Saudi-Funded UK Madrassas
Parochial schools, once common enough as immigrant communities tried to educate their children in the language of the home country, the traditions and the culture left behind - so their children, while gradually absorbing into their new country's societal norms and customs to become proud citizens while maintaining a vestige of their ethnic/religious/cultural heritage - have most certainly changed.The after-hours schools and alternative schools now inculcate in a good measure of Muslim children a fundamentalist version of Islam for the very purpose of ensuring that the children do not integrate into the prevailing social culture. This is not seen as a perfidious insult to the new country that has agreed to absorb them, as a denial of the need to enmesh themselves as citizens should, but as an entitled right to keep themselves apart.
In these schools which relish the freedom to teach as they will, not as they civilly should, the students are given stringent lessons that they must maintain a separation, that to be Muslim is to be aware of a distance between themselves and the kuffars, the non-Muslims, for they are not equal and are to be avoided as potentially degrading to the purity of Muslims.
A textbook originating in Saudi Arabia and used currently in Muslim schools in Britain teaches students rather atrocious lessons in discrimination; some pointedly suggesting that children list the "reprehensible" qualities of Jews. If the student responds obligingly with the anticipated answers: akin to pigs and apes, they have learned the lesson well. They must also know that the penalty for gender-confusion is execution.
The BBC program Panorama unleashed the unpleasant reality that over 40 Saudi-funded Students' Schools & Clubs are busily teaching that country's traditional school (Wahhabist) curriculum to roughly five thousand British-Muslim students. In response, the Saudi government claims to have no official ties to the part-time schools, and they do not officially endorse them. Embarrassing, one supposes, to be caught out so flagrantly.
The schools are set up to teach a student body from ages six to eighteen. Their textbooks are similar to those used elsewhere in the Middle East, including students under the Palestinian Authority. Textbooks for the older children demonstrate through diagrams the manner in which Sharia law deals with those convicted of theft; punishment is hacking off the hand of the thief; the hand usually used to cleans the anus after defecation. So that the hand used to handle food and to eat must be used for that purpose, also.
"The specified punishment of the thief is cutting off his right hand at the wrist. then it is cauterized to prevent him from bleeding to death." That is the compassionate side of Sharia law. "For thieves their hands will be cut off for a first offence, and their foot for a subsequent offence." Presumably, should the thief prove to be unamenable to the straight and narrow, the death penalty will eventually be prescribed, once limbs are no longer available.
Sodomy merits death, whether by stoning, burning to death or being tossed off a cliff. Younger children are posed another query: what happens to someone who dies who is not a believer in Islam? "Hellfire" earns a plaudit.
Although the British government explains it does not regulate weekend or part-time teaching centres, the Department of Education is adamant that it can not permit anti-Semitic material in English schools. They give assurances that their Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills, tasked with inspecting schools, will be looking into how they may begin to monitor the part-time centres.
That is tremendously reassuring.
Labels: Britain, Human Relations, Human Rights, Political Realities, Religion, Traditions
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, November 24, 2010
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