Muslim schools don't cause riots
The insistence that faith schools are socially divisive has become a
figleaf for Islamophobia
Madeleine Bunting
Thursday June 10, 2004
The Guardian
By the time I sat down in my son's school assembly yesterday morning,
my ears were ringing with yet another denunciation of the evils of
faith schools. They reinforce ethnic and religious identities. The
segregation of children contributes to division, exclusion, conflict
and riots. And the trump card is always to cite the entrenched
religious hatreds of Northern Ireland (as if that were simply a matter
of schooling). These dire predictions on the Today programme were
triggered by the recommendation of more state-funded Muslim schools in
the Muslims on Education report launched in the House of Lords
yesterday. There are only five in the country.
Madeleine Bunting
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