UK Springs Into Action
Charles Johnson
Mon Apr 2, 2007 at 9:10 am PDT • Views: 280
Britain has a new plan to deal with Islamic supremacists who want to destroy Western civilization, slaughter infidels, and institute a global Islamic state.
They’re going to give the jihadis civics lessons.
Muslim “opinion formers”, including imams, are to be given lessons in civic leadership under a new plan to tackle Islamic extremism in Britain.
Ruth Kelly, the Communities and Local Government Secretary, will this week announce details of a £6 million “hearts and minds” drive to deal with growing radicalism among young British Muslims which can fuel terrorist plots.
Also part of the plan are school-twinning projects, in which pupils from mainly Muslim schools will undertake joint projects, such as music and drama, with children from predominantly white establishments. The schools could go on trips together, while groups of pupils could spend days in each other’s classrooms.
Miss Kelly will also announce a major increase in the number of “forums against extremism” - regional groups which meet regularly and which were set up in the wake of the July 7 London bombings to enable Muslims to discuss ways of tackling extremism.
At the same time, British schools are dropping the Holocaust and the Crusades from history lessons, as we noted yesterday.
Frank says: