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Britain
'Child abuse rampant in UK madrassas'
2006-03-23
LONDON: One of Britain's leading Muslims demanded on Wednesday the government crackdown on "widespread" child abuse at Islamic schools in Britain.
Easy enough. Shut them all down. Britain doesn't need madrassahs.
Doctor Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, head of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain forum, said the 700 or so madrassas were operating "outside the law".
The more reason to shut them down. And to raze the sites.
Siddiqui co-wrote a report on the dangers facing some of the 100,000 youngsters in Britain attending the schools, which are usually attached to mosques.
Shut the mosques violating the law down, too.
"Our understanding is that physical abuse is widespread," he said."We would like to see mosques and madrassas come into contact with local authorities and police and put together guidelines, and the teachers are trained and parents and children are involved and they are told what their rights are if ever an allegation is made."
Any religious school, of whatever religion, should have to adhere to the curriculum and social guidelines of the country.
Posted by:Fred

#14  I disagree about the curriculum, Fred. We home-schooled our youngest for five years (grades 3-8)because the school curriculum was absolutely worthless. Half the answers in the back of the 4th-grade textbook were WRONG. The 7th grade textbook stated that burning hydrogen gave off carbon dioxide and nitrogen (there's no carbon OR nitrogen involved).

The madrassas in England either need to be licensed and controlled, or shut down. "Controlled" doesn't necessarily mean that the government controls the course of study (although failing to provide a complete education to students could, in itself be considered child abuse), but in the behavior of both the students and the teachers. The laws of England do not allow child abuse. Being a Muslim school does not terminate those laws, or make them non-applicable. The teachers involved should be discredited and forced to emigrate back to wherever they came (I doubt many are local-born British citizens). Hanging them would be preferable,and would provide a long-term solution to the problem, but would probably upset the poor, soft-headed darlings in Brussels.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-03-23 16:21  

#13  I do expect the foolish Brits to do something about these schools, like close them stat.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-03-23 15:43  

#12  Guess where your radical jihadis come from?

Moderate Muslim families who mindlessly send their kids off to these hate schools to get brainwashed.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-03-23 14:23  

#11  I have a rule, mess with my kids, then I intervene, and you won't like it.
The other day I had a person give me the finger, I broke it for them.
It won't happen again anytime soon, and the next time this particular person thinks of giving anyone else the finger, they'll think twice, three times, or simply not give anyone a finger again.
That's how to educate someone that actions have undesired consequences.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-03-23 14:13  

#10  I've never been in a madrassa but testimony over at faithfreedom.org indicates that kids are beaten for not memorizing the Koran fast enough; they are whipped if they ask a question that Islam can't answer; and, they are sodomized if they are attractive to a cleric.
Posted by: mhw   2006-03-23 13:38  

#9  Shep, you're right. I'd be very concerned for my safety these days in the UK. You've let so many of these shit bags in there that you've been over run just like roaches. Between this little piece and the preddeing one about the Farmers with their fertiliser, I think you people better start forming committees (yeah, vigilance committees ) to start rounding these turds up and inviting them to disappear. You have a REAL problem. Of course we here in the states have far too many also. And Canada ? Over run too, eh?
Posted by: SOP35/Rat   2006-03-23 13:07  

#8  It could be that these madrassahs are billed as simple after-school religious instruction associated with the mosques, much like Christian churches host Sunday schools, and Jewish synagogues host Hebrew schools. The issues are physical abuse of the students and, of course, pushing the children toward jihad against the ever-deserving kufr.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-03-23 12:15  

#7  Well rum, sodomy and the lash are British traditions.
Posted by: ed   2006-03-23 08:16  

#6  So how did 700 madrassas get started without authorities becoming aware?

How did 100,000 children become enrolled in unlicensed, abusive "schools" without a parent or relative complaining?

Gotta give a little credit to Siddiqui, though I think he places way too much emphasis on what the British government needs to do. Maybe his co-religionists could start by not opening these cesspools or sending their children to them.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-03-23 07:41  

#5  Odd how everything starts looking like a nail. Tony should start here.
Posted by: Speng Grimble8270   2006-03-23 06:35  

#4  
Here is the article
Posted by: Admiral Allan Ackbar   2006-03-23 06:18  

#3  Me too, SUK - compare and contrast the unequivocal damnations in the dailytimes with al-Beebs report:

in DailyTimes we have "Widespread" abuse in "Islamic" schools

versus

"anecdotal reports of abuse," in "Muslim" schools

Then you have the moral equivalence / comparisons with catholic church abuse.

Can you imagine an article on abuse within the church mentioning in passing that child abuse is, of course quite widespread in animist/muslim/other societies.
Posted by: Admiral Allan Ackbar   2006-03-23 06:16  

#2  When you determine where that is, I wish you would let me know. I'm right behind you. Mexico is pretty close to that, but it's so damned humid down there.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-03-23 05:46  

#1  my god your telling me we have 700 of these hate centres here in this dump?? sheesh just another sign of this lame countrys rapidly crumbling society! I give up with us i really do, sighs, this is just outa control and going from bad to worse by each month. Christ why is my country falling apart at the seams like this? I'd like to withdraw my citizenship of this country and move somewhere else, somewhere sane and unaffected by politically correct madness and pro AQ media that you get locked up for not subscribing too. Sad, very sad. :(
Posted by: ShepUK   2006-03-23 05:10  

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