To humanize Muslims, let’s start in the classroom

Islam: An Illustrated JourneyA number of years ago, my son came home from school excited to tell me that he was studying the medieval era. “That’s great," I said."Where?” Looking confused, he turned to me and said, “You know, medieval times, Baba. The stuff about lords and feuds and England.”

I also ask students if they see or hear about their own backgrounds in this curriculum. Most times, the answer is no. I ask if they have ever been taught about Muslim histories, art, architecture or literature? Without exception, the answer is no. Most Canadian students seemingly go through the education system without ever hearing about the plurality of the world’s histories, cultures, faiths and traditions, including Islam and Muslims.

The New Zealand mosque massacre earlier this month painfully brought to mind Canada’s horrific experience of Islamophobia; the attack in a Quebec City mosque. There are clear similarities between the two attackers, including their political views and self-confessed Islamophobia. To lump together all instances of Islamophobia into a single phenomenon and suggest that all its proponents belong to a single community is a convenient shorthand that may fail to take into account Islamophobia’s multiple histories and manifestations.

GlobeDebate Agreed and and for them to humanize women!

GlobeDebate Tolerance of others should first be taught in the home by parents and then reinforced in school

GlobeDebate G&M - truly naive. There's no humanizing people who drive commercial airliners into office buildings or murder people randomly over a misogynistic ideology. Wake up.

GlobeDebate So, we bringing back the Lord's prayer to class too?

GlobeDebate We don’t need to humanize Muslims any more than we humanize Christian in Nigeria or Egypt - why the tremendously organized and relentless Lobby for Islam which is simply another archaic, more arguably so, religion in a modern secular world?

GlobeDebate I'm just here for the ratio 🍿

GlobeDebate Need to humanize humans Where did you get your biology and language courses ?

GlobeDebate Re-educating “Muslim Fanatics” is necessary if you want them to assimilate. Otherwise, just stop the migration from where they come from.

GlobeDebate Their book preaches hate and intolerance.... How can it be allowed in our schools.

GlobeDebate How about educating progressives to humanize Christians and the rest of us in the center and on the right.

GlobeDebate We should certainly include the history of Islamic nations in school. However, let’s not leave out that this includes invasions and centuries-long occupations of non-Muslim lands. The writer conveniently leaves that out.

GlobeDebate With indoctrination. Good one.

GlobeDebate Meanwhile we take the crucifix and Lord's prayer out of the classroom. Let's include all religions or none at all.

GlobeDebate Hebrew for give up your culture for people not noble enough to fight for and rebuild the country's they left. FakeNews

GlobeDebate “I ask if they have ever been taught about Muslim histories, art, architecture or literature? Without exception, the answer is no” Now go to Saudi Arabia and such and find out if they include the Greco-Roman context in history courses.

GlobeDebate First teach them that they are not better than others and they don't own the truth.

GlobeDebate All religions must stay out of political and education systems.

GlobeDebate This is a disgusting title!! Correct it immediately!

GlobeDebate They should include this history of Islam.

GlobeDebate Muslim professor argues that a secular nation should bring Muslim history into the classrooms as a way to 'stand up' for Muslims. No thanks. That's just an attempt to push Islam down every student's throat. Should we have 'Christian' classes too?

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