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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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To: Loyalist
Go pound sand, Muzzlime. Don't like it? Don't put your kids in public school.

When I was in public school as a child--my parents were not committed enough to Judaism to spend the money to send me to religious school--the music teacher tried to force me to sing religious Xmas carols. I refused, telling the teacher that the person they were singing about was not in my religion, and that he was not MY savior. She sent me out into the hall as a punishment, knocking me off the honor roll. That's just pure ignorance. She could have let me remain in the class and just not sing.

The father of these little Muzzlime snowflakes is a total hypocrite. If he in fact teaches their religion at a Muzzlime school, one would think he was committed enough to the religion to spend the money and send his children to a Muzzlime religious school. Instead, he wants to force the public school to dance to HIS religion's tune. I supposed if in their history class, they are studying the Crusades, he will take them out of that class, too.

21 posted on 09/06/2016 6:01:36 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Secret Agent Man

“send them’back. they can be 100% muslim back home.”

They get finicky about things like music. But they accept the heck out of electricity, running water and money.


22 posted on 09/06/2016 6:03:57 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Loyalist
I guess Cat Stevens...see's it differently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoPoI1IwcTw

23 posted on 09/06/2016 6:04:15 PM PDT by Osage Orange (You hurt my family...you better watch your six.)
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To: Loyalist

People who hate dogs and music are not human.


24 posted on 09/06/2016 6:04:45 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: winner3000
Makes you wonder what other lovely clear-cut orders by the prophet he is willing to blindly follow...Jihad anyone?

There is no moderate islam. There is no radical islam. There is only islam.

25 posted on 09/06/2016 6:05:19 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Black's jobs matter!)
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To: Smellin Salt

Isn’t Rioting one of the three ‘R’s’?


26 posted on 09/06/2016 6:07:28 PM PDT by Moose47
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To: P-Marlowe

And flying kites. Taliban banned that.


27 posted on 09/06/2016 6:07:33 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Loyalist

What about science classes?


28 posted on 09/06/2016 6:07:42 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Loyalist

> Mohammad Nouman Dasu will send a family member to collect his three young children

More islam family time together to teach their youth the benefits of inbreeding, fingering each others bums, suicide bombing, rape, murder and all the other enrichment of islam.


29 posted on 09/06/2016 6:07:48 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Loyalist

Make the Muslim students listen to “call to prayer” caterwailing for the entire music class everyday during music class.

It is supposedly the most “beautiful sound” according to our POS president...


30 posted on 09/06/2016 6:07:56 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: Loyalist

“Moderate” Muslims


31 posted on 09/06/2016 6:08:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Loyalist

At what point do we stop accommodating these savages..


32 posted on 09/06/2016 6:11:39 PM PDT by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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To: Loyalist

On the other hand, “Make a Joyful Noise to the LORD - Oh sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things.”
Psalms 98


33 posted on 09/06/2016 6:11:56 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: Loyalist
Send em back where they belong. One way ticket:


34 posted on 09/06/2016 6:13:49 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (Globalism = Terrorism)
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To: Loyalist

Our country, our culture, deal with it.


35 posted on 09/06/2016 6:14:54 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: chajin
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,

I see the Saudi Wahhabist influence at work in this man, and throughout the nations of the world wherever they have influence.

36 posted on 09/06/2016 6:16:13 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Loyalist

Everything in life that elevates the human spirit is “haram” (forbidden) in Islam. Is any more proof needed that this is a Satanic cult?


37 posted on 09/06/2016 6:16:51 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: PLMerite

and welfare. they love living off infidels. fuching parasites.


38 posted on 09/06/2016 6:18:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Fiddlstix

Exactly !


39 posted on 09/06/2016 6:19:58 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( "Stop smiling and smirking like it's a funny thing !")
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To: Loyalist

The simple solution is for people such as this to live in countries where their sensibilities are not constantly assailed. Of course, they won’t. They come to western countries knowing full well what the cultures and traditions are, and expect westerners to change for them.

What’s wrong with this picture?


40 posted on 09/06/2016 6:22:13 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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