Monday, September 29, 2003

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In America, education in public schools is secular and barely teaches anything about civics or how the country is governed. In France they are encouraging schools which will call for the overthrow of the government:

The goal of the school, which began its first term this month, is to provide Muslims with an alternative to public school education, like those that French Catholics, Protestants and Jews have long enjoyed.

The challenge for France is to preserve the country's secular identity as codified under a century-old law, meet the demands of its second-largest religious community and discourage religious and ethnic separatism all at the same time.

The six boys in the class were dressed in unremarkable casual clothing.

But the four girls had covered their hair and necks with well-secured scarves, a practice normally banned in public schools.

They hid the shape of their bodies under dark-coloured knee-length coats and pants.


How would a Muslim school "discourage religious and ethnic separatism all at the same time"?. From what I've read of Islam and islamic schools or madrassa's, I doubt they'll be teaching along the togetherness for all people lines.

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