Coming home from school with strawberry condoms

The larger question is whether immigrants should accept the laws of their host country. It would not be unreasonable to insist that they should.

Didn't these immigrants choose to live in Sweden over another country? Last I checked, America was the big melting pot, not Sweden. If they want to live in Sweden, they must accept her culture, sex education and all.

While this article maintains usage of the word "Immigrant" I believe this is only semi-correct. Most of these people are refugees, which are directed by the United Nations as to their country of habitation and have no choice as to where to relocate. They are people ripped from their home countries as a result of war and strife. It is my belief that we should afford them some leniency until they are prepared to return to their homes when the problems forcing them to leave have subsided. On the other hand, I believe people expecting to stay for an extended period (permanent habitation) in Sweden should prepare for the ability to interact in their new environments.

Muslim parents teach their children to respect their teachers. From a very young age, we are taught that Islam teaches us that after our parents, our teachers are most deserving of respect.
It must be an extremely confusing time for the Muslim parent in Leytonstone, London. For up to 30 parents may face prosecution for withdrawing their children from school, disobeying the teachers in the school, simply to secure a decent moral upbringing for their children. The school had decided to have a week of lessons about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history. Part of this was a special adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet retitled Romeo and Julian as well as fairytales and stories changed to show men falling in love with men. Rather than filling the heads of impressionable boys and girls with fatuous drivel about gay penguins, schools should be ashamed of the fact that they are sending children out into the world barely able to read, write and add up properly. Muslim children are leaving schools without learning their cultural roots and linguistic skills.

The action was being taken against the parents as part of a policy of ' promoting tolerance'. So why not tolerate parents, who, for sincerely-held reasons, consider their children too young to be taught about gay relationships? This isn't education, its cultural fascism. A record numbers of pupils persistently played truant in 2006-07, with around 272,950 pupils persistently absent in 2007, missing more than 20% of school. We rarely see councils prosecute the parents of these persistent truants. Yet, the parents who removed their children as a one-off to protect their morality may be prosecuted!

If the local council does decide to go through with a prosecution, it would be in line with the government's approach to the Muslim community. Muslims who believe homosexuality is a sin would be labelled as extremists. Liberal totalitarianism is a growing phenomenon in Britain and the west in general but many people will be shocked that the school can override a parent's view of what's appropriate or inappropriate to teach their children.

This latest episode should be a wakeup call for Muslim parents. Muslim parents MUST explain our moral standards to schools and be prepared to take steps to protect our children’s morals and values from a growing agenda to impose liberal values upon them. This is an eye opening for those Muslim parents who keep on sending their children to state schools to be mis-educated and de-educated by non-Muslim monolingual teachers.

The solution of all the problems facing Muslim children is state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers. Those state schools where Muslim children are in majority may be designated as Muslim community schools. Bilingual Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods.
Iftikhar Ahmad
www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk

Sweden's policy of comprehensive sex education has led to one of the highest levels of health among teenagers and women in the world. Islamic customs result in the worst. While these religious parents may want to perpetuate their customs and beliefs in their new home, I would hope that Sweden would hold the line and insist that their new citizens be encouraged to allow their children to live up to a better life, rather than dragging a highly successful public health policy down into the dangerous past. They can talk about "modesty" all they want at home. Common sense and solid experience insist that science, not religion, is the only measure by which should guide sex education and public health. One look at the public health statistics in religiously dominated countries of origin should be sufficient for any public official debating this issue. It is patently absurd that this should even BE debated in this century. I hope Sweden holds the line and serves as an example to the rest of the countries in the world, including the US.