Saudi school lessons in UK concern government

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Statement from the Muslim Council of Britain.

MCB Statement on Panorama Story – “British Schools, Islamic Rules”
Tuesday 23 November 2010

In relation to the BBC Panorama programme on Muslim schools, the Muslim Council of Britain issued the following statement: “The vast majority of Muslim schools in this country offer a much-needed service to British Muslims. Many full-time Muslim schools have achieved impressive results in educational league tables, and part-time schools inspire young Muslims to contribute to the common good.

“The Muslim Council of Britain is heartened that the majority of Muslim schools work towards established standards, striving to promote an agenda that recognises Britain’s cherished pluralism. We hope that those few schools that fall short of such objectives, if indeed they do, redouble their efforts for the benefit of their own children”.

Commenting on the programme itself, the Muslim Council of Britain said: “The programme’s incendiary title and commentary from the programme’s presenter has already contributed to the mood-music that Muslims are somehow separate, foreign and un-British. Responsible reporting would examine faith schools in its totality.”

John Ware had complete disregard for the value of Ofsted inspection, a nationally recognised body governing schools, and chose to seek something of a minority to cause contention. The programme did not represent a fair documentation as it failed to inform of the Muslim schools that have conveyed successful achievements and pass rates and was inept to fully highlight the findings from rigorous Ofsted inspection.

http://www.mcb.org.uk/article_detail.php?article=announcement-942

 

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Heres another viewpoint on the controversy

London, UK, November 22nd 2010 – The media sensationalism generated by tonight’s BBC Panorama [British Schools, Islamic Rules] is the latest attempt to force Muslims to adopt liberal values.

“the tactics are now well understood by most Muslims. You demonise aspects of Islamic beliefs and values linking them to selective quotations, distortions or misrepresentations about Islam in the hope that Muslims will denounce every aspect of Islam that contradicts secular liberal values.”

“The programme talked of ‘diagrams about the punishment for thieves’, verses from the Qur’an, and the unsurprising Islamic view that homosexuality as a sin against the law of the Creator, and presented these as evidence that such Islamic views are unacceptable and Muslims must reject them.”

“Muslims are increasingly used to seeing the myth of liberal tolerance being replaced with the truth of liberal supremacy, having seen similar attacks by some politicians and sections of the media pressurising Muslims to embrace secular values.”

“We doubt if Mr Gove, the Education Secretary, would show consistency and ban H.E. Marshall’s ‘Our Island Story’ – a favourite of conservative educationalists – from school because it talks about ‘Turks’ and ‘Saracens’ in such jingoistic and derogatory terms.”

“Muslims have been expected by the British establishment to concede they have ‘false grievances’ about the West’s foreign policy, that occupation of Muslim lands must go undefended, that attacks on the Shariah are legitimate, and that they should laugh off attacks on the Blessed Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Now aggressive liberal secularists demand that Muslims endorse same sex relationships as a natural lifestyle choice and distance themselves from Shariah punishments, the effect of which is to deter the levels of criminality all too common in Western cities.”

“Michael Gove and Panorama should perhaps concentrate more on the real problems in British education: the rising levels of attacks on teachers; the bullying of children due to their faith; and the fact that society has rising levels of teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease and antisocial behaviour.”

“It is precisely for these reasons that Muslims seek to encourage their children to chose Islamic values, so that they can be wholesome, decent, productive people, who have respect for others – especially for women and the elderly – as well as for themselves, no matter where they are in the world.”

”Despite the huge pressure on Muslims in the west to remain silent in the face of this coercive assimilation campaigns, we will continue to expose such liberal totalitarianism and urge Muslims to engage in the wider debate about the damaging effect of some liberal values on society at large.”

http://www.hizb.org.uk

 

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“Michael Gove and Panorama should perhaps concentrate more on the real problems in British education: the rising levels of attacks on teachers; the bullying of children due to their faith; and the fact that society has rising levels of teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease and antisocial behaviour.”

The issue is, these problems are so common, the media will not attract so many viewers. The public and the media in general are not interested. There is alcohol and drug problems too.

 

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Forgot to add this - one reaction to the 'documentary'

*sigh*

 

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Forgot to add this - one reaction to the 'documentary'

*sigh*

How can this be a reaction to the documentary? The documentary is a few days old but the newspaper headline must be almost 2 years old. It has Jade on the cover and she died in early 2009.

 

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Is it? Im being slack, sorry

Yeah this was a year ago. It was a general story about Muslim schooling.

For what its worth it shows this issue has been going on for some time but doesnt destract from my error.

Thanks again for pointing it out hew