Having experienced for myself as a teenager, the disastrous comprehensive school system, along with teachers openly advocating in class for Communism, I know how bad a state controlled education service can be. My attitudes to education have been coloured by a system that I found extremely unsatisfactory. It’s turned me into a bit of an educational libertarian and made me an advocate of parental power over schools, and over education in general. My opinions about the necessity for parental control of education are hardened every time I hear of another example of Leftist and pro-Islam indoctrination in schools. In a reasonable society, parents should be able to choose whatever schooling they choose for their children and if they are paying out of their own pocket for it then the choices should be even greater. Parents should choose whatever school suits their child even if such a school choice may look ‘weird’ to other parents.
However at what point to we as a society whose views should be expressed via government react when certain groups go over the top and take the piss out of vital freedoms that the rest of us should have? Where do we draw the line about what is and what is not acceptable stuff to teach children? The reason I ask is that there has recently been yet another Islamic school that is teaching stuff that is not just ‘odd’ but acceptable, such as steering children away from television for example, but down right dangerous to the rest of us. Yet again we have an Islamic school that has allegedly gone beyond what could be considered as acceptable by the man on the Clapham Omnibus and has really take the piss.
There is stuff in this story from Sky news about the The Islamic Tarbiyah Academy where I go ‘meh!’, so what, other groups do similar things, such as shunning television, but there are other aspects to this story such as stirring up hatred for Britain and its citizens that should anger anyone with a pulse or a brain.
Here’s how Sky covered this story on the 31st March 2016. As is usual policy for this blog, the original text is in italics and my comments are in plain text.
Sky said:
A private Muslim school in Yorkshire is promoting an extreme form of Islam, claiming that Jews are engaged in a global conspiracy to take over the world and that adopting British customs is forbidden.
Here we have examples not just of the sheer hatefulness of Islam towards members of other religious groups and also of a Muslim school teaching hatred towards the UK (although probably not Britain’s welfare system) that goes way beyond any separation practised by any other religious or cultural group.
The Islamic Tarbiyah Academy in Dewsbury teaches 140 primary school children in an after-school madrasa and runs full-time classes for over-16s and adults.
That’s an awful lot of targets for Islamist and Jihadist propaganda. The school also seems to have a lot of fingers in a lot of educational pies, not just children but adults as well.
Mufti Zubair Dudha, the centre’s founder and head, is a respected cleric from the orthodox Deobandi sect which is thought to control half of all mosques and madrasas in the UK.
In one leaflet Mr Dudha quotes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an early 20th Century anti-Semitic forgery, which claims to prove Jewish people are engaged in a global conspiracy.
It’s completely unsurprising to see something like the Protocols being taught as fact in an Islamic school. The only people who will be shocked by this revelation are those who are too naïve to comprehend the very deep seated Jew-hatred that exists in Islamic theology and culture. In Islamic societies, such as Pakistan, where people cannot see that the reason why their nation is a shithole is because their society is run along Islamic lines. The default position for too many Pakistanis is ‘a big Jew did it and ran away’ when trying to explain why their country is an abomination of poverty, ignorance, hatred for religious minorities, misogyny and violence. We should not be shocked by this revelation, after all this is Islam is it not? What is being taught in these schools is Islam in all its hateful nakedness uncluttered by the need to utter the falsehood that Islam is a religion of peace.
It’s been proved beyond doubt now that the Protocols is a steaming pile of falsified pigshit and if anyone wants an easy to read well researched and excellently copiously referenced explanation of why the Protocols is a steaming pile of falsified pigshit then I would recommend that they get a copy of Voodoo Histories by David Aaronovitch. Aaronovitch goes into great detail about how the Protocols was put together and how it was transmitted through societies. Aaronovitch is one of those rare Left wing writers whose politics I despise but whose writing and research I sometimes greatly admire.
Here we have a Muslim school, of a sect widely supported by the Muslim community, that is quite happy to use lies to spread hatred. Does that not tell you all you need to know about Islam in Britain? There are major contrasts between the scandals surrounding Islamic schools and those run by members of other faiths. We are not dealing with a school run by a teeny tiny group of those who some would term extremists, as has been the case over some of the Haredi Jewish Schools that have been criticised. In this case we are dealing with mainstream Islam being taught by a group that controls a large number of British mosques and Islamic educational institutions. Can you imagine what the fuss would be if a non Muslim teacher at a Christian or a Jewish school merely uttered those truthful words, Islam is not a religion of peace. There would be riots in the streets by Muslims threatening violence in order to prove themselves ‘peaceful’.
He claims that colourful pictures, films, magazines and sporting celebrities are part of the conspiracy to “poison the thinking and minds” of young Muslim people.
“The various forms of distractions have been successful to considerable extent in achieving their objectives,” he wrote.
I’ve no problem at all with religious groups or schools run by religious groups proscribing television, or pointing out the shallowness of the celebrity culture. I don’t even have much of an issue about those who believe that mass media is a distraction from prayer, observance and self and social improvement. If that is what parents want then I see no reason why they should not have them.
However when such a freedom to teach according to faith is taken up by Islam then it causes major problems that we should not ignore. We do not face physical attack or a corrupting of our laws and institutions from the followers of Judaism, or of strict Methodism or Sikhism or Hinduism or even from members of the Exclusive Brethren. We face a threat from Islam and Islam alone and institutions that teach Islam should also be seen as a threat even though some of the practises, such as shunning mass media, within these schools may be the same or similar to those of non-Muslim groups.
Again we see how Muslim institutions and Islamic organisations along with all too many members of Britain’s Islamic community abuse freedoms given to every group in good faith.
Other leaflets and newsletters, some of which are distributed to Deobandi mosques, say all mixed-sex institutions are evil, warn Muslims not to adopt British customs, ban the watching of TV, and tell women not to go out to work and to be fully covered before leaving the house.
This is not just teaching separatism per se, which even when practised by in some communities is not much of a security and cohesion problem, this is teaching a sort of dangerous and divisive separatism. Islamic schools like this one are teaching a separatism of hatred, not one merely a separatism that says ‘we are different’ but one of ‘we are different, better and we hate everyone else’. Couple that divisive separatism with the theology and scripture of Islam and you have an Islamic no-go zone waiting to happen.
In a section on jihad he tells Muslims they should be prepared to “expend … even life” to create a world organised “according to Allah’s just order”.
This should worry us immensely. This is beyond the pale not just for me but for many other people. It’s an encouragement to violence, an encouragement to kill non-Muslims. If any of the rest of us said that, or taught, that then it would not be long before we were seeing the inside of one of Her Majesty’s Prisons. Why not the many Muslims who start up and control Islamic educational institutions also facing the prospect of punishment in this way?
Again we see a great difference between Islam and Islamic schools and those run by other groups. We don’t fear the product of any other school with a religious bias such as a Haredi school or a strict Protestant Christian school or a school run by Roman Catholics, but we do the fear the products of Islamic school. Rightly so in my view. Islamic schools, unlike those run by other groups, are producing those who want us dead. That is not acceptable and is yet more reason to take the protections afforded to religious groups away from Islam.
We may feel sorry for, or have pity on those who’ve attended schools where creationism is taught as science, or where aspects of secular education have been neglected. However we know deep down that a Catholic, or a Methodist or a Jew is highly unlikely to want to explode themselves on a tube train or bus in order advance their religious cause. We can’t say that about Islam, and those who try to do so are lying to themselves and others. In my opinion, the only place for ‘Allah’s just order’ is in a galaxy far, far away and completely separated from normal civilised societies.
Deobandis believe in a highly orthodox spiritual version of Islam and Mr Dudha also produces leaflets condemning terrorism and advocating non-violence.
I wonder if the ‘condemning terrorism’ leaflets are a) easily available or b) just published in order to fool the Kufar such as ourselves? I bet these ‘anti terror’ leaflets go down really with the denizens of the ‘bagels and bajhis’ Interfaith crowd? They don’t however carry much weight with those of us who know Islam.
Dewsbury has a history of disaffected youth becoming radicalised and was home to Britain’s youngest suicide bomber, its youngest convicted terrorist, and one of the 7/7 bombers.
Let me rephrase that sentence for Sky. How about: ‘Dewsbury has a history of producing Islamic psychopaths who’ve killed and maimed British citizens, and is still producing mad violent Muslims with all the efficiency of a Henry Ford production line’. It’s a lot more accurate in describing the problems caused by Islam in Dewsbury and elsewhere.
Keith Vaz, who chairs the Home Affairs Select Committee, told Sky News he believes the centre’s teachings are dangerous.
“After what we have seen in Paris and in Brussels and the way in which the Muslim community has come out so strongly in favour of peace and tolerance, I think these kinds of leaflets serve no purpose but to divide in a poisonous and totally reckless way,” he said.
MPs are currently investigating radicalisation and the Government said last year that it intends to regulate madrasas.
Although Keith Vaz manages to give the impression to many Britons that he is as more slippery than twenty five gallons of the nations best selling sexual lubricant, it has to be said that he’s correct about this school. It is dangerous without a doubt and it’s not the only Islamic school that is doing stuff like this. Up and down the country there are Islamic schools that are teaching those in their care to hate us and want us dead.
We should no longer tolerate this, even if a bunch of fools tell us to tolerate this in the name of ‘diversity’. The way to deal with this problem is not by tinkering round the edges with controls on madrassas and other religious schools. It’s not by bringing in laws that require ‘British values’ to be taught which all too often end up being used against the schools of peaceful non-Islamic religious groups. The way to deal with this problem is to withdraw from the ideology of Islam ALL of the protections, advantages and tolerance that religious groups quite rightly get, for reasons of respect for freedom of conscience. Therefore, no tolerance of or funding for Islamic educational institutions. No turning a blind eye to the hate preaching going on in our mosques and the widespread support among Muslims for terror against the rest of us. Islam is different and it needs to be dealt with in a different way than how other groups are dealt with, preferably with ‘extreme prejudice’ by the state. With Islam’s record in the UK I’m more than a little in favour of the state dealing with Islam in a much more harsh way that it is being dealt with at present.
The Department for Education told us: “These serious allegations are under investigation. While it would be inappropriate to comment on the specific investigations of these institutions, we are clear that extremism has no place in our society and we are determined to protect children from it.”
A bland civil service style ‘holding comment’ if ever I saw one.
But in a statement, Mr Dudha told Sky News: “It saddens me greatly that certain extracts from our publications have been taken and misrepresented to link the Academy with extremism.
“We fully believe in the importance and need of integration whilst being able to practise our faith.”
Oooh! Does anyone else smell the Taqiyya emanating from the mouth and keyboard of Mr Dudha. I know I can. We have, of course, the ‘we were misrepresented’ whine along with the ‘we are peaceful, honest’, statement, that many of us refuse to believe anymore. The problem is whatever Mr Dudha says there is a fair chance that all his complaints are mere bullshit. In this world there are lies, damned lies and statements by Islamic spokespersons.
This case shows why there needs to be a phased area by area shut down of Islamic schools in the UK. Firstly this school, like so many other Islamic schools, has greatly abused the freedoms given to it by British society and British culture. It has used those freedoms to preach murderous hatred for the rest of us. This is not the first Islamic school caught behaving in this way and it will not be the last. There are now so many dodgy Islamic schools that the only way we can be a little safer from the murderous hatred and jihad being preached within them is to close them all down. I have no problem with religious schools, I’ve no problem with people sending their children to schools others may not approve of, but I do have a problem with teaching sedition and violent jihad. I believe in religious freedom and educational freedom and parental choice, but when Islamic schools act as they do then a moral line has been crossed that should not have been crossed.
The UK would not have tolerated a ‘Nazi school’ on its territory in World War II and we need to ask ourselves why on earth we are tolerating the equivalents of ‘Nazi schools’ in 2016? Close all Muslim schools down as none, yes none, can really be trusted. Until Islam joins the civilised world then we should see Islamic schools not as places of education but as enemy bases which need to be dealt with accordingly.
Links
Original sky news article
http://news.sky.com/story/1670528/exposed-uk-school-promoting-extreme-islam
The completely mental world of the Pakistani conspiracy theory junkies
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2702/pakistan_s_favourite_conspiracy_theories
