Muslim schools should be shut down, not built up! Bruce
Push for Muslim state schools in UK By Melissa Kite London August 8, 2005 The AGE The Government wants to expand the number of Islamic schools and bring them under its control. Up to 150 new Muslim state schools could be created in a move to bring the Islamic education of British children under government control after last month's London bombings. Rather than close Britain's five state-funded Muslim schools, as some critics demand, ministers plan a significant expansion. This would bring thousands of Muslim children now taught in independent Islamic schools - many of which operate in poor, back-street conditions - into mainstream education. An estimated 120 to 150 independent Muslim schools will be offered "voluntary aided" status - bringing them under local education authority control, in line with almost 7000 Catholic, Church of England and Jewish schools. A condition of state funding will be that Muslim schools operate an open admissions policy, taking children of other faiths. Tony Blair hinted at the move on Friday. He told a reporter asking whether Muslim state schools should continue: "We are actually looking to make sure that faith schools are very much incorporated into the mainstream and that should apply to all categories of faith school." Britain's Education Secretary will reveal the details within months. Sadiq Khan, the Labour MP for Tooting and a governor of a school that joined the state sector last year, said: "It makes sense. This will mean our British children will get a decent education, not simply a back-of-the-envelope, cutting-corners education in terrible premises with terrible facilities." The steps coincide with revelations that two senior al-Qaeda operatives in Saudi Arabia made money transfers and used coded text messages to communicate with suspected terrorists in Britain in the months before the July attacks in London. Two men, of Moroccan descent, reported to be the Saudi links, have since been shot dead in separate gun battles. Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari, al-Qaeda's alleged leader in Saudi Arabia, was killed in Riyadh three weeks ago and Abdel Karim al-Mejati died in a shoot-out in the central al-Qassim region in April. Security officials in Saudi Arabia suspect both men of involvement in the attacks on London on July 7 and 21 and say they have established that al-Qaeda is operating in Britain. "It's beyond doubt they're active in your country," said one security official in Riyadh. The deaths of Hayari and Mejati had severely disrupted al-Qaeda's base in Saudi Arabia, Saudi officials said. A Western diplomat in Riyadh confirmed this saying: "They are conducting a model counter-terrorism campaign. These extremists are on the run." Money transfers are believed to have been made from Saudi Arabia to Britain in the first six months of this year through businesses in the two countries. Hayari was believed to have been the most senior al-Qaeda member in Saudi Arabia. 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