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[Annie]

http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/n...ml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/18/ixportaltop.html

At least one British official gets it. In spite of criticism sure to come, someone is looking beyond reducing freedoms of the whole:

David Bell, the chief inspector of schools, angered Muslim leaders yesterday when he accused many Islamic schools of undermining the coherence of British society.

The growing number of Muslim schools must adapt their teaching to ensure that pupils learned about democracy and the political institutions of this country and understand that there were other religions, he said.

David Bell: the chief inspector of schools
"I worry that many young people are being educated in faith-based schools with little appreciation of their wider responsibilities and obligations to British society," he told a London conference on citizenship.

The number of private faith schools has increased significantly since the Government indicated its willingness to extend state funding through voluntary-aided status to those run by minority faiths.