Thread: Islamic education for all

Islamic education for all
Great Britain plan would move toward 'religion of state'

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Posted: August 2, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
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A new government study is being condemned by the Christian ministry the Barnabas Fund because its proposals would move closer to imposing Islam in the United Kingdom as "a religion of state."

Among the proposals from the study being considered for implementation is the provision by universities for Islamic studies for all students.

The report was initiated by Bill Rammell, the minister of state for higher education and lifelong learning, officials said. He appointed Ataullah Siddiqui, senior research fellow at the Islamic Foundation, to write it.

The Barnabas Fund, in an analysis, said the report "signals another step toward the Islamisation of Britain and its education system"
"Should this report be implemented, education will be handed over more and more to Muslims who will train and shape the next generation," the analysis said.

The Barnabas Fund, which works primarily with Christians in Muslim-majority environments by channeling money from Christians, through Christians to Christians for projects developed by local bodies of believers, said the appointment of Siddiqui, at the outset, signaled a problem.

"It is well known that the Islamic Foundation is an Islamist institute founded by high ranking members of the Pakistani Islamist party, Jama'at-I Islami," the group said. "However, in answer to questions in the House of Commons about possible links between Ataullah Siddiqui and Jama'at-i-Islami, Rammell stated that 'Dr Siddiqui has assured me categorically that he has no links to the Jamaat-e-Islami Party.' … This reveals that Rammell does not understand how Islamists use dissimulation (taqiyya) to hide their real goals while claiming to be moderate and liberal," the analysis said.

Among the other recommendations are that universities should employ Muslim scholars to teach Islamic theology, all universities must employ Muslim chaplains and provide Muslim prayer rooms, Islamic Student Societies should be better recognized and encouraged, and universities should cooperate with Islamic schools and colleges to break down the divisions between British society and the Muslim community.

The study also recommended Islamic studies should be linked to job opportunities such as teaching, chaplaincy and Islamic banking, and guidance should be given to all universities on Friday prayers, Ramadan and halal food.

The Barnabas Fund said it's simply a demand for a "privileged position for Islam in the universities."

"It would seem to aim at transforming Islamic studies in Britain into a Muslim monopoly, a Muslim enclave in which the vast majority of staff and students are Muslim. It is implied that non-Muslim scholars cannot teach Islam because they do not unquestioningly accept its basic premises regarding the revelatory nature and divine authority of Quran and Hadith."

If that happens, the teaching faculty soon would be limited to Muslim and Islamist lecturers, the group said.

"It is most likely that censorship would develop, affecting choice of staff, teaching methods and acceptable subjects for research and publication," the group said.

It's a part of the larger goal, the Barnabas Fund said. "The aim is to expand Islamic domination into all spheres. The whole system of Western academic education must, say the Islamists, be recast and remolded on Islamic lines as it is tainted by Christian and pagan influences."

"Implementing these recommendations, as the British government has promised to do, would be likely to narrow the scope of university Islamic studies and make them more intolerant and radical," the critique said.

The organization said one of its goals is to inform and enable Christians in the West to respond to the growing challenge of Islam to the church, society and mission.

Reports said the government already has pledged several million dollars to universities in order to boost Islamic studies.

Poor England, I hope they wake up soon.
I know many Scots want to break the union with them and this might very well make it happen.

Poor England, I hope they wake up soon.
I know many Scots want to break the union with them and this might very well make it happen.

Doesn't seem like we're all that far behind them. Wonder how many US states would pull out of the union like Scottland would like to do? Seems it's gonna be pretty hard to do that. When I hear what these people do it makes me think of the days where they burned witches and such....not forward......but centuries backward.....

Originally Posted by crazybird

Poor England, I hope they wake up soon.
I know many Scots want to break the union with them and this might very well make it happen.

Doesn't seem like we're all that far behind them. Wonder how many US states would pull out of the union like Scottland would like to do? Seems it's gonna be pretty hard to do that. When I hear what these people do it makes me think of the days where they burned witches and such....not forward......but centuries backward.....

We already have this going on in American universities under the guise of of multiculturalism and diversity. They often try to make themselves seem like "victims" of racial discrimination in order to provide cover for their anti-American activities.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={DEAC8704-8610-49A7-8043-017E04B657D0}

Islamic Radicals On Campus
By Erick Stakelbeck
FrontPageMagazine.com | 4/23/2003

The Constitution of the Muslim Student's Association of the U.S. and Canada (MSA) states that the organization’s major purpose is "to serve the best interest of Islam and Muslims in the United States and Canada so as to enable them to practice Islam as a complete way of life." The truth, however, is something far less benign.

http://campusj.com/2006/12/15/steven-em ... cal-islam/

Emerson also charged that [b]the Council on American-Islamic Relations, along with other mainstream Islamic organizations, “has a modus operandi which is to allege hate crimesâ€