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| Islamic education urged in Germany |
| 2011-02-18 |
| [Iran Press TV] German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière has asked federal states to introduce a nationwide Islamic curriculum in schools across the country. In a meeting with more than one hundred experts in the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in the city of Nuremberg, German officials and representatives of Mohammedan communities tried to solve legal problems hindering the initiative, a Press TV correspondent reported on Tuesday. "We need Islamic education in German schools and we need it now, not just the pilot projects," the German minister said. Almost all German states have introduced such pilot projects for Mohammedan students, but only one in twenty Mohammedan students is able to attend such classes. Neither their families nor their communities always provide young Mohammedans in Germany with the moral and practical counseling they need. The consequences are often conflicts, alienation from religion and identity crises. This is why the government supports Islamic education in schools for the benefit of the children, despite the obstacles. As a temporary solution, the government is now calling upon the local authorities to accept councils with Mohammedan members as partners in the development of the curriculum for Islamic courses. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 How about educating Muslims? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-02-18 13:23 |
| #3 He has no problem with Wikileaks, either. And he's of French descent. Hmm. |
| Posted by: charger 2011-02-18 12:45 |
| #2 "How to buy a Western Politician 101"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-02-18 10:00 |
| #1 This is the same government, mind you, that use jack booted thugs to enforce their strict, Nazi-era prohibition against home schooling. Any hint of parents even considering doing that, or taking their children out of the country to be home schooled, and the government will take their children away. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-02-18 09:37 |