Madrassa

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New Age Islam April 2015:

Madrasa education is a serious violation of the human rights of Muslim children. It destroys their lives and fills their minds with xenophobia and intolerance.

BBC Panorama Nov 30th 2010:

British Schools, Islamic Rules. Investigation which uncovers disturbing evidence that some Muslim children are being exposed to extremist preachers and fundamentalist Islamic groups. We also expose the part-time schools where hate is on the curriculum. The programme asks why school inspectors have missed the warning signs and examines the impact this could have on young Muslims' ability to integrate into mainstream British life.

Admin: Example from the programme include teaching that n,'on-Muslims should step out of the way of Muslims' (Section: o11.5 - The Shafi'i manual of sharia law - The Reliance of the Traveller) and asking children to "List the reprehensible qualities of the Jews?"

https://shariawatch.org.uk/?q=content/panorama-british-schools-islamic-rules

Blackburn: - recently named in a report on ‘community cohesion’ as one of the most segregated towns in Britain - 2017:

The Karachi-born businessman, who spent two decades working in Saudi Arabia, and is well-respected in the community has distinct fears for the future. He said: “There are two towns side by side in Blackburn.

“I think the madrassas are the problem. They are backed by Saudi money and they are not good.” He says it is baffling to many Blackburn Muslims that the madrassas are not regulated by the Government and are free to teach any hate-filled nonsense they wish. He added: “The madrassas have to be under Government rules and follow the laws.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/673789/Blackburn-Islam-muslim-community-rise-of-the-burka-Koran-religion

To prevent another Christchurch, Islam must confront the attacks in its name that have radicalised the West:

Among Muslims and non-Muslims, there is an urgent need to address those obsolete and problematic elements of Islamic orthodoxy that underlie the Islamist worldview, fuelling violence on both sides. The world’s largest Muslim organisation, Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama, of which I am General Secretary, has begun to do exactly that.

The truth, we recognise, is that jihadist doctrine, goals and strategy can be traced to specific tenets of orthodox, authoritative Islam and its historic practice. This includes those portions of Shariah that promote Islamic supremacy, encourage enmity towards non-Muslims and require the establishment of a caliphate. It is these elements – still taught by most Sunni and Shiite institutions – that constitute a summons to perpetual conflict.

This is supported by by various reports from Ofsted

Islamism and Islamophobia Have Created a Vicious Cycle of Xenophobic Violence, Sultan Shahin Asks UNHRC at Geneva to Persuade Muslim Nations to Follow UN Charter
Author(s):
- New Age Islam
- Sultan Shahin
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Islamism and Islamophobia Have Created a Vicious Cycle of Xenophobic Violence, Sultan Shahin Asks UNHRC at Geneva to Persuade Mu
Summary:
While the world suffers from Jihadist violence, Muslims in particular suffer the most causalities in sectarian wars incited by the Islamist Jihadist ideology.

And yet, even almost two decades after 9/11, Muslim nations continue to be in denial. Islamist ideology based on the Islamic theology of consensus is absolved of any responsibility for violent extremism.

The result is that Muslim children continue to be taught in madrasas Islam supremacism and contempt for other religions. Even explicitly violent passages have not yet been weeded out from text books.

The terrorism it generates takes many shapes. If Hindu, Sikh and Christian girls are abducted and forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan, this too essentially comes from contempt for other religions taught in religious seminaries. In several countries including Pakistan, some Muslims do not wait for courts to pass judgements to punish those they consider guilty.
Preventing Further Radicalisation Is the Challenge Muslims Must Undertake: Some Concrete Suggestions
Author(s):
- New Age Islam
- Sultan Shahin
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Preventing Further Radicalisation Is the Challenge Muslims Must Undertake: Some Concrete Suggestions
Summary:
An interesting article with some positive suggestions.

Now the question is, how do we go forward? If we really want to make a difference, we will have to start a substantive dialogue with the ulema and make sure that they agree to:

1) open the gates of ijtihad, rethinking all tenets of Islam in the light of the situation prevailing today. As we have not done our homework for over a millennium, this will have to be pretty revolutionary.

2) declare that only constitutive and essential, not the contextual and allegorical verses of Quran, are meant to guide us today.

3) compile Qur'anic verses in the order in which they were revealed, thus restoring primacy to Meccan verses that mostly constitute the essential and universal teachings of Quran, as they can be understood without any need for knowing the context in which they were revealed.

4) declare that Ahadees cannot be considered any form of revelation from God. Islamic State’s millenarian thesis is almost entirely based on ahadees, though they use some allegorical verses of Quran as well. The claim of al-Baghdadi leading an end-time war, al-Malhama, just before the final Armageddon, has been a big draw. Some Muslims have come to think life on earth has no meaning left in the times of al-Malhama and so are rushing to join the war.

5) declare that Sharia (fiqh) is not divine. It was created over a century after the demise of the Prophet by ulema who tried to codify laws on the basis of Qur'anic postulates and Arab cultural practices.

6) declare clearly that Islam believes in co-existence with other religions, not dominion over the world.

7) re-define commonly used Islamic terms like Muslim, kafir, mushrik, ahl-e-kitab, jihad, qital, farz, sunnat, etc.

In a word, we must evolve a truly Islamic and a coherent theology of peace and co-existence, moderation and modernity, to counter the very coherent theology of violence and xenophobia, intolerance and supremacism that Jihadi ulema have created over centuries. All ulema say Islam is a religion of peace and co-existence. It's time for them to walk their talk. But if they refuse to consider change, we will need to directly reach the Muslim masses.

.Sharia Watch: this point on madrassa education particularly stood out for us!

Madrasa education is a serious violation of the human rights of Muslim children. It destroys their lives and fills their minds with xenophobia and intolerance.
Madrassa education: a threat to peace and tolerance
Author(s):
- DailyTimes(Pakistan)
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Madrassa education: a threat to peace and tolerance
Summary:
Pakistan is a country facing acute security problems. To tackle this issue, one sector is the quality of education in religious schools. The main purpose of education is to enlighten the people, so that they can have a proper understanding about the various issues prevailing in the country, and to educate the people in such a way so that they can distinguish between the good and bad but, unfortunately, this is not the case in Pakistan as the US Commission on International Religious Freedom has researched Pakistani school textbooks to discover that there is religious biasness in almost every madrassa, which leads to societal intolerance and maligns the minority groups.

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Among Muslims and non-Muslims, there is an urgent need to address those obsolete and problematic elements of Islamic orthodoxy that underlie the Islamist worldview, fuelling violence on both sides. The world’s largest Muslim organisation, Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama, of which I am General Secretary, has begun to do exactly that.

The truth, we recognise, is that jihadist doctrine, goals and strategy can be traced to specific tenets of orthodox, authoritative Islam and its historic practice. This includes those portions of Shariah that promote Islamic supremacy, encourage enmity towards non-Muslims and require the establishment of a caliphate. It is these elements – still taught by most Sunni and Shiite institutions – that constitute a summons to perpetual conflict.

http://newageislam.com/current-affairs/yahya-cholil-staquf/how-can-muslims-and-non-muslims-together--prevent-another-atrocity-like-the-one-in-christchurch?/d/118127

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/24/prevent-another-christchurch-islam-must-confront-attacks-name/
Bolton mosque's Madrassa plans approved

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Bolton mosque's Madrassa plans approved
Country:
United Kingdom (UK)
News Date:
04/10/2019
MPS CONCERNED BY REPORTS OF SHARIA LAW TAUGHT AT MOSQUE SCHOOLS

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MPS CONCERNED BY REPORTS OF SHARIA LAW TAUGHT AT MOSQUE SCHOOLS
Country:
Netherlands (the)
News Date:
11/09/2019
Summary:
Children at Salafist mosque schools in the Netherlands are taught Sharia law, and are taught the death penalty is appropriate for people with a different religion or belief system, according to a study by Nieuwsuur and NRC. The report has parliamentarians concerned.
Extremist literature common in many mosques and Islamic school libraries in Canada, study says

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Extremist literature common in many mosques and Islamic school libraries in Canada, study says
Country:
Canada
News Date:
22/08/2016
Summary:
Many mosques and Islamic schools in Canada are placing young people at risk by espousing — or at least not condemning — extremist teachings, a new study says. The study says what worried them was not the presence of extremist literature, but that they found nothing but such writings in several libraries.
Madrassa Education in Pakistan: Assisting the Taliban ’s Resurgence

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Madrassa Education in Pakistan: Assisting the Taliban ’s Resurgence
Country:
Pakistan
News Date:
01/10/2009
Summary:
25 The areas identified of particular concern were the “Deobandi-controlled madrassas in the [FATA],” “Northern Balochistan” madrassas, and “Dawa schools run by Jamat-ud-Dawa”25 as the main areas of specific distress (United States Department of State).
Madrassah Under Scrutiny as Pakistan Cracks Down on Extremism

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Madrassah Under Scrutiny as Pakistan Cracks Down on Extremism
Country:
Pakistan
News Date:
03/04/2019
Summary:
The sprawling Hudaibiah education complex three weeks ago became one of nearly 300 seminaries, schools, hospitals and dispensaries taken over for links to outlawed groups....JuD calls itself a humanitarian organisation, but both America, Britain and the United Nations instead recognise it as a front for the Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist group accused of the Mumbai attack that killed 166.
Madrassa ousted from secondary school following lesson telling Muslim girls to have children, not careers

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Madrassa ousted from secondary school following lesson telling Muslim girls to have children, not careers
Country:
United Kingdom (UK)
News Date:
14/02/2019
Summary:
A madrassa that gave a lesson suggesting Muslim girls should have children rather than careers has been ousted from a secondary school amid safeguarding concerns.
Selection of interesting tweets from the last few months

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Ever wonder how Mullahs turn innocent little boys into ferocious killers and rapists? Here is a snippet into how it's done in Madrassas.

ECHR: Sharia is undemocratic and incompatible with human rights

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