Muslim Educational Trust

Muslim Educational Trust (also called MET) is an educational organization offering information, advice and publications about education and the educational needs of children to parents in particular.[4][5] It is based in London.[6]

Muslim Educational Trust
AbbreviationMET
Formation1966 (1966)[1]
TypeEducational organization
Location
  • London
Coordinates51°34′09.3″N 0°06′41.9″W
Chairman
Prof Ghulam Sarwar [2][3]
WebsiteMET

Separate schooling

Starting in the 1970s, the Trust has been involved in a movement by British Muslims to include Muslim values in the educational system. A controversial aspect of this was the withdrawal of Muslim children, especially Muslim girls from integrated schools as secular single-sex schooling died out in England.[7] Less controversial were efforts to encourage religious education in Britain to expand beyond the teaching of Islam.[8] The Trust also began supporting efforts to open private Islamic schools in 1974,[9] and by 1992, 23 Islamic schools were open, all supported by the Trust. Important leaders in this movement were Ibrahim Hewitt Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens),[10][11] Afzal Rahman,[9] and Gulam Sarwar. In 1991, Sarwar wrote a book, British Muslims and Schools, which focuses on why such schools should exist and why they should receive public funding like other British schools.[12]

Criticism

Human Rights Activist Nuzhat Abbas has criticized MET for supplying literature on sexual education that echos the anti-LGBT views of clerics like Sheikh Sarkawy, formerly of London Central Mosque.[13] Some of this criticism stems from the Trust's publishing of an anti-LGBT views in a book introducing the teachings of the Qur'an by Ibrahim Hewitt entitled, What Doe Islam Say?.[14]

Notes and references
  1. "THE MUSLIM EDUCATIONAL TRUST FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5TH APRIL 2016" (PDF). apps.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  2. d'Ancona, M. (7 October 1992). Union's school grant attack angers muslims;muslim education. The Times. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/317855688
  3. Britain's muslims see bias in state aid program for schools.(1 September 1993). The Christian Science Monitor (Pre-1997 Fulltext). Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/291211034
  4. Husain, Ed (2007). The Islamist : why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left. London [u.a.]: Penguin Books. pp. 20–21. ISBN 978-0-141-03043-2.
  5. Harris, Rosenberg (5 September 2013). A Handbook of School Fundraising. Routledge. ISBN 9781134731299.
  6. "Muslim Educational Trust, ContactUS". Muslim Educational Trust. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  7. Cunningham, J. (18 October 1985). The double think behind an unholy row. The Guardian (1959-2003). pp. 15. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com./docview/186575421
  8. O'Connor, M. (13 December 1988). Forced to pray. The Guardian (1959-2003). pp. 25. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/186920690
  9. From Our Correspondent. "Muslims say they will start own single-sex schools." Times, 8 January 1974, 2. The Times Digital Archive (accessed 15 June 2017). http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/4wb4A7.
  10. Pilkington, E. (10 March 1992). Islam opts out. The Guardian (1959-2003). pp. 27. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/187316713
  11. Cunningham, J. (18 October 1985). The double think behind an unholy row. The Guardian (1959-2003). pp. 15. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/186575421
  12. Tytler, David. "Muslim Appeal." Times, 30 September 1991, 33. The Times Digital Archive (accessed 15 June 2017). http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/4wb523.
  13. Abbas, N. (July 2001). Learning within limits as the public education system struggles to meet the needs of religious parents, more and more children are being cloistered in private schools in the name of faith]. This, 35, 36-39. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/203548804
  14. Adams, R. (21 May 2014). Gove sends ofsted into more muslim schools: Snap inspections in luton, leicester and bradford: 'we weren't given reasons. it was very unpleasant'. The Guardian. pp. 14. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/1526266429
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