Teachers "beat and abuse" Muslim children in British Koran classes

by Infidelesto on December 10, 2008 · View Comments

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Times Online

Muslim children are being beaten and abused regularly by teachers at some British madrassas – Islamic evening classes – an investigation by The Times has found.

Students have been slapped, punched and had their ears twisted, according to an unpublished report by an imam based on interviews with victims in the north of England. One was “picked up by one leg and spun around” while another said a madrassa teacher was “kicking in my head – like a football”, says the report which was compiled by Irfan Chishti, a former government adviser on Islamic affairs.

Almost 1,600 madrassas operate in Britain, teaching Arabic and the Koran on weekday evenings to about 200,000 children aged from four to their mid-teens.

While there is no hard evidence to indicate how many are involved in the physical abuse of children, The Times has uncovered a disturbing pattern in one town – Rochdale – through interviews with mainstream school teachers, Muslim parents and the children themselves.

One woman told The Times that her niece Hiba, 7, was slapped across the face so hard by her madrassa teacher that her ear was cut. It later became inflamed and she had to have emergency medical treatment.

When the teacher refused to apologise, Hiba’s aunt, Jamila, insisted that her niece should be moved to another madrassa. “I have absolutely no respect for religious teachers who behave like this,” she said.

Another girl described how, at the age of 12, she was hit by her madrassa teacher whenever she mispronounced a word or forgot a verse of the Koran.

When Imam Chishti, a religious education teacher who also runs the Light of Islam Academy in Rochdale, decided to carry out his own investigation into the problem he was shocked by how even the victims had grown to accept the abuse. “They all joked about it,” he said. “There’s a culture that accepts it.”

Of course it’s a culture that accepts this kind of behavior.  What’s worse is the vast amount of Madrassas that are indoctrinating these kids into Islam.  They will either become silent moderates who do nothing about the evil within their own, silent moderates who silently support radicalism for the purpose of Jihad, or blatant and open supporters of Islamic Terror and Political Jihad.

Whatever it is, Britian has a huge problem on their hands.

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  • GeorgeOfTheJungle

    These are NOT teachers. They are uneducated, ignorant, and backwards Deobandi buliies imported from Pakistan or some other backwards i-slam countries. In order for a person to be designated to be a teacher, that person has to have completed a degree, as well as rigorous teacher-training. No, these are not teachers, but just people who enjoy the feeling of power that abusing children give them. Why isn't the government here licking these filth out, and banning all Madrassahs?

  • Ioan Lightoller

    OK, like where the hell is the British version of Child Protective Services when you really need them?! I went to a Lutheran parochial school and yeah I might get a whack on the hand with a ruler once or twice a year, but when a teacher went and clapped his hands over a student's ears really hard, the school fired him. All the parents, mine included (and they were old-school German type disciplinarians) called for his firing which the school didl We certainly never had anything like this going on! Hell, not even the strict Catholic parochial school that I attended for four or five months before transferredd to the Lutheran school would ever have tolerated this sort of thing.

    I'm a firm believer in discipline for children, but this is NOT discipline–this is purely and simply child abuse! So, I repeat, where the hell is Child Protective Service when they are really needed? Oh yeah, the government is too busy sucking up to the Muslims and trying to appease them. I guess they didn't learn anything from Chamberlain's policy of trying to appease the Nazi. Appeasing a bully never works. They have to be taken on and shown that their behaviour will NOT be tolerated. In fact if the British had any brains at all (debatable these days), the would send all the Muslims back from whence they came. That's not very likely, so I'd like to see some action against this abuse of children. Do I think anything will be done? Doubtful, but I hope I am wrong.

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