtag #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 1. The campaign to shut down madrasas is not just an administrative move — it's a direct attack on constitutional rights and religious freedom. Silence is complicity. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 2. Madrasas are not just institutions — they are the heartbeat of our identity, our faith, our survival. Cutting them off is cutting off our lifeline. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 3. Targeting madrasas under the pretext of legality is a veiled attack on the Muslim community. This is not governance — this is discrimination. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 4. The move to shut down madrasas defies the Constitution and disregards the Supreme Court’s verdict. This is more than injustice — it’s contempt of law. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 5. Protecting madrasas is not just a religious duty — it’s a stand for democracy, constitutional supremacy, and justice. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 6. We will not allow our institutions to be erased. We will resist — legally, peacefully, and with dignity. The Constitution is on our side. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 7. This is not just about madrasas. It’s about whether minorities still have a right to exist with dignity in this country. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 8. If madrasas are illegal today, what’s next? Our mosques? Our identity? This is a slow erasure — and we must stop it now. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 9. Madrasas are not just religious institutions — they are centers of moral education and cultural continuity. To attack them is to erase history and heritage. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 10. India’s Constitution guarantees religious freedom. Shutting down madrasas is a betrayal of that promise — and we will not stay silent. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 11. The language of “illegal madrasas” is a smokescreen. This isn’t about legality. It’s about targeting a community’s soul. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 12. Those who call madrasas a threat have never walked through their doors. They fear what they do not understand — peace, knowledge, and truth. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 13. This is not just a Muslim issue. This is about India’s commitment to secularism and justice. Today it's madrasas — tomorrow it could be your freedom. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 14. Faith-based education is not a crime. Madrasas have been legal, peaceful, and vital for generations. What changed? Nothing — except the mindset of those in power. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 15. Closing madrasas won’t solve any national problem. It will only deepen divides and damage India’s pluralistic spirit. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 16. We are not asking for privilege. We are demanding what is rightfully ours: the freedom to educate our children in accordance with our faith. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 17. Today it’s madrasas. Tomorrow it’s the Constitution. Stand up before it’s too late. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 18. This is not just a policy issue. It’s a human issue. Thousands of poor children depend on madrasas for education, food, and dignity. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 19. 🚨 44 madrasas shut down in Shravasti, UP. 29 demolished in Maharajganj. Over 170 sealed in Uttarakhand. This is not regulation—this is erasure of minority education. 📚 Madrasas educate the poor, not threaten the nation. ✋ #stopmadrasashutdown | ✊ #savemadrasas --- 20. Madrasas are not illegal encroachments. They are educational lifelines for thousands of underprivileged Muslim children. Destroying them is not just unconstitutional—it’s unjust. 📖 Protect education, protect rights. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 21. You don’t defend the Constitution by bulldozing madrasas. Article 30 protects the rights of minorities to run their own educational institutions. Uphold the law. Don’t break it. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas --- 22. SC has said: Madrasas are not a threat to constitutional values. So why are governments acting otherwise? Bulldozers can’t rewrite the Constitution. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 23. What if your child’s only school was shut down overnight? That’s the reality for hundreds in UP & Uttarakhand. Education is not a privilege. It’s a right. Stand with our children. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 24. Demolishing madrasas = demolishing futures. No child should lose access to education based on religion. India’s strength lies in its diversity, not its divisions. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas --- 25. Madrasas provide free education, meals, and shelter to lakhs of poor children. Closing them isn’t reform—it’s repression. Stop punishing the poor in the name of policy. 📢 #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 26. Madrasas, like other educational institutions, are protected under: Article 30(1) of the Indian Constitution, which gives minorities the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 27. In UP & Uttarakhand, madrasas are being targeted under the guise of "surveys" and "compliance." Many are being shut down unconstitutionally, violating minority rights. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas --- 28. Why are only Muslims religious institutions like Madarasas are being selectively targeted for demolition and shutdown? Is this governance—or discrimination? #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas --- 29. 📜 Supreme Court says madrasas are not unconstitutional. Yet UP & Uttarakhand act as if courts don’t matter. Who benefits when education becomes a political target? #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 30. Madrasas are backbone of the nation. It has produced many Freedom Fighters who have sacrifice their life for the Freedom of India. Don't try to shutdown Madarasas. Let madrasas live. Let children learn. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas --- 31. India is a secular democracy—not a bulldozer state. Targeting madrasas undermines that very idea. Speak up before silence becomes complicity. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 32. Madrasas were not just religious institutions — they were cradles of revolution during India’s freedom struggle. Many became centers of resistance against British colonialism. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 33. The British feared madrasas for a reason — they nurtured political consciousness, anti-colonial thought, and the spirit of freedom. Many scholars and students from madrasas were jailed or martyred. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 34. Darul Uloom Deoband, one of the most prominent madrasas, openly opposed British rule. Its scholars issued fatwas urging Indians to resist colonialism. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 35. Shaikh-ul-Hind Maulana Mahmood Hasan Deobandi, a leading figure from Darul Uloom Deoband (a famous Madarsa), launched the Silk Letter Movement against British rule — smuggling anti-British letters across borders. He was imprisoned in Malta. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 36. Madrasas like Darul Uloom Deoband, Mazahiri Ul Uloom etc. were primarily created to produce Freedom Fighters for the freedom of India. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 37. Thousands of ulema from madrasas were arrested, exiled, or executed for speaking against British rule. These institutions paid the price for dreaming of a free India. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 38. Targeting madrasas today is an insult to the legacy of resistance and sacrifice that these institutions offered during India’s freedom struggle. Don’t erase their history. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown --- 39. The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, founded in 1919, was one of the first Muslim organizations to openly declare complete independence from British rule. Its roots lie deeply in the madrasa movement. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 40. Composed mostly of scholars from Darul Uloom Deoband madrasa & the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind rejected both colonial rule and the idea that Muslims needed a separate nation. It firmly stood for a united, free India. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 41. The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind leaders (graduates from Madrasas) supported Gandhi’s Non-Cooperation Movement and encouraged Muslims to boycott British institutions. Many of its members were arrested for their anti-colonial activism. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas 42. Many leaders of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind were graduates of madrasas — proving these institutions weren’t just theological centers, but political and social powerhouses in the fight for independence. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 43. To shut down madrasas today is to undermine the legacy of those who stood for a free and inclusive India. We must protect the institutions that once protected our nation's soul. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas 44. The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, formed in 1919 — it was a movement of madrasa-educated scholars dedicated to India’s freedom and future development. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 45. The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind continues to run relief work, schools, legal aid, and social welfare programs — often where the state fails. These efforts are deeply tied to India’s inclusive development goals. It's leaders comes from Madrasas. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 46. Madrasas have produced scholars, freedom fighters, educators, social workers — not extremists. To label them as backward or to shut them down is a grave injustice to their legacy. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 47. Development isn’t just about roads and GDP — it’s about equity, access, and dignity. Madrasas and institutions like Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind are part of that vision for millions of Indians. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 48. Madarsa is not just a institution. It is the heart of the community — where knowledge, values, culture, and care are passed from one generation to the next. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 49. Where the system fails, madarsas stand tall — providing free education, food, and moral guidance in some of India’s most underserved areas. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 50. You can measure a nation by how it treats its most compassionate institutions. Shutting down madrasas is not reform — it’s removing the heartbeat of the community. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 51. Let us not forget: many who fought for India’s freedom were madrasa-trained scholars. Today, their legacy lives on in these very institutions. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 52. Many freedom fighters were nurtured in madrasas — institutions that ignited minds with both knowledge and patriotism. Madrasas were never silent under oppression. They resisted. They bled for freedom. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 53. Maulana Mahmood Hasan Deobandi - Graduate of Darul Uloom Deoband - Founder of the Silk Letter Movement (1914). - Jailed in Malta for fighting British colonialism. He’s known as Shaikh-ul-Hind — a madrasa-born revolutionary. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 54. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad A scholar, writer & the first Education Minister of independent India. Educated in traditional madrasas, he became a leading voice for unity, secularism & independence. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas 55. Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani Head of Darul Uloom Deoband, great freedom fighter, and advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity. He opposed the Partition and was jailed multiple times by the British. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 56. Madrasas weren’t “secluded” institutions. They were active participants in India’s independence movement — producing scholars, leaders, and rebels who fought the British. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 57. To attack madrasas today is to erase the contributions of freedom fighters who gave their lives for India — armed only with knowledge, courage, and faith. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 58. Madrasa is a fundamental part of secularism in the country. Every minority living here has the freedom to impart religious education. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 59. Madrasas were established for the country's independence, especially after 1866 and 1857. Today, there are attempts to shut the doors of these madrasas. We can't sit silent on this unconstitutional move. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 60. More than half a million Muslim clerics sacrificed their lives for India during the various phases of the great 1857 revolt. These Indian freedom fighters came from the same madrasas. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 61. The service rendered by madrasas to the country and the Muslim community is an established fact. In India, these madrasas have played an important role in protecting human, Islamic and social values. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 62. The first and foremost entity to foresee British plans to enslave India was a product of these very Islamic madrasas - Shah Waliullah Muhaddis Dehlawi, who was a great saint, as well. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 63. With a view to banishing the British from India, Shah Waliullah Muhaddis Dehelvi started a movement and made madrasas the centers of national movement. In 1731, the plan for the country's freedom was prepared under the leadership of Shah Sahab. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 64. Shah Abdul Aziz Muhaddis Dehlawi, an alumini of madarsa, raised the banner of revolt against the British and gave a fatwa that the country had been enslaved and it was the duty of everyone to undertake Jihad for freedom. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 65. After this declaration of Jihad by the Imam-e-Hurriat Shah Abdul Aziz Muhaddis Dehlawi, the scholars of religious madrasas made the freedom of the country the mission of their life. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 66. In 1831, while fighting the British at Balakot, leader of the Hurriat Caravan, Syed Ahmad Shaheed, Ismail Shaheed, laid down their lives and attained martyrdom. They belong to Madarasa. Their deaths turned the freedom wave into a storm. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 67. Read the important article on "Madrassas: the nationalist hubs of 1857" by Firoz Bakht Ahmed https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/madrassas-the-nationalist-hubs-of-1857/story-s3qMKNXjMNdODqfiQLL28L.html #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 67. The Founder of Darul Uloom Deoband Madrasa, Moulana Qasmi Nanothvi participated in the Battle of Shamli in 1857 between the British and Ulama for the Freedom Of India! #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 68. Raisul Ahrar Moulana Habib Ur Rahman Ludhianvi was one among those Freedom Fighters of India who spent their life in prison for revolution against British rule. He had spent more than 19 yrs in jail. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 69. Madrasas aren’t just protected by tradition — they are protected by the Indian Constitution. Targeting them is a violation of fundamental rights. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 70. 📜 Article 30(1) – All minorities, whether based on religion or language, have the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice. This includes madrasas. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 71. 📜 Article 29 – Protects the right of minorities to conserve their culture and language. Madrasas are central to preserving the religious and cultural identity of Muslim communities. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 72. 📜 Article 26 – Grants every religious group the right to manage its own affairs in matters of religion and education. Madrasas are an expression of this autonomy. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 73. 📜 Article 25 – Guarantees freedom of religion, which includes religious education and the right to educate children in accordance with one's faith. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas 74. ⚖️ Supreme Court has upheld that minority institutions, including madrasas, cannot be dismantled or taken over arbitrarily by the state. Due process and constitutional respect are mandatory. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 75. The Constitution doesn’t just allow madrasas to exist — it empowers them. Any move to shut them down is unconstitutional, unjust and unlawful. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas 76. If we honor the Constitution, we must protect institutions like madrasas that serve the poor, preserve culture, and uphold educational rights. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas 77. 📜 Article 14: Right to equality before law. Closing or targeting madrasas while ignoring similar issues in other private/religious schools is discriminatory and unconstitutional. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas 78. Legal experts, civil society & citizens must act: 📝 File PILs 📢 Demand judicial oversight 🧾 Challenge unconstitutional closures This is about defending the rule of law, not just madrasas. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas 79. Madrasas didn’t isolate students from the world — they prepared them to shape the world. From freedom fighters to lawmakers, they produced nation-builders. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas 80. Mahatma Gandhi visited Darul Uloom Deoband in 1920. He said: “I have come to a sacred place... I bow my head in reverence.” He saw madrasas as partners in India’s freedom and moral awakening. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 81. Dr. Rajendra Prasad, India's first President, praised scholars of madrasas for their intellectual depth, commitment to justice, and contribution to the freedom struggle. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 82. Annie Besant, a British-born theosophist and freedom fighter, praised traditional Indian learning — including madrasas — for producing spiritually grounded, socially responsible citizens. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas 83. 🌍 Will Durant, American historian, wrote: “The Islamic world preserved Greek science, medicine & philosophy when Europe forgot it.” And where was that knowledge preserved? In madrasas. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 84. 💬 Even UNESCO reports have recognized madrasas for their role in literacy, cultural preservation, and community-based education in South Asia and Africa. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas 85. Madrasas also serve as: 🏥 Relief centers during crises 🌾 Support hubs for poor farmers 🏘️ Spaces for communal harmony in mixed localities They are social institutions, not just schools. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas 86. Over centuries, madrasas have played a crucial role in the education, cultural preservation, and social empowerment of the Muslim community in India. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 87. In regions with limited government resources, madrasas offer not only education but sometimes healthcare, housing & food support. This role in community cohesion & welfare makes madrasas essential to social empowerment in deprived communities. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 88. Madarsas produce religious scholars (ulema) who are highly respected within the Muslim community and serve as community leaders, guiding on religious, ethical, and social matters. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 89. From algebra to astronomy, the foundations of modern science were laid in madrasas. 📚 Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Al-Khwarizmi, Al-Biruni—all madrasa-educated. Don’t erase a tradition that educated the world. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 90. 📖 Madrasas preserved and passed down Greek, Indian, and Persian knowledge to the world. Without them, much of classical philosophy and medicine would’ve been lost. Their legacy shaped the Enlightenment. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 91. Europe’s first hospitals & libraries were inspired by Islamic madrasas. 🧠 They taught free thinking, debate, and innovation. Madrasas helped create the intellectual foundations of the modern world. #stopmadrasashutdown #savemadrasas 92. From Timbuktu to Delhi, madrasas produced scholars who wrote encyclopedias, scientific texts, and legal systems. 📚 The world studied at their feet. Today, they deserve respect—not bulldozers. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 93. "Madrasas are not threats; they are institutions preserving our heritage and contributing to national development." – Maulana Arshad Madani President Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 94. "We do not need government aid for our madrasas and mosques. We provide free education, food & shelter. Our doors are open; we have nothing to hide." – Maulana Arshad Madani President Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 95. "Madrasas have been operating since 1866 without government aid, relying solely on donations. They are centers of learning and spirituality." – Maulana Arshad Madani President Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 96. "Madrasas are the jugular vein of the nation. Their existence is for the country's development, not against it." – Maulana Arshad Madani President Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 97. "Madrasas have always tried to run based on constitutional rights, but sectarian forces aim to destroy them." – Maulana Arshad Madani President Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 98. "Madrasas are open 24 hours; anyone can visit and see that they are centers of learning, not extremism." – Maulana Arshad Madani President Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 99. “The objective of establishing Darul Uloom was not only education but also the freedom of India. After attaining independence, the Ulema completely separated from politics and kept their activities only for the service of the country." #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown 100. 📜 Madrasas are protected under Article 30 of the Indian Constitution. The right to run our own educational institutions is a fundamental right—not a favor. No government can take this from us. #savemadrasas #stopmadrasashutdown