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David
31-03-06, 11:48
29th March, 2006


Muslim schools in the UK are failing to adequately protect children from abuse, a leading group of Muslim intellectuals warned this week.

In a new report released this week, Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui (pictured) said it was a taboo subject that needed to be tackled before British madrasas get embroiled in controversy like the Roman Catholic church in the 1990s.

He co-authored the report and heads the lobby group Muslim Parliament of Great Britain.

He said it would be "simplistic and naïve" to think Muslim families were immune from child abuse at religious institutions, and "very little discussion" was taking place on the subject at any level.

"Absence of a good-practice guide on child protection and the perception that abuse exists in madrasas warranted a report to break the taboo in order to make all concerned in the community realise that sweeping the subject under the carpet is not the solution," he says in the report.

"To protect the integrity of these valued institutions it is important that all madrasas across the United Kingdom put in place a transparent and accountable policies and procedures as a matter of urgency."

There are around 700 madrasas in Britain that teach basic Islam to pupils of school-going age after-school hours, with approximately 100,000 children attending them every year.

"In madrasas up to 40% hit or scold their pupils; cases of sex abuse, 15-20 per year, were considered by insiders as being an understatement. It would have been surprising if there were no cases of child abuse as Muslims societies are after all like any other human society," Dr Siddiqui states.

Worry over abuse had made an increasing number of parents switch to home tution instead. Most madrasas in the UK are part of local mosques.

He adds: "Out of some 150 local authorities in England and Wales only a handful have taken positive initiatives, involving their local mosques and madrasas, to put in place guidelines to meet their legal obligation as required by the Children Act 1989.

"This report is intended to highlight the issue of child welfare and the need to recognise children’s right to be safe. Hopefully a healthy debate within the community will follow its publication."

The Children's charity NSPCC welcomed the report. Spokeswoman Diana Sutton said: "We are concerned that madrasas are not required to follow the same child protection procedures as schools and other statutory bodies."

Authors of the study have asked the government to establish a national registration scheme for madrasas to help them meet their legal obligations as required by the Children Act 1989. They also want better training for staff and volunteers.

In December 2004 a Pakistani MP revealed that hundreds of child abuse claims from madrasas every year were not being adequately dealt with.

tukkersterror
31-03-06, 11:55
Project: De constructie van Islamitische kennis in madrasas voor meisjes in India
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Titel-Eng 'From Behind the Curtain¿. A study of a girls¿ madrasa in India
Samenvatting Mareike Winkelmann onderzocht het curriculum van religieuze hogescholen (madrasas) voor jonge moslimvrouwen in India. Vooral na 11 september 2001 kregen dergelijke islamitische scholen veel aandacht in de media, vanwege de vermeende schakel tussen islamitisch onderwijs en vormen van geweld. Tegen deze achtergrond wilde Winkelmann nagaan hoe het curriculum van islamitische scholen voor jonge vrouwen verschilt van dat van jonge mannen op soortgelijke scholen. Tevens poogde ze een antwoord te vinden op de vraag of wat de jonge vrouwen leren hen toestaat gezag op te eisen in de publieke sfeer. Hoewel de jonge vrouwen op grond van hun opleiding op een islamitische school tot dusver nog geen religieus gezag claimen in de publieke sfeer, constateert Winkelmann dat deze scholen voor vrouwen wel een belangrijke bron van sociaal en religieus kapitaal vormen. Het volgen van een dergelijke opleiding kan leiden tot sociale mobiliteit en verbeterde huwelijksvooruitzichten, en heeft bovenal een spirituele meerwaarde voor henzelf, hun families en voor de gemeenschap als geheel.
Samenvatting-Eng The project focuses on the aspect of agency in the context of the Islamic seminaries as institutions for Islamic learning that have long-standing historical roots, and which have at the same time only recently become accessible to Muslim girls in India. The study entails an analysis of the madrasa curriculum, life-story interviews with students, teachers, and their families, as well as an attempt to show possible future trajectories of madrasa graduates. The preliminary working hypothesis is that the religious authority of Muslim women trained in the madrasas is in the making.
Looptijd 01/2004 - 12/2005
Status afgesloten
Dissertatie Ja

Betrokken organisaties

* Penvoerder: International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World - ISIM (UL)

Betrokken personen

* Promotor: Prof.dr. A.C.A.E. Moors
* Promovendus: Dr. M.J. Winkelmann

Classificatie

* A84200 : onderwijs
* A85200 : levensbeschouwing en religie
* C40000 : vrouwenstudies
* D63000 : culturele antropologie

David
31-03-06, 11:55
Madrassas hit by sex abuse claims
By Paul Anderson
BBC News, Islamabad



Some clerics demanded an apology from Mr Hussain
A Pakistani minister has revealed hundreds of cases of alleged child sex abuse at Islamic schools, or madrassas.

There were 500 complaints this year of abuse allegedly committed by clerics, Aamer Liaquat Hussain, a minister in the religious affairs department, said.

That compares with 2,000 last year, but as yet there have been no successful prosecutions, Mr Hussain told the BBC.

The minister's revelations have sparked death threats and infuriated some religious political leaders.

Mr Hussain said he had received death threats from clerics, but that he had done his job and his conscience was clear.

Leaders angered

The time had come for his country to face the bitter truth - the sickness of child abuse, he said.

The allegations involving Pakistan's Sunni majority and Shia minority referred to a tiny proportion of the country's 10,000 or so madrassas, he said.

He added that the body responsible for them, the Federation of Madrassas, was willing to co-operate with investigations because some clerics were bringing a bad name to Islam.

However, the revelations have angered some Islamic leaders. At a parliamentary meeting this week, some demanded he apologise.


The abuse revelations were made during a week in which the Pakistani government has been meeting religious leaders to build awareness of the spread of HIV/Aids.

Pakistan is stepping up its anti-Aids campaign, and the idea is to utilise the clerics' unique reach into communities to increase HIV/Aids awareness and to preach prevention.

mark61
31-03-06, 11:59
Geplaatst door David
Madrassas hit by sex abuse claims
By Paul Anderson
BBC News, Islamabad

Some clerics demanded an apology from Mr Hussain
A Pakistani minister has revealed hundreds of cases of alleged child sex abuse at Islamic schools, or madrassas.

Ik wou al zeggen, dit is toch al oud nieuws?

Van minister Hussain is nooit meer iets vernomen.

Musharraf wilde sowieso de madrasa's onder controle brengen, maar dat leidde tot een storm van protest, dus dat durft ie niet meer.

David
31-03-06, 16:43
Hmmmm. Het COC in Breda is blijkbaar belangrijker.