Ahmed Marcouch, mayor of the Amsterdam neighborhood of Slotervaart, says that public schools should offer more space to religion, particularly to Islam. According to Marcouch, the extra attention would take away religious education from the mosque.
Marcouch wants creation theory to be taught along with evolution. Muslim schools originate out of 'necessity' because public schools don't give religion enough space.
He also think that the schools should respect Muslim customs and holidays. He says that Muslim children can barely go to public schools because they must constantly justify issues such as headscarves, mixed showers and swimming, and holidays.
Marcouch says that the starting point should be that a Muslim kid can enter public school without renouncing his religion.
He says that there are legal possibilities for extra religious education, but that they're not utilized, or barely utilized. He says it's different than learning about religion, and should be done by a qualified teacher.
Source: Telegraaf (Dutch)
See also: Germany: Schools should teach about Islam
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First, the only circumstances under which religion should be taught in school are (a) when children are taught about morality, and when those teachings are based on actual morality (i.e., the Golden Rule); Islam has no concept of morality; morality is not: rape your sister, rape your daughter, rape any blonde you meet, mutilate your daughter, enslave people, steal from your neighbor, slit your neighbor's throat, hang people for adultery and homosexuality, and lie to everyone all the time about everything, regardless of the circumstances, but whatever you do, don't take out student loans, mortage a house, or drink a glass of wine;
(b) when religion is taught as a general concept, and it involves all religions, and when children are taught about Islam, that includes all the genocide, mass murders, the unprovoked attacks on unarmed Jewish and Christian women children in night raids, the pedophilia, the slavery, the sick hangup on sex crimes and torture, the inherent narcissism of all Muslims, the fact that it is unequivocally impossible the read the Koran, believe a single word of it, and be a healthy, mentally stable person, and the UNCANNY similarities between the Koran and Mein Kampf, which, to Hitler's credit, although it is just as chock-full of logical fallacies, at least it is written in proper grammar and chronological order, and not stuffed with mathematical, scientific, literary, and historical errors, and at least it does not have the same sick hangup on every form of sex crime and torture. Also, when studying the Koran, children should be taught that it uses one word, nikah, to refer interchangeably to sex, rape, prostitution, marriage, incest, and child molestation, and that consent is NEVER a factor, but money almost always is where Islam and sex is concerned, and then they should watch a Muslim marriage ceremony and read the Shariah marriage contract, and be left to decide whether or not marriage in Islam is based on anything other than money and sex. Oh, and don't forget that the Koran teaches that that the Earth is flat, that the stars are arrows being shot at Satan, that menstruation is a disease, that sperm are produced all throughout the human body and stored in the kidneys, that 340 + 0 = 360, that camel urine and fly wings have have lots of proven medicinal benefits, and, of course, that women are genetically inferior, inherently immoral, filthy creatures, literally dirtier than dirt, who are beneath camels on the food chain, who must not be allowed to exist except as the outright property of some man, and who are designed for sex, breeding, cooking, and absolutely nothing else. Oh, and that those sweet-looking Muzzies sitting next to all the Christians, Jews, Buddhists, and Hindus are taught that they MUST kill and enslave them, and they are taught that their infidel classmates are the sons of apes and pigs simply for not being brainwashed sicko narcissists. Oh, and that almost all converts to Islam are convicted criminals.
Even in the States, whenever evolution is taught, some Christian idiots take issue with it. Don't they realize that almost all of the female non-convicted-criminal converts to Islam convert because they take issue with the Adam and Eve story from Genesis, whereby Eve was created from Adam's rib and ate from the Tree of Knowledge (not that the Koran does not refer to that story, because it does, regardless of whether or not it explicitly retells it; it still forms much of the basis of Islamic creation). They claim that this is 'liberating.' You know what's liberating? THE TRUTH!!!! Evolution is liberating (i.e., stop marrying your damn cousins, muzzies; why do you think your damn eyebrows keep moving closer together with each passing generation?), biology is liberating, SCIENCE is liberating. The truth is also liberating when schools teach about the horrors - cultural, institutional, and familial - that women, children, apostates, gays, and religious minorities are subjected to every day in the Muslim world, not to mention the fact that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the deaths of 270,000,000 'infidels.' The truth is liberating when both blacks and whites are taught about their common heritage, which includes being enslaved by Muslims. Yep, it happened. White women caught the highest prices in the markets of Mecca and Medina (which is where the "islamize blond vaginas" teaching came from, in addition to inherent Arab racism in all 3 Muslim texts), while the majority of black slaves died before being sold into slavery due to the abominable conditions to which they were subjected. SCHOOLS SHOULD TEACH THE DAMN TRUTH! AND THAT INCLUDES UNIVERSITIES IN THEIR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES DEPARTMENTS, WOMEN'S STUDIES DEPARTMENTS, AND HISTORY DEPARTMENTS. AGAIN, THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS SET YOU FREE. Plus I love the truth because it always pisses off Muslims. Yeah, Islam should be taught in school, alright, because people need to know the damn truth about it.
Oh, anonyous, yeah there's a problem at mosques. Kids get raped there. According to the UNICEF website, 48% of all Palestinian children are raped in mosques, which is pretty interesting, considering that only 49% of the population (males) is allowed to visit them.
Schools in Amsterdam should be considerate in Islam the day that 1 year has passed without a single gay being attacked by Muslims in the streets of the world's gay capital, the day that one year passes and not one honor murder takes place, not one infidel is attack my Muslims, the day that no woman is forced to marry somone against her will, the day that not one Muslim woman or child is beaten or raped by a family member, the day that not one child in Holland is found to be genitally mutilated. Amsterdam should be considerate of Islam the day that Islam is considerate of basic decency and human rights and freedoms.
You can't teach the creation "theory" because it is not scientific.
All you can say is "No one can prove evolution, but the evidence is overwheming. BTW, here is what some poeple say in order to mesh the real world with their religion. As you can see, their evidence is minimal by comparison. Believe what you want, but a carrer in biology requires the assumption of evolution."
A career in common sense requires the assumption of evolution. It's not like it necessarily takes centuries for evolution to occur. If a factory opens up in a small town and the air suddenly gets dirtier, the squirrels will become darker in color within just a couple of years. You can also watch it happen in a colony of feral cats over just a few years. Plus Mendels' theory is based on it, so you would have to write off genetics along with evolution were you to dismiss it. I realize you were agreeing with me, anonymous, but in order for someone to not believe on evolution they would have to be so stupid and brainwashed as to believe in a moon god or that the sun sets in a murky sea on the flat earth at night. Muslim/Christian fundamentalist stupid.
Hi jdamn13,
Not going into the evolution vs. creationism argument, what you're describing is natural selection, not the theory of evolution. I don't think anybody doubts natural selection, as even humans can create sub-species within a few years through selective breeding.
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