tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154495438763509967.post699051587612047070..comments2024-01-28T06:24:50.005+00:00Comments on No Double Standards: Reply to Iftikhar Ahmad of the London School of IslamicsMartin Freedmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16952072422175870627noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154495438763509967.post-90205236115127164452019-06-20T16:17:35.393+01:002019-06-20T16:17:35.393+01:00job for govt |jobs in government | government job ...<a href="http://www.technicalonline.xyz/" rel="nofollow">job for govt</a> |<a href="http://www.technicalonline.xyz/" rel="nofollow">jobs in government</a> | <a href="http://www.technicalonline.xyz/" rel="nofollow">government job latest</a> | <a href="http://www.technicalonline.xyz/" rel="nofollow">latest gov job</a> | <a href="http://www.technicalonline.xyz/" rel="nofollow">jobs alert government</a> | <a href="http://www.technicalonline.xyz/" rel="nofollow">jobs govt assam</a> |adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09665015093270988599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154495438763509967.post-59902417385611781062014-09-25T23:13:16.688+01:002014-09-25T23:13:16.688+01:00I have been campaigning for state funded Muslim sc...I have been campaigning for state funded Muslim schools for the last 45 years. I set up the first Muslim school in 1981 and now there are round about 188 Muslim schools and out of them only 18 are state funded.<br /><br />There are hundreds of state and church schools where Muslim children are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be opted out as Muslim Academies. Bilingual Muslims children have a right, as much as any other faith group, to be taught their culture, languages and faith alongside a mainstream curriculum. More faith schools will be opened under sweeping reforms of the education system in England. There is a dire need for the growth of state funded Muslim schools to meet the growing needs and demands of the Muslim parents and children. Now the time has come that parents and community should take over the running of their local schools. Parent-run schools will give the diversity, the choice and the competition that the wealthy have in the private sector. Parents can perform a better job than the Local Authority because parents have a genuine vested interest. The Local Authority simply cannot be trusted. This mean the Muslim children will get a decent education. Muslim schools turned out balanced citizens, more tolerant of others and less likely to succumb to criminality or extremism. Muslim schools give young people confidence in who they are and an understanding of Islam’s teaching of tolerance and respect which prepares them for a positive and fulfilling role in society. Muslim schools are attractive to Muslim parents because they have better discipline and teaching Islamic values. Children like discipline, structure and boundaries. Bilingual Muslim children need Bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods, who understand their needs and demands.<br /><br />None of the British Muslims convicted following the riots in Bradford and Oldham in 2001 or any of those linked to the London bombings had been to Islamic schools. An American Think Tank studied the educational back ground of 300 Jihadists; none of them were educated in Pakistani Madrasas. They were all Western educated by non-Muslim teachers. Bilingual Muslim children need bilingual Muslim teachers as role models. A Cambridge University study found that single-sex classes could make a big difference for boys. They perform better in single-sex classes. The research is promising because male students in the study saw noticeable gains in the grades. The study confirms the Islamic notion that academic achievement is better in single-sex classes.<br />IA<br />http://www.londonschoolofislam...Iftikhar Ahmadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06741872226390808403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154495438763509967.post-19205744408629565222009-03-12T18:21:00.000+00:002009-03-12T18:21:00.000+00:00The original post is a near perfect argument again...The original post is a near perfect argument <I>against</I> faith schools. The poster wants the freedom to privately indoctrinate children into his own primitive belief system while predictably reveling in a self-imposed victimhood. The absurd suggestion that British society is genetically racist is as offensive as it is ridiculous, not least because islam is not a race, but an ideology.<BR/>"There is no place for a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school."<BR/><BR/>... and there is no place for this kind of discriminatory, separatist thinking in a civilised, enlightened society.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com