ISLAM in Britain has been on David Cameron's mind this month. His stated aim is twofold: to make sure that law-abiding Muslims can live safely, and to reduce the risk of Muslim communities becoming nurseries for violence. Last week, when the prime minister addressed the Conservative Party conference, the item in his 7,000-word speech that caught attention was his pledge to regulate and where necessary, close down madrassas, where many Muslim children go after school to be drilled in their faith. This week, in response to a longstanding Muslim demand, he announced that police in England and Wales would be required to record anti-Muslim hate crimes as a specific category of misdeed, just as they do for anti-Semitic attacks. He also joined senior Muslims (and many others) at the first session of a new "community engagement forum" which is supposed to tackle extremism.
The promised crackdown on rogue madrassas was somewhere between a play to the nativist gallery and an overdue pledge to close a legal loophole. Mr Cameron told the party faithful:
Did you know, in our country, there are some children who spend several hours each day at a madrassa? Let me be clear, there is nothing wrong with children learning about their faith, whether it's at madrassas, Sunday schools, or Jewish yeshivas. But in some madrassas we've got children being taught they shouldn't mix with people of other religions; being beaten; swallowing conspiracies about Jewish people. These children should be having their minds broadened, not having their minds filled with poison and their hearts filled with hate. So I can announce this today: if an institution is teaching children intensively, then whatever its religion, we will, like any other school, make it register so it can be inspected. And be in no doubt that if you are teaching intolerance, we will shut you down.
Nobody could deny that Britain's madrassas are a huge, under-regulated social phenomenon (about 250,000 children attend around 2,000 such institutions) and that at worst, they are dreadful. In Birmingham last month, a 60-year-old imam and his son, a fellow Islam teacher, were both jailed for a year after pleading guilty to beating a ten-year-old child for his supposed failures in religious classes. It is certainly a bit crazy that up to now, "supplementary schools" have not been subject to the sort of inspection regime that has long been applied (albeit rather too leniently, until recently) to all full-time schools, including faith-based ones.
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كان في ذهن David Cameron على الإسلام في بريطانيا هذا الشهر. هدفه المعلن من شقين: للتأكد من أن المسلمين الملتزمين بالقانون يمكن أن تعيش بسلام، والحد من خطر المجتمعات الإسلامية أصبحت دور الحضانة للعنف. في الأسبوع الماضي، عندما خاطب رئيس الوزراء مؤتمر حزب المحافظين، كان العنصر في خطابه 7,000-الكلمة التي استرعت انتباه تعهده بتنظيم، وعند الاقتضاء، إغلاق المدارس الدينية، حيث انتقل العديد من الأطفال المسلمين بعد المدرسة لحفر في إيمانهم. هذا الأسبوع، في استجابة لمطلب مسلمين منذ أمد بعيد، وأعلن أن الشرطة في إنجلترا وويلز ستكون مطلوبة لجرائم الكراهية ضد المسلمين سجل كفئة محددة من جرميا، تماما كما يفعلون للهجمات المعادية للسامية. كما انضم إلى كبار المسلمين (وكثير غيرها) في الدورة الأولى من "المجتمع مشاركة منتدى جديد" الذي من المفترض أن التصدي للتطرف. الحملة الموعودة على المدارس الدينية المارقة كان في مكان ما بين لعب إلى معرض nativist وتعهدا متأخرة سد ثغرة قانونية. وقال السيد Cameron الطرف المؤمنين:Did you know, in our country, there are some children who spend several hours each day at a madrassa? Let me be clear, there is nothing wrong with children learning about their faith, whether it's at madrassas, Sunday schools, or Jewish yeshivas. But in some madrassas we've got children being taught they shouldn't mix with people of other religions; being beaten; swallowing conspiracies about Jewish people. These children should be having their minds broadened, not having their minds filled with poison and their hearts filled with hate. So I can announce this today: if an institution is teaching children intensively, then whatever its religion, we will, like any other school, make it register so it can be inspected. And be in no doubt that if you are teaching intolerance, we will shut you down.Nobody could deny that Britain's madrassas are a huge, under-regulated social phenomenon (about 250,000 children attend around 2,000 such institutions) and that at worst, they are dreadful. In Birmingham last month, a 60-year-old imam and his son, a fellow Islam teacher, were both jailed for a year after pleading guilty to beating a ten-year-old child for his supposed failures in religious classes. It is certainly a bit crazy that up to now, "supplementary schools" have not been subject to the sort of inspection regime that has long been applied (albeit rather too leniently, until recently) to all full-time schools, including faith-based ones.
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