Monday, October 16, 2006

Islamic schools at heart of British debate on integration / International Herald Tribune, 15 Oct 2006

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/15/news/brits.php
Alan Cowell
"Segregation is now so extreme in some schools that there is not much further it can go," Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, told a parliamentary panel. "It doesn't help to prepare children in these schools for the real world." Neither, some believe, does it bridge the gap between a largely secular society and a profound commitment to a single faith."