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To: all individuals and
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International Declaration
Islamic schools should be banned
Children have no religion
Whereas
political Islam, as a reactionary, anti-human, and, specifically,
anti-children-and- women movement has emerged, not only in the Middle East and
northern Africa, but also in Europe and North America, laying claim to
political power as well as a field of action to play an effective role in the
socio-cultural life of these societies;
this movement has started its campaigns by attacking all progressive and modern
values not only in the Middle East and northern Africa but also in the heart of
Europe and North America;
the leaders of this movement have invested considerable amount of money and
personnel to expand Islamic schools globally in order to be able to play an
effective role in social, political and cultural arena for further
marginalization of so called Islamic communities;
these Islamic schools have become a main source to impose religion and backward
traditions on children under the age of 16, and have forcefully given them
religious identity and have encouraged discrimination, inequality, revulsion,
segregation and Isolation right from childhood;
Islamic schools provide a perfect breeding ground for the growth of Islamism,
uphold Islamic ghettos, empower the Sheykhs,
parasitical elders and Imams to openly attack and limit women and children’s rights;
Islamic schools provide a perfect basis to recruit youth for the Islamic movement’s terrorist forces, decrees (Fatwas)
against opponents of Islam, honour killings and brain
washing the children;
One of the very basic principles of Islamic schools is the segregation of girls
and boys at a very young age; imposing Hijab on young
girls, teaching young boys cruelty towards women and brutality towards girls;
Children have no religion, and, therefore, putting them in the care of Islamic
schools means legitimizing the imposition of religion on them on a social
level, and this, in turn, signifies an openly refusal on the part of the state
to defend the rights of children to safety, happiness, and welfare;
Be it therefore resolved that
- in order to guarantee that the rights of children take precedence over any
national, racial, political, ideological, and religious considerations or
interests, the state should call for the total separation of religion from
education, and adopt a secular educational system for all children;
- all Islamic schools should be prohibited;
- any kind of financial, material or moral support by the state or state institutions
to religion and religious activities should be prohibited;
- teaching any religious subjects, dogmas, doctrines, etc should be prohibited
in all of the schools;
- all educational establishments must be co-educational;
- alluring young people under 16 to religious sects, religious ceremonies and
locations should be prohibited;
- any religious laws and regulations that influence children’s
creativity and their inalienable right to a happy life, and prevent their
participation in social and leisure activities, should be revoked;
- wearing or carrying all religious symbols, such as Islamic hijab, in schools should be prohibited.
Sincerely,