Muslim students in London told ‘non-believers are filth’
Daily Times ^ | 4/21/06 | AFP
LONDON: Trainee imams at an Islamic school in London with links to Iran told a British newspaper on Thursday they are being taught fundamentalist texts that describe non-Muslims as “filth”. The medieval doctrines are taught at the Hawza Ilmiyya of London, a religious school, which is in the same building as the Islamic College for Advanced Studies (ICAS) - a sister institution, The Times reported. The two colleges share many of the same staff. The Muslim students, who spoke to the daily on condition of anonymity, study their religious courses alongside a degree course in Islamic studies at ICAS, which is backed by Middlesex University. Their spokesman said the highlighted text, written by 13th century scholar Muhaqqiq al-Hilli, was just one of a number of books that some students found “disturbing” and “very worrying”, according to The Times. Mohammed Saeed Bahmanpour, a teacher at Hawza and ICAS, confirmed to the newspaper that the Hilli text was used, but denied it was taught as doctrine. AFP |
