Written by Randa Abdel-Fattah Thursday, twenty-three August 2012 11:51
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Islamic educator, Salah Salman:
"A physical multitude is not a irreverent society. It is a multitude which respects pluralism as well as a peaceful coexistence of those for whom conviction is a elemental partial of life, as well as those who reject religion."
CPI Introduction
In his end upon a climb in Islamic preparation in Malaysia which appeared in a New Mandala website, Azmel Tayeb, a PhD tyro during a College of Middle East as well as a Pacific, Australian National University reminded that
"All things considered, Islamic preparation remains an irrevocable partial of a Malaysian multitude as well as will go upon to be a hotly contested belligerent for unforeseeable time as a onslaught to shape a minds as well as save a souls of immature Muslims wages on."
The models for Islamic preparation in Malaysia have always come from a Middle East, South Middle East as well a! s altern ative Islamic nations as well as societies. But should this be a case?
In a essay below, a CPI looks during a probable indication from Australia. This is a good e.g. of a multiracial as well as multi-religious multitude from which there is most you can learn.
The essay by Randa Abdel-Fattah demystifies a values as well as practices of Australia's Islamic schools, of which she was a pioneering student. In her words:
"I graduated from St Clement of Rome Primary School in Melbourne in 1989. you was a single of a small number of Muslim students, though my relatives didn't feel there was any counterbalance in my attending a Catholic school; they deliberate you would be unprotected to shared values. For high school, my relatives motionless you would attend King Khalid Islamic College of Victoria (KKICV), Australia's initial Islamic school. My mother was a senior clergyman during KKICV when you started.
"Established in 1983 by relatives in a community, a original site was an old, partially burnt-down Catholic school. There were 64 students. By a time you started in 1991, a tyro physique had risen to a medium 328 students, as well as you was in a school's initial Year 7/8 class. There were about 40 of us, as well as you were a entire high-school tyro population. There was an overwhelming sense of expectation as well as excitement. We were pioneers, not just in a school, though in Australia's Muslim community
Esma Kurt was partial of which initial cohort Our Muslim as well as non-Muslim teachers (the latter comprising during slightest half a staff, in accordance with a school's policy) reinforced which you were to welcome a Australian identity as well as Muslim conviction with pride.
My mother, Mona Abdel-Fattah, is principal of a Sydney campus as well as believes a single of a defining characteristics of Islamic schools is a multicultural combination of students as well as staff. The propagandize race re! presents some-more than twenty-three racial groups. "Everybody sees a students' multi-layered identities as an advantage as well as a means for celebration," says Abdel-Fattah. We have been a propagandize which actively values a students' identities.".
Salah Salman has been director of AIA's Coburg, Melbourne campus given 1991 as well as has been instrumental in driving a school's growth as well as aspirations. "Living in a pluralistic multitude can be challenging, generally for immature people who have been unprotected to a farrago of belief as well as worth system, he says. "Such exposure is what creates this country so rich as well as wonderful, though it can be confusing. Faith formed schools have been unwavering of these challenges as well as can assistance children assimilate what they hold as well as why."
Religious freedom, together with a right to faith-based schooling, is guaranteed in Australia under general law. But it's not simply about sportive one's rights. Salman argues which Australia as a whole benefits when it respects leisure of religion. "A physical multitude is not a irreverent society. It is a multitude which respects pluralism as well as a peaceful coexistence of those for whom conviction is a elemental partial of life, as well as those who reject religion."
For a full essay upon 'The ups as well as downs of Islamic preparation in Malaysia ', see a New Mandala.
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