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I've never been sure why I receive circular emails from LSoI, and I
certainly can't vouch for their authenticity or origin, but I
thought I'd forward on the latest one. They're always fairly
polemical, and this one ends with an interesting nod towards
language policy...<br>
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(Note: I'm forwarding this to the list only as an 'interesting
text'; I don't endorse or denounce its content.)<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
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--<br>
Dr. Dave Sayers<br>
Honorary Research Fellow<br>
School of the Environment and Society<br>
Swansea University<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dave.sayers@cantab.net">dave.sayers@cantab.net</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers">http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers</a><br>
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<td>Halal-only Menus</td>
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<td>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:45:05 +0100</td>
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<td>Iftikhar ahmad
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<td>d.bula <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:d.bula@educ.gla.ac.uk"><d.bula@educ.gla.ac.uk></a></td>
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<p class="MsoTitle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"
align="left"><u><span style="font-size: 6pt; text-decoration:
none;" lang="EN-GB">Established 1981</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoTitle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"
align="left"><u><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 36pt;" lang="EN-GB">London</span></st1:placename><span
style="font-size: 36pt;" lang="EN-GB"> <st1:placetype
w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></span></st1:place><span
style="font-size: 36pt;" lang="EN-GB"> of Islamics<span
style=""> </span></span><span style="font-size:
12pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 7pt;">An
Educational Trust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
center;" align="center"><st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street
w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 7pt;">63 Margery Park Road</span></st1:street><span
style="font-size: 7pt;"> <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>
<st1:postalcode w:st="on">E7 9LD</st1:postalcode></span></st1:address><span
style="font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><font face="Arial" size="3">Email: </font><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:info@londonschoolofislamics.org.uk"><font
face="Arial" size="3">info@londonschoolofislamics.org.uk</font></a></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
center;" align="center"><strong><font size="2"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk">www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk</a><o:p></o:p></font></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
center;" align="center"><font size="2">Tel/Fax: 0208 555
2733/07817 112 667</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
center;" align="center"><o:p><font size="2"> </font></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Halal-only
Menus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font size="2"> <span
style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">RESIDENTS across
Harrow have vented their anger about proposals to have
Halal-only menus in primary schools in the borough. <span
style=""> </span>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.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><font size="2">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.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><o:p><font size="2"> </font></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">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.<span style=""> </span>Those state schools
where Muslim children are in majority may be opted out as
Muslim Academies. <o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><o:p><font size="2"> </font></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font size="2">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. </font></p>
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style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><br>
<font size="2">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.<br>
Iftikhar Ahmad</font></span></p>
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