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True Earthling

(832 posts)
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 09:47 AM Oct 2016

Islamist girls’ school that taught gays should be killed and men could beat wives is forced to close

The girls school with 200 pupils opened in Nottingham England in 1996..finally closed 2 years after the allegations came to light...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/islamist-girls-school-jamia-al-hudaa-taught-pupils-gay-people-should-be-killed-forced-closure-aliyah-a7361596.html

An Islamist girls’ boarding school which taught pupils that men could beat women and gay people should be killed is facing closure after a pupil exposed its sharia-inspired rules. Aliyah Saleem was expelled in front of the entire study body at Jamia Al Hudaa girls’ school in Nottingham in 2006.

She was accused of “narcissism” for owning a disposable camera, and publicly humiliated as a part of her punishment. Students were taught that the death sentence could be given to gay men and that Jews and Christians made Allah angry. Following her expulsion, Ms Saleem spoke out about her treatment at the school, saying that pupils were taught no geography, history, art, sport or music, but were instead subject to extremist views.

Speaking to The Times under a pseudonym in 2014, Ms Saleem spoke of how she was made to feel isolated and shut off from society – visits into town being banned unless it was to see a doctor or dentist. She said she left school anti-Semitic and unable to live within British society.
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Islamist girls’ school that taught gays should be killed and men could beat wives is forced to close (Original Post) True Earthling Oct 2016 OP
about time patsimp Oct 2016 #1
A thought - if unemployment is a cause of radicalism...this school produced unemployables True Earthling Oct 2016 #2
And don't think this type of thing isn't happening in so called "Christian" schools Fla Dem Oct 2016 #3
Please name one... True Earthling Oct 2016 #4
I'm more concerned about the homeschoolers. Coventina Oct 2016 #5

True Earthling

(832 posts)
2. A thought - if unemployment is a cause of radicalism...this school produced unemployables
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 10:13 AM
Oct 2016

these schools are producing students with zero skills and without any aptitude for rational or critical thinking...they are in fact unemployable.

Unemployment may be correlated to some who have been radicalized but it may not be because of the lack of investment or economic development...it may be because of a systematic emphasis within Islamic communities towards a devotion to a backwards religion and cultural isolation and not producing employable self-sustaining members of the general society.

Fla Dem

(23,753 posts)
3. And don't think this type of thing isn't happening in so called "Christian" schools
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 10:20 AM
Oct 2016

right here in the good ole US of A. I'm not saying all of them or even a majority, but there is no doubt strict conservative indoctrination in some of them.

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