THE HAGUE, 14/11/08 - Nearly nine out of 10 Islamic schools in the Netherlands spend government subsidies unlawfully. The education ministry confirmed yesterday following a report in De Telegraaf that 86 percent of the schools make fraudulent use of money.
De Telegraaf obtained a study by State Secretaries Sharon Dijksma and Marja van Bijsterveldt of Education of the 41 primary schools and two secondary schools that provide Islamic education. At half of the schools, the quality of the education is assessed as weak to very weak. At normal schools, this figure is 11 percent.
Additionally, financial mismanagement was established at 86 percent of Islamic school managements.
The illegal spending ranges from salaries to 'teachers' who turn out to be the wives of management board members, unlawful payments for transport that is never hired and even, as already made known earlier, trips to Saudi Arabia - the school (Ibn Ghaldoun in Rotterdam) bought plane tickets for Muslims who had nothing to do with the school whatsoever.
The Islamic education "gives ground for great concern," said Dijksma and Van Bijsterveldt yesterday. The education ministry is trying to claim back 4.5 million euros in unlawfully spent subsidies from the schools. This is an increase of 2.5 million from fraud figures previously known.
Due to the constitutional freedom of education - every religion can set up its own school at the expense of the government -
the government sees little possibility of intervening.
No Islamic school has ever been closed.
Virtually nothing can be done against fraudulent school managers either.
Dijksma and Van Bijsterveldt hope that the Islamic schools themselves will introduce reforms. The weak and very weak Islamic schools will come under "intensive supervision" by the Education Inspectorate. And "if the position of the management board becomes insupportable, the ministry will push for the removal of the board," they write to the Lower House.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Netherlands: Fraud At 86% Of Islamic Schools
To any of our fellow Conservatives who think school vouchers are a good idea, get a load of this.
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How do you spell Islam? F-R-A-U-D
How do you know when a Imam is lying?
When his lips are moving.
Of greater concern, if such a thing can be imagined, is the Dutch policy of 'non escalation' where media is made not to tell anything to the public that may inflame negative feelings towards Islam. Speculating, this likely means for everything we do hear, there is a dozen outrages about which we hear nothing. Any chance we have a Dutch reader here willing to report directly?
Why do we allow and fund Islamic schools? We know it does not assist integration, we know it’s often a front to teach terror, we now know it’s a front for crime. So why do we let it continue? Who is being prosecuted? When will the schools be closed? If it happens in schools what is happening in Universities? Has the state learnt the lesson that NO money and NO teaching should be entrusted to Mohammedans?
Four successive christian right governments have eroded our civil rights and given preferential treatment to the barbaric hordes. Maybe it has to do with the values that Christian and Islamic fundamentalists share: hatred of women and gays, hatred of freedom and - above all - hatred of secularism. Add to this the usual paralyzing dutch lameness, the unwillingness to confront any issue and the resolution to "deal" with problems by making the worst kind of halfhearted compromises, and you start getting the picture.
Is it any wonder that more native nederlanders are emmigranting out of 't nederlands each year than are being born to replace them?!?
I'm afraid 't nederlands is lost to us.
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