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Article: The battle over sex and Islam
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 23, 2009
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A group run by a member of a radical Islamic organisation is
opposing plans to give five-year-olds sex education. Lila Green
reports
In an underground hall at the London Central Mosque in Regent
Street, a group of parents sitting on plastic chairs is clustered
around a power point. A small, neatly dressed man at the front
welcomes them, introducing himself as Yusuf Patel. "As Muslims we
believe in values," he says, "We believe in haraam and halal, but
sex and relationship education (SRE) teaching in this country does
not provide this. It is the responsibility of parents to see their
children educated, but not at the expense of these values."
Patel's organisation, SREIslamic, was established ...