It is scary to think of the possibility of a foreign and often hostile Islamic government forming schools in America to educate our children. Not only has such a foreign entity been allowed to develop such schools, but our own government has shown it will do very little when it chooses to promote murder by our own children.
An recent investigation of the Islamic Saudi Academy-funded by the Saudi government- has revealed disturbing teachings. For example the textbooks contain passages encouraging readers to blame the Jews for "discord" and says it is sometimes permissible to kill non-Muslims. A passage in a 12th-grade Koranic interpretation textbook states that it is permissible for a Muslim to kill those who have left the faith, an adulterer or someone who has murdered a Muslim intentionally.
The school operates two campuses in Northern Virginia and has been given the green light to continue operations even though it has failed to live up its previous promise to "revise the textbooks by the 2008 school year."
State Department spokesman Rob McInturff said,"We don't plan to take additional action apart from the discussions that have been going on with the Saudi government."
The school's 1999 valedictorian, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, was indicted in 2005 for providing material support to terrorists.
In 2002, graduates Mohammed Osman Idris and Mohammed El-Yacubi were denied entry to Israel over concerns of ties to a potential suicide bombing. They were also convicted and sentenced to 30 in prison for plotting to assassinate President Bush.
How are supposed to fight terrorism, when we allow the creation of terrorist in own backyards?
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ref:http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/13/state-allows-operation-of-islamic-school/?page=1
Friday, June 13, 2008
Saudi Funded School in America Given Green Light To Hate
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London School of Islamics is an educational Trust. Its aim is to make
British public, institutions and media aware of the needs and demands of the
Muslim community in the field of education and possible solutions.
Slough Islamic school Trust Slough had a seminar on Muslim
education and schools in Thames Valley Atheltic Centre. The seminar was
addressed by the education spokesman of MCB. I could not attend the seminar
but I believe lot of Muslims from Slough and surrounding areas must have
attended. Very soon, the Muslims of Slough will have a state funded Muslim
school but there is a need for more schools. A day will come when all Muslim
children will attend state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim
teachers as role model.
Muslim schools are not only faith schools but they are more or less
bilingual schools.
Bilingual Muslim children need to learn standard English to follow the
National Curriculum and go for higher studies and research to serve
humanity. They need to be well versed in Arabic to recite and understand the
Holy Quran. They need to be well versed in Urdu and other community
languages to keep in touch with their cultural roots and enjoy the beauty of
their literature and poetry.
Bilingualism is an asset but the British schooling regards it as a
problem. A Muslim is a citizen of this tiny global village. He/she does not
want to become notoriously monolingual Brit. Pakistan is only seven hours
from London and majority of British Muslims are from Pakistan.
More than third of British Muslim have no qualifications. British school
system has been failing large number of Muslims children for the last 60
years. Muslim scholars see the pursuit of knowledge as a duty, with the
Quran containing several verses to the rewards of learning. 33% of British
Muslims of working age have no qualifications and Muslims are also the least
likely to have degrees or equivalent qualifications. Most of estimated
500,000 Muslim school-aged pupils in England and Wales are educated in the
state system with non-Muslim monolingual teachers. Majority of them are
underachievers because they are at a wrong place at a wrong time.
Bilingual Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual
Muslim teachers during their developmental periods. There is no place for a
non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school. As far as higher education
is concerned, Muslim students can be educated with others. Let Muslim
community educate its own children so that they can develop their own
Islamic, cultural and linguistic identities and become usefull members of
the British society rather than becoming a buden.
We are living in an English speaking country and English is an
international language, therefore, we want our children to learn and be well
versed in standard English and at the same time well versed in Arabic, Urdu
and other community languages. Is there anything wrong with this approach?
It is not only the Muslim community who would like to send their children to
Muslim school. Sikh and Hindu communities have started setting up their
schools. Last week. British Black Community has planned the first all black
school with Black teachers in Birmingham.
Scotland's first state funded Muslim school could get the go-ahead within
months after First Munister Alex Salmond declared he was sympathetic towards
the needs and demands of the Muslim community.
Iftikhar Ahmad
London School of Islamics Trust
www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk
Thanks for pointing out that which we should fear most.
It might help your credibility as a spokesman for this Trust to improve your writing skills.
Of course, that may entail learning another language, that part of culture which may conflict with your own. In the process of learning about others, you may lose a bit of your own identity, a bit of the cultural arrogance that is at the root of world conflict.
Would we want that to happen?
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