Posted on 11/06/2009 6:03:02 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
FEARS are emerging that vulnerable children might be groomed for religious extremism or even terrorism at taxpayers’ expense.
Muslim pupils are being taken out of classes and sent to study at Islamic schools, or madrassas.
A pilot scheme, the Open Madrasah Network, has received a £550,000 government grant to pay for under-achievers to attend lessons in Arabic, Urdu and religion.
The classes, described as booster lessons for primary and GCSE age pupils, are already running at four madrassas in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
If pupils show improvement, the scheme is likely to be rolled out nationally.
But critics say it will lead to the risk of taxpayers’ money being spent on “suspect” organisations.
Terry Sanderson, president of the National Secular Society, said: “These institutions are devoted almost entirely to pumping Islam into the heads of their pupils. We need to know who will keep tabs on these indoctrination centres to ensure taxpayers’ money is properly spent.
“Although there is no suggestion that the Yorkshire scheme is suspect, if this kind of idea rolls out, who knows what will happen?”
There are almost 1,600 madrassas in Britain, where 200,000 children attend evening classes to study the Koran.
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ya think?
I say what Ann said.
may?
duh
and those who object will be called racist
Experts also fear that bears may continue to defecate in the woods. Lack of adequate species sensitive public toilets in the woods are blamed.
The dutch muzzies who killed Theo Van Gough? Their (completely non-professional) neighborhood soccer team (for adult men) was paid for by the Dutch, who even paid for a van to take those unemployed bums to their practices..!
They also didn’t like their FREE appt, complaining that the cooking area would leave their women would be visible to visitors.
So the dutch paid for their free appts to be REMODELED...!
I’m serious.
Go ahead and scratch “Fear” and replace with “Confirmed” in the title.
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