Fallujah_Sniper
04-06-2007, 05:18 PM
The teaching of Islam in English universities is based on "out-of-date and irrelevant issues", a government commissioned report has concluded.
Academic Ataullah Siddiqui's review paints a picture of Islamic studies departments where the post-9/11 and 7 July world has largely passed them by.
It argues that more emphasis should be placed on Islam in a modern context.
Ministers will now label Islamic studies a "strategic subject" because of its role "in preventing extremism".
The review was commissioned by the DfES to assess the way in which Islam is taught and to improve support and advice available to Muslim students.
It was published as Tony Blair prepared to give a speech on Islam and the importance of British Muslims in London.
Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell said the review provided a helpful contribution to a particularly complex and sensitive subject.
"The effective and accurate delivery of Islamic studies within our universities is important for a multitude of reasons including wider community cohesion and preventing violent extremism in the name of Islam," he said.
This was why an extra £1m was being invested in the training of imams and why Islamic Studies was being designated a "strategic subject", he added.
Read the rest at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6713373.stm
This might come as a SHOCK for some readers, but not to me as these ideas have been going around for a while now, and have heard Tariq Ramadan say exactly the same thing.
That we need to stop looking at Islam through a ARABIC view and look at it through EUROPEAN views. Why the Kufaar are trying to do this is because the know that they cannot change Islam in the Arab/Muslim World, so they are trying to change it in the west and then import it to the Muslim world.
They will obviously fail as the Islam Aqeeda is undefeatable and cannot be changed into a new religion - SECULARISM - Moderate Islam.
Also please check out the 3 links below as they are both tied in with the same attempt to pervert islam in the West.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6718235.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6719153.stm
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=6492&start=0&&&edition=1&ttl=20070604181753
Academic Ataullah Siddiqui's review paints a picture of Islamic studies departments where the post-9/11 and 7 July world has largely passed them by.
It argues that more emphasis should be placed on Islam in a modern context.
Ministers will now label Islamic studies a "strategic subject" because of its role "in preventing extremism".
The review was commissioned by the DfES to assess the way in which Islam is taught and to improve support and advice available to Muslim students.
It was published as Tony Blair prepared to give a speech on Islam and the importance of British Muslims in London.
Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell said the review provided a helpful contribution to a particularly complex and sensitive subject.
"The effective and accurate delivery of Islamic studies within our universities is important for a multitude of reasons including wider community cohesion and preventing violent extremism in the name of Islam," he said.
This was why an extra £1m was being invested in the training of imams and why Islamic Studies was being designated a "strategic subject", he added.
Read the rest at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6713373.stm
This might come as a SHOCK for some readers, but not to me as these ideas have been going around for a while now, and have heard Tariq Ramadan say exactly the same thing.
That we need to stop looking at Islam through a ARABIC view and look at it through EUROPEAN views. Why the Kufaar are trying to do this is because the know that they cannot change Islam in the Arab/Muslim World, so they are trying to change it in the west and then import it to the Muslim world.
They will obviously fail as the Islam Aqeeda is undefeatable and cannot be changed into a new religion - SECULARISM - Moderate Islam.
Also please check out the 3 links below as they are both tied in with the same attempt to pervert islam in the West.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6718235.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6719153.stm
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=6492&start=0&&&edition=1&ttl=20070604181753