UK Muslim schools mandate veil. Moderate Muslims protest.

UK left forcing Muslims into wearing veil.

Curiously the UK government has come out on the side of the extremist Muslims in the UK who are intimidating and forcing the more moderate members of their community to go whole hog, you should excuse the language, or be punished in the Name of Allah, the Merciful the whatever.

As the following article, stolen from jihadwatch.com, which I suggest everyone read on a regular basis, points out, the moderates, and they do exist, are trying to keep the nutcases from highjacking their religion.

Ironically, many liberal and left people believe that they are helping the Muslim community by defending the rights of the Islamists and those who are forcing their will on the more moderate members of their community. This is only making life harder for the many Muslims who do not want to follow the hard line position of the extremists in their midst.

The majority of Muslims that I know are law abiding, decent people. They fully understand that they need to respect others. I do not know what I would do if I were in their place but, for the most part, they are good Americans and respectful of others who are different. However, they dare not openly voice these sentiments for fear that the nut cases in their communities will hurt them and their families. They know that the media and what passes for our government will not protect them.

Sad.

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“It is a desert practice which belongs to another century and another world.”

The professional “moderate” Muslim Ed Husain said that.

If the media were quoting us, we’d be pilloried as “Islamophobes” (and somehow, “racist” as well). The OIC would accuse us of “incitement” and demand someone stop us.

“British schools where girls must wear the Islamic veil,” by David Barrett for theTelegraph, October 2 (thanks to Zulu):

Islamic schools have introduced uniform policies which force girls to wear the burka or a full headscarf and veil known as the niqab.

Moderate followers of Islam said yesterday that enforcement of the veil was a “dangerous precedent” and that children attending such schools were being “brainwashed”.

The Sunday Telegraph has established that three UK institutions have introduced a compulsory veil policy when girls are walking to or from school. They are:

* Madani Girls’ School in east London;

* Jamea Al Kauthar in Lancaster;

* Jameah Girls’ Academy in Leicester.

All three are independent, fee-paying, single-sex schools for girls aged 11 to 18. Critics warned that the spectacle of burka-clad pupils entering and leaving the schools at the start and end of the day could damage relations between Muslim and non-Muslim communities.

Ed Husain, co-director of Quilliam, the counter-extremist think-tank, said: “It is absurd that schools are enforcing this outdated ritual – one that which sends out a damaging message that Muslims do not want to fully partake in British society.

“Although it is not the government’s job to dictate how its citizens dress, it should nonetheless ensure that such schools are not bankrolled or subsidised by the British taxpayer.”

He added: “The enforcing of the niqab on young girls is not a mainstream Islamic practice – either in Britain or in most Muslim-majority countries.

“It is a desert practice which belongs to another century and another world.” […]

Philip Hollobone, the Tory MP who has attempted to bring in a Private Members’ Bill to ban wearing of the burka in public, also condemned the schools’ uniform policies.

“It is very sad in 21st century Britain that three schools are effectively forcing girls as young as 11 to hide their faces,” he said.

“How on earth are these young ladies going to grow up as part of a fully integrated society if they are made to regard themselves as objects at such a young age?”

Conservative councillors have accused Labour-controlled Tower Hamlets council of subsidising Madani Girls’ School by selling the school its current premises for £320,000 below market value. […]

Councillors were advised to allow the sale at a loss because the price had been agreed in 2004 when it represented a fair market value.

The deal had been delayed by four years because the school needed to raise funds, but council chiefs wanted to honour the originally-agreed figure.

However, council minutes from December 2008 show that Tim Archer, a Tory councillor, warned that “a council asset was being sold below market value and public money was being used to subsidise the purchase”.

He also suggested the school was in breach of the council’s inclusiveness policy.

Madani, which has 260 pupils, charges fees of £1,900 a year. Its website states: “All payments should be made in cash. We do not accept cheques.”

School uniform rules listed on the website have been deleted but an earlier version, seen by this newspaper, stated: “The present uniform conforms to the Islamic Code of dressing. Outside the school, this comprises of [sic] the black Burka and Niqab.”

The admission application form warns girls will be “appropriately punished” for failing to wear the correct uniform, and its website adds: “If parents are approached by the Education Department regarding their child’s education, they should not disclose any information without discussing it with the committee.”…

Why, something to hide?