Independent Online Edition > UK Politics
The Independent today reports on the planned propaganda campaign to spell out British values to young Muslims in some sort of effort to lure them away from extremism, apparently modelled on an American campaign a few years ago. I hope they manage better accuracy than the picture of young women in blue hijabs in today's Indie, captioned to the effect that the campaign will point out that no girls could go to school in a caliphate.
As any knowledgeable Muslim will point out, when there was a caliphate girls, and women, did get an education and many of the major imams actually took knowledge from women. With one well-known exception, most of the countries where Muslim girls have been denied an education are secular states.
I am!!
I hope this is better than their propaganda war in Iraq.
However, I have never lived under a theocracy and my ancestors moved from Muslim countries during a time when they became secular.
So I'm not certain if my ideal in a theocracy can be applied today? A successful Kaliph has not existed in a long time... so my views are mixed on this issue. This is something that I have really been struggling to understand and resolve personally... Muslim to Muslim.
wasalaam