UK Islamic Studies Departments Teaching Jihad
Charles Johnson
Sun Jun 3, 2007 at 6:22 pm PDT • Views: 350
A British government report on UK universities says that some Islamic studies departments are ‘breeding radicals’.
Islamic studies departments at British universities may be fuelling extremism among students, according to a Government report. In a major review of the way Islam is taught on campuses, ministers will today call for courses to be improved to stop students being exposed to teaching that condones terrorism.
The report will also suggest that a network of Muslim faith advisers should be created to give impressionable youngsters spiritual guidance - and stop them falling under the influence of radicals. The move comes amid growing fears that universities and colleges are being infiltrated by fanatics recruiting for jihad.
Sheikh Musa Admani, the Muslim chaplain at London Metropolitan University and an adviser to Bill Rammell, the higher education minister, said he was aware of at least four universities in which students had been “groomed” by extremists.
Other experts suggest the number is as high as 25. Some students had gone to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight, it is claimed.
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