Danish schools stopping Muslim kids from fasting
Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 8:07 am
Officials in the Danish city of Odense say they want to limit the number of schoolchildren fasting for the Islamic month of Ramadan.Children and Youth Committee Chairwoman Jane Jegind said officials want to discourage children from fasting from sunrise to sunset for the annual holiday as they are concerned with the potential ramifications of the practice, The Copenhagen Post said Friday.
I bet they can’t stop Christian and Jewish kids at all. Why didn’t they issue the order last year when both Muslims nd Jews were fasting at same time?
Categories: Islam
on September 14th, 2008 at 8:33 AM
This is outrageously discriminating… :S
on September 14th, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Muslim youths are angry, frustrated and extremist because they have been mis-educated and de-educated by the British schooling. Muslim children are confused because they are being educated in a wrong place at a wrong time in state schools with non-Muslim monolingual teachers. They face lots of problems of growing up in two distinctive cultural traditions and value systems, which may come into conflict over issues such as the role of women in the society, and adherence to religious and cultural traditions. The conflicting demands made by home and schools on behaviour, loyalties and obligations can be a source of psychological conflict and tension in Muslim youngsters. There are also the issues of racial prejudice and discrimination to deal with, in education and employment. They have been victim of racism and bullying in all walks of life. According to DCSF, 56% of Pakistanis and 54% of Bangladeshi children has been victims of bullies. The first wave of Muslim migrants were happy to send their children to state schools, thinking their children would get a much better education. Than little by little, the overt and covert discrimination in the system turned them off. There are fifteen areas where Muslim parents find themselves offended by state schools.
The right to education in one’s own comfort zone is a fundamental and inalienable human right that should be available to all people irrespective of their ethnicity or religious background. Schools do not belong to state, they belong to parents. It is the parents’ choice to have faith schools for their children. 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 teacher or a child in a Muslim school. There are hundreds of state schools where Muslim children are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be designated as Muslim community schools. An ICM Poll of British Muslims showed that nearly half wanted their children to attend Muslim schools. There are only 143 Muslim schools. A state funded Muslim school in Birmingham has 220 pupils and more than 1000 applicants chasing just 60.
Majority of anti-Muslim stories are not about terrorism but about Muslim
culture–the hijab, Muslim schools, family life and religiosity. Muslims in the west ought to be recognised as a western community, not as an alien culture.
Iftikhar Ahmad
www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk
on September 15th, 2008 at 3:02 AM
Adnan Siddiqi , Danish stoping Muslim children than whats different in Pakistan , Taliban burning down the schools of Muslim children , but not a single post from u against it , u r such a psycho
on September 15th, 2008 at 5:37 AM
well, they cant be our friends nor be liberal as muslims. Their filth is always exposed here and there, every now and then.
on September 15th, 2008 at 3:08 PM
@Friend: why such cowardness that you didn’t even mention your real nick dude?
and where on earth I exporessed inclination towards Taliban? If I don’t buy theories threw up by West doesn’t mean I am a right winger. Unlike you I don’t prefer to swallow everything given by West.
BTW, several time our govt says that Indians have been involved across the border with help of Afghans to create troubles in FATA region. Try to make habit of reading papers.
on September 16th, 2008 at 6:57 AM
@ Ifthikar, to ur great surprise, not only muslims but also hindus and sikhs of brown skin and wearing their own cultural signs go to british state schools too. last i checked, they were not so ‘frustrated’. the common link with the ‘frussrated’ youth is some firebrand brainwashing influence.
but then, u don’t want to see that.
on September 16th, 2008 at 6:57 AM
Adnan dear it’s their country. Let them do whatever they want to.
Oh and by the way, how many butterflies have you caught so far?
on September 16th, 2008 at 7:03 AM
@friend seems @balma from KMB
on September 16th, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Rammal,
Yeah its their country but then they shouldn’t self-proclaim of higher standards of freedom and then they should let Muslims live in their counties as they please.
on September 17th, 2008 at 9:50 AM
Amazing as to how much pressure is on Muslims just so we can be more like them. It’s one thing living in their country but why do they forget when we pay taxes as well. I have lived in Norway all my life, through our business we paid millions in taxes.. and voila we still are “outsiders”