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Christian faith schools -NO, Muslim faith schools - YES
The attack on our culture continues, for many many years there have been what is referred to as "faith schools" in the UK, these were schools that educated young people to very good standards and indeed still do.
These schools teach children of particular faiths ie Christian/Catholic or Jewish - the Judeo/Christian Religions which are and have been for many hundreds of years part of our culture.
The Government clearly feels that these schools should no longer exist or be part of our culture yet it it these MP's that gladly send their children to the Westminster Academy
From the article
"Mr Balls has been placing extreme pressure on the Faith schools in the UK
Faith schools are being subjected to a vicious Government witch-hunt which is undermining their independence, a report claims today.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Children's Secretary Ed Balls are 'bashing' the schools to curry favour with Left-wingers in the Labour party, according to a report by the Centre for Policy Studies."
The think-tank says the ministerial assault is creating a climate of fear, damaging parental choice and threatening the future of this form of education. "
The starling thing about this is that it is less then a year ago that the Government offered cash to MUSLIM faith schools to come into the state system.
There are many Muslim only schools in the UK and where ever there is a Mosque you will find a Madrassa, these are not being attacked, on the contrary they are having money thrown at them.
The Government clearly supports Islamic schools and they clearly want to remove any other Faith schools, what does this tell you? well it tells me that the Government wants to see Islam as the main Faith of this country, it tells me that the Government is set on dismantling the British culture.
This is a blatant attack on our culture and the philosophy that it is based upon, the tentacles of the Fabians are now becoming highly visible eagerly supported by the Common Practice brigade.
Such overt acts show how confident these people are getting, they go about the destruction of the UK whilst they fill their pockets.
here is the article.
Faith schools 'are being subjected to a Government witch-hunt to win favour with the left'
By
Sarah Harris
Last updated at 12:13 PM on 30th June 2008
'Witch-hunt': A new report claims Ed Balls and
Gordon Brown are 'bashing' faith schools to curry favour with
Left-wingers in the Labour party
Faith schools are being subjected to a vicious Government witch-hunt which is undermining their independence, a report claims today.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Children's Secretary Ed Balls are 'bashing' the schools to curry favour with Left-wingers in the Labour party, according to a report by the Centre for Policy Studies.
The think-tank says the ministerial assault is creating a climate of fear, damaging parental choice and threatening the future of this form of education.
This is despite the fact that faith schools have an
excellent academic record, serve their local communities and are a
'force for the good'.
They account for a third of all primary schools yet make up two-thirds of the top 209 primaries in the country.
The CPS report, In Bad Faith, comes as faith schools are subjected to mounting pressure from the Government.
Earlier this year, Mr Balls claimed that dozens of schools - almost all of them Church of England, Roman Catholic or Jewish - were breaking admissions rules and selecting pupils by the back door. He said some were charging parents upfront fees running into hundreds of pounds.
However, Tories immediately accused him of trying to win over Labour party members hostile to the country's 6,850 faith schools and to bolster his position for a future leadership bid.
His attack also brought accusations of attempting to 'bury bad news' about the numbers of parents who had not gained the secondary school of their choice.
A Government- commissioned report on faith schools by chief schools adjudicator Sir Philip Hunter is due shortly - sparking fears of a clampdown on their freedoms. Christina Odone, author of In Bad Faith and a former editor of the Catholic Herald, claims that the 'witch-hunt is on', from a Government that is obsessed with 'phoney egalitarianism and control freakery'.
It is 'aligning itself with the strident secularist lobby to threaten the future of faith schools in Britain'.
She warns that the Government intends to remove their remaining autonomy, 'making them mere cogs in the vast and dysfunctional state educational bureacracy'. It means that a 'rich legacy is being betrayed'.
She continues: 'Gordon Brown knows that for the "Old Labour" rump of the party, equally committed to secularism and comprehensive education, faith schools are anathema.
'Tony Blair and "New Labour" were ready to ignore this constituency, but Gordon Brown cannot afford to. Nor can his ambitious Secretary of State.'
She adds: 'Today's class warriors are bent on portraying faith schools as boutique education, the exclusive preserves of pushy middle-class parents.
'Yet for low-income parents, these schools represent the only way their children can be taught the faith that their family holds dear. Would a Government that prides itself on its egalitarian instincts block opportunities for the poor while securing them exclusively for the rich?' She argues that faith schools are inclusive and offer a good education to children who would otherwise miss out.
She says they benefit Muslim girls beacuse they give their parents the confidence to keep them in school for longer and raise the chances of going on to higher education.
They give poor parents a chance of a quality education that would otherwise be available only to middle-class parents who know how to take advantage of the state system.
The Government hit back last night, condemning the report. Schools Minister Jim Knight said: 'Faith-based schools are assured a secure future in the state system under this Government, with parents from all backgrounds being offered an equal chance to get their children into these popular schools.
'To suggest otherwise is nonsense and a distortion of the truth.'
The problem with Church Schools - and let us have none of the newspeak nonsense of "Faith schools" is that they have resisted PC education. They have continued to provide the traditional Judo/Christian education most ordinary people want for their children. They are also more selective and therefore more successful than the one size fits all socialist comprehensives.
Because the they show up the failure of government meddlers they must be destroyed. It is also worth considering that the government is probably s------g itself about what is being taught in muslim schools. Like the rest of this government Ed Balls does not have the b---s to tackle this directly so he must target all religious schools in the cause of "diversity".
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Salaam
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.
Slough Islamic school Trust Slough had a seminar on Muslim
education and schools in Thames Valley Atheltic Centre. The seminar was
addressed by the education spokesman of MCB. I could not attend the seminar
but I believe lot of Muslims from Slough and surrounding areas must have
attended. Very soon, the Muslims of Slough will have a state funded Muslim
school but there is a need for more schools. A day will come when all Muslim
children will attend state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim
teachers as role model.
Muslim schools are not only faith schools but they are more or less
bilingual schools.
Bilingual Muslim children need to learn standard English to follow the
National Curriculum and go for higher studies and research to serve
humanity. They need to be well versed in Arabic to recite and understand the
Holy Quran. They need to be well versed in Urdu and other community
languages to keep in touch with their cultural roots and enjoy the beauty of
their literature and poetry.
Bilingualism is an asset but the British schooling regards it as a
problem. A Muslim is a citizen of this tiny global village. He/she does not
want to become notoriously monolingual Brit. Pakistan is only seven hours
from London and majority of British Muslims are from Pakistan.
More than third of British Muslim have no qualifications. British school
system has been failing large number of Muslims children for the last 60
years. Muslim scholars see the pursuit of knowledge as a duty, with the
Quran containing several verses to the rewards of learning. 33% of British
Muslims of working age have no qualifications and Muslims are also the least
likely to have degrees or equivalent qualifications. Most of estimated
500,000 Muslim school-aged pupils in England and Wales are educated in the
state system with non-Muslim monolingual teachers. Majority of them are
underachievers because they are at a wrong place at a wrong time.
Bilingual Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual
Muslim teachers during their developmental periods. There is no place for a
non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school. As far as higher education
is concerned, Muslim students can be educated with others. Let Muslim
community educate its own children so that they can develop their own
Islamic, cultural and linguistic identities and become usefull members of
the British society rather than becoming a buden.
We are living in an English speaking country and English is an
international language, therefore, we want our children to learn and be well
versed in standard English and at the same time well versed in Arabic, Urdu
and other community languages. Is there anything wrong with this approach?
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