Same with sex. As Barry Duke says in the comment above, good education is key. Yes, it’s a good thing to tell kids about the dangers of unprotected sex: possible disease, possible pregnancy (it’s not the case that “Abstinence is the only way to stay disease[-] and pregnan[cy-]free”, as you say: care and good education can achieve that, too).

And what the hell are you doing dropping all that stuff about Muslim schools into this conversation? Anyone who’s seen any of your posts can tell you’ve got it on your clipboard and you’re just pasting it into blogs wherever you go. Stick to the points. But, since you raise the subject, Muslim schools – all religious schools – are an abomination, and lead only to further sectarianism. This is Britain. Get used to it. Your kids are British. If you want them to take on the trappings of another culture entirely, you know where the door is. Take them with you. We’d rather our Asian kids (and those of other foreign ancestry) were British and free to choose a religion, or not to have one at all, rather than compulsorily Muslim, whatever their ethnicity or colour.

The reason for our problems is obvious; there is a systematic failure in our education system to tackle sex education in a open and honest way. This is because far too many people of a religious bent are allowed to interfere in sex education, and are interested only in keeping children in a state of sexual stupidity. Islam is probably the worst offender in this regard.

On the other hand countries which have successfully removed the odious influence of religion from their schools’ sexual education and other programmes not only have teenagers who are far happier and better educated than those in the UK and the USA, they also have a far lower incidence of teenage pregnancies, sexually-transmitted diseases, and drug and alcohol problems.

I refer, of course, to the Scandinavian countries, and Holland, where the whole spectrum of human sexuality is routinely examined in the classrooms. It does not offend me to know that youngsters in those countries are introduced, in MIXED classrooms, and at a pretty early age, to condoms and how to use them.

Indeed, it pleased me no end to learn that in some classes, children as young as 11 are taught how to slip a condom onto a penis with their mouths. (Cucumbers are used for the lesson).

Also that homosexuality is in no way stigmatised, which allows gay youngsters to fulfill their sex lives as openly and proudly as anyone else – just as they should.

If schools in this country were to follow these examples, without interference from religious ignoramuses, I am confident that we would quickly overcome the problems caused by the sheer ignorance we insist on foisting on children.

An American Christian group is visiting Britain to preach sexual abstinence to teenagers. It is going to persuade them to wear a “chastity ring” on their wedding fingers. It is very difficult to find a virgin teenager in modern British society. Abstinence is the only way to stay disease and pregnant free. The group’s message would be irrelevant to most teenagers who are mature enough to lose their virginity at 14 or earlier. Silver Ring Thing is selling chastity rings for £10.00 to discourage teenagers from premarital sex.

The movement was founded in 1995 by Denny Pattyn in the United States. He calls today’s teenagers “the cesspool generation”. The UK has the second highest teenager pregnancy rate in the Western world. Over a million young Americans have already taken the Silver Ring Pledge. The British Humanist regards it the latest cranky Christian concept from America and has the full support of George W Bush with one million dollars as part of his campaign to replace sex education.

Western society is really un- interested in having sex free life before marriage. A Headmistress has condemned parents who allow their teenage daughters to wear skimpy clothes. Thousands of high street chemists are to be told they may be allowed to sell the morning-after pill without prescription to girls under 16.

Islam condemnation of permissive society is actually quite attractive to many who are concerned by the frightening growth of sexually transmitted diseases and break down of stable family structures. Muslim pupils need state funded Muslim schools with Muslim teachers to develop Islamic Identity. The new UK independent Party Euro MP said that business should not employ women of child –bearing age. We talk about the promiscuous society that relegates sex to a self-gratifying experience and refuses to acknowledge that self-control and having only one sexual partner for life might halt STD. In Afghanistan 99.9% of teenagers are virgin. The reason is that all teenager girls leave homes wearing Afghani Burkhas. There is no mix gathering. They attend single sex schools. They marry as early as possible. If the teenager girls start wearing Afghani Burkhas or Jilbab, I am sure that they are not going to lose their virginity before marriage. The other alternative is the wearing of Jilbab. The success of chastity crusade will depend on the number of teenagers leaving homes for schools with Jilbab or Afghani Burkhas.
Iftikhar Ahmad
http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk

It is not Islam and Muslims who are creating problems, actually it is
British society creating problems for the Muslim community.

The Muslim community has been vicitm of Paki-bashing in all walks of life by
the British society and Establishment for the last 60 years. Now it is
vicitm of terrorism by the British Establishment. Thousands of Muslim youth
are being serched in the streets and hundreds of them are behind the bar
without any trial.

State schools with non-Muslim monolingual teachers are not suitable for
Muslim children. This is the reason why majority of them leave schools with
low grades.

God has created diverse human beings to live in this tiny global villageas
of one family. Creation by its very nature is deverse with different
species, different communities, different cultures and languages. These
differences represent the beauty and wonder but diversity is sometimes not
fully appreciated, resulting in all sorts of clashes. The British society
and Establishment must learn to respect and accommodate others, as if in a
family.

A Muslim is a citizen of this tiny global village. He/she does not want to
become notoriously monolingual Brit. He/she is supposed to be well versed in
standard English, Arabic, Urdu and other community languages, to be part of
the Britisah society, as well as proud of his.her cultural roots and enjoy
the beauty of his/her literature and poetry.