There are three schools in Britain that have adopted this method.
The admission application form warns girls will be "appropriately punished" for failing to wear the correct uniform, the Telegraph said, noting its website adds: "If parents are approached by the Education Department regarding their child's education, they should not disclose any information without discussing it with the committee." Explaining the school's ethos, the Telegraph reported that Madani's website says: "If we oppose the lifestyle of the west then it does not seem sensible that the teachers and the system, which represents that lifestyle, should educate our children."
Jamea Al Kauthar is a 2,500-pound-a-year (nearly $4,000) girls' boarding school, which accommodates 400 pupils in the grounds of Lancaster's former Royal Albert Hospital, the Telegraph said.
The Telegraph says the school states on its website: "Black Jubbah [smock-like outer garment] and dopatta [shawl] is compulsory as well as purdah (veil) when leaving and returning to Jamea. Scarves are strictly not permitted."
The website also lists a wide range of banned items, including family photographs, and warns: "Students must not cut their hair, nor remove hair from between their eyebrows. Doing so will lead to suspention (sic)."
So if is not religious than it must be cultural?
Dr. Taj Hargey, an imam and chairman of the Muslim Educational Trust of Oxford, told the Telegraph, "It means that Muslim children are being brainwashed into thinking they must segregate and separate themselves from mainstream society. The wearing of the burka or niqab is a tribal custom and these garments are not even mentioned in the Koran."
I'm trying to think if this would be legal in the US. I suppose it would but no one has attempted such idiocy. As long as it's not tax payer funded I suppose you could open a school that required you to dress up as Bugs Bunny everyday for school or suffer suspension.
Normal everyday people would laugh at a family actually paying money to attend a school that makes you dress up like Bugs Bunny everyday. But dress up in a burka and it's no longer funny. It's rather spooky.
Are forced arranged marriages legal in the Western world?
Is sending home your 13 year old daughter back to Eqypt for a proper "female gential mutilation" then having her come back after she healed illegal?
A lot of questions worht pondering...
