Halal-only Menus

[Iftikhar]

Halal-only Menus
RESIDENTS across Harrow have vented their anger about proposals to have Halal-only menus in primary schools in the borough. Meat is meat. What does it matter how it’s killed? These stupid parents should find other things to whine about. Halal meat is more hygienically processed anyway.The newspaper revealed exclusively how Harrow Council has employed a catering company to only prepare Halal meat – to serve youngsters in Harrow. This is nothing new to my knowledge, Tower Hamlets council been doing Halal meat in schools for at least 3 years or more.

The Halal slaughter method (along with Shechita which is the name for pretty much the same method used by Jews) is not cruel at all. When the animal's throat is slit, it results in a massive drop in blood pressure causing pretty much instantaneous unconsciousness. As long as the cut is performed correctly the animal will feel a mere instant of pain compared to the intense suffering they can go through in abattoir's with the "normal" slaughter method. The link that has been made between this story and Britain becoming an Islamic State is a bit extreme. The majority of British people are atheist. But it doesn't mean we can't try and make life easier and better for people of all faiths and cultures. All children should be offered a choice. That way Muslims can eat what they want and non-Muslims can eat what they want.

The Muslim community has been passing through a phase of fourth Crusades. The battleground is the field of education, where the young generation will be educated properly with the Holly Quran in one hand and Sciences in other hand to serve humanity. A true Muslim is a citizen of the world, which has become a small global village. We are going to prepare our youth to achieve that objective in the long run. A true Muslim believes in Prophet Moses and the Prophet Jesus and without them one cannot be a Muslim. My suggestion is that in all state, independent and Christian based school special attention should be given to the teaching of Comparative Religion and Islam should be taught by qualified Muslim Teachers to make the children aware the closeness of Islam to Christianity and Judaism which will help them to think about Islam, as “A Pragmatic and Modern Way of Life,” during their life time. Those state schools where Muslim children are in majority may be opted out as Muslim Academies.

Bilingual Muslim children need to learn and be well versed in Standard English to follow the National Curriculum and go for higher studies and research to serve humanity. The problem is that they learn English in the streets and in the playgrounds. British schooling does not teach English to migrant children. The teachers let them speak the same accent in the classroom. They have no courage to stop them or correct them. This is one of the main reasons why one third of children have difficulties with reading when they leave primary schools. Majority of such children are bilingual Muslims. They often speak "street" with its own grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. In other European countries and in the sub-continent argot and slang are not allowed into the classrooms. In Britain primary school teachers do not feel that it's role to interfere with self-expression in any shape or form. They encourage children to read poems and stories written in ethnic dialects.

There are couples of state schools in Harrow where Muslim children are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be opted out as Muslim Academies so that non-Muslim children could enjoy their own meals in their own schools.
Iftikhar Ahmad
http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk

 

[Stalin]

Let us all travel back to the Dark Ages where women knew their place and any who dared to question the authority and violence of the male-dominated society of the day were burnt as witches.

Marrying off children and young teenage girls to old men in another country is obscene and so-called "honour killings" are just plain murder.

No thanks.

Comrade Stalin.

 

[Iftikhar]

Salaam

London School of Islamics is an educational Trust. Its aim is to make
British public, institutions and media aware of the needs and demands of the
Muslim community in the field of education and possible solutions.

Please visit www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk for more information on this
complicated and crucial issue.

I am concerned with the education of Muslim schildren in British schoolings
who have been mis-educated and de-educated for the last 50 years.

There is no evidence to suggest that religious schools encourage separation
within communities, according to Professor Gary Bouma of Monash university.
Some people feel its very important that children raised in an environment
thats friendly and accepting of their religious beliefs. They are not going
to get that at a state school.

Bilingual Muslim children need bilingual Muslim teachers as role models
during their developmental periods. This is noting to do with segregation or
integration.

Muslim community with Masajid and school are not going to harm your culture
and language. I would like to see Muslim children learning standard English
to follow the National Curriculum and go for higher studies and research to
serve humanity. The problem is that they learn English in the streets and in
the playgrounds. British schooling does not teach English to migrant
children. The teachers let them speak the same accent in the classroom. They
have no courage to stop them or correct them. This is one of the main
reasons why one third of children have difficulties with reading when they
leave primary schools. Majority of such children are bilingual Muslims. They
often speak "street" with its own grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. In
other European countries and in the sub-continent argot and slang are not
allowed into the classrooms. In Britain primary school teachers do not feel
that it's role to interfere with self-expression in any shape or form. They
encourage children to read poems and stories written in ethnic dialects.

At the same time I would like to see them learning Arabic, Urdu and other
community languages to keep in touch with their cultural roots and enjoy the
beauty of their literature and poetry.

The second generation of Muslim migrants is facing a huge challenge because
they did not think even for a second before that someone would say, 'You are
not welcome. Native Brits feel that their culture and language is superior
and every Tom and Harry must learn English and forget their own languages,
cultures, literatures and poetry.

Muslim youths are angry, frustrated and extremists because they have been
mis-educated and de-educated by the state schools with monolingual
non-Muslim teachers. They find themselves cut off from their cultural roots.
They do not know where they belong. They are unable to enjoy the beauty of
their literature and poetry. Pakistani youths suffer more than other Muslim
youths. Majority of them leave schools with low grades. Majority of them are
in prison.

British schooling is the home of institutional racism and British teachers
are chicken racist. Muslim children have been vicitm of Paki-bashing for the
last 50 years by the majority of native children. Now those schools where
Muslim children are in majority, they are doing the same what the native
children have been doing in the past.

The solution is that such schools where Muslim children are in majority may
be opted out as Muslim Academies. There is no place for a non-Muslim child
or a teacher in a Muslim school. Bilingual Muslim children need bilingual
Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods.

Muslim schools promote tolerance and harmony between different cultural and
religious traditions. They develop self-confidence and self-esteem in Muslim
children because they educate them according to their needs and demands.

A Muslim is a citizen of this tiny global village, he/she does not want to
become notoriously Brit