Posted on 11/13/2008 3:16:49 PM PST by knighthawk
THE HAGUE, 14/11/08 - Nearly nine out of 10 Islamic schools in the Netherlands spend government subsidies unlawfully. The education ministry confirmed yesterday following a report in De Telegraaf that 86 percent of the schools make fraudulent use of money.
De Telegraaf obtained a study by State Secretaries Sharon Dijksma and Marja van Bijsterveldt of Education of the 41 primary schools and two secondary schools that provide Islamic education. At half of the schools, the quality of the education is assessed as weak to very weak. At normal schools, this figure is 11 percent.
Additionally, financial mismanagement was established at 86 percent of Islamic school managements. The illegal spending ranges from salaries to 'teachers' who turn out to be the wives of management board members, unlawful payments for transport that is never hired and even, as already made known earlier, trips to Saudi Arabia - the school (Ibn Ghaldoun in Rotterdam) bought plane tickets for Muslims who had nothing to do with the school whatsoever.
The Islamic education "gives ground for great concern," said Dijksma and Van Bijsterveldt yesterday. The education ministry is trying to claim back 4.5 million euros in unlawfully spent subsidies from the schools. This is an increase of 2.5 million from fraud figures previously known.
Due to the constitutional freedom of education - every religion can set up its own school at the expense of the government - the government sees little possibility of intervening. No Islamic school has ever been closed. Virtually nothing can be done against fraudulent school managers either.
Dijksma and Van Bijsterveldt hope that the Islamic schools themselves will introduce reforms. The weak and very weak Islamic schools will come under "intensive supervision" by the Education Inspectorate. And "if the position of the management board becomes insupportable, the ministry will push for the removal of the board," they write to the Lower House.
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It is a like a huge parasite. Invade, suck the blood off the host until it dies.
What an insane system. The other 14% are stupid I guess.
I don’t feel sorry for the Netherlands at all. They made this all possible by inviting them there and going along with all the PC crap.
Mostly smart enough not to be caught.
Maybe there are a handful of good schools that use the funds properly.
“What an insane system. The other 14% are stupid I guess.”
Or too smart to get caught.
What lunacy. It's one thing to say that every religion has a constitutional right to establish faith-based schools by their own financial means. On the other hand it is completely irrational to say that the taxpayers must fund ANY AND ALL schools of different faiths.
This of course results in the denying of any ability to close schools that are incompetently and/or fraudulently run.
Test the students on their knowlege of bomb-building, jihad, and Koran. They will pass with flying colors.
Wow...I’m totally shocked! Muslims not telling the truth ...NOT!
Close the damn schools and send those satanic vermin back to the holes from which they came. Enough of this crap already!
Last year the Dutch Authorities expelled 7000 moslem undesirables.
For your bonus point, guess which soppy European country let 4000 of them in ?
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