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Mandatory music classes hit a bad note with some Muslim parents
Globe and Mail ^ | September 6, 2016 | Colin Freeze and Mahnoor Yawar

Posted on 09/06/2016 5:50:10 PM PDT by Loyalist

When music class begins this week at Toronto’s Donwood Park elementary school, Mohammad Nouman Dasu will send a family member to collect his three young children. They will go home for an hour rather than sing and play instruments – a mandatory part of the Ontario curriculum he believes violates his Muslim faith.

The Scarborough school and the Toronto District School Board originally had offered an accommodation – suggesting students could just clap their hands in place of playing instruments or listen to acapella versions of O Canada – but not a full exemption from the class.

After a bitter three-year fight, however, Mr. Dasu felt he had no other opton but to bring his kids home.

According to documents ob-tained by The Globe and Mail, some parents insist they cannot allow their children to be in the same room where musical instruments are being played. Mr. Dasu, a Koran teacher who sometimes leads prayers at Scarborough’s Jame Abu Bakr Siddique mosque, says he has led the fight on behalf of parents. He has consulted with national Islamic bodies, and requested a letter from the leader of his mosque.

“We here believe that music is haram [forbidden]. We can neither listen to it, nor can we play a role in it,” said the mosque’s imam, Kasim Ingar.

Conceding that Muslims have to adjust when they send their kids to public school, he suggested that some matters, such as teaching music, are beyond debate.

“We do not compromise with anyone on the clear-cut orders and principles conveyed by the Prophet,” said Mr. Ingar, who also leads the Scarborough Muslim Association.

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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: canada; education; islam; music; publicschools; toronto
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Rock the casbah!
1 posted on 09/06/2016 5:50:11 PM PDT by Loyalist
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The 7th century death cult shows its nature once again.


2 posted on 09/06/2016 5:51:38 PM PDT by PGR88
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[a mandatory part of the Ontario curriculum he believes violates his Muslim faith. ]

Nothing like assimilation.

Go back to your goat humping sh**hole then!


4 posted on 09/06/2016 5:52:57 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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Makes you wonder what other lovely clear-cut orders by the prophet he is willing to blindly follow...Jihad anyone?


5 posted on 09/06/2016 5:53:21 PM PDT by winner3000
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Well then he should go back to where he came from


6 posted on 09/06/2016 5:53:28 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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No music. Fantastically miserable civilization they have there. Precisely what does this add to Canadian society?


7 posted on 09/06/2016 5:54:27 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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>They will go home for an hour rather than sing and play instruments

Send the whole family back to their home of sand and ignorance. Filthy islam trash has no place in the modern world.


8 posted on 09/06/2016 5:54:39 PM PDT by soycd
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to be in the same room where musical instruments are being played.
= = =

What if someone is f*rting, kind of toot toot tooting?

“We here believe that music is haram [forbidden]. We can neither listen to it, nor can we play a role in it,”
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That ‘call to prayer’ sounds like music (bad music) to me. Ban that cr*p.


9 posted on 09/06/2016 5:55:05 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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If you do not like Western society why are you here? Go someplace that is more to your liking.


10 posted on 09/06/2016 5:55:24 PM PDT by Petrosius
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Muslims.

Have issues with thier children learning a musical instrument.

No issues with taking a 6 year old for a wife and raping child sex slaves.


11 posted on 09/06/2016 5:56:14 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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“Makes you wonder what other lovely clear-cut orders by the prophet he is willing to blindly follow...Jihad anyone?”
He’s letting the kids stay for the genital mutilation and behead the infidel classes.


12 posted on 09/06/2016 5:56:36 PM PDT by freefdny
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Go live in a Muslim country, if you don’t want music. We won’t miss you.


13 posted on 09/06/2016 5:57:46 PM PDT by txrefugee
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They don’t know their own heritage. It was the church that banned musical instruments in the time of Ambrose, and it was the Muslims in Spain who brought them back to Europe, where they stayed after the Muslims were pushed back to Africa and Alfonso el Sabio wrote hymns to the Virgin to be sung on pilgrimages to the tomb of St. James, complete with Muslim instruments.


14 posted on 09/06/2016 5:58:19 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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15 posted on 09/06/2016 5:59:29 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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This could be the magic weapon to drive the stinking Muzzies away. Let’s play music everywhere!


16 posted on 09/06/2016 5:59:38 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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No time for the three r’s, they need to learn to detonate themselves properly


17 posted on 09/06/2016 5:59:46 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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No time for the three r’s, they need to learn to detonate themselves properly


18 posted on 09/06/2016 5:59:46 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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No time for the three r’s, they need to learn to detonate themselves properly


19 posted on 09/06/2016 5:59:50 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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Attention Canadians: the moslems that you (or your government,at least) have allowed to settle among you...out a sense of generosity (or was it political correctness guilt..a la Germany?)...are demanding special treatment.Before long you might be required to give up your pork chops,your funky little bathing suit,your nearby church/synagogue or your Parliamentary elections.
20 posted on 09/06/2016 6:00:35 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (In Today's America Feelings Are The New Truth)
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