Laylah Hussain, in the Times, recalls her time in an Islamic school near Nottingham, where she was sent aged 11:
"[M]y mother sought to protect me from the secular culture she thought could ruin my education and prospects. She is a deeply spiritual woman and wanted me to have an Islamic education, not based upon her own adaptable, tolerant South Asian faith but on the literalist Saudi Arabian Salafism she saw preached on Islamic TV channels, which presents itself as “pure”.
.... A brave and important article. "I cannot understand why the British government allows girls of 11 to be put into schools that set them on a course of separation from mainstream society, to live according to Sharia principles, which can discriminate against them in divorce, inheritance and legal testimony." Me neither.
It's understandable, if perhaps disappointing, that Layla Hussein is in fact a pseudonym. [Mick Hartley] Read more
