TOI correspondent from London: Cambridge College employed a tutorial who as soon as supported proscribed Islamist terror group Hizb ut-Tahrir, described Western schooling as a “menace” to Muslims and condemned democracy.Farah Ahmed is assistant analysis professor on the College of Schooling at Cambridge, the identical school as Jason Arday, the controversial black professor who was just lately compelled to stop following allegations of plagiarism.Hizb ut-Tahrir is a world Sunni terror group which goals to ascertain a caliphate dominated underneath Islamic legislation. The group is proscribed in Britain.Ahmed, who was appointed final 12 months to the put up the place she is liable for postgraduate analysis and instructing undergraduates, wrote a chapter in a Hizb ut-Tahrir pamphlet, “Schooling and Identification”, in 2002, republished in 2017, obtained by the Spectator, that mentioned “the Muslim neighborhood as an entire in Britain must recognise that Western schooling is a menace to our beliefs and values”.She attacked faculties’ “makes an attempt to combine Muslim youngsters” as in search of to “produce new generations that reject Islam … if society is constructed on kufr (unbelief), it’s our obligation to sort out this problem as a neighborhood with the intention to defend our younger from its corruption.”Democracy, she wrote, is a “corrupt custom”.She criticised British faculties for instructing that little one marriage and polygamy are incorrect and for placing the worth of Islam “on the identical stage as Hinduism, Sikhism and the like”.Science, fairytales and Romeo and Juliet are issues as “Muslim youngsters will probably be uncovered to concepts that contradict Islam”, she wrote.She criticised the UK nationwide curriculum as a type of “systematic indoctrination” to “construct mannequin British residents”. “Naturally, such a system is not going to be appropriate to the wants of Muslim college students because the aqeedah (perception system) of the Muslim is in full contradiction to this,” she mentioned.In 2010 she mentioned she was not a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir.A spokesperson for Cambridge’s College of Schooling mentioned: “The college is dedicated to educational freedom and freedom of speech inside the legislation. All members of our neighborhood are inspired to train their rights to freedom of speech, together with to problem concepts or theories they disagree with by way of scholarship and strong debate.”
