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Muslim youths

by Iftikhar
10:43pm - 25th August, 2008


Muslim Youths

Muslim youths are angry, frustrated and extremist because they have been mis-educated and de-educated by the British schooling. Muslim children are confused because they are being educated in a wrong place at a wrong time in state schools with non-Muslim monolingual teachers. They face lots of problems of growing up in two distinctive cultural traditions and value systems, which may come into conflict over issues such as the role of women in the society, and adherence to religious and cultural traditions. The conflicting demands made by home and schools on behaviour, loyalties and obligations can be a source of psychological conflict and tension in Muslim youngsters. There are also the issues of racial prejudice and discrimination to deal with, in education and employment. They have been victim of racism and bullying in all walks of life. According to DCSF, 56% of Pakistanis and 54% of Bangladeshi children has been victims of bullies. The first wave of Muslim migrants were happy to send their children to state schools, thinking their children would get a much better education. Than little by little, the overt and covert discrimination in the system turned them off. There are fifteen areas where Muslim parents find themselves offended by state schools.

The right to education in one’s own comfort zone is a fundamental and inalienable human right that should be available to all people irrespective of their ethnicity or religious background. Schools do not belong to state, they belong to parents. It is the parents’ choice to have faith schools for their children. Bilingual Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. There is no place for a non-Muslim teacher or a child in a Muslim school. There are hundreds of state schools where Muslim children are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be designated as Muslim community schools. An ICM Poll of British Muslims showed that nearly half wanted their children to attend Muslim schools. There are only 143 Muslim schools. A state funded Muslim school in Birmingham has 220 pupils and more than 1000 applicants chasing just 60.

Majority of anti-Muslim stories are not about terrorism but about Muslim
culture--the hijab, Muslim schools, family life and religiosity. Muslims in the west ought to be recognised as a western community, not as an alien culture.
Iftikhar Ahmad
www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk


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09:56am - 26th August, 2008thuglife
Talk about spitting in the face of the country that gave you so much freedom!

No doubt, the English have done some pretty bad shit.


Maybe you should be teaching your so called students how to respect the laws and cultures of other countries!

We all have to respect Islamic law when we are in islamic countries, why can't you do the same?!

I'd say a 'revision' lecture is due at the London School of Islamics!!
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09:58am - 26th August, 2008thuglife
I'd be happy to oblige!

Thug Politics!
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05:59pm - 27th August, 2008Raja
Thug bro this guy is a prick, he comes on here every once in a while, chatting shit in a one off bogus 'article' then fucks off somewhere.

None of it ever makes sense and I for one believe it's meant to be provocative on purpose. Its such bollocks, he's either an extremist twat from the Muslim side, or an extremist from the anti Islamic side pseudo writing reverse psychological material....
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06:57pm - 12th September, 2008arran
do you really have that little common sense? i can't actually believe what i just read! england is not an islamic country and has never been one, you can't just migrate to a country and expect to change the culture. if you want your children to live in this country then you should expect them to recieve an english education and respect our culture and laws if not then go back to where you came from this is england not asia stop trying to change it, the ethnic diversity is already ridiculously high, england as it was once known does not exist anymore political correctness and immigration have destroyed this country. being a white british male and living in dorset i know the england that used to exist is dead, dorset is one of the few places left where immigration and true britishnes has not struck
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12:40pm - 13th September, 2008Raja
If ''true Britishness'' (whatever the jolly roger that means....) hasn't struck there in good ol' Dorset, then is your place living in false Britishness?....

Just wondering.
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05:29pm - 24th September, 2008Anil_K
true say mate
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10:32pm - 25th September, 2008Raja
OK then....(wierdo alert)
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