Learning Arabic

The Senate Chairman’s proposal to make learning Arabic mandatory in schools is laudable and its criticism by the Lakhani likes is untenable.  Could I ask them, have they ever pondered as to why our religio-political parties, who never let go of an opportunity to agitate in the name of Islam, shariah and Yahood o Hanood conspiracy against Islam have never moved a bill in the parliament or brought the masses to the streets for making Arabic a compulsory subject for the Muslim students in schools? Because, they know it that by the time a student passed his/her matriculation examination he/she would be able to understand Qura’n fairly well. And, a graduate and post graduate will be able to even interpret it on his/her own. Would the mullah in that case not lose his papal hegemony over the masses? Can he afford to lose it? Can he, therefore, let them to be Arabic literate ?