ifran, for a lawyer trained to go after all 'relevant material facts' to issues, this article on this important issue grossly lacking of it...

what does an islamic school do...if they teach with excellence the same material every other child in Australia learns, and an extra curriculum on islamic issues eg "It balances a challenging curriculum, diverse activities and Islamic teaching according to Qur’an and Sunnah (exemplaries from Prophet Muhammad SAW)." from victorian muslim school http://www.wicv.org/school.html

then I would like my child to go there for a year...so that she may learn of a new culture as well...but if the products of this schooling is 'closed minded robots' at the whim and command of their religious leaders...then continued existence of the school itself becomes the issue...and I would say same to any school producing same...including 'feminist sista robots'...

so more information...hopefully by posting or follow-up article...

and to 'property prices'...so if I am shown a street and told everyone of the children here is force separated from their genetic father by their mothers...but its very Australian to do this...so I should buy a house my child and await the inevitable...dont think so...its how well a society deals with its imbalancing forces to keeps its harmonious developing people what determines it survival or otherwise...muslim, anglosaxon, japanese...or mix of all in one is truely less relevant...

so what will be interesting is if populaton of camden is given details of schools curriculum and their own kids can go there, and given option of taking 'classes on islam'...if it will make a difference...or are they acting as 'closed minded robots'...if so then the current school teachers of camden must go...after acts accountability and consequence addressed...

Sam

What I miss are the TV news clips of the wisdom espoused vociferously by the redneck Cowgirl from Hicksville. What I don't miss is her stupid hat.

BD: "As the RMIT chaplain told me later, the buddhists and Jews started asking for 'their' facility also.". Gee, what a terrible state of affairs. Has the RMIT chaplain just discovered that Australia has Jews and Buddhists on campus? How disturbing. And why shouldn't Jews have their own prayer room?

StupidPencil: "a British Muslim woman has been awarded £4,000 for "injury to feelings" after a hair salon owner refused to employ her because she wore a headscarf to a job interview. Please tell me where any Jewish person in the 1930s were awarded compensation for "hurt feelings"?"

Anti-discrimination laws are a relatively recent phenomenon which have arisen because of increased consciousness of racism, most of which has been perpetrated by your lot - white Christians. Your lot who showed their love for Jews by murdering 6 million of them. And your lot stood by while Bosnian Muslims were massacred. White Christian extremism.

"In Australia's national interests we shouldn't have to put up with
Islamic schools ever being built. Racism is, like the word "fascist" just another overused word from the Left university set atheists since the hippie days of the 1960s. It is boring and a fad that ought to be long past."

See, Webby, this is what happens when you forget to take your tablets.

Irfan

Good article. Unfortunately the resposnes of many - unAustralian, different, Hitler! - just go to prove your point.

We need to unite against this racism. Only when workers begin to move as workers do I see the possibility of overthrowing the false god of racism that so pervades sections of the Australian working class and has done since colonialism arrived here and capitalism developed.

Doing away with denominational schools altogether would solve this little problem. Everyone gets the same education with religious studies overseen by parents, church etc.

Why go to school to nurture distrust of others? You can see on this site what is likely to happen once faith in one god comes up against faith in another.