Posted on 03/22/2006 6:08:19 PM PST by blam
Abuse widespread in Islamic schools, says Muslim leader
By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent
(Filed: 23/03/2006)
A respected Muslim leader has called for tougher regulations to tackle "widespread" child abuse in Islamic religious schools.
Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, the head of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain, said yesterday that the 700 or so madrassas in Britain were "outside the law".
He was speaking at the launch of a report about the dangers facing some of the 100,000 children who attend the institutions, which are usually attached to mosques and are the Islamic equivalents of Sunday schools.
The Department for Education said that the madrassas were already covered by legislation requiring employers to vet anyone who works closely with children.
But Dr Siddiqui, who co-authored the report, voiced his concern that madrassas were not always subject to proper supervision.
He warned that the Muslim community could follow churches in facing an avalanche of abuse claims.
The Roman Catholic Church was forced to set up its own national child protection system after a series of damaging cases in the 1990s.
"Our understanding is that physical abuse is widespread," Dr Siddiqui told Radio 4's Today programme. "We would like to see mosques and madrassas come into contact with local authorities and police, and put together guidelines.
"And [we would like to see] the teachers trained and parents and children involved, and they are told what their rights are if ever an allegation is made.
"At the moment all these schools are outside the law; nobody actually knows what is happening. It's not good for these institutions, it's not good for the children."
Diana Sutton of the head of policy and public affairs at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children also expressed alarm that madrassas appeared to be operating outside the law.
some of the 100,000 children who attend the institutions, which are usually attached to mosques and are the Islamic equivalents of Sunday schools terrorist indoctrination centers.
Great first step in stamping out some of the radical teachings. This guy is pretty courageous.
They learn well from the "Prophet Mohammed".
This man should be commended for standing up for the children.
You can't teach a child to hate by being NICE to them. I shudder to think what goes on in these places.
THE MUSLIM PARLIAMENT OF GB. WTF. These people have set up their own. Ship their a--es out.
Probably much the same sort of thing that goes in some of the cultish fundamentalist Christian schools in this country, where staff members routinely beat children viciously (to teach them about Christ's love, of course). Fortunately, those schools are few and far between here -- the lunatic fringe of the lunatic fringe -- and most are very small and don't manage to operate for more than a few years before someone blows the whistle and they get shut down.
The thought of 100,000 children in the UK alone attending "schools" where they are abused by terrorist fanatics is very scary. Children who grow up in that sort of environment, regardless of what banner it claims to operate under, are permanently psychologically damaged and, in large numbers, pose a serious threat to the stability of the society in the next generation.
Now there is a diabolical plan, sue the bastards.
I don't know what planet you came from ... but I don't think many "vicious" beatings take place in Christian schools. Define "vicious". A paddling that hurts?
For starters, Muslims sexually molest their young males, according to one Christian convert (from Islam - and yes, their father ordered death threats to him and his brother for their conversion.)
700 madrasas in UK ? !!!!!!!
As I made clear in my post, such practices exist only in a handful of schools identifying themselves as Christian. Do some Internet research, and I'm sure you can dig up the past news stories about some of these places, usually in the process of being shut down by the time they hit the national news. Religious wackos come in all stripes. Groups calling themselves "Christian" are no exception. The Muslims just happen to be way overrepresented in the wacko population.
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