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Originally Posted by MargaretR
In the same way that politics and religion is a bad mix, so is religion and education.
If you want your children brainwashed into the same beliefs as yourself, then do it yourself, or pay to send them to classes that will
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The problem that people seem concerned about is not that politics and religion is a bad mix .... it's that in Islamic states and communities politics and religion are inseperable. Islam and Islamic states grew up together. In fact, Islam preceded the Islamic states. In the western tradition, christianity arrived in a system that was already established. Apart from some serious debate (altho' that debate now seems anachronistic, even silly) mainly between 1050 and 1300, western tradition is based on a separation of church and state. Even the bible mentions the "two swords", the secular and the sacred ... After the collapse of the western empire, people looked to the church for leadership .... Sorry folks, I'm laspsing into pedantry ... but the point is that islamic states and communities are radically different from those which grew out of the western democratic tradition ... east is east and west etc. Like it or not, there is a war going on ... and the front lines are not only in Afghanistan and Iraq ... they are in New York, in London on your buses and subways, in your own communities ... in a lot of ways muslim immigration into England reminds me of the Trojan Horse. I don't suppose any of you forget that the terrorists who set the bombs in London were "home grown."