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2004-10-12 Britain

Muslims launch new drive to teach British schoolchildren Islam

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Posted by TS(vice girl) 2004-10-12 10:18:14 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I can imagine the exam.

Posted by Anonymous6092 2004-10-12 3:01:29 PM|| 2004-10-12 3:01:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 You gotta start early to teach proper beheading technique. Lets see, the courses for first grade:
Beheading 101
Infidel Jews 101
Other Infidels 102 (the second semester)
Suicide bomb wiring 101
Introduction to Martyrdom 101
Rights of Women 101 (the short course - covered while waiting in line for lunch on the first day)

Posted by Hank 2004-10-12 3:23:41 PM|| 2004-10-12 3:23:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 True meaning of Islam = perverse shariah, second class status for women, terrorism, beheadings, limb hacking, wife beating, foreign aggression, genocide, etc ad nauseum.

Posted by Cazifargas 2004-10-12 3:54:42 PM|| 2004-10-12 3:54:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "The initiative, backed by the Education Secretary, Charles Clarke, will see books on Islam going into schools nationwide. Organisers hope it will help overcome barriers to how non-Muslims understand the faith."

How do non-Muslims understand the faith? I've only been reading about Islam since 911, and I think I need to go to a school in the UK so someone can explain this religion to me. The most vocal advocates of the religion are, I assume, poor examples. Maybe it is because the news media only likes the sensational, but there is no other image of Islam in the news giving another picture, showing another side. As non-Muslims, we are left with a picture of hatred, murder suicides, kids strapped with bombs, kids shot in the back, curvy knives and subjugated women whose only role is as concubines. Is there another side to the religion? If there another side, it is so weak and so timid that it allows the other to be the image of Islam. What are they going to teach to "stregthen multi-faith, multi-cultural society?"

Posted by Carlos 2004-10-12 4:13:35 PM|| 2004-10-12 4:13:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I blame it all on the Curvy Knife fetish.

Posted by Shipman 2004-10-12 5:29:27 PM|| 2004-10-12 5:29:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The Japanese have Katanas, the Chinese have Daos (and Michelle Yeoh), and the Nepalese have Kukris, and none of them are like that. So it's got to be something besides the curvy knives.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-10-12 5:50:59 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-10-12 5:50:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Carlos, your questions:
"As non-Muslims, we are left with a picture of hatred, murder suicides, kids strapped with bombs, kids shot in the back, curvy knives and subjugated women whose only role is as concubines. Is there another side to the religion?"

What you see is what you get.

"What are they going to teach to "stregthen multi-faith, multi-cultural society?"

How to sharpen curvy knives.

Posted by Hank 2004-10-12 6:01:36 PM|| 2004-10-12 6:01:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 You may have something there Phil. Perhaps it the complexity of the curve or some such trickery.

Posted by Shipman 2004-10-12 6:30:02 PM|| 2004-10-12 6:30:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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