Free Our Schools

[Iftikhar]

Free Schools

Almost all children now believe they go to school to pass exams. The idea that they may be there for an education is irrelevant. State, independent and Faith schools have become exam factories, interested only in A to C Grades. They do not educate children. Exam results do not reflect a candidate’s innate ability. Employers and Universities both rely on the candidate’s grades. Employers have moaned for years that too many employees cannot read or write properly.

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. Rejecting state funded Muslim schools as "anti-democratic" or "divisive" is simply the wrong approach to take.

Compulsory state education has promised to promote the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental, physical and academic development of a child in preparation for adult life - has failed far too many children, particularly national minorities and especially Muslim children. Now the time has come that parents and community should take over the running of their local schools The Local Authority's role should be confined to simply ensuring schools operate within the prevailing legislative framework (admissions criteria, Special Educational Needs, Community Cohesion, Financial Audit, etc). Parents can perform a better job than the Local Authority because parents have a genuine vested interest. The Local Authority simply cannot be trusted.

There is no end to Forced marriages and honour killings as long as Bilingual Muslim children keep on attending state schools with monolingual non-Muslim teachers. Muslim schools are attractive to Muslim parents because they have better discipline and teaching Islamic values. Bilingual Muslim teachers are role models who understand the needs and demands of their children.

No body has the right to tell a woman how to dress, or worse, how to undress? Let her wear what she likes, especially if it's part of her religion. I see the banning of headscarves or niqabs as an attack on both religious freedom and on the rights of women & girls. A veil ban targets very few women; it speaks to a fear of other who is Muslim. This is Islamophobia. In the United Kingdom , there is a social and economic pressure on Muslim women not to cover themselves with headscarf or a veil. The tiny minority of women are being blamed for all the failure of integration policies through out Europe . European Muslims are more worried about the economy, the cost of living, decent housing and racism than about a burqa ban.

Each and every Muslim child should be in a state funded Muslim school with bilingual Muslim teachers as role model during their developmental periods. There is no place for a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school. Bilingual Muslim children need to learn and be well versed in Standard English to follow the National Curriculum and go for higher studies and research to serve humanity. At the same time they need to learn and be well versed in Arabic, Urdu and other community languages in order to keep in touch with their cultural roots and enjoy the beauty of their literature and poetry.

There are hundreds of state and church schools where Muslim children are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be designated as Muslim community schools. Muslim children are in majority in schools because native parents remove their children as soon as the number of Muslim children is on the increase. They do not want their children to mix with Muslim or any other migrant children

Iftikhar Ahmad
http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk

[fish5133]

[Life]

Mmmm. not liking the idea that this country be divided into little groups of madness promoting something different to the nature of the host country.

I would suggest you read the Koran and take special note on the rules for all Muslims to obey when in a foreign land.

I think it would be wise for such ideas to remember they come forth in a country with over 62 million none Muslims, even if you are holding the luck of Alexander in your heart, you gotta be kidding son.

Britain needs a new constitution, voted on by Christian Britain and implemented by Christian Britain.

I speak of the Christianity of the people and the morality which came forth.

As in all other nations of the world, if you wish to live in Great Britain you do so because you like what we have created, if you do not then the wise decision would be to head off for a place which better suites your thing.

I am no racist and I know the words written atop this subject are not the words from British Muslims.

You are either a programmed mind or a radical idiot, either way I would lead you to seek out the history of this country, they take only so much, which is a natural position, you are not doing common sense nor any form of morality I would hold high, any favours whatever, so I am inclined to believe you are Intel....

Of course I care not either way...

This I do care :

http://www.lifeinthemixtalk.com/?p=8391

[Life]

I do however agree with the sentiment of the subject title, but of course I insist we free them from this :

Pre-School- Military Academy To Labour Market To Concentration Camp

http://www.lifeinthemixtalk.com/?p=12998

[Iftikhar]

Salaam

Human being is a product of his culture, language and faith. There is a positive co-relation between language and culture. If Muslims become notoriously monolingual Brits than there is a likely hood that they will adopt English culture. They will still be the underdogs of the British society. In the past they were victim of Paki-bashing in all walks of life by the British society in every walks of life becuase majority of them were not well versed in local accents. Now Muslim youths born and educated by British education sysytm are being victim of terrorism by British establishment. Thousands of them are being searched by Police in streets and many of them are behind the bar without any trial. A lot of Muslim youths are imprisoned by British courts on the slightest excuses. The number of Muslim prisoners is on the increase in British jails. When they come out of jail they will become real criminals and terrorists while British foreign minister has said that Muslims are law abiding and committed citizens.

Majority of Muslims are from Pakistan. Their culture and language is differnt from Bengali or
Gujrati or Turkish and Arabs. They have only faith in common. They only marry
among their own communities because of culture and language. This is the ground reality.

I am concerned with the education of bilingual Muslim children. I set up the
first Muslim school in London in 1981 and now there are round about 140
Muslim schools and only 11 are state funded. I would like to see each and
every Muslim child to be in a Muslim school.

A study by Bristol University reveals that a high level of racial
segregation in Oldham schools and tension between communities resulted in
recent riots in 2001. The solution is that those schools where Muslim
children are majority, may be designated as Muslim community schools. The
native parents do not want their children to be educated along with migrant
chiildren. As soon as they find that the number of other children are on the
increase, they remove their children to those schools where native children
are in majority.

In the 70s, when I raised ithe issue of bilingualism and Muslim schools, I
was given the impression that British education system does not believe in
bilingualism. According to varities of studies, a child will suffer if
he/she finds himself cut off from his/her cultural and linguistic roots.
Arabic is our religious language and each and every Muslim must be well
versd in Quranic Arabic. This the main reason why I believe that Pakistani
parents must find marriage partners from Pakistan for their children.
Pakistani children and youths suffer more than others because they find
themselves cut off from the literature and poetry. Majority of them are not
even well versed in Standard English. This is the main rason why majority of
Pakistani children leave schools without goood qualification. English is
their economic language while Urdu is their social and emotional and Arabic
is their religious language.

I am concerned with the education of bilingual Muslim children. I set up the
first Muslim school in London in 1981 and now there are round about 140
Muslim schools and only 11 are state funded. I would like to see each and
every Muslim child to be in a Muslim school.

A study by Bristol University reveals that a high level of racial
segregation in Oldham schools and tension between communities resulted in
recent riots in 2001. The solution is that those schools where Muslim
children are majority, may be designated as Muslim community schools. The
native parents do not want their children to be educated along with migrant
chiildren. As soon as they find that the number of other children are on the
increase, they move their children to those schools where native children
are in majority.

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 with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models. There is no place for
a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school.

Bilingual Muslim children have been in state schools for the last 50 years. They have been suffering from Paki-bashing. They have been unable to develop their confidence and self-esteem due to racism and bullying. This is one of the main reason why they have been unable to achieve good grades. They have been suffering from Identity Crises. They do not know where they belong. Muslim school with bilingual Muslim teachers is only the answer.
Iftikhar Ahmad

[Life]

I think minds who post on here Iftikhar, are very aware of the plight Muslims are suffering today, we are doing all we can to prevent the rise of yet more anti-Islam feelings.

I do not mean to be abrasive but I must be assertive or I am pissing in the wind.

The call for all things Muslim, be they more Mosques, schools, indeed any calls for the rights of Muslims be this from Muslims or not, is playing directly into the hands of those who are pushing the rise of the fascist British, with Islam firmly in its sights.

This time now is not the time for demanding rights which can only further detract from the crimes of the elite and further add to your religions problems.

I get many a great belly laugh when young Muslims who have been suckered into the idea of hero in those who twist your religion, to see the eyes light up again as fear dissolves when the penny drops and they accept they are indeed British, not because I tell them this is so, but because by definition of the fact they were born here.

The dilemma the Pakistanis suffer is far greater than most people give thought, they go to Pakistan and they are called 'British', and are not trusted, they come back here and are called Pakis and are not trusted...

These are young lads we are talking about and they are in a real fix here..

It matters not which country you are in today, this nonsense is going on everywhere, we will face this where we are now... not by dreaming off into some historic claims of betterness.

Its all about morality, are you or are you not?

Morality knows not fear, for nothing can break true morality, knowing what morality is and existing by it are not the same.

Help your people by educating them to the fact Al Qaeda and the Taliban are NATO mercenaries, teach them the truth in the Koran, because there are a lot of idiots claiming to understand what the Koran means and of course British Muslims are British programme, they fight, get pissed and hunt the ladies, so they did not study the koran and so cannot know the deceptions.

Cameron is going to hit benefits hard, this will create more tension and anger, the elite want to control that energy and throw it at the Muslim, we need all that energy to face the demon we have let ride loose for millenia, we need Muslims and Christians and Jews and all others, together not under the elite, but under the god you claim to know, because it is the same all round, god is not in the elite, so why play their game....

Divided we all die......