Posted on 02/05/2006 9:58:58 AM PST by voletti
MORE than half of Victorian schoolchildren view Muslims as terrorists, and two out of five agree that Muslims "are unclean", a survey has revealed.
Just over 50 per cent believe Muslims "behave strangely", while 45 per cent say Australians do not have positive feelings about Muslims.
These are the preliminary findings of the survey, which aims to measure student attitudes towards the Muslim community. The research was conducted in the second half of 2005 and is based on responses from 551 year 10 and 11 students in Victoria.
Almost half said they had learned "a little" about Muslims and Islam at school, but more than a third said they had learned nothing on these subjects.
When asked if schools should teach more about Muslims, 29 per cent of the teenagers said no, and 34 per cent said they did not care.
One of the researchers, Abe Ata, of the Australian Catholic University, said the findings showed a need for educators to develop new ways of promoting multiculturalism among children.
"There are very strong signals that there is a chasm between mainstream students and Muslim students," said Dr Ata, a senior fellow at the university's Institute for the Advancement of Research.
"Educationalists and policymakers in education should take proactive steps to help create more racial harmony in the classroom and outside it."
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These kids have more sense in their little heads than most politicians and bureaucrats around the world.
"from out of the mouth of babes"
Out of the mouths of babes.
The Muslims should seriously rethink their tacit support of terror in the name of Islam.
You owe me a new keyboard sir. I just laughted up my soda all over the one i have. lol
All I have learned about Muslims and all I need to know about Muslims I learned on 9/11.
"What it demonstrates is that Muslims are being viewed in a way that is really subhuman,"
When a group of people bomb office buildings, take hostages, slaughter unarmed noncombatants, kidnap strangers and force them to convert, commit rapes, gloat over other peoples' trageides, and even kill their own children in the name of "honor", who can they be viewed any other way?
"A lttle child shall lead them.."
The last thing we need is more "multicultrism" training in western schools.
What we need is muslim immigrants to "integrate" into the societies they migrate to.
These kids have more sense in their little heads than most politicians and bureaucrats around the world.""
AMEN.
These kids don't "need more teaching in multiculturism"
They need more instruction in the use of deadly weapons, IMO.
You owe me a new keyboard sir. I just laughted up my soda all over the one i have. lol
"We cannot assume that our children who grow up in a multicultural setting will automatically be accepting of each other," he said.
What a shame that some children will not automatically be accepting of evil.
Are Australian school children now going to be targets of terrorists?
Thank you, Sir. It's a pleasure.
create more racial harmony
Islam is a bloody religion its not a race.
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