Posted on 07/19/2008 7:33:46 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
State school pupils are set to be taught Islamic traditions and values in compulsory citizenship lessons.
The move - part of a package of initiatives announced by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears yesterday - is designed to curb extremism.
Education campaigners warned however against giving Islam a privileged position over other faiths.
Other plans announced by Miss Blears also drew criticism - including a state-funded panel of Islamic scholars and theologians to provide community leadership.
Prominent Muslims said this scheme was naive because Government endorsement would erode the credibility of those taking part, especially among the young and disaffected.
Another measure will see Muslim children being taught citizenship lessons by imams in mosque schools - in the hope that they will be better equipped to resist extremist messages.
Many Muslim youngsters in the UK attend evening classes at madrassah schools attached to mosques, where imams give instruction in the Koran and Islamic history.
Ministers want imams to stress that the Koran places a duty on all Muslims to be good neighbours, carry out voluntary work and play an active part in civic society.
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Winston Churchill On Islam
A quote from an 1899 book by Winston Churchill, “The River War”, in which he describes Muslims he apparently observed during Kitchener’s campaign in the Sudan:
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
Great post. Very informative. Thanks.
A quick look at the upside-down nature of things would support this. Not sure when it flipped, but I'm tired of living upside-down with reality. If it takes a crusade, so be it. Living with insanity as the accepted norm is well, insane.
Goodbye, Britain
As long as they teach about Christianity, Hinduism...too. But then that is all they’d have time to learn about.
At some point, we will be at a Balkanized point as Spanish and English will represent poverty and success...crime will continue and English Common Law will give way to street justice. In 1950, we had enough “balls” to resist, but with 50+ years of Communist/Diversity/guilt/institutional racism, many citizens are too comfortable, apathetic or plain scared to resist.
We are looking in Denver now, but civil war may be in the works...in addition to the aforementioned Crusade.
UK Crap!
I sure have. I keep waiting for the muzzies and the "gays" to butt heads. But obviously they are not going to fracture their current alliance until they've both done the rest of us in. It's simply working too well for them.
Although in Europe the Left seems to have chosen the muzzies over the "gays."
Correction: that's crocodiles.
Alligators are not man eaters (and live only in the USA and China anyway).
Ah. That’s right. I stand corrected. Never meant to misquote one of the greatest Brits of all time.
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