"FAME is “a second home to many inner-city Muslim families,” Ms. Alaiwat said in an e-mail message. She added, “The wall separating church and state in public schools was barb wired on the Muslim side, making it impossible to have equal access to public services and making it emotionally ‘unsafe’ for many Muslim children.”
"But scores on standardized state tests lag well below the average of the Fremont public school system in almost all subjects — a fact Ms. Alaiwat ascribed to the number of students who come from low-income families."
"In recent interviews, Ms. Alaiwat blamed the efforts to shut FAME on Fremont Unified school officials, whom she called “old white men.” She said they had not come to terms with changes in Fremont, which is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the region."
“I personally believe they are racists,” she said. “I hate to pull the race and ethnicity card, but it’s so blatantly that. The fact we exist is haunting them.”
I bet her Mercedes is not white because that would be like, soooo raaaacist, too.
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London School of Islamics is an educational Trust. Its aim is to make British public, institutions and media aware of the needs and demands of the Muslim community in the field of education and possible solutions.
The demand for state funded Muslim schools is in accordance with the law of the land. Muslim community is not asking for any favour. Muslim community pays all sorts of taxes and is contributing for the economic, social and spiritual prosperity of the British society.
Bilingual Muslim Children need state funded muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. There is no place for a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school. It is better to put your children in a toilet instead of in a state school. At least if you put them in a toilet you can wash them after. If you put your children into state schools, you are sending them to be indoctrinated with the common views and beliefs of a society.Children are young and impressionable. There is a danger that liberal, feminist, radicalist and homosexual and lesbian teachers are implanting their values into children. It is a well known fact that children tend to listen to their teachers before their parents. There are hundreds of state and church schools where Muslim children are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be designated as Muslim Community schools.
A Muslim is a citizen of this timy global village. He/she does not want to become notoriously monolingual Brit. A Muslim needs to learn and be well versed in Standard English to follow the National Curriculum and go for higher studies and research to serve humanity. At the same time, he/she needs to learn and be well versed in Arabic, Urdu and other community languages to keep in touch with their cultural roots and enjoy the beauty of their literature and poetry.
Iftikhar Ahmad
www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk
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