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France to open its first Islamic high school
Arab News ^ | PARIS, 12 December 2002 | By Paul Michaud, Special to Arab News

Posted on 12/13/2002 10:55:36 AM PST by dennisw

France to open its first Islamic high school
By Paul Michaud, Special to Arab News

Published on 12 December 2002

PARIS, 12 December 2002 — Although France has had an important Islamic population (a lie or Muslim fantasy, you decide) that goes back to the start of its own history, the French Muslim community will be getting its own Islamic high school — the Ecole Averroes — only next year. Indeed, inscriptions will be taken as of January, and the school will start offering courses come September, at the same time as traditional governmentally-operated French schools.

Named for the celebrated philosopher whose writings on Aristotelian metaphysics had such an enormous impact on the thought of Christian France of the Middle Ages, the school is to open for the 2003-2004 school year next Fall and will occupy a full floor of the building in Lille, France, that has heretofore served as the headquarters of the Ligue Islamique du Nord, the Muslim League of the North.

Makhlouf Mameche, the man who has fought so many years to impose the idea and who will quite appropriately become Ecole Averroes’ first director, says that as far as he’s concerned, an Islamic lycee for France was a dire necessity, a way of telling the French that the country’s Islamic community was capable of establishing its own educational institutions, just as have, for example, French Catholics, who over the years have given France an important educational infrastructure, indeed attracting students from other religions, which is something that Mameche would like to do too.

“Besides offering the identical curriculum offered by traditional French schools of the same educational level,” adds Mameche, “we’ll also provide special instruction in Islamic civilization and religion.”

And just like the Catholics and other religious communities who have officially-recognized schools in France, Mameche says that the Ecole Averroes expects to sign a contract with the French government so that the degrees it offers will be just as legitimate as those proposed by the establishments of other religions.



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To: dennisw
Raq, Raq, Raq, Raq and Roll High School.

All of the teachers and the Principal, want me to be a matryr and a sucicide bomber.......

81 posted on 12/15/2002 3:41:24 PM PST by Rome2000
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To: Rome2000
Cheese eating surrender monkey bump

I wonder if they will teach the islamic kids how to accept a french surrender in both arabic and french.

82 posted on 12/15/2002 3:44:10 PM PST by dogbyte12
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To: Rome2000
Fun, Fun, Iraq and Roll High School

Fun, Fun, Iraq and Roll High School

Fun, Fun, Iraq and Roll High School

Fun, Fun, Oh Allah

Fun Fun Oh, Osama

Fun, Fun, Fun, Fun

Iraq, Raq Raq Raq and Roll High School

Iraq, Raq Raq Raq and Roll High School

Iraq, Raq Raq Raq and Roll High School

Iraq, Raq Raq Raq and Roll High School

Yassir!!!!!!!!!!

83 posted on 12/15/2002 3:47:29 PM PST by Rome2000
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To: monkeyshine
Actually, this represents a 100% repudiation of French socialist ideals, to wit, compulsory secular public education. 10-20 years ago, the French socialists were banning Muslim women from wearing headscarfs because they were religious symbols; now they are funding religious schools. They have followed the lead of the American left: they have abandoned their integrationist dogmas, and replaced them with "multi-culturalist" dogmas. A complete reversal, or surrender, of their earlier ideals. That's what they get for fighting the right over the immigration issue! France might degenerate into an Islamic third world hell hole, but at least the French can be "proud" that they voted against Le Pen!
84 posted on 12/15/2002 3:52:26 PM PST by Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
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To: dogbyte12
Iraq, Raq Raq Raq and Roll High School

Well I don't care about Jehadi

Cause thats not where I want to be.

Iraq, Raq Raq Raq and Roll High School

All of the teachers and the Principal

Want me to blow up and be a fool.

Iraq, Raq Raq Raq and Roll High School.......

85 posted on 12/15/2002 3:54:33 PM PST by Rome2000
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To: Bruno
There ya go; that's the sort of non-thinking that got us into this mess in the first place. Don't feel singled out: you represent most people's tendency to not want to think about these things.
86 posted on 12/15/2002 3:55:17 PM PST by Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
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To: A CA Guy
Sorry, Jack Chick is as ignorant and hysterically wrong about Muslims as he is about any other subject. Allah was never a "moon god"; the pagan Arabs had a totally different name for their moon god. Allah is simply the Arabic word for "God" and is related to the Hebrew word for "God", El. Christian Arabs use the same word, Allah; it's the same word, the same God. Yahweh, however....</p>
87 posted on 12/15/2002 4:01:20 PM PST by Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
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To: Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
Much demonstrates that the Muslim god Allah was of a pagan deity.

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/moongod.htm

http://www.mostmerciful.com/moongod.htm

http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-moon-god.htm
88 posted on 12/15/2002 4:14:05 PM PST by A CA Guy
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To: Karl B
Spriechst du deutsch nur am Montag ? Sieg *ss !

Nice try. I am not German, Montag813 is a reference to a Ray Bradbuty novel, Fahrenheit 451.

France is a disgusting nation of cowards and criminals. I hope you enjoy your coming Sharia Law as much as you enjoyed helping Hitler complete the Holocaust. Payback is a bitch.

89 posted on 12/15/2002 8:00:53 PM PST by montag813
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To: treesdream
I did not hear this outrageous US policy. However, I know about importing Saudi clerics (all expenses paid by you and I) to teach American about how wonderful Islam is.

Our focus on Iraq is causing simple minded Americans to think that we are doing a good job against the terrorists. The reality is, all tough decisions regarding INS, Moslem people (legal and illegal) and their institutions are too tough to handle. One side are the bleeding heart liberal, and the second side are the fanatic Islamic governments that we are in bed with, namely, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Yemen, Sudan....These governments insists that we should not show any discrimination against our Moslem citizens. In the mean time, we never insist on them to treat their Christian citizens fairly.
92 posted on 12/16/2002 5:41:34 AM PST by philosofy123
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To: A Navy Vet
One in Washington DC, and one in Brooklyn, NY
94 posted on 12/16/2002 5:52:33 AM PST by philosofy123
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To: Rome2000
Man, are you O.K?
96 posted on 12/16/2002 4:34:23 PM PST by bulldogs
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To: philosofy123
Tax funded? I'm not being arguementative, but, got names?
97 posted on 12/16/2002 6:35:18 PM PST by A Navy Vet
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