Bangladesh's interim administration of Muhammad Yunus, has come under fire for scrapping plans to recruit music and physical education teachers in primary schools. The decision by the Yunus administration came after Islamist groups, including Hefazat-e-Islam and Islami Andolon Bangladesh, called the job posts for music and physical education "un-Islamic", and threatened street unrest if their demands for religious teachers over arts educators were not met.
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Critics have called Yunus administration's U-turn a "cultural fascis
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